PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 8 of 22

In this entry, we start our journey into the Whoville Dump. There's quite a bit to do and just as much to figure out, as you can see.

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In this video, we start exploring the Whoville Dump. Here, your missions are: stealing food from birds, feeding the computer with robot parts, infesting the Mayor's house with rats, conducting the Stinky Gas to Who-Bris' shack, shaving the dump guardian, short-circuiting the power plant, and squashing all the giftboxes. There are also a pair of scissors to collect for later.

The first thing you will notice are the red Nitro Eggs. These are more powerful than your rotten eggs, and you can carry up to five of them. These red ruby eggs will allow you to destroy the robot sentries that are circling around the pipes leading to the switches, as well as destroy the robots that are moving around for their parts.

Watch out for steam. The steam will damage you if it touches you, and it will come out of vents and pipes that are all over the place.

Birds will be surrounding the food items that you'll need to collect. If you see them, you'll need to shoot at them with the Rotten Egg Launcher to get them out of the way so you get the food. If they take the food, wait for them to come back down before shooting at them again; that will bring the food back so you can pick it up.

The robots with the green jewels on their chests - some of which will be moving around with boxes - can be destroyed for parts. You'll need to hit them with the Nitro Eggs to do this, and you'll want to do it from a distance, as they will move up to you and shock you if they see you.

The sphere-shaped sentry robots guard the pipes. Some of them will be covered, and you'll need to drop down them to find some giftboxes to pancake as well as a button to jump on. The buttons will turn off the force fields blocking the path to other parts of the junkyard, but only temporarily, and you'll really have to memorize where you need to go, memorize where you need to stand in order to get back aboveground with the Rocket Spring, then hoof it in order to get to the other end before the force field comes back. Memorizing exactly where you need to go is essential, as the game really only gives you just enough time to get past where the force field was. Getting out of the shaft is easy: you'll have to stand on the oil slick on the floor and use the Rocket Spring there to get out of the shaft.

The force fields shock you if you touch them, so you have to get rid of them with the switches in order to really move around in this level. Even worse, while you're down in the areas with the buttons, there will also be frayed wires with electricity coming out of them. These wires will shock you, and you'll want to avoid touching them as you get out of the shafts where the buttons area, as getting shocked will cost you valuable time.

There is a whole area full of rats. The rats will follow you if you're playing as Max in that area, and there are also wooden planks on cranes above the area, too. Hmmmmmm...

There are levers that activate a crusher in this level. The lever pulls the crusher up and also brings it down, and if you bring the nearby block over to where the crusher comes down, you can get a giftbox out of it.

There is a guy on top of one of the shaft entrances. To get rid of him, you'll need to shoot a Nitro Egg at the wrecking ball. The wrecking ball will swing by and knock the guy out of the dump.

If you die, you get sent back to the start of the current level. You have infinite lives, so don't worry about that.

There is a set of metal double doors, but at this point, I don't know what to do regarding it...yet.

Food 1

Robot 1

Robot 2

Robot 3

Food 2

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 1

Robot 4

Food 3

Robots 5 and 6, and Food 4

Food 5

Food 6

Food 7

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 2

Robot 7

Robots 8 and 9, Foods 8 and 9, and Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 3

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 4

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 7 of 22

We've unlocked the third world in the game after only a handful of videos! We're really making some headway here!

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It's time to head back to the Whoforest, now that there's no more to do in Downtown Whoville (for now).

Now that we have the Rocket Spring, we can take the beehives to the roofs of the rest of the cabins and throw the beehives down in them. Just make sure the "Drop It In!" prompt in on screen before you press Triangle.

Once you throw beehives in all ten cabins, you can then walk in through the front door of each and every one of them. There will be giftboxes to pancake and blueprints to collect, but watch out for the bees! The blueprints for the Slime Shooter gadget will all be in the cabins, so if you miss any, go check the cabins again.

One of the cabins has a locked chest. We'll be able to open it eventually.

You can use the Rocket Spring to get on top of the snow cannon. Smash the giftboxes, then press Triangle at the hole at the top to drop the glue in and gum up the works.

At this point, we've done enough to unlock the Whoville Dump, the third level of the game.

