Monkey is sent to the Waking Realm to defeat the Nightmare King and under the guidance of Master Sage, must reclaim all of the pieces of the Magic Storybook.

Monkey finds a treasure chest with a bamboo staff in, which becomes his main weapon for the rest of the game.

Master Sage asks Monkey to travel to the library to stop the Nightmare King from stealing the Magic Storybook.

The game's story and many of the characters were inspired by Chinese legends,[2] in particular the folk tale Monkey.

[3] Huge anime fans, developers Jeronimo Barrera and Jay Minn hired artists from the comic book industry and gave them a number of anime and kung fu films for reference.

[2] Technical director Greg Marquez wrote a development tool specifically for the game called MOPA (Map Objects Puzzle Attributes), which enabled designers to snap large 3D objects together using 2D tile representations.