In this game, the Grinch will steal both Christmas and your patience.
It's Christmas time in Whoville, a small town where everyone loves Christmas, except the Grinch. In fact, this year he decides that he's had it this year and he decides to steal it. Unfortunately, he drops everyone of his blueprints he needs in order to do this, and they're spread all over Whoville. The Grinch now has to find these and continue his task of ruining Christmas for everyone.
At first glance, The Grinch might seem like a decent game, but after a while you'll discover that the game is filled with flaws. In each level you have several objectives to achieve, like smash ten snowmen or infest the mayor's house with rats. Some of these tasks can only be completed if you have a specific item. The problem with this is that these items can be next to impossible to find, not to mention that some of the objectives can be annoyingly hard to figure out how to solve. While smashing tents just requires you to find them, sliming a pair of skies is as complicated as finding a keycard that's nearly impossible to find, to using it at a nearby ski lift to get up on the top of the mountain where the mayor's house is located, to shooting a pile of snow to stun his guard dog and finally slime the skies. It's always nice when you have to figure out how you're going to accomplish these tasks, but not when it's almost impossible to figure them out without a walkthrough.
Along with these tasks, you also have to find your lost blueprints. Each blueprint consists of small parts scattered all over Whoville, some have more parts and some and fewer. When you have enough of them you can return to Mt. Crumpit to construct a new gadget. This is done by puzzling the pieces together. When the jigsaw consists of few pieces it's fairly easy, but more then 10 pieces means you're bound for frustration, especially since you have no clue what these gadgets look like.
The graphics in this game aren't much better either. Aside from looking very blend from a distance, they are crawling with enough bugs to make the game seem less like a game and more like a beta test. Sometimes it seems that enemies are standing in mid-air or in the most inconvenient places you can't even imagine.
Making a game marketed towards kids is no excuse to make an awful game. A 7 year old kid can't possibly have the patience to complete the game, nor does an adult. In this game the Grinch will steal both Christmas and you patience, so spend your money on something better like Crash Bandicoot or why not the good old Super Mario Bros?