The Slime Shooter, when unlocked, will let you shoot slime at anyone or anything. Hold the Circle Button to charge it up, and when the charge gauge is full, release the button to let loose a glob of slime. In Downtown Whoville, you can use it to cover up the horns playing the music and get the giftboxes near them more safely (assuming you haven't gotten them already), and you can shoot slime at the police officers to get their giftboxes and get them out of your way.

To get the giftbox at the top of the Christmas tree in the center of Downtown Whoville, you'll need to aim at it with the Binoculars and shoot it with the Rotten Egg Launcher to knock it down for pancaking.

Cabin 3

Cabin 4

Cabin 5

Cabin 6

Cabin 7

Cabin 8

Dropping the glue into the snow cannon

Cabin 9

Cabin 10 (how did I do this in one shot and complete the mission?)

Slime Shooter Blueprint 1

Slime Shooter Blueprint 2

Slime Shooter Blueprint 3

Slime Shooter Blueprint 4

Slime Shooter Blueprint 5

Slime Shooter Blueprints 6, 7 and 8

Slime Shooter Blueprint 9

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 6 of 22

In this video, we get all of the missions in Downtown Whoville complete. The giftboxes, however, will be a different matter.

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Now that City Hall is open, we might as well go in there.

The door at the bottom leads to a conference room. Press Triangle to open the doors here. On the walls, one of the file cabinets will be a little taller than the others, and you can pull them out by holding Triangle and using the D-Pad to get Binoculars blueprints. Congratulations, you've found the rest of the blueprints for the binoculars.

At the upper floor, you'll want to sneak around and stay behind the columns so that the security guards do not see you and kick you back to the entry room. Enter the rooms that you find to look for giftboxes and other important items. Behind a set of brown cabinets that you can push out of the way is a safe. Pull out the safe, then pancake it from above to get the hammer and chisel. You'll be needing these soon.

Across from where you find the hammer and chisel is the Mayor's statue, which is protected by security lasers. You can jump over them to get to the statue, but if you use your bad breath attack where the lasers are supposed to be, you can expose the lasers. Be careful as you not only get to the statue, but also pick up the Grinch Copter blueprint that is here.

When you get to the statue, get behind it and press Triangle at the button you find to deactivate the security system and turn off the lasers. Since you have the hammer and chisel, you can now stand at the front of the statue to vandalize it and complete the statue defacing mission. You're done in city hall, so you might as well leave.

The Rocket Spring will allow you to get a few giftboxes in slightly higher locations in Downtown Whoville, including some of the ones that are handing from above. For those, you can Rocket Spring and bounce on them to easily pancake them. You still won't be able to get the even higher ones easily.

Remember the orange building guarded by the policeman? That's the Countdown-to-Christmas Tower, and now that you have the Rocket Spring, you can leap up to the doorway above the lever and grab the handles to pull the door open and get to the next level. From here, you'll have to pull some levers in order to get some gears in position so that they open a door when they turn. When that happens, you can take the elevator to the next floor. B e ready to solve lever puzzles and smash the occasional giftbox.

For the first floor, pull the left lever up, the center lever up, and the right lever down. When you jump on the red button, the gears will be able to open up the second level.

For the second floor, pull the right lever down and the left lever down, then jump on the red button to lower the platform. Push the block in the room onto the platform, then pull the right lever back up to get the platform running when you jump on the button again.

For the third floor, push the block in the room towards the big gear that is sticking out, then jump on the block and push the gear with Triangle and the D-Pad. Pull the right lever down, then jump on the red button. This will move another gear into place. At this point, you can push the block onto the platform. Pull the center lever down, then pull the left lever up. After that, pull the lever near the elevator that is by itself down.

At the top floor, press Select to call Max and have him go through the hole in the door. Move to the hammer to grab it, then get the Grinch Copter Blueprint. There will be a picture above the blueprint; it will signify the order in which you need to hit the five bells in the previous room from left to right, and it is different each time you play. To hit a bell, you'll need to stand under the shadow of the bell and launch yourself into it with the Rocket Spring. The green lights above the next door will light up as you get the sequence right.

In the next room, pancake all the giftboxes and get the Grinch Copter blueprint, then use the hammer near the bell man to hit the bell man. This will cause the bell man to wake up and set the time to three days instead of thirty, and that will complete the Christmas timer mission.

