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

Just when you think you're done...

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The "2500" door leads to a Grinch Copter mini-game where you have to have to fly though all the ring and get to the goal as quickly as possible. The "1500" door takes you to the Pankamania mini-game, where you'll have to pancake as many pumpkins as possible within 45 seconds to get the best score. Much like the swinging mini-game, these mini-games don't do anything useful.

Now for the sleigh. When you enter it, you'll play the final part of the game. You'll also notice before you get on the sleigh that there is a cavern entrance-sized hold behind the bookcase. Anyway, get in the sleigh, and you'll be chasing Santa Claus. Santa throws gifts out of his sleigh, and you'll need to use the D-Pad to steer the sleigh and grab all the giftboxes. If you miss one, you have to start all the way from the beginning. To make matters worse, the steering on the sleigh is absolutely horrible. It's like you don't ascend or descend fast enough and doing either feels slightly delayed. 

When you managed to get the ten presents, you'll have sixty seconds to shoot Santa ten times. Keep the fire button held down and watch where your machine gun for a Rotten Egg Launcher is shooting so you can easily pull this off. If you fail to shoot Santa down enough times, you have to do the present-grabbing again before you get another chance to shoot at Santa. I'm not kidding. The last part has to be absolutely miserable, as if getting some of the collectibles wasn't miserable enough already.

When you take down Santa, you'll finally ruin Christmas. Of course, just like in the book, the animated movie and the live-action movie this game is based on, the Whoville are still happy and caroling, and in a moment of weakness, The Grinch gives the presents back.

This should be the end of it...but for doing everything else in the game and getting 100%, we suddenly see The Grinch in a black leather jacket riding a motorcycle. The bookshelf moves, revealing a cavern leading into...a motorcycle race. X accelerates, Square brakes, R1 performs a wheelie and Left and Right on the D-Pad steer. You'll have to do three laps through a course, which you'll have to memorize as you go from lap to lap, as each lap is different from the last and you'll be avoiding more things such as logs, barricades, falling rocks, falling trees, the cops, and oncoming ramps. If you place anywhere under than first, or if you get caught by the cops, you have to start all the way over from the first lap. It also doesn't help that you lose so much speed and momentum if you run into anything, so you'll really have to get good to get in first early and maintain the lead the whole time. If you have to pause and press Triangle to leave and then re-start, do it. As for the ramps, you're forced to press R1 to pop a wheelie and jump off them, especially near the end of the third lap. If you miss that second ramp, you'll run into the cops, and you'll be starting the race all over again.

When you finally win the race in first place, you'll finally be able to roll credits...and that's it. You don't get an extra scene beyond the absolutely rotten motorcycle race. But at least we're finally done with this, and we can finally say that we beat The Grinch for Sony PlayStation 1!