Jaws/Walkthrough

Map


Upon entering this tropical world, you will travel around in your boat searching for ways to better yourself for the fight with your nemesis, Jaws. There are two ports on opposite sides of this area, to which you must travel, back and forth to gain items and power by bartering conch shells. Once you have received an item from one port, you must go to the other to receive the next. When traveling, you may see a large fin sticking out of the water - that's Jaws, of course. Avoid him at the beginning and search for him later. Randomly, and quite frequently, you will see the message "You've hit something!" then you will descend into the water and fight the sea creatures below for points and shells. If you hit Jaws (or he hits you) while in the map stage, you will descend into the water below with Jaws present.

Underwater


There are two underwater scenes. One is for shallow water and one for deep. The decision is based on where your boat was on the map screen when you hit something to bring you below. If you were off on the coast of the mainland, you will be in shallow water (which is much more difficult to manuever), and everywhere else, you'll be in deep water.

If you just hit something random, your boat will disappear and you will dive down into the water to attack enemies for a limited amount of time (or until you die). If you hit Jaws, however, you will stay in the boat, dropping bombs on the shark, until he comes on the boat with his first pass and knocks you in the water. Either way, there is a limited amount of time you will be underwater and your job is merely to survive until you resurface automatically. If you are fighting Jaws (and your power level is high enough) and you take him down to zero life bars, you will jump directly to the final battle. Otherwise, you just need to survive like any other underwater scene and you will return to the map screen. Every two or three underwater scenes you survive will take you to the bonus stage before putting you back in the map screen.

Note

 * Even if you didn't hit Jaws directly, he may still join you underwater after a short time if he was close enough to your boat in the map area.

Bonus Stage


In the bonus stage, you will fly back and forth in a private plane and attempt to drop bombs on unsuspecting, dancing jellyfish in the water. The jellyfish in bonus stages are a bit random, but they all follow the same two rules. First, they will always come in groups of five, and second, they will follow the same pattern four times, then follow a different pattern twice, each time coming from the opposite side of the screen as the last. Scoring for each group is 50 points each for the first two, 100 for the third, 200 for the fourth, and 500 for the last. At the end of the bonus stage, you will receive a bonus shell for every three you hit, so out of a possible 30 kills, you will receive a maximum of 10 shells.

Final Battle


The final battle with Jaws is simple, and you are automatically transported there when you defeat Jaws in the underwater scenes. You control your boat and some kind of strobe pulse, which pains Jaws enough to jump out of the water. Move your boat back and forth to follow his movements, and when he is close enough, shoot him out of the water with the strobe and stab him with the front of your boat.