Tak and the Power of Juju Game Box Art

Tak and the Power of Juju is a 2003 video game made by THQ and Nickelodeon for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance. It got two sequels: i in 2004 known as Tak ii: The Staff of Dreams and the other in 2005 called Tak: The Great Juju Challenge. The franchise was later adjusted into a brusk lived Nicktoon with 2 extra tie-in games in 2008 called Tak and the Guardians of Gross and Tak: Mojo Error.

Notable for existence the only video game produced by Nickelodeon Games that was not based on an already-existing animated series on Nickelodeon, the game tells the story of Tak (Jason Marsden), a young shaman-in-training who lives in the jungle hamlet of the Pupanunu People under the tutelage of the wise shaman Jibolba (John Kassir). For years, the Pupanunu have lived a peaceful being cheers to the protection of the Moon Juju (Tina Illman), a powerful tribal goddess and a member of a race of powerful magical spirits called Jujus.

Unfortunately, Tak's abode is put in jeopardy by Tlaloc (Rob Paulsen), a nefarious and power-hungry shaman who seeks revenge on the Pupanunu people after losing the coveted position as High Shaman to Jibolba. To achieve his vengeance, Tlaloc steals the moonstones which are the source of the Moon juju's power, using them non merely to weaken the Moon Juju but likewise to turn the villagers (sans Tak and Jibolba) into stupid, helpless sheep.

Fortunately, a prophecy foretold past previous Pupanunu shamans predicts that Tlaloc volition be thwarted by a mighty warrior trained past the High Shaman who will save the Moon Juju and bring peace back to the tribe; Jibolba is convinced that the mighty warrior is his other amateur, Lok (Patrick Warburton). Unfortunately, Lok has seemingly too been turned into a sheep past Tlaloc, forcing Tak to go on a series of Fetch Quests in order to turn Lok back to normal.

Tropes for the Game:

