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Panda King: I hate you, Sly Cooper. You've ruined me, ruined the Panda King.
Sly: And I've hated you... but that doesn't make any of this real. Years have passed and we've both changed. Come out of this trance. Let's meet each other as we are today and let go of who we were when this fight occurred.
Panda King: YOU ARE... correct. Forgive me, my mind is not always my own.
― Sly trying to bring the Panda King out of his meditative trance.[src]

"King of Fire" is a job for the Cooper Gang in "A Cold Alliance" of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.

Description[]

Find the reclusive Panda King and convince him to join the team to help break into the Cooper Vault.[1]

Synopsis[]

The Cooper Gang arrives at the Panda King's meditation spot in the Kunlun Mountains to see if he will join them as their demolition expert. Sly warns the Gang to be vigilant as he believes that the Panda King is as dangerous as ever. Bentley thinks otherwise, remarking on his calmness. Murray complains about the pain his feet are in from walking all the way up the mountain. He comments that when the Gang still has the Cooper Van they never have to walk anywhere.

Bentley tries calling the Panda King, but receives no answer. He concludes that they are going to have to find a way up there if they are going to break him out of his meditative trance. Murray is up first. He uses his Aboriginal Ball Form to bounce onto various pillars and onto the plateau that led to the Panda King. Sly is up next. Bentley tells Penelope of Sly's ability to balance on small points and mentions the large bamboo shoots to hint at what she should do. Penelope concludes that shoots are too far apart for Sly to traverse and needs to be split down the middle, but that the ice was too thin to do it manually. So, she uses her light-weight remote control car to split them in two, thereby giving Sly more points to ascend. Sly uses the Ninja Spire Jump to traverse the spires and reach Murray.

For Bentley, Penelope, and The Guru to get up to Sly and Murray, the nearby pinwheels will need to be destabilized. Bentley uses his sleep darts to shoot the inactive rockets on the two pinwheels. Once they are all shot and lit, the Guru detached them from their support beams with the use of the other rocket finds on top of the Panda King's home. One pinwheel knocked over the bridge to the Panda King's shrine and the other settled on the ground below, serving as a makeshift elevator. They use the elevator to ride up to the top.

Sly, Bentley, and the Guru confront the Panda King at his shrine. Given a closer look, Bentley realizes that the Panda King is in a super meditative trance that could only be broken by delving into his mind. He tells Sly to sit beside the Panda King and have the Guru join their minds together.

Now in trance as well, Sly finds himself in a familiar situation – confronting the Panda King to steal back his pages of the Thievius Raccoonus and defeats him. Sly makes several attempts to break the Panda King out of his trance, explaining that the encounter is not real. Sly finally tells him that he is dwelling on the moment of his greatest defeat and ignoring the reality of the situation that they are both changed individuals now. Coming to this realization, the Panda King apologizes to Sly and comes out of his trance.

The Deal[]

Trivia[]

  • During the flashback sequence, the Panda King addresses Sly the exact same way he did during their battle in Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus with the exception that he uses proper English rather than broken English, while Sly addresses him in the present to try and break him out of his trance. Also, if the player chooses "Say something from the past", Sly will refer to the Panda King as "a frustrated firework artist-turned-homicidal pyromaniac", just as he did in the first game.
  • Murray foreshadows the events of "Tearful Reunion" in this mission.
  • The valley where Panda King's shrine resides in the center is named as "Tianwang'yu" (天王谷, lit. Heaven King Valley) in Chinese, via the large vertical sign needed to be knocked over as a bridge to the said shrine.
    • Meanwhile, on the wooden pillars housing the firework/rocket pinwheels, are banners labeled with "wudi" (无敌, lit. invincible) in simplified hanzi.

Behind the scenes[]

Although the Panda King uses the exact same dialogue when he addresses Sly during the boss fight as he did in the first Sly game, Kevin Blackton re-recorded his lines with proper grammar.

References[]

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