Velvet Dark appears as a Simulant Buddy or the second player in Perfect Dark's Co-op mode. She is always unlocked by default, and her weapon of choice is the Falcon 2. She is presumably Joanna Dark's sister.
Analysis[]
In-game, the AI Velvet behaves as a normal guard would; the only modifiers occur when the player uses the order menu to have her either be Aggressive (in which she will chase enemies to shoot them, instead of waiting for them to appear), or Passive (in which she will stay close to the player). If shot, no wound will appear and the player cannot injure Velvet (when Friendly Fire is off). When active, she will attack all enemies on sight, regardless if they are surrendering or if you are in a stealth mission, which applies to all other Buddies.
Although Velvet Dark has no major role in Perfect Dark's storyline, she is the only Co-Op partner in the campaign that can be controlled by the second player. When Velvet (Player 2) completes the last mission objective first or if Joanna (Player 1) dies, she will replace her in the accompanying cutscenes, and speak her lines. The playable Velvet changes her costume just as Joanna does in various missions (this doesn't happen when selected as a Simulant Buddy).
Voice Clips[]
As a player, Velvet's voice clips are shared with Joanna's during certain events, as well as in the opening/ending cutscenes of a mission (due to her model being the same as Joanna's), while still maintaining the generic female voice clips when being damaged by enemies or hazards. When set as an AI, Velvet borrows the set of generic voice clips that's applied on Cassandra De Vries's Bodyguards that appear in the missions dataDyne Central: Extraction and Mr. Blonde's Revenge. Unlike Cassandra's bodyguards, however, Velvet doesn't say any lines of death when killed by enemies to prevent any shame upon the player's ally's death.
Quotes[]
Spotting / Attacking an Enemy[]
- "Hey!"
- "Hey! You! Come here!"
- "Get her!"
- "Come on!"
- "Did that hurt?"
- "You want some more?"
Missing the Enemy Target[]
- "This gun is useless!"
- "Damn, she's good!"
Attacked by Enemy[]
- "I'm wounded..."
- "Help me out!"
- "I'm in trouble!"
Trivia[]
- Due to her voice clips being shared with Cassandra's bodyguards when as a Buddy, she will call out to her enemies as female regardless of gender or race due to the generic voice clips being meant to be used towards Joanna Dark. Ironically, the bodyguards share Joanna's voice actor, Eveline Fischer, who is a music composer for Rare.
- Compared to cheat Buddies Hotshot, Hit and Run, and Alien, Velvet Dark as an AI Simulant is rather basic and her firepower is not very powerful due to her wielding the Falcon 2, the main starting weapon for Joanna in her missions. This puts her at a disadvantage against heavily armed guards and especially the Skedar or shielded enemies. Despite this, she is better at defending herself than Puglist (due to this Buddy not carrying any weapons).
- Assuming she takes the role of the second player and can replace Joanna in cutscenes, Velvet's skills as an agent are seemingly identical to that of Joanna's.
- With a Gameshark code, it is possible to replace Joanna with Velvet entirely for singleplayer mode.
- She is the only female among the five Perfect Buddies.
- There was a planned spin-off game of Perfect Dark by Rare, titled "Velvet Dark", but it was scrapped and never released. It was likely to star Velvet Dark herself as the main protagonist.