Wednesday, May 21, 2025

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 15 of 22


In this entry, we finally take a look at the fourth and last level of the game.


Your missions in Wholake are as follows: putting thistles in ten pairs of shorts, sabotaging ten tents, drilling holes in ten canoes, modifying the Marine Mobile (which you'll need to unlock to even do), hooking The Mayor's bed to the motorboat, and squashing all the giftboxes.

As soon as you enter Wholake, be ready to sneak out of the cave you start out of, as bats will swoop down at you.

If you jump into the lake, it is instant death before you get re-spawned back at the beginning of the stage.

You can climb the wall near the start with the Octopus Climbing Device. If you shoot the beehive near the sleeping beast, you can get the beast away from the tents.

To sabotage the tents, all you have to do is pancake them.

Shoot at the scouts with the Rotten Egg Launcher to get them out of the way and get their giftboxes.

The Porc-Who-Pines - which look like echidnas with braids - drop thistles when shot. You can collect the thistles, then shoot them at the shorts on the clotheslines. Thankfully, the Porc-Who-Pines come back when out of camera shot.

You won't be able to cross the bridge to North Shore unless you have a Scoutmaster's outfit. You'll need to cross the bridge near the cave at the start, jump up the branches, then Rocket Spring to the roof of the hut at the top and drop down the chimney. You'll see a guy stuffing his face; hit him with the bad breath attack to make him mad and start a boss battle.

The Scoutmaster will shoot at you with a slingshot three times. Run in a circle to avoid the shots. After the third shot, hit him with the bad breath attack as he reloads. You'll get the hat. You'll then have to deal with this attack three times again, then breathe on him a second time with the bad breath attack to knock him down. Pancake him as he is down on the ground to get the shirt. After this, he charges at you. You'll need to run up to the moose heads near the entrance, then jump out of the way so he crashes into the wall. When you do this with both moose heads, a moose head will fall on him, and you'll take his shorts. Now the uniform is complete!

When you have the Scoutmaster's outfit, you can enter the North Shore area. Just get in the nearby changing booth, which looks like an outhouse, and change clothes inside. The controls are the same as with the phone booths and the Who Cloak in Downtown Whoville. When you enter, watch out for the crows, and run away when they dive at you.














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