Slug
- Not to be confused withVine Slime.
| Slug | |
|---|---|
 Artwork fromYoshi's Story | |
| Appears in | Yoshi's Story (1997) |
- “This slimy creep likes the dark. He hides away from fireworks.”
- —Message Block in the Jelly Pipe,Yoshi's Story
Aslug[1] is a giant colorful creature with two bulging eyes that appears inYoshi's Story. In theJelly Pipe, aYoshi can go into avase and enter a room with a slug crawling up, down, and horizontally on the walls. According to theNintendo Power guide, this slug coated the Jelly Pipe withslime.[2] Two slugs also appear in theMagma Castle, where they are both fought in the same room. Slugs can be defeated by throwingYoshi eggs close to their eyes so that the explosions touch their eyes and cause damage. A slug is defeated after three hits, dropping a special prize upon defeat. In the Magma Castle, any defeated slugs do not respawn; should the player run out of eggs after defeating one, they can leave the room to restock from anEgg Block nearby and return to defeat the other.
The artwork for slugs depicts them slightly differently from their in-game sprite: they are depicted with red-and-yellow pupils in their artwork, but they have green pupils in-game. Slugs are one of the few mini-bosses in the game.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
- Shogakukan guide:暗〜い穴ぐらに住みついてン十年？明るい光はごカンベン。[3](Has it been living in a DARK hole for decades? No bright light, please.)
- Nintendo 64 Spieleberater:Eigentlich keine richtigen Blödewichte, dennoch bewachen sie manchmal Superherzen oder Schlüssel. Die Kerle sind extrem lichtscheu, daher könnt ihr sie mit den Explosionen Eurer Eier blenden.[4](They are not really jerks, but sometimes they guard Special Hearts or keys. The guys are extremely sensitive to light, so you can blind them with the explosions of your eggs.)
Gallery[edit]
Sprite fromYoshi's Story
Jelly Pipe level icon fromYoshi's Story
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | おおナメクジ[3][5] Ō Namekuji | Big Slug | |
| おおナメクジボ[?] Ō Namekujibo | Big Slug, with variation of the affectionate suffix「坊」(bō, guy) | ||
| German | Die Glibrions[4] | Fromglibberig ("slimy") | |
| Spanish(European) | Babosa Gigante[6] | Giant Slug |
References[edit]
- ^Prima Bath (April 7, 1999).Nintendo 64 Game Secrets, 1999 Edition.Prima Games (American English). ISBN0-7615-2103-8. Page 105 and 117.
- ^"Jelly Pipe The Yoshis stumble across a pipe that leads underground. If they decide to enter the Jelly Pipe, they’d better be ready to take on the thing that coated the entire tunnel with slime—a giant slug." – Leung, Jason, Terry Munson, and Scott Pelland (1998).Yoshi's Story Player's Guide.Nintendo of America (American English). Page 37.
- ^ab「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook).Shogakukan (Japanese). Page4Media:Yoshi Story Shogakukan P4.jpg.
- ^abNintendo 64Yoshi's Story Spieleberater. German. Page21Media:Yoshi's Story German Guide Pg. 20-21.png.
- ^1998. 「ヨッシー全百科」 (Yoshi Hyakka).Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN4-09-281158-6. Page 86. (Archived via Wayback Machine.)
- ^Yoshi's Story Spanish guide.www.guiasnintendo.com (Spanish).
