You think this game is maddening now? Just you wait.
Now that we've explored the world inside the air duct, let's go into the fireplace.
The first section is an upwards climb where you'll have to move left and right and jump from platform to platform to get to the top. All the while, fire rises from the bottom and works its way up the shaft. It's like Mickey Mania if the controls were so Sonic-like that they absolutely sucked and the momentum from jumping was more slippery than petroleum jelly. Along the way, you'll be shooting down sentient, moving fireballs and flying skulls, and you'll have to shoot every time you jump to ensure nothing hits you. Also, some platforms will sink in and out of the walls and you'll have to time your jumps to get one them. Other platforms require leaps of faith to get to them, and these leaps of faith are frustrating to figure out. Even worse, if you need to hold Up or Down to look up or down, the game decides in this section that you can't do it here. If the fire hits you, it will knock you upwards if you land in it or touch it any other way. This is a tad disorienting, but you can use it to your advantage if you know what you're doing.
The second section has you on a roof. Most of the enemies here are enemies you've seen before, but you can look up and down again. If you know where to go, you can get quite a few power-ups in this area. There is a new hazard here, however: UFO's that wildly spin out of control while moving around the chimneys. They can hurt you if you're not careful. There are also red dragons that spit fire at you at a certain distance. Shoot them before they breathe fire on you.
One of the chimneys will take you downwards to an extra life if you hold Down to duck while standing on it, but you'll be back in the first section if you go for it.
The third section starts when you reach a wall covered in brambles. Once again, you'll jumping from platform to platform to get to the start. At least there's not any fire chasing after you from the bottom. Use the same strategies that you used to get through There will be a heart to the left of the start; go get it. Also, you can't look up or down here, either.
The green guys move quickly and jump when they reach a ledge. The dragonflies will move up and down, as will the flying eyeballs.
When you make it to the top, you'll face a dragon. Jump on the spiderweb in the center to jump around while holding X to jump higher when you need to, avoid the dragon's fireballs, and keep shooting to hit the dragon. If the dragon starts exploding, you're doing it right. Be sure not to go straight up and down to ensure that none of the dragon's fireballs hit. Eventually, the dragon will fall to its death, and Cheesy will find an Everbloom flower in the next cutscene. You'll also get another password: POLYNESIA7.
It doesn't seem like there's another place to go. Go back to the opening in the wooden wall. You'll find a box and a yellow arrow pointing upwards to the next level.
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