While being electrocuted, her octopus tentacles turns into "snakes", her skin turns to a greenish tint, her seashell bra turns into one made of grass, and her eyes become yellow with slit pupils, making her resemble Medusa. Some of these puffer fish can be parried which makes it easier to dodge.Īfter taking enough damage, two electric eels appear and bite Cala Maria, electrocuting her in the progress. Puffer fish: Waves of these puffer fish will float from bellow in a random pattern as players frantically avoid them, while also avoiding Cala's attacks.The turtle itself can be disposed of by shooting at it, which it will raise white flag in defeat. The cannon on its back shoots out bombs that will explode and release bullets in all eight directions. Turtle: A turtle appears that has a cannon installed within its shell and travels to the left screen.While the water stream can not damage them, it will constantly push them up making it hard to avoid Cala's upcoming attacks. Seahorse: A literal sea horse appears that will drink from the sea and spit out water upwards at the players, while moving around.These ghosts will charge at players once the players are in sight, and they are harder to dodge if accompanied with puffer fish or other sea creatures.Ĭala can supplement these attacks with sea creatures that she summons to aid her and corner the players as she executes her other attacks: Cala can summons three ghost pirates by spewing them from her mouth.These fish, once they escape Cala's grasp, will damage the players if they inadvertently run into them. When Cala sinks into the sea and pulls out a giant fish to attack, she will get either a yellow fish that spits out an electrified dolphin homing onto the players, or a red fish that spits out jellyfish in 6-way spread formation.Because of this, her first phase is often hard to beat for many players. Only the snakes acting as her bangs are active, while the rest are asleep.In this first attack, Cala has a wide of range of attacks that she can combine to corner the players and damage them. The tentacles each transform into menacing-looking snakes with lavender, segmented underbellies, yellow, cat-like eyes, and small fangs in their mouths. The most distinctive part of her new form is the octopus on her head, which has now seemingly fused onto her head and has become a marginally different shade of purple.
Her once sky-blue sea-shell bra is now a green bikini top made from either seaweed or moss. Her lower body takes on a more forest-green hue and the scales become sharper and more triangular. Her eyes become menacingly cat-like with yellow sclera and black, slit-shaped pupils, losing the irises completely. The markings on her arm remain unchanged. Her lips turn an emerald-green color, her tongue becomes forked and reptilian and her teeth are now quite sharp, forming an eerie, Cheshire Cat-esque grin. Her fingers become longer due to her fingernails becoming claw-like. Her once pale-lavender skin turns to a mint-green color. However, in her second phase, Cala Maria gets bitten on her belly and shocked by two eels, resulting in a much more menacing appearance-a gorgon-mermaid hybrid, greatly resembling the famous mythology figure, Medusa.
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She also has thin, black eyebrows and light, rose-pink lips.Īs a sign of her mermaid status, Cala wears a sky-blue sea-shell bra with no shoulder straps, and her lower body is replaced with a sea-green, fish-like tail with round scales, connected with a water-ripple-like pattern below the waist line and although we don't see her full body in the game, various merchandise has shown that her fin tail is shaped like two small waves split in two with three rounded tips on each side. Although it appears to be dead, the octopus’s eyes clearly open during Cala’s “summoning” animation, revealing simple, black pupils.Ĭala has big, pale turquoise eyes with sea-green eyeshadow and three short, black, triangular eye-lashes each. The octopus clearly acts as her hair since the three tentacles in front of Cala's face are flipped back over her head, resembling curly hair-bangs in a pompadour, while the octopus's head vaguely resembles a hair bun. On her head, she has a dead, purple octopus with pale lavender eyelids over X-crossed eyes, with a lighter purple coloring and pale pink suckers under the tentacles. She has pale lavender-pigmented skin, an exposed midriff, a small button-nose, and two scar-like markings on the bicep of her left arm (though how or why she got them is unknown, but it COULD be a reminiscent of eel bite marks). She is a giant, tall, slender mermaid with fairly wide hips. Her stage is a sidescrolling shooter level.Ĭala Maria has a physical appearance reminiscent of a typical humanoid female character. Cala Maria is one of the bosses on Inkwell Isle Three on the boss level, "High Seas Hi-Jinx!".