• The Ace: Lok is presented equally such... and proceeds to be mocked relentlessly from so on.
• Animals Hate Him: In the third game, Lok is instantly attacked by fish whenever he enters h2o without his lobster suit. He states that he does not know why fish hate him, as he has never harmed a fish.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Jibolba describes the plight of the Pupanunu people, he calls the Moon Juju "good, and wise, and pretty." Then he mentions Tlaloc having imprisoned her, and states that Tlaloc isn't good or wise, "and he's certainly non pretty."
• Bogus Stupidity: Nerbils take the power to follow you across platforms past jumping, but they don't necessarily know which distances are actually crossable, so they can easily end up falling to their deaths.
• Calamitous Polymorph: Tlalok's sheep expletive that furnishings the majority of the Pupanunu people. He turns Tak into several different animals in quick succession during the kickoff game's final boss fight and is turned into a sheep himself later his defeat.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: Tak uses Tlaloc'southward own tricks to defeat him.
• Border Patrol: The electric jellyfish in the original game.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The commencement game opens with Jibolba summoning a mighty Juju to guide Tak through his hazard. This turns out to exist the player. Jibolba marvels at the "power stick" the actor holds, and the "mystic box" the thespian watches him on, noting that it is clearly "the near important affair in your hut."
• Bring Information technology: In the Concluding Boss fight with Tlaloc in the start game, Tak tells him "Bring information technology on grandpa".
• Bubblegloop Swamp: Gloomleaf Swamp in the second game and Ghastfall and Fowler'southward Murk in the third game.
• Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Pins and Needles are Tlaloc's henchmen and are too incompetent to be an efficient threat towards Tak.
• Butt-Monkey: Tak, Lok and basically anybody else at one point or some other accept very unfortunate luck.
• The Chew Toy: Lok tends to get screwed over pretty much all the time.
• Drawing Animal: The main enemies of the first game are Nerbils, strange crosses between mammals and reptiles that are very predatory.
• The Chosen Ane: Jibolba is convinced that Lok every bit the Mighty Warrior of the Pupanunu People's Prophecy at the beginning of the first game. As it turns out, he's incorrect and Tak is the true Mighty Warrior.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Pretty much everyone who isn't Tak is pretty weird, and fifty-fifty he has his moments.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lok may be a self-absorbed idiot, but he actually can back up his talk when he decides to fight, proving to be both stronger and a improve warrior than Tak. He was thought to exist the called one afterwards all.
• Death Mountain: Mountain Elevation and Mountain Top North from the beginning game.
• The Ditz: Lok is pretty dumb.
• Does Not Similar Shoes: Practically all the characters are barefoot. Completely justified, due to the fact they are ethnic tribespeople.
• Impaired Muscle: Lok who is none besides vivid, simply also incredibly stiff.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Tak made several appearances throughout the game, Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, including an in-game poster advertising his own game that would release almost a yr later on.
• Enemy Mine: In 1 of the sequel games, Tlaloc grants Tak some new magical power. For all of their bad blood, fifty-fifty he's well enlightened of the dangers of the Black Mist Tribe winning.
• Exact Words: The Moon Juju states a mighty warrior will salvage her and stop Tlaloc, only it turns out Tak is the mighty warrior she was expecting. She adds the prophecy never said annihilation well-nigh Lok being the warrior.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Lok is assumed to be the hero destined to stand up upwardly to Tlaloc, but it turns out that Tak is the existent chosen one.
• Fat and Skinny: Pins and Needles are respectively obese and thin.
• Fetch Quest: The entire first game is a long string of fetch quests Tak must continue in order to make sure Lok is brought back to fighting shape.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In Jibolba'due south flashback of Lok getting smooshed to death, he states he tried to stop the herd of sheep but he couldn't; throughout the game, Tak tin comport the sheep at volition. This hints that Tak is the true mighty warrior as stated in the prophecy.
  • Likewise in the offset game, the mummified guardian of the ancestral staff says that merely the mighty warrior can have the staff, and that if Tak wants it, he'll have to accept it. Tak succeeds.
• Game-Breaking Bug: The showtime game has a pretty nasty bug in the Mummy Tomb stage where your mummy can stop up permanently lost and never respawn, not even if you leave and re-enter the phase. Since finishing the level is mandatory for beating the game, saving the game subsequently that happens permanently locks that file out of ever beingness able to finish the game.
• Green Hill Zone: Tak's Village, which serves as the Hub Level for the get-go game.
• Hoist past His Ain Petard: Tak beats Tlaloc in the first game by having a polymorphed Flora fling Tlaloc into his ain giant Bad Juju cauldron, turning him into a sheep.
• Invincible Minor Minion: The human guards on Chicken Island in the outset game cannot be killed. Even hit them with an exploding egg just covers them in Ash Face and stuns them for a short while.
• It Was with You All Along
• Jungle Japes: Nearly of the levels in the series naturally, merely especially Upper and Lower Tree Village from the commencement game, which likewise cantankerous over into The Lost Woods.
• Life Meter: Exhibited by changing colors in the feather on Tak's caput. The more than purple information technology becomes, the less hits he can accept.
• The Lost Wood: Greenheart Forest from the second game and the Deepwood and Ambush Grove from the third game.
• MacGuffin: Yorbels, Nubu blossoms, The Staff of Dreams itself...
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Tak has appeared in two titles of THQ'due south Nicktoons Unite! crossover game serial, as well equally Nicktoons Basketball game.
• Mook: The get-go game has the Nerbils, the second game would proceed to have Woodies (who would become on to be a series staple) and the Nightmare Creatures for the corresponding worlds. The Third added Rockers (essentially rock-based woodies), and the Guardians of Gross tie in would add together the Guardian'south lackeys. Interestingly, neither the Nerbils nor the Woodies from the commencement 2 games are controlled by Tlaloc.
• Ninja Butterfly: Juju Flora. Flea!Jibolba in the real world in the second game. In the dream world, information technology's the Dream Juju. AKA Tlaloc.
• Not Quite Flight: While on Chicken Island in the kickoff game, Tak gets to wear a chicken suit that allows him to glide (very slowly) and lay explosive eggs. It makes a return in the 3rd game.
• Just Sane Man: Tak is the nigh level-headed of the Pupununu tribe.
• Palmtree Panic: Chicken Island and Chicken Island Due west from the first game and Kiro Biro from the third game.
• Potty Emergency: A side effect of being brought Back from the Dead called "Resurrection's Revenge" is that the one brought dorsum to life will have a severe case of diarrhea. It lasts for a good long while besides.
• Resurrection Sickness: Whenever someone gets resurrected, they undergo a sickness known equally "Resurrection's Revenge", which results in drawn-out vocabulary, laziness, and urges for the bathroom.
• Ruins for Ruins' Sake: The Sun Temple and Craven Temple from the first game.
• Save the Princess: The second game appears to exist a basic Salvage the Princess plot, with the dream globe thrown in for flavor. Turns out there is no princess, just Pins and Needles on height of each other, and the "Horrible Beast" Tak takes out is the Dream Guardian. Oops.
• Shifting Sand Country: Numa Dunes, which reappears as a bonus minigame in The Staff of Dreams, every bit well as Dryrock Canyon.
• Slippy-Slidey Water ice World: Pulverisation Coulee, which reappears as a bonus minigame in The Staff of Dreams.
• Super Drowning Skills: Lok is killed instantly whenever he enters water in The Great Juju Claiming, not because he can't swim, but because he attracts angry fish. (If the water is full of gators, Tak's no meliorate off.)
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: The Lobster Suit in the third game lets Lok walk around underwater indefinitely.
• Tree Buchet: Used in the game by orangutans. Yous have to stand on the palm tree leaves when the orangutan pulls it down in order to catapult to another function of the expanse.
• xx Bear Asses: Those blasted Yorbels... and y'all need a lot of them.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: Powder Canyon and Numa Dunes alter the game from a platformer to Tony Hawk-style extreme sports. Similarly, the boss fights confronting Pins and Needles afterwards in the game take the grade of fighting on ostriches or a DanceDanceRevolution-style dance-off.
• The Unintelligible: Needles can only speak in incoherent mumbles because of his stitched mouth. But Pins tin can understand him.

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