You control Pooh and click the mouse to swing the bat. The goal is to hit a certain number of home runs within a set number of pitches. The pitchers, however, become increasingly more difficult after each round.
The game starts with Eeyore, who throws straight pitches, and you must hit three dingers out of ten to clear that challenge. Lumpy the Heffalump is the second pitcher.
He also throws simple straight balls like Eeyore, except you have to get five home runs of fifteen. Piglet follows with sharp fastballs. Robin ignores his family and barely spends time with them due to his work, and plans to send Madeline to boarding school just like he was. One day, his boss, Giles Winslow Jr. However, this forces him to miss a weekend at his cottage in Sussex.
He quickly explains everything to his wife and daughter, both of whom are saddened by this news. During a dinner with his wife, he tells her that they shouldn't go to Sussex, only to end up discussing with Evelyn over Robin putting his work before his family, with Christopher arguing that if he works hard, they will have a great life, only for Evelyn to tell him that their lives won't be better unless they are all together.
Nevertheless, Christopher stays at home the next day, so he could work. However, while evading a neighbor that asks him constantly about playing games, Christopher went to a nearby park so he could think on what to do, only to end up having a great surprise: Winnie the Pooh was just behind him! Shocked, Christopher initially assumed he was seeing visions, only to end up realizing that Pooh is genuinely there.
Later that night, at his house, Robin asks Pooh why he's in London instead of the Hundred Acre Wood, to which Pooh explains that he couldn't find their friends and came to him for help, to which Christopher stated it was useless, as he didn't think of them in 30 years, only for Pooh to reveal they always had thought of Christopher. Afterwards, they went to sleep. The next day, Christopher found Pooh searching for honey in his kitchen, wrecking it in the process, this motivated Robin to return Pooh home, forcing them to go to Sussex, as the door to the Hundred Acre Wood was in his cottage.
On the road to the train station, however, Christopher found the task harder to say than do, as Pooh keep saying hello to everyone, who fainted due to watching a stuffed bear talking. Upon arriving at the station, Pooh asked for a balloon, which Christopher bought.
Upon arriving, Christopher and Pooh managed to sneak past the cottage without either Evelyn or Madeline, whom Christopher talked to Pooh about, noticing them. Arriving at the tree, Christopher and Pooh prepared to part ways once again, however, Christopher changed his mind and choose to help Pooh find their friends. Upon entering the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher was in awe, unable to believe that he was back to the place in which he spent his childhood. While searching for their friends, they found a sign he put as a child, warning about Heffalumps and Woozles , scaring Pooh, in spite of Christopher's attempts to explain that they don't exist.
Later, Christopher gave Pooh his compass from the war. However, Pooh, still believing that Heffalumps and Woozles are real, chose to follow some footsteps he found. This caused Christopher to angrily yell that those were their footsteps and that the Heffalumps and Woozles aren't real.
Hurt, Pooh tried to put the compass in Christopher's briefcase, causing him to stumble with it and Christopher's papers to almost get lost in the wind, furthering Robin's anger, claiming that he is a bear of very little brain for not understanding how important his work seems to be, and stating that in life there is more than simple things like honey or balloons.
When Pooh asked if he's sure, Christopher angrily called him a silly bear, and told him that he's not a child, but an adult with responsibilities. Completely hurt by his friend's words, Pooh left.
Worried and instantly regretting his outburst, Christopher began searching for Pooh, while hearing something. A terrified Christopher fled, while telling himself that Heffalumps and Woozles aren't real. Unfortunately, Christopher fell into a Heffalump trap, which he tried to escape by climbing, only to end up falling and getting unconscious. Christopher then had a dream in which a Heffalump sucks him from Pooh and things from his childhood, which represents the fact that how terrible it was to leave his childhood behind him for good.
Upon waking up, Christopher once again began searching for his childhood friends, only to briefly stop himself and choosing to play Poohsticks. Luckily, he found Eeyore, who mistook Christopher for a Heffalump, in the river. Upon rescuing Eeyore, Christopher greeted his old friend, who still didn't recognize him. Upon once again hearing the same sound as before, Christopher went to investigate, and soon discovered that the sound actually was the weathercock in Owl's house, which once again fell of its tree, and soon found a trail of haycorns, which are Piglet 's favorite food.
Following the trail, Robin and Eeyore soon found Piglet who, also believing that Christopher was a Heffalump, ran in fear, soon leading Christopher to the rest of the gang, all of whom believed Christopher was a Heffalump. Christopher attempted to explain to them that Heffalumps don't exist, but this didn't help, as they stated that Christopher Robin would never say something like that.
Christopher was then forced to pretend to defeat a Heffalump like when he was a chid in order to convince them that he is Christopher Robin, bringing Eeyore with him as witness. Soon, everybody realized that he is indeed Christopher Robin, and they joyfully greeted him, before asking where Pooh was.
