In this entry, we finally head underwater.
Back at Wholake, the Marine Mobile will be waiting for you at the start. When you press Triangle to get in, you'll be underwater. The D-Pad lets you steer, ascend and descend; X lets you accelerate, Square lets you accelerate faster, Circle lets you jump to the surface, and R1 lets you dive back into the water from the surface. You can always go back to the Gadgets menu while the game is paused to refer back to the controls if you need to.
There is a fish that you can talk to, and he will ask you to collect ten pearls in 45 seconds for a "twin-end tuba," whatever that is. If you accept, be ready to line yourself up with the pearls while moving as quickly as possible to get all ten pearls within the time limit using both of the acceleration buttons. Moving the Marine Mobile around feels very machine-like, and it takes a little while to get used to. If you can pull it off, you'll get one of the sleigh parts.
The sea cows will eat the kelp on the ocean floor, and you can bump into them. They are much like the turtles from Sunny Beach in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, and if you bump into them so that they are near another bunch of kelp, they will go to that kelp and eat it. This will allows you get the giftboxes and other things trapped in the kelp, including one of the parts for modifying the Marine Mobile. Just be careful when doing it, as it is possible to accidentally glitch a sea cow into a wall. If that happens, leave and re-enter the area.
Thankfully, accelerating into giftboxes with turbo speed here will break them. Be careful when running into things; if you hit walls at turbo speed, you'll take damage.
There are flashing things swimming around, and despite what I initially thought, they actually don't hurt you. They serve another purpose, but I don't know what that purpose is...yet.
Be sure to ascend to the surface of the water; you'll be able to find more giftboxes up there. Hitting the R1 button to do a surface jump will destroy the giftboxes suspended in mid-air. You'll need to check the surface for one of the blueprint pieces for the Grinch Copter, which you should have all the pieces for and should immediately build once you have them all. The Grinch Copter allows The Grinch to fly around in the air for as long as he has Rotten Eggs to power it, and it can allow him to destroy giftboxes suspended in mid-air.
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