Wednesday, October 27, 2021

PrinceWatercress plays Postman Pat and the Greendale Rocket - Longplay


Since I had no idea that there was no blog series for this Let's Play until now, this longplay is getting another blog entry, and this time, there's stuff for every level in the game. Enjoy.


In case you've never heard of this, it's a UK children's show involving a postman named Pat, a black and white cat named Jess and delivering mail through Greendale.

The old Greendale train station is in a bad state and the Greendale Rocket isn't working. The people of Greendale want to repair both, and Postman Pat is all too eager to help.

Level 1-A: Find Mrs. Goggins!

You can move left and right with Left and Right on the Control Pad and jump with the A button. You can also look up and down with Up and Down.

You'll be collecting stamps, letters and parcels through out the game, so find them all if you can.

The red mailbox acts as a checkpoint. Should something happen to you, you'll return to the last one you touched, yellow flag and all.

You'll have to jump on the inflatable tubes to get over the pool.

Jump to get on top of the moving platform.

After the second checkpoint, you'll come across a black and white cat. This is Pat's cat, Jess. Use Jess to climb up the drainpipe, go to the right and jump onto the platform so Pat can continue.

The pad on the windowsill opens up a bridge over the next pool of water.

You'll soon meet Mrs. Goggins. Walk up to her and you'll finish the level.

Level 1-B: Sort the objects to find the six parcels!

Password: Jess, Pat, Pink Flower, Pink Flower

This one's easy. Put the food in the bag on the left with Left and A, put the parcels in the bag in the middle with Down and A, and the metal cans in the bag on the right with Right and A. Once you get all six parcels in the middle bag, you'll beat the level.

Level 1-C: Find Ajay!

Password: Present, Pat, Present, Present

You have 45 seconds to stay on the road, avoid all the cones and make it to the end of the level, where you'll find Ajay.

Ajay and his train conductor's hat are one of the five mystery items that we need...but what are the other four?

Level 2-A: Find Charlie Pringle!

Password: Mailbag, Parcel, Pat, Parcel

Jump up the tree branches to find all the collectibles! You'll be looking high and low 

The pools will now have moving platforms this time around in the form of tree branches and lily pads.

The bale of hay can be pushed by walking into it, and you can jump onto it to get to a higher area that your jump cannot reach with just your jump alone.

Move into the bale of hay to move it to the right and continue on.

When you meet Jess, have her climb up the electric pole, go left for a parcel, then walk on the wires. When you drop down, go to the left and hit the button so Pat can continue on.

To reach the button on the roof, you'll need to go further to the right and jump up some tree branches. You'll be able to go left and continue to the end.

Level 2-B: Make the kite fly!

Password: Jess, Parcel, Pink Flower, Jess

For this one, press A as much as you can, and continue to tap the button to keep the kite up so youca grab the letters. You'll have to collect 10 letters to complete the level. Let go of the button when you need to lower the kite to grab the low-flying ones, but don't let the kite hit the ground or you'll have to start the level over.

Level 2-C: Catch the kite!

Password: Jess, Pat, Pat, Jess

Now you have to catch the kite? Well, this is hilarious.

Once again, you have to drive as quickly as possible to the end of the level before time runs out, avoiding the cones as you speed from Point A to Point B. Beating this level will give you another mystery item, which appears to be a lump of coal. This one is a little trickier, due to the stage being a more narrow country road, but it is doable.

Level 3-A: Find Reverend Timms!

Password: Mailbag, Present, Jess, Parcel

Go left at the beginning. You'll find eight collectible items that are easy to miss.

Some of the pool platforms will slowly move back and forth at this point.

You'll come across Jess early in the level. Jess will be able to enter the underground passage and press a button to activate the floating platform.

You'll be doing this again shortly afterwards to get a few parcels in the tunnel to the left, then you'll have to climb the drainpipe to hit another button on the roof to...you guessed it...activate another floating platform.

Use the green bin to grab the nearby letter, then push it to the right to reach another area. You'll be using Jess yet again to climb up a drainpipe, ride on some floating platforms and hit another platform to get an inner tube in a pool to move back and forth, letting Pat continue. Before you take control of Jess for a second time, however, go left first for some easy-to-miss collectibles.