Once you unlock the Binoculars, you can zoom in and out with Triangle and X, respectively, while in the first-person view.

Binoculars Blueprints 2, 3 and 4

Grinch Copter Blueprint 1

Grinch Copter Blueprint 2

Grinch Copter Blueprint 3 (and the hammer)

Grinch Copter Blueprint 4

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 5 of 22

In this entry, we finally have an idea of what to do next in Whoforest, then we head back downtown to take care of a few missions there.

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At the start of the video, I have to go up to the upper reaches of the other area and shoot the spinning target next to the cabin at the top of the big tree you can enter the underside of by going into first-person view and shooting the spinning target with the Rotten Egg Launcher. By doing that, an elevator will lower to the bottom of the tree, and you can get on the elevator and press Triangle to ride it to the top. This will take you to some giftboxes, the last cabin and the ninth and last blueprint for the Rocket Spring. Be sure to take the elevator back down, as you'll need to use the elevator later. 

With the Rocket Spring blueprints taken care of, you can head back to Mount Crumpit and build the Rocket Spring. To switch between gadgets, hold R1 and press Left and Right. The Rocket Spring, when used, allows you to jetpack yourself to higher areas. Hold Circle to charge it, then let go to rocket yourself upwards. It takes four rotten eggs for a full charge. 

With this out of the way, it's back to Whoville, as we have things that we can do now. Believe it or not, you can now shoot rotten eggs at the windows that open and close with the Rotten Egg Launcher. If there is a green cloud coming out of the window, that means you've already hit that window.

To advance the Countdown to Christmas clock, aim at it with the Rotten Egg Launcher in first-person view, then shoot a rotten egg at it. This will advance the clock to 8 PM and open the doors to city hall. 

There are some giftboxes that you can shoot down with the Rotten Egg Launcher, but they have to be on the surface of a roof in order to be destroyed.

Rocket Spring Blueprint 9

Window 1

Window 2

Window 3

Window 4

Window 5

Window 6

Window 7

Window 8

Windows 9 and 10 (mission complete)

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.

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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.

Cabin 1

Rocket Spring Blueprint 1 (it was right there in the opening cutscene, and I just now remember it here)

Christmas Tree 1

Rocket Spring Blueprint 2

Cabin 2

Christmas Tree 2

Christmas Tree 3

Rocket Spring Blueprint 3

Christmas Tree 4

Rocket Spring Blueprint 4

Christmas Tree 5

Christmas Tree 6

Christmas Tree 7 and Rocket Spring Blueprint 5

Rocket Spring Blueprint 6 and Christmas Tree 8

Rocket Spring Blueprint 7

Rocket Spring Blueprint 8 and Christmas Tree 9 (you can get up there without the Rocket Spring, you just gotta be solid on that jump to the ledge so you can grab it)

Christmas Tree 10 (mission completed...and it was right at the start, too!)

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 3 of 22

If you're wondering how I caused that glitch regarding the computer, it was because I wasn't standing in a neutral position when I pressed Triangle in front of the computer lever. I figured this out right after it happened, and this kept that glitch from rearing its ugly head again for the rest of the Let's Play.

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In order to don the Who Cloak, you must find a red phone booth, press Triangle to open the door, then go in and press Triangle again to switch between your normal Grinchy self and the Who Cloak. While in disguise, nobody will mess with you...not even the police officer near the post office. You won't be able to open the door to the Whoville post office and enter it without wearing the Who Cloak, so you're going to need it to do what we need to do here.

If you go straight forward from where you enter, you'll see Cindy Lou Who (at least, I believe that's her; she's never named). She will follow you around wondering who you are, but that's about it.

Instead, you need to run around the perimeter of the post office while avoiding the red spotlights of the security cameras. If you get caught by one, you'll be booted back to the entrance, but you'll be free to move around again and do whatever you want afterwards. Just wait for the lights to turn off as the security cameras move around before moving forwards.

As you circle the perimeter of the post office, you'll notice that different doors to different mailrooms have a different color light surrounding them. Keep the lights in mind for the doors that you want. 1 is purple, 2 is orange, 3 is cyan, 4 is yellow and 5 is gray. You'll need to enter and shuffle the mail in the first four mailrooms to unlock the fifth mailroom.

