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In the land of Obla, mysterious ruins of an advanced ancient civilization dot the landscape. Dark Alchemists are plotting to use the unknown technology to take over the land, and it's up to a young alchemist named Juka to stop them.
In many stories, alchemists mix ingredients to make magic potions, and that's just what you and Juka will be doing in the game. Search high and low for different colored ingredients in plants, trees, even underwater. Then follow recipes you collect to mix the ingredients into potions. Toss a sleep potion at a thief and walk by as he dozes. Activate rusty gears and switches with an Animate Potion. You spend the majority of the game finding ingredients for potions so you can solve puzzles. But sometimes Juka will have to fight a reactivated robot. Combat in Juka and the Monophonic Menace is very unique. Robots will toss different colored shapes as projectiles, and Juka must collect the correct ones and avoid the others. Once all the correct shapes have been collected, Juka can send a sound wave out to destroy the robot. The cartoony fairy tale graphics are presented in a top-down, 2-D isometric format and music is equally bouncy and chirpy. Play controls is decent but it would've been nice if Juka could run a little faster as he only plods along at a slow pace. Sometimes, glitches and bugs in the game cause Juka to walk on air, but it's nothing a trip to a different screen won't fix. Overall, Juka and the Monophonic Menace is a pretty decent and unique GBA game.  
Kids will love the cartoony visuals and fairy tale story. Reading skill is required because everything is told with text. Juka and the Monophonic Menace is a relatively non-violent game. Players only usually use sleep potions to get past most enemies, and destroy robots with sound waves. Some kids may get bored with the slow paced and repetitive nature of the gameplay, though. While very young players might get frustrated, most kids should enjoy adventuring with Juka.
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