Shark

The **shark** is the 5th boss in *Astro Bot Rescue Mission*. The shark makes a cameo appearance near the beginning of world 5-1 where, after passing a certain threshold, its fin can be seen swimming around a sail boat off in the distance. It makes a full appearance as the boss of world 5 in world 5-5, Catch of the Day.

### Appearance

The shark appears as a giant black shark with giant cartoonish eyes and sharp metal teeth. It can launch squids out of its mouth and has metal connecters connecting its fins to its body.

### Walkthrough

After rescuing enough bots to unlock 5-5 Catch of the Day, the level starts out with Astro Bot swimming through some underwater caverns which eventually leads to a chase sequence with the shark's gnashing jaws. Once Astro hops onto a boat some dolphins will appear, but will swim away. As the shark clamps onto the boat and drags it under the surface, the ship will pop up for a second albeit capsized and the shark's fin will appear and approach the player. The fin will stop, and the shark's eyes will pop out of the water and stare at the player before the shark rises completely out of the water and loudly laughs before using its rear fin to propel itself toward the background, beginning the fight.

### Boss Fight

The shark has 2 main attacks:

Attack 1: Making waves with its fins and spitting out squids

Attack 2: Moving to the side of the screen and making waves with its fins that move slowly along with squids that Astro Bot will need to jump over to avoid getting impaled

Eventually, the shark will get mad, and begin chomping toward Astro, a bunch of debris and enemies will emerge from the water and Astro will need to get to the explosive tank on the debris while avoiding the enemies to stop the shark's assault. Failure to do so will result in the shark eating both the player and Astro and will result in them having to restart the fight. But managing to reach the tank in time will allow Astro to throw the tank at the shark's mouth where it explodes on impact and sends the shark crashing back into the water, while also sending out a massive wave that makes the debris sink back into the water and even blowing out some of the shark's teeth. Repeat this 2 more times while dodging the squids (your underwater and Astro's on the surface) and eventually, Astro will gain access to less explosive yellow tanks that he must throw into the shark's mouth in order to gain access to the minigun gadget, which the player must use to shoot down a bunch of flying squids. Once all the squids are gone, the shark will emerge for one final charge, prompting the player to shoot the yellow tanks which explodes and blows out the last of the shark's teeth, and the shark, in shock, will gasp before falling cross-eyed back into the water and flopping onto its back in front of the player, ending the fight. Defeating the shark also rewards the player with the Sushi Roll trophy.

### Trivia

The shark, like all the other *Astro Bot Rescue Mission* bosses, can be refought in the challenge belt; but the level part of the fight has been removed.

Also like all the other bosses, the shark's original level Catch of the Day cannot be replayed once it has been beaten.

The shark is one of three *Astro Bot* bosses to look more mechanical than biological, the other 2 are the gorilla and octopus.

Like the other *Astro Bot Rescue Mission* bosses, the shark can be seen dazed and defeated on the world selection screen after it has been beaten for the first time.

The shark has a running joke during its boss fight where a heart eyed squid latches onto the player's visor only to get shaken off. It's unknown why this happens--but it's funny, none the less.