You'll also see air vents. The Grinch cannot enter these, but Max can, so press Select to switch to him and then move into the air vent. Before you do that though, you'll want The Grinch next to the door that you want to unlock. Once you have The Grinch in place, have Max enter the air vent. You'll then enter a maze Look for the number and color for the door that you want, then follow the color and enter the air vent exit that you see. The red button in the mailroom will open the nearby door, and you'll have ten seconds to get the Grinch into the mailroom. If you don't, then you'll have to switch back to The Grinch, switch back to Max - who will reappear next to The Grinch and not where you left him - and then go through the maze all over again and get back to where you were. Thankfully, if you have The Grinch in position and you have an idea of where you are going, this part is a snap. Once The Grinch is in the mailroom, smash the presents in the room, then go up to the cubby full of mail and press Triangle to shuffle the mail. This will complete mart of the "Shuffle the Mail" mission and you'll also keep the mailroom door open, which will make it easier to keep track of where you've been. You'll need to do this five times, one for each mailroom.

The flashing gray heart is a Heart of Stone gives you an extra hit point when collected. There are four of these in all, one in each world in the game.

If you press X as Max, Max will bark. It doesn't serve any purposes gameplay-wise.

After you mess with the first four room, Cindy Lou Who will call for her father, who will come out of Door 5 and leave it open. Inside will be a load of presents as well as the third blueprint for the Rotten Egg Launcher. Shuffle the mail once last time, and you'll see The Grinch scare the little girl on his way out of the power station in a brief cutscene. With all of the mail shuffled and another mission completed, the security system will be out of commission and you'll be free to move around without being sent back to the entrance via trap door. Speaking of the entrance, if you go back there, you'll find the fourth and final blueprint for the Rotten Egg Launcher on your way out.

Now that we've done enough stuff in Downtown Whoville, the Whoforest will be unlocked. The teleportation tube for this level will be a solid dark grey. While we could head back there at Mount Crumpit, we have blueprints to put together like a jigsaw puzzle in order to unlock our first gadget. Press Triangle at the lever in front of the computer to use the computer, then use L1 and R1 to switch to the gadget you want to unlock. Obviously, we want to unlock the Rotten Egg Launcher. Select it, and you'll be able to use the D-Pad to move the red cursor while picking blueprint pieces up with X. When you pick up a blueprint piece, the cursor will turn green. You can move it around with the D-Pad and place it elsewhere with X, and you can rotate it with Square. It wasn't until I started making these blog entries that the logo in the background of the blueprints looks like a "G," and you can use that to your advantage to see if you have everything rotated correctly. Also, the white box with the "G" logo in it should be in the lower-right hand corner with the "G" logo right-side up. If you can keep those two things in mind, you can easily get the blueprints back in order and unlock the gadgets.

The Rotten Egg Launcher lets you shoot rotten eggs at Whos and other things and beings. By holding L1, you can use Up and Down on the D-Pad to switch gadgets. With the Rotten Egg Launcher equipped, you can aim with the first-person view mode when you press R1, which will now show a target reticle in the center of the screen. Circle fires a rotten egg whether you are in first-person view or not.

If you go to the upper level above where the Gadget Computer is, you'll find a few doors that lead to mini-games. You can only open these if you've smashed enough gifts in the game. They serve no purpose other than to have a fun time outside of the main game. There is also a locked door with a keyhole, but it is locked from the inside and you won't be able to see what is behind the door until much later.

Back in Downtown Whoville, you can now fire rotten eggs at the kids who tried to hug you and throw snowballs at you earlier. Hitting them will cause them to drop giftboxes, which you can then smash. The guys who ran away from you will cower in fear if you look at them in first-person view mode with the Rotten Egg Launcher equipped, and you can also shoot them for giftboxes. You won't be able to do anything to the police officers...yet. As for the giftboxes that are airborne, you won't be able to do anything with them with the Rotten Egg Launcher. You're still going to have to wait to get those. The rotten eggs can also be used to break the walls made out of snow, which will uncover more giftboxes.

Beside some of the obvious reasons that you'll need Max for, Max can also be used to scout ahead and look around in certain areas without incident. Enemies will not mess with Max, and neither will any hazards. This is very useful if you want to explore without getting hurt.

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 2 of 22

Downtown Whoville is pretty small, but there's quite a bit to do.

