Now that we've become a disciple of Master Subodye, we can learn magic and put our skills to the test in an abandoned atomic power plant (wait, what?) to find the Power Rod.
When you continue with the game, you'll notice another gauge to the right of your health. This will be for your magic, which you'll be learning very, very shortly.
Move away from the dojo and continue to the right. You'll meet Master Subodye. Head further to the right to learn about the glowing magic pad, which will refill your magic meter as you stand on it. Fill up the meter, then head to the right to get the green crystal and learn your first spell: the Shrink spell. You can use this spell to shrink yourself as well as other items. Use L1 to cast the spell on yourself, and use R1 to cast the spell on objects. Watch your magic meter!
When you shrink yourself or other objects, green globes of light will surround yourself or the object you shrunk, depending on what you did. As time passes, the globes will float away from you or the object one by one. When the last globe leaves, you or the object will return to normal size.
Be careful when shrinking yourself to go down very narrow corridors. The shrink spell can and will wear off while in the corridor, and if that happens, you will be squashed and killed, causing the loss of a life.
Once you make it to the end, you'll be taken to an abandoned atomic power plant (wait, what?!?) to look for the Power Rod. Seriously, we go to something that should not exist in this time and place to find something that we need to become a stronger warrior. How this works, I have no clue.
Search For The Ultimate Weapon
Obtain The Power Rod
There will be a magic pad to stand on to refill your magic to the right at the start. From here, you'll need to jump your way to the top. Watch the platforms, and be careful of the platforms coated in slime, as they are slippery. Also, pools of glowing green acid will eat you alive in seconds, so stay out of them.
When you reach the solid ground at the top, you'll have a few opportunities to shrink yourself and other objects. Do this to get through. When you jump to the pipe that you need to climb down, hold down Up as you jump to it to ensure that you grab it.
Don't forget to use Circle and the Control Pad to move the camera around and look for pick-ups...you'll need 'em!
The rats will run at you and knock you very far back unless you shrink them like you would stationary object. Don't forget that you have to duck and them attack to hit them. Since they are shrunken down, they will take fewer hits to defeat.
You'll eventually return to the start, but at this point, you should have Key 1. If you don't have Key 1, which is located before the pipe you have to climb down, you'll have to go all the way back up just to get it.
In the second set of platforms in the background after Keyhole 1, there will be acid droplets that drop down. Do not let these droplets hit you; they will hurt. When you reach the top of this area, jump in the middle of the tunnel you have to go through to find a hidden Monkey icon.
You'll eventually find a fragile crate of hazardous waste. As soon as you touch it, Subodye will contact you and send you back to the dojo.
When you return to the dojo, you'll get the yellow crystal and the Growth spell. Use L2 and R2 to switch between spells. With the Growth spell - also known as the Strength spell - you can strengthen your body with L1 and strengthen other objects with R1. By using L1, you can make yourself nearly invincible and give yourself the ability to push heavy objects, and you can give that magic to objects with R1 to make them less fragile and more impervious.
Shrink and Growth are opposite of each other, and can cancel each other out. You can use Growth on something shrunken down - including yourself - to restore it to normal size, and you can cancel out the Growth spell on yourself or an object with the Shrink spell. This is useful if you don't want to wait for a spell to wear off...but your magic is limited, so plan ahead!
Once you've made it to the end of the training session, you'll return to the power plant so you can cast Growth on the box, make it stronger and then push it into the acid to use it as a makeshift raft.
Controls:
Control Pad:
Left/Right: move
Down:
- duck (press Up to stand up, use Left/Right to roll)
- move down bridges between foreground and background plane
Up:
- grab vine/rope (use Up and Down to climb rope)
- move down bridges between foreground and background plane
X: Jump (press again in mid-air to double jump)
Square: Attack
Triangle: Action
Circle: Camera (hold button and use Control Pad to look around)
L1: cast spell on self
R1: cast spell on object (use with Down on Control Pad to aim down)
L2/R2: spell select
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