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NOT the SMB we all know and love

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first Super Monkey Ball was a surprisingly fun game. SMB 2 was an even better follow-up, with bigger, faster levels and more party games. With such a good track record, I picked up SMB Adventure the day it came out. I wish I hadn't.

The idea behind Adventure is, on the surface, a good one: the traditional (and challenging) courses of SMB have now been integrated with a true story mode, where you have to help other monkeys complete tasks in order to save the Monkey Kingdom. Unfortunately, the game itself is truly frustrating. To begin with, the load time for each level - and even within the levels - is excruciatingly slow. Once inside, you must find various monkeys who will give you your tasks. While some of these challenges are quite fun, their setup is annoying. For the most part, tasks must be performed in a certain order, so if you are having difficulty with one, you cannot simply skip ahead to a different one. In addition, if you die ("fall out") during a task, you do not get the option of automatically retrying the mission; instead, you have to find the monkey and have him explain it to you all over again. Finally - and most importantly - Adventure has wasted the monkey ball courses that were so good in the previous games. Although the courses in Adventure are important - they open up doorways to different parts of the levels - the game is so frustrating that the courses seem more like chores here. All of the fun has been sucked out of completing the courses.

If you do not want to play them in Story mode, you can try your had at all of the individual courses in Challenge mode. Once again, however, this section is a disappointment. There are beginner, advanced, and expert modes, but you do not have the ability to choose individual courses, whether you have beaten them or not.

Adventure's party games are a redeeming factor. The ability to buy new characters to use is a great feature. The racing game is truly fun, and the option of racing against extra computer monkeys can create glorious mayhem on the track. Target is again an excellent game, as is fight. Cannon would be much more fun if there was not an automatic AI player (for games with fewer than four human players). Tag is a so-so game. Bounce is pointless.

All in all, SMB Adventure is a thoroughly disappointing game. Sega tried to fix what wasn't broken, and it came out much worse in the end.

It's not the best...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this because I loved the other two monkeyball games and I thought this would be even better. But this one is completely different from the other two. It was done by a different developer and that's the main reason. In the main game (story mode), you do a lot of exploring and helping the other characters, which can be fun, but gets boring. And, instead of the different tracks being the main part of the game, they are just kind of a side quest. The party games are fun, but a little confusing. I really regret buying this... if you can, definitely try it before you buy it!

This game sucks! Save your money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was a huge letdown. I bought it on release date, having spent hours enjoying the previous monkey ball releases. I thought it also looked cool that you could fly and jump in this game, but there is nothing cool or fun about this game. Please save your money for something else. I am hoping the Wii Banana Blitz is better. This game sucks. It sucks because you have to play through the lame story mode to unlock the party games. It sucks because of the horrendous loading times. It sucks because the timed stages get very difficult very quickly, where the others in the series had a progression to the more difficult stages. And, it sucks, because that is the sound that is made when you realize that you wasted $50 on a really horrible game.

Super Monkey Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Super Monkey Ball Adventure diverges from the previous games in that its main focus is the story mode, which, unlike the other games, doesn't consist of completing levels. In this game, you are in a world where you basically wander around completing menial tasks in an attempt to earn enough bananas to release the mini games.

That said, the mini and party games are a huge disappointment when compared to the previous games from Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball Two. If you loved Monkey Target, you will be sorely disappointed with this version, which takes an eternity to load in between rounds and doesn't feature the same challenges that Super Monkey Ball offered. It's very easy, but incredibly lame. To make things worse, you can only play four rounds max, as opposed to fifteen rounds with the first Monkey Target.

I bought this version because my sons and I really enjoyed Monkey Ball one and two, and I expected this to be similar. However, I have since learned that a different developer is responsible for Super Monkey Ball Adventure, and it is painfully obvious. The story mode lacks imagination, the challenge mode is incredibly difficult for young players, and the party games are simplistic at best. Save your money and stick to the first two games in this series.

