Charlotte's Web (PS2) - going out of bounds
12This is another random game we played with Kazooie one day.
Charlotte's Web may seem like a sunny, innocent title on the surface, but deep down it actually features quite a twisted cosmic horror setting. All the farm hands have seemingly turned into zombies, roaming the fields without aim, carried by an unnatural looking stride that is not characteristic of any type of a live being. Meanwhile, all the farm animals who are left to fend for themselves can speak for some reason. What could have happened on this farm? And more importantly... is it possible to escape this hell?
To answer the latter question: yes. We found a way to clip through walls near-universally while playing. Some of the objects you pick up in this game, like Dandelions, have collision - this is the type of object you need. Back up the pig (Wilbur) against a wall and drop an object in front of him. Walk against the object a little bit to get pushed backwards inside the wall. Pick up the object. Do this again and again until you're through the wall. Pretty easy (although you often lose the object with collision while doing this).
0:00 - in this first video clip we're so near the start of the game that we can't access the back of the farm yet. But this becomes possible thanks to the wall clip.
0:35 - clipping our way into the farm upstairs - another place you cannot come until later. Too bad that there is nothing too interesting to be found here at the moment.
1:04 - clipping inside the main house reveals just how bad things are in this farm. The house is all rotten inside, with wonky melted looking textures and grass covering the floor. Yikes. The collision is one-sided, so once we pop out to the yard again, we can't get back in again.
2:06 - our hero Wilbur has decided he has seen enough and decides to run for it to the deepest reaches of out of bounds. It's possible to escape the whole farm by clipping through the outer fence. Out of bounds has no gravity in this game, so you can run anywhere you want there.
2:50 - There are some level object looking things under the map, but it's impossible to reach them since you can't descend.
3:34 - and so Wilbur ran into the deep crevasses of the outer void, never to be seen again.
3:56 - as a bonus clip, here's a "natural" wall clip from very early in the game. You can get back into the starting point of the level after escaping through the fence by running down the hill in a specific way. It's not normally possible to get back in, nor is it useful in any way, shape or form.
4:11 - as a another bonus clip, there was some strange mechanics / audio glitch during Charlotte's mini-game. Using the ascending button caused Charlotte to only rise a little before the motion interrupted by itself. There was also some weird audio (the bird attack sound?) that kept repeating every time I did this, resulting in an unpleasant racket.