Christopher explained that he lost him, but Roo's statement that he must be somewhere helped him realize that Pooh is at their meeting spot. Finding their friend at their meeting spot, Christopher goes over to Pooh and apologizes for yelling at him before.
After telling his friend that to him he's a bear with a very big heart over a bear with a very little brain, Christopher told Pooh that their friends are safe and sound. Christopher was very grateful that Pooh, who was disappointed that he wasn't able to be there when his friend found and saved their friends, waited for him at their meeting spot.
Christoper was reminded by Pooh that It's always a sunny day when he comes to play. However, Christopher felt that it wasn't true anymore as he's not who he used to be but Pooh told him that he is still him and their friend even saying that he's their hero. Having realized the facts, Pooh's leave, his nightmare, and that his friends only recognized him by playing with them like he did when was a kid, Christopher told Pooh that he's no hero and that he lost his way.
Hearing his friend, who told him something very true, say that he found him, Christopher was comfort and given a hug by Pooh. That next day, Robin realized that he has fallen asleep in the Hundred Acre Wood, forcing him to leave after his briefcase was returned to him by Tigger , who retrieved everything with Kanga.
Just before leaving, he gave Pooh his compass. Pooh, in return, gave Robin his balloon, telling him to give it to Madeline. Upon returning to Sussex, he secretly left the balloon in the yard. However, right before he could leave, he was caught by Madeline and Evelyn, who wanted him to stay, but Christopher explained that he couldn't stay, due to the reunion that his boss prepared. Upset, Evelyn told him that the two will stay for a few days, to which he tried to explain himself, but, knowing that she wouldn't believe him if he told her about his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, was ultimately unable to explain.
Robin eventually made it back to his work in time for the reunion. While on the elevator, he soon discovered that Winslow Jr. On the reunion, Robin discovered that Tigger secretly changed the things in his briefcase and that, instead of the papers, it contained many elements from the Hundred Acre Woods. Evelyn soon came, looking for Madeline, who ran away to find him as she had the papers. Finally, choosing once again his family over his job, he quickly went to help Evelyn, who assumed Madeline was alone.
Upon reading the note she left, which said "expotition", however, he quickly realized that she's with his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood, forcing him to reveal to Evelyn about their existence. Evelyn initially assumed Robin was insane, but she realized quickly that it was the truth when Tigger, Eeyore, and Piglet crashed in their window and talked in to her.
They soon re-started their search, while Christopher introduced his friends to a shocked Evelyn. Piglet then informed that Madeline's going to the "Woozles" to which Christopher realized she's going to Winslow Luggage, forcing the group to return. Upon finding Madeline, he soon finds out that she had accidentally lost all the papers except one, to which she apologized. Christopher, however, said that the only thing that mattered is that she's safe, and recognized that he was "a father of very little brain", having been wrong about everything even saying that he lost himself and that he almost lost her.
I'd never really hung out with Chris, but I'd seen him around, and we were into the same scenes - he seemed cool. This was my first real chance at getting to know him, and I wanted to make a good first impression. But the three of us being the awkward lot we were, we just sat around in Chris' room, making small chit-chat while Chris' monitor sifted through dozens of live anime wallpapers on a shuffle.
After Chris found out I was into Demon's Souls , the three of us started riffing on difficult games, and started trading horror stories about the toughest ones we'd played. That's when Chris smiled and asked, "hey, have either of you heard about that Winnie The Pooh baseball game? Released with no fanfare whatsoever in , the Japanese Yahoo! Kids Flash game went mostly unknown for several years.
After all, how many people are going to engage a Pooh flash game based in good faith, let alone the fabled "core gamer" demographic? But in , that exact demographic got their hands on the game. Picking up on just how weird that flex was, commenters and lurkers alike flocked to the game, hoping to make sense of the posts.
Ostensibly a game for children, the 2D baseball freeware seems like an innocuous and cheap little cash-in. As Winnie The Pooh, children are tasked with guiding a bat with their cursor, then clicking when the ball comes in range. Sounds simple, yeah? Unfortunately, it's anything but - Home Run Derby is a hellish exercise in futility, the likes of which I've rarely seen in this medium.
As somebody who suffers from extreme depression, I can say with full sincerity that this game is the most accurate reflection of what my deepest lows feel like. Almost single pitch in this game feels like an insult. Your initial square-offs with Eeyore and the Heffalump seem fine - tough, precise, but fair. But when Piglet hurls his first curveball at you, it's clear that you're in for a bad time. Every character after those initial rounds is a gleeful agent of malice and cause of suffering.
Rabbit's throws slow down and speed up with seemingly no warning. Owl's zig and zag in rapid succession, making it almost impossible to chart their trajectory. Tigger's just fucking disappear , making it feel like a fool's errand to even try and figure out where you'll hit. One by one, your favorite cuddly friends turn tail on you, cruelly smiling as they prolong your suffering with each godawful round.
Then there's the architect of Pooh's pain - Christopher Robin himself.
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