PrinceWatercress plays Monkey Magic - Part 9 of 20

After beating the Celestial forces - for now - it's off to Javan Mountain, where we have to rescue a dragon and get a crystal of great magical power, and it's not going to be easy.

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Javan Mountain

Pass the Judges of the Dead and rescue Runlay

While you don't need the Monkey Icons for lives anymore thanks to the Pearl of Life, you'll still need to collect them to make it easier to save your game.

Push the box at the start all the way down. There will be a switch behind a destructible wall that you can punch down; be sure to break the wall and pull the lever there before pushing the box all the way down  and to the switch on the left.

From here, shrink and make your way down. The Minotaurs (bull men?) will charge at you and knock you a good way back if they connect, so hit them with the Power Rod or freeze them with ice and punch them. You'll eventually have to go back outside and wrap around the mountain in order to get Key 1. Do that, then keep going down to continue. After putting Key 1 into Keyhole 1, keep going right so you don't get crushed by the brown part of the ceiling that falls down.

As you continue, you'll run into Batty. He will tell you that Runlay has a powerful magic crystal that you'll have to get in order to achieve divine power. To free Runlay, however, you'll have to get past the Judges of the Dead. Drop down to meet them, then you'll be taken down to three teleporter pads to get ten books. I enter the one on the left.

The green beams shrink you. Shrink down, head left, and defeat the minotaur. From here, you'll have to take multiple paths. One of the books is really easy to get to if you just go left from the first checkpoint. The second one will require Key 1 to get, and one is past a very stubborn flame jet. You'll need all the books in a section to get to the exit.

As you move around, you'll have to move past flame jets. These things will kill you if you run into them, so be careful as you progress. There is one that leads to the book nearest the exit. Jump towards it so that the flame goes off below you, then return to the left before you drop down and then move over the flame jet to get the third book.

Throughout the maze, you'll be using the Shrink spell often. If you need to, re-cast your shrink spell to stay shrunk so you don't get crushed.

Once you make it to the exit, you'll re-appear back in front of the Judges of the Dead. Press Triangle to give them the books, and you'll return to the teleporter pads.

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 (double-tap in mid-air for Power Rod)

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