Monkey ball Adventure.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My grandkids enjoy it. It does take reading, so real young kids have a challenge playing it.
I don't think it is as good as the first two monkeyball games.

Monkey Ball

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 6 year old son loves this game. We have all 3, and they are great. They are the best games to purchase if you don't want you kids playing anything with any violence. They are fun, even though our son beats us at every level. Safe and Fun to play, both your children and you will love it.

NOT the SMB we all know and love...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The first Super Monkey Ball was a surprisingly fun game. Super Monkey Ball 2 was an even better follow-up, with bigger, faster levels and more party games. With such a good track record, I picked up SMB Adventure the day it came out. I wish I hadn't.

The idea behind Adventure is, on the surface, a good one: the traditional (and challenging) courses of SMB have now been integrated with a true story mode, where you have to help other monkeys complete tasks in order to save the Monkey Kingdom. Unfortunately, the game itself is truly frustrating. To begin with, the load time for each level - and even within the levels - is excruciatingly slow. Once inside, you must find various monkeys who will give you your tasks. While some of these challenges are quite fun, their setup is annoying. For the most part, tasks must be performed in a certain order, so if you are having difficulty with one, you cannot simply skip ahead to a different one. In addition, if you die ("fall out") during a task, you do not get the option of automatically retrying the mission; instead, you have to find the monkey and have him explain it to you all over again. Finally - and most importantly - Adventure has wasted the monkey ball courses that were so good in the previous games. Although the courses in Adventure are important - they open up doorways to different parts of the levels - the game is so frustrating that the courses seem more like chores here. All of the fun has been sucked out of completing the courses.

If you do not want to play them in Story mode, you can try your hand at all of the individual courses in Challenge mode. Once again, however, this section is a disappointment. There are beginner, advanced, and expert modes, but you do not have the ability to choose individual courses, whether you have beaten them or not.

Adventure's party games are a redeeming factor. The ability to buy new characters to use is a great feature. The racing game is truly fun, and the option of racing against extra computer monkeys can create glorious mayhem on the track. Target is again an excellent game, as is fight. Cannon would be much more fun if there was not an automatic AI player (for games with fewer than four human players). Tag is a so-so game. Bounce is pointless.

All in all, SMB Adventure is a thoroughly disappointing game. Sega tried to fix what wasn't broken, and it came out much worse in the end.

Good game, but not as good as the first two

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

About three years ago, I got MB JR. for my gameboy advance, and I loved it so much that I got it for the gamecube. I loved the gamecube version so much that I got number two, awsome game. Now, MB adventure comes out, and I am VERY excited. I got this game for my B-day just yesterday and started playing. Its kind of confusing at first, but then it starts to get alot easier. Its the same idea as the first games, youre a monkey rolling around in a ball. But there is one difference, instead of beating challenging obsticle coarses, youre playing a story based game with 4 different worlds. you still have to beat obsticle coarses though, but just to unlock little doors on the island youre on, and they arent as challenging either. This was kind of dissapointing for me, but the story line is still pretty fun. you complete little mini-game challenges for other monkeys to raise youre joy-o meter, and to bring more joy to the island youre on. This game is not as bad as people may lead you to beleive, but like my title, its not as good as the first two. and yes, it is annoying to wait for things to load, but you get used to it. overall, this is a pretty good game.

P.S.: For those of you who dont feel like waiting for the monkeys to tell you about the challenges, just press b and it will skip to the part where it asks you if you want to do the challenge or not.

Monkey Ball Adventures

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Monkey Ball adnventures cannot hold a candle to Monkey Balls 1 and 2. It's okay, but not as exciting.

very, very bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i loved the first monkey ball, so i rented this and i hated it! I don't usually hate anything, but this game is very hard and VERY annoying! you have to read a lot and it is a PLATFORMER! platformers are usually good, but the combination of monkey ball and a 3d adventure is not good. well, they're all 3d, but this is just horrible. and the announcer guy sounds like he's on crack.
if you liked the first monkey ball- get the second one- don't get adventure! unless you like to break you videogames!

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