Saturday, May 10, 2025

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 4 of 22


In this video, we head to the Whoforest and get some things taken care of, but we end up at a loss when it comes to everything we can do.


Let's get stuff done in Whoforest! Your missions are as follows: making ten Christmas trees droop, sabotaging the snow cannon with glue, putting ten beehives in ten cabins, sliming The Mayor's skis, replacing the ten candles on the cake with fireworks, and squashing all 750 gifts. You also have two items for this level: a bucket which I'm assuming holds the glue, and some sort of magnetic keycard.

If you jump onto the cabins and approach the chimneys, the game will tell you that the chimneys are, in fact, chimneys. If you shoot the beehive on the non-Christmas trees, you'll be able to knock a beehive down. You can then walk into it to grab it. You'll have fifteen seconds to figure out what to do with it, which is to take it to the chimney of a cabin and press Triangle to drop it in the chimney. When a beehive is thrown down the chimney, smoke will stop coming out of that chimney, so you can tell at a glance if you chucked a beehive into it.

If you fail to get to the chimney in time, or if you drop it away from a chimney, bees will come out of the beehive. They're going to hit you no matter what, so be ready to waggle the D-Pad left and right repeatedly until the bees leave you alone.

When you approach the Christmas trees, Whos in red coats with flamethrowers will suddenly show up to protect them. Hit them from a distance with the Rotten Egg Launcher, then move up to the tree and kill it with your bad breath. The tree will die, and the Who with the flamethrower will sob before disappearing.

You won't be able to climb up the ice walls until you get another gadget.

To get rid of the big brown creatures that come out of the holes in the ground, hit them with your bad breath. You'll not only get a giftbox from them, but you'll never see them again afterwards. If they are uncooperative, stun them with the Rotten Egg Launcher. Sometimes they'll be out in the open; other times they will appear when you approach their holes.

The guys who throw snowballs can be hit with the bad breath attack. This will cause him to fall into the snow and drop a giftbox. I didn't know this at the time (and I didn't know this until much later in the Let's Play), but you have to pancake them afterwards while they're feet up in the snow to get another giftbox to smash and get rid of them for good.

The branches are necessary to get to the upper level where some of the cabins are as well as where the snow cannon is. This is where it really becomes apparent how needlessly complex the swinging controls are. Once again, it's all in the feet.

Close to the snow cannon is an ice wall you can destroy with the Rotten Egg Launcher, and inside is the glue bucket. We won't be doing anything with this bucket of glue...yet.

There was actually a target at the top of the tree platform that I could hit with the Rocket Egg Launcher (the same tree that had those weird red markings when I was underneath it). I figure that out between this video and the next.

















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