This dress-up game scratched my brain in the best way back in my web-surfing days as a kid. I loved the base model for the game because she looks fabulous, and it has the intrigue of learning about mythology as well. Yes, I was also a Percy Jackson kid.

Oh. So that's his evil plan? Huh.........

I don't have the bandwidth to poke this further.

I do love the touch of the coffee being the healing mechanism, because same.

*Insert meme captioned Don't-talk-to-me-until-I've-had-my-morning-coffee*

Typical layout of a level

I love this robot lackey so much because it does not have a long-range weapon to use against me. It is literally just those little scissorhands that are close-range. Whenever I got double-teamed by the robots and this one was present, I knew I could chillax a bit and defeat the one with a real weapon first.

Something neat about this game is that you can change out which spy you play as each level, so Clover gets L*ndon. This level also gives you the ~conundrum~ of the character not being able to jump over the 3 potted plants in a row.

So this is the solution

Exploding bomb earrings.....

This is more convenient than just....jumping over the plants.

Now presenting: the least useful tool in the entire game. Didn't use it once aside from getting this screenshot. I'll be fair, if you have twinkle-fingers and can whip this out quickly before switching back to the blow dryer then this will be useful. I just prefer to go on the offensive the entire time because it is 500x more efficient.

For the final level set in Paris, we have this to spice up the gameplay.

There is another cracked wall to bomb, which will lead you to this. Clearing out the waterfall will display secret elevator behind it, which will take you to the boss fight with Tim Scam himself.

I risked my (actually Sam's) life to get this screenshot!

And done!

The collection itself was just three dolls who were unnamed, but resembled 3 out of 4 of the main Bratz girls (Sasha, Yasmin, and Chloe respectively). I was a Yasmin girl, so my parents bought me the middle one.

I honestly don't recall ever using that mouse. I don't even know what I did with it after I had opened the package As with all virtual worlds, Be-Bratz had some minigames that provided more reason to spend time on the website, and potentially help with accumulating points for leveling up your character or in-game currency. Whichever one of the two. Or both. Or none. I don't remember to be completely honest. Whatever it may be, virtual worlds typically have some extra games for you to play (although not all, some are purely for socializing but now I'm babbling and digressing too much). Without further adieu...

Now that's what I'm talking about. This shit had me hype as fuck to be a skater grrrl (never materialized, but my 8 year old self thought it would be so cool to be one).

You could choose between Sasha, Bryce (token guy option, RIP Jade), Yasmin, or Chloe to play as. Naturally I chose my fav, but sometimes Sasha as well since they frequently made her skin tone light to the point she may as well have been Yasmin's twin.

When I started playing again, I forgot that the way to build up momentum was just to let the character go back and forth on the rink to "get more air." I tried to jump the gun and go for the spins as soon as possible, which led to moments like this:

Eventually, I got the hang of it again and got a good rhythm down.

This is the "X-treme" trick. Definitely going to be an X-pensive hospital stay as well. I think this is a perfect place to end on.