All the buttons you've hit so far have been blue. The red ones, though, take more effort. You'll have to push something onto it in order to keep whatever it activates going. In this case, it lowers a platform above a pool.

You'll meet Reverend Timms soon after, ending the level.

Level 3-B: Catch the drops!

Password: Present, Pat, Pink Flower, Jess

Uh-oh. The roof of Reverend Timms' church is leaking. You'll have to catch 50 drops of water in the bucket before time runs out with Left and Right on the Control Pad. Some of the drops are faster than others. As long as you don't miss one, you should have a few seconds left when you catch them all.

Level 3-C: Catch PC Arthur Selby!

Password: Parcel, Present, Jess, Present

PC means "Police Constable." This is a British television show, after all.

Yep, another van driving stage. The puddles will slow Postman Pat down, as will the barriers blocking the open manholes.

When you meet Police Constable Selby, you'll get the third mystery item: a police whistle.

Level 4-A: Find Dorothy and Alf Thompson!

Password: Pat, Present, Mailbag, Pink Flower

Turn left at the beginning to find some easy-to-miss collectibles. Be sure to look all around when you play this level, because it can be easy to miss anything.

You'll find Jess after a bit of a drop. Jump over the button on the other side of the narrows passageway to collect some more stuff.

After using a bale of hay to reach a platform, you'll be able to climb up a pole with Jess, collect some letters and hit another button to activate a floating platform. From there, there's another red button to push a hay bale on, and you're done.

Level 4-B: Catch the butterflies!

Password: Mailbag, Pink Flower, Pink Flower, Present

You play as Jess this time around. It's an auto-scrolling stage in which you have to collect 80 butterflies...and you can't miss one, since there's exactly 80 of them in the stage. At least there's no timer here.

Level 4-C: Find Ted!

Password: Pat, Jess, Mailbag, Present

Time to find the mechanic. Strangely, the set-up of the obstacles here is the most linear of the racing levels.

The fourth mystery item is the wrench. Judging that we need to fix the train, this is a good mystery item.

Level 5-A: Find Mrs Goggins!

Password: Jess, Parcel, Jess, Pat

Yep, we have to find Mrs. Goggins again.

You'll have to jump up to the roof again to reach a button and get an inner tube moving.

You'll meet Jess afterwards. Enter the narrow passageway to get some parcels and hit a button. Watch for the water, as the platforms are just big enough for Jess to stand on.

Watch out with the platforms in this level, as they can be a bit out of sync and you'll have to wait a little while.

Use the bin to reach the now-activated floating platform, and you'll be able to cross the now-activated bridge. After a drop-off, you'll meet Jess again. Enter the narrow passageway and jump over the button to find a secret passage, more collectibles and a second button that moves a platform up and down much like the first button would have done.

To reach Jess on the roof, push the bin to the nearby red button to the right. You'll activate another platform and you'll be able to go down and enter another narrow passageway. Jump over the button again to find some more stuff. After hitting the button here, you can (carefully) jump to another button to get the inner tube below up and moving.

There's Mrs. Goggins...and the end of the level.

Level 5-B: Stamp the parcels and letters!

Password: Present, Parcel, Present, Parcel

Stamp the parcels and letters, but not the presents. If you stamp the presents, you won't be able to stamp anything for a few seconds.

It gets faster, especially before you run out of time. Thankfully, there is more than enough time and the parcels and letters are grouped together pretty closely at times.

If everything gets too fast for you, press A repeatedly while moving the stamp across the letters and parcels, and stop pressing it when you get near a cluster of presents.

Level 5-C: Find the Greendale Rocket!

Password: Pink Flower, Jess, Pat, Parcel

The water is now oil, but still has the same effect.

Go down on the fork in the road, otherwise you'll run into big oil patches that are tough to avoid.

This one is a pretty long one, but it can be done.

The last mystery item is a sack of mail.

The Greendale Rocket is repaired and moving around now! Yay! You won!



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