His flight speed is unrivaled, and his teleportation around the battlefield disorients players as he hurls fireballs or attempts to charge. In all of his appearances, Magician is an incredibly fast and dangerous adversary. Also, when the player gets a game over, he will say "You have no future." The player will hear Magician say, "I have been waiting for this time to come", a line used before Magician's battle in The House of the Dead 2. Magician's voice is also used to alert the player when they have the opportunity to enter a boss battle. However, unlike previous games, the player is not required to hit a specific spot on the Magician in order to damage him. He will also rapidly fly from one area of the screen to the next. Similar to his appearances in previous games, Magician will quickly attack the players using fireballs, blocking their pinball from moving. Magician makes an appearance as the fifth boss in The Pinball of the Dead, and retains his appearance from 2. Its behavior is the same as in III, except when on-screen no line is spoken. Once more, Magician makes a cameo appearance as the Mini-Magician bonus item. In III, when the item is on-screen, a high-pitched version of his line " I've been waiting for this time to come" from 2 can be heard.įurthermore, III 's attract mode shows Magician's form in the first two games. The Mini-Magician flies about in a quick manner like him, making it more difficult to shoot a successful shot yields 2000 points to the player's score. Magician appears as a bonus item: the Mini-Magician, a small golden statuette found in destructible background objects. Other appearances The House of the Dead III
He returns in The House of the Dead 4 Special with a less-rotten appearance and electricity coursing through his muscles. In The House of the Dead 2, Magician is heavily scarred and rotten, with worms wriggling in his eye and other parts of his body. His lower right leg, upper left leg, lower right arm, and upper left arm have exposed muscles and (in the first two games) pulsating nerve-like appendages. Throughout the series, Magician is depicted as an armored, levitating humanoid with horns and talons. Upon defeat, Magician summoned Pandora's Box, attempting to activate clones of himself he was fatally wounded after a thrown grenade, declaring " Nothing can erase my pain" before exploding. In an unidentified building, they found Magician, who emerged from a large glass chamber and vowed revenge for the pain he had endured. After her partner James sacrificed himself to defeat Goldman's ultimate creation, the World, rookie AMS agent Kate Green collaborated with G to fight the incident back to its source. In 2003, Goldman staged a posthumous incident worldwide, wiping out most of civilization. Who are you? Nobody gives me instructions.
Curien went insane, releasing the creatures in his mansion on December 17th and 18th, 1998, but kept the Magician in incubation. Īfter curing his terminally-ill son Daniel, Curien obsessively pursued controlling life and death through science the effort, funded by Caleb Goldman, produced hostile creatures and triggered staff walkouts. Curien could control Magician at will, but an unknown individual changed the creature's programming. However, Magician was also an unfinished project, lacking several pieces of armor on his body. Up to the point of being released, Magician was seen as a perfect creation alongside Chariot, Hangedman, and Hermit and was considered a masterpiece. He was incubated inside Curien's BioReactor, a machine that edited the DNA sequence in organisms. Magician, alongside Wheel of Fate, began life as a gene developed by Curien during his time as the DBR Corporation's research director.
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