PrinceWatercress plays Monkey Magic - Part 11 of 20

We go through the last of the teleporter pads, but that leaves us with nine books, not ten. We'll have to do some more exploring after this to get that last book.

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For this entry, I pick the teleporter pad on the right.

To get the items below the platforms, you'll need to climb down when you see a thin column of rocks underneath. Believe it or not, you can climb up and down these thin columns to get to the lava pools below and jump for items. The Strength spell will keep from being instantly burnt to a crisp for a second or two if you fall into the lava, but you'll have to refill your health afterwards.

If you grab a book, wait for any nearby doors that are triggered by the book to open before hitting a checkpoint; otherwise, you will have to reset and do everything in the level over.

The jumping fireballs will burn you up unless you have the Strength spell active.

The puzzles where you have to freeze an imp on a floor switch with the Ice spell return here, but with less space, doing these puzzles are a lot more frustrating due to the clunk game physics.

There are some steel box platforms throughout the level, and some of them will move up and down. Be sure to use the camera, as there will be flame jets in some parts that you sometimes won't be able to see until it is too late.

To get the stuff above the exit, you have to jump to the platform to the left of the exit before where the imps appear and keep jump kicking over and over. I wish I was kidding.

Once you find all the books in all three teleporter pads, there is still one more book to get...and you'll have to go through one more teleporter pad.

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