Unbeaten Uvula

(Unbeaten Uvula close up)

**Unbeaten Uvula** is the fourth of the five bosses of Slime-San's maingame. Now it's your time to shi- slime! Beat the Unbeaten!

You will have to fight it at the end of world 4, Woodland Guts, after beating levels 61-79, in order to continue to the following world, Cellular Maze.

## Fight

The stage opens with a cutscene showing the Uvula dancing to music playing from its headphones. Upon seeing Slime-San, it throws away the headphones and attacks. You spawn in a mouth-like room left of the boss. Your goal is to hit the Uvula’s 3 bandaged bumpd.

The boss fight has three phases:

### Phase 1

Once the player spawns in, the Uvula will begin commandeering the tongue in the room’s center. The tongue will push up teeth the player is standing on a few times, turning the teeth red temporarily, before slamming down on the floor and turning green. The player must bounce off the tongue to reach one of the cannons and deal the first blow.

### Phase 2

The Uvula will raise the ceiling, forcing the player to do some vertical platforming to reach the previously obscured top half of the room. The floor is made of phase-through material, limiting the player’s movement options. The Uvula will open the second phase by ripping a tooth out of the roof and turning it into a lazer, aiming at the player. The Uvula then discards the tooth and starts making mor teeth rain from the ceiling while spitting out saw blades. These teeth have trampolines on top, allowing the player to bounce up and deal the second blow.

### Phase 3

The now enraged Uvula begins to descend, forcing the player to scramble back down to the first half of the room. Here, the Uvula continues to spit out saws while the tongue attempts to smash the player. Two bottom teeth are now missing, limiting ground movement. After a bit the Uvula rips another tooth out of the roof and turns it into a lazer. If it misses the player, it hits the tongue, turning it green and allowing the player to deal the final blow.

## Room

The boss fight happens in a closed room resembling a mouth, with the floor made of teeth with a tongue in the middle, the ceiling being toothless mouth gum, and what is presumably cheeks for the walls. The Unbeaten Uvula hangs from the center of the ceiling.

There are two cannons on either side, just out of the player’s reach, pointed at the Uvula’s weak points. There are also two portal doors against the walls, allowing the player to move in a wrap-around style while on the ground.

## New Game +

In the secret New Game + mode, minor changes are made to make the fight harder. The Unbeaten Uvula now has a light green bushy mustache surrounded by beard stubbles and has three red lighting bolts tattooed on its upper body, and the tongue has a black collar with a bone hanging from it. Anything that was originally dark blue is now dark green.

### Phase 1

This phase is identical to the original except for the appearance of a Red Winged Wormy that travels across the arena close to the ground.

### Phase 2

When the Uvula ascends to the top half, the obstacles in the platforming section are more numerous and harder to get past. Once the player reaches the top, the phase is the mostly same as the original, the only difference being the two Red Winged Wormies that make movement trickier.

### Phase 3

Again, it is the same as the original with the addition of a Red Winged Wormy

## Trivia

**•** The player can hug the side of the Unbeaten Uvula by continuously wall jumping, allowing for a quick kill skipping phases 2 and 3

**•** In the Uvula’s theme, “Uvula’s Groovula” by Inverse Phase, the melody is pitch-bended up by 22 fine-tune levels and the bass up by 11.

**•** “Uvula’s Groovula” may have been inspired by David Wise’s “Flight of the Zinger” from Donkey Kong Country 2