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The first of the four teleportation tubes will be light and dark grey, and will take you to Downtown Whoville. Press Triangle when you're under the tube to enter the level. This is the first, and right now, only level that you can access for now until you can get some tasks done. 

Your missions for Downtown Whoville are shuffling the mail five times, smashing ten snowmen, painting ten posters of The Mayor, launching eggs into ten houses, advancing the countdown-to-Christmas clock, and squashing all 500 gifts. You also have four special items to find that you'll use in certain parts of the level.

If you need to return to Mount Crumpit, return back to where you started, stand underneath the teleportation tube and press Triangle.

Be on the lookout for the citizens of Whoville. The kids in the light green jackets will hug you if they grab you, and they will fill up the health meter. Waggle the D-Pad left and right to break free if they grab on, and stay away from them. To refill health, you'll have to smash giftboxes, which is one of the weirdest things about the game. This can make things a little harder later on. There will be other kids who will throw snowballs at you, and others still will just run away from you if you approach.

If you see any gifts, jump on or pancake them to break them. Some of them will have to be pancaked in order to be broken, especially if they are worth five or ten giftboxes. Different colors are worth different values, much like the gems in the Spyro series.

The rotten egg plants will give you ammo for your various gadgets. You can carry up to 200. Rotten egg plants will eventually re-grow, and depending on how grown it looks, you can get anywhere from one to three to five units of ammunition. Make it a habit to collect any you see to fill up your ammo, as you're going to need them later.

To destroy the snowmen, jump on them. You may have to pancake them to ensure accuracy.

You'll need the paint and the paint bucket to vandalize the posters of The Mayor.

The blue pieces of paper are blueprints. Collect them in order to unlock gadgets at the game's main hub in Mount Crumpit.

You can pancake the gifts underneath the music-playing from the side if your timing is right. There is another way to smash them, but we don't have it yet.

You can jump into ledges to grab them. Press Up on the D-Pad to pull yourself up. 

There is a tutorial on the poles. Jump into them, then hold Square to spin. Depending on where your feet are in front of you when you jump, you'll either do a high jump or a long jump. Your feet will have to be slightly lower than your body to do the long jump, and if they're slightly higher, you'll do the high jump. It can be hard to differentiate between the two, and it can be frustrating. If you need to turn around on a pole, hold Square and press Triangle while at the top of the pole to turn around.

The poles will be used to get to the two planks ahead, and there will be a guy jumping around. Pancake the opposite end of where the guy is to launch him into the stratosphere and get the paint and paint bucket. With this, you can vandalize the posters of The Mayor by standing in front of one and pressing Triangle.

There are gift boxes in the air that you won't be able to get to right now. You'll be able to destroy them eventually.

There are police officers, especially one near the post office. Some of them will be asleep at their posts, and you can hold Triangle and move to tiptoe past them without alerting them. The one near the post office gives you the hint of "If only you could not be recognized..." Remember that for later. If any of them see you, or if they are awakened, they will shoot you with an ice blast. You'll have to waggle the D-Pad left and forth to break out before you lose a ton of health.

You'll eventually find the front door for City Hall, where a ceremony will be held. You'll need to find a way to advance the clock at the top of the building to 8 PM to open up the doors.

If any hummingbirds approach you, use your bad breath to kill them.

You'll find the Who Cloak if you sneak into the Countdown-To-Christmas tower. You'll need this to get into the post office. To put on the Who Cloak, you'll need to find one of the phone boxes in town, walk into it and press Triangle to switch between your normal Grinchy self and your disguise.

Snowman 1

Binoculars Blueprint 1

Snowman 2

Snowman 3

Snowman 4

Mayor's Poster 1

Mayor's Poster 2

Snowman 5

Snowman 6

Snowman 7

Snowman 8 (and the sneaking tutorial)

Rotten Egg Launcher Blueprint 1 and Mayor's Poster 3 (I told you the swinging controls were ass.)

Rotten Egg Launcher Blueprint 1

Snowman 9

Mayor's Poster 4

Mayor's Poster 5

Mayor's Poster 6

Mayor's Poster 7

Mayor's Poster 8

Snowman 10 (mission is done)

Mayor's Poster 9

Mayor's Poster 10 (mission is done)