We finally meet Robyn...and the game gets tougher!
The Alley
It's a tough world out there! You've got to stick with your friends.
This time around, you'll be playing as Jerry if you're on the one-player mode. Thankfully, the game keeps it even, with four stages having you play as Tom while the other four have you play as Jerry. The HUD has things in slightly different positions depending on who you're playing as, but it won't take long to get used to how everything is placed. Jerry collects cheese instead of fish, but the same rules regarding the cheese pick-ups - including the big cheese you can get for a full health refill - apply.
Speaking of the HUD, you only have six minutes and thirty seconds to get through the stage, and you need to be fast in order to get through it. Not only are there no checkpoints in the game, but there are no items in the game that add time to the timer. Even the manual doesn't mention one! You're expected to beat the stages with the amount of time that the game gives you, and if you can't? It's all the way back to the start.
The throwable object for this level are trash can lids, and they have a rather big hitbox.
You can climb up and down ladders by holding Up while jumping to grab on and then using Up and Down on the ladder to climb up and down. Since you have to be fast, however, it is really easy to slip and slide while getting from one ladder to another, and since Jerry is pretty slippery while running
There are a lot of enemies and hazards on both land and in the water, as you'll be spending a lot of time down in the sewers, where sewer plant life, fish, spikes and other things all get in your way and want you dead, such as falling debris and octopi that leap up when you're directly over them.. There is even water on the floors that act as conveyor belts that will push you back, forcing you to run. Being on land isn't any better, as there will be falling flower pots and bottles as well as and cats popping out of trash cans to throw the lid at you.
Near the ladders leading back to street level at the end is a fake wall that leads to an extra life. Somehow, this is the easiest place to get all four cookie pieces, and due to how the game wants to do things, I go from seven to eight to ten extra lives after grabbing the last cookie piece and then grabbing the heart. I couldn't make this up if I tried. From this particular area, once you get back to street level, you'll then have to jump up the window sills, head to the left and jump over the wall to run into Robyn and end the stage. Now we're at the part where we have to help Robyn find her father, and this is where I started getting really frustrated with the game.
The Library
Find the telegram from Robyn's father.
Easier said than done, because the telegram is split into two halves and you need to find out where those two halves are through trial error! And if you lose a life, you have to start all over again, and that includes getting both halves of the telegram!
Some of the mouse enemies will be carrying books, ready to smack you with them. Other enemies and hazards include coals jumping out of fireplaces, jumping books, balls rolling back and forth on pool tables, shards of broken glass on floors, and falling chandeliers that return from the living room level.
The organs are used as trampolines here. Couches and footstools also serve this same
There is a fake cookie shortly after the start that leads to a cookie.
The ink jars are the throwable objects for this level.
If you see any diagonal passages in the walls, they are one-way dumbwaiters. You can't go back through them once you slide down.
You'll have to go left down a dumbwaiter following the jump up all those stained glass windows to get to the right half of the telegram. As for the left half, you'll have to go to the right instead of the left, work your way down, and run left through a fake wall to find it. It's a short level, but it's easy to get lost in. Once you get both parts of the telegram, you'll find out that Robyn's father is still alive, and you're outta here.
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