Super Monkey Ball 2
by Sega Of America, Inc.
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Video Game Reviews of Super Monkey Ball 2
Customer Review: It's OK
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought Super Monkey Ball 2 at my local one-stop shopping center for $20. After playing this game for about one hour, I decided that it's just not any fun. However, the graphics are OK and the character dialogue is somewhat entertaining, for the first few minutes anyway. Customer Review: Dissapointing
Summary: 2 Stars
After loving monkey ball one me and my girlfriend decided to pick up monkey ball 2, hoping for the same addicting gameplay on such party games as monkey target and monkey bowling, but with a few more stages and such. What we got was a game that somehow totally ruined the franchise. Monkey target all of a sudden requires no skill, they basically throw points at you, and 2 players going at once? Sounds good but it just makes the huge stages harder to see. Monkey bowlings still god though right? No! All of the monkeys now bowl drastically differently, meaning that if you liked gongon in monkey ball one, you now will have to pick a totally different character to bowl like you want to. Oh and the one player story mode.... let me just barf now. Amazingly kiddy ish, it might as well have been designed by 2 years olds who like bright colors and the word poo. Pick up monkey ball one and leave this sad try at a sequal in the bargain bin.Customer Review: What an awful game
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the worst video game I have ever been conned into purchasing. (its reduced price and players choice award foisted me into picking it up) Caution: this game is not for kids, but especially not adult, or any demographic for that matter. Sega's target audience for Super Monkey Ball 2 must be the blind. The gameplay and voices are babyish, and the in game text even writes baby talk and rufuses to use articles and prepositions, making kids stupider in the process. Game also not for kids because too hard, me think too hard so must definately too hard to anyone under age of 21. The game also cleverly advertises hundreds of levels-- wrong. First there's story mode, where you play through the 100 levels of monotonous hell hoping for something fun to happen at the end (spoiler: nothing fun ever happens.) Then there's CHALLENGE mode, as if story mode wasn't torturous enough to make your kids smash their gamecube into the neighbor's window. At first glance you seemingly have access to ALL these neat new levels-- WRONG. Challange mode is the same nonsense as story mode (90% of the levels are taken directly from story mode), except in CHALLENGE mode, you're not allowed to lose 3 lives. BORING... and by the way; this is a waste of time if you accidently forget to save after exiting (story mode automatically saves for you, then you forget that challenge mode doesn't urgh I hate this game) The multiplayer party games is where the fun is probably at, but you know what? You dont want your friends to see you playing this crap, you don't want to see your kids playing this crap either. Why? Well besides the reasons I discussed earlier, its not an easy multiplayer game to pick up. Just try playing the minigames in 1 player, it takes a lot of practice just to get the control right (which are awkward, awful, and sloppy). So basically, if you or your child actually tries to get some replay value out of this garbage, they'll have to sit down and teach some other poor soul how to play any of the bland minigames, which may take a few hours to get the feel for the controls. Alright, bottom line: this game is not fun for adults or kids-- if you want a good multiplayer or kids game for the gamecube go for smash bros malee. You and your children will spend much more time playing and enjoying that than Monkey Ball because its far less repetitive, easier to introduce to friends, far less repetitive, more variety, longer replay value, less frustrating, and far less repetitive.Customer Review: too hard
Summary: 1 Stars
I was expecting this game to be easy but it wasnt ' i think sonic team at least shouldve added a handicapp mode on story mode where it gets easy but instead they didnt ' the levels are just to hard and annyoying and walkthroughs make it sound like the game is easy when its not
Customer Review: Amazing Game
Summary: 5 Stars
In a gaming world dominated by big names such as Halo, Half Life, Warcraft, and Final Fantasy, the Monkey Ball series provides players with a new meaning of fun.
First off, it is an easy game to pick up play. Similar to Katamari Damacy, you don't have to be a gaming master, or "gosu" as people call it, or devote hundreds of hours to hardcore practicing to play the game at a competent level. In fact, the beauty of Super Monkey Ball 2 is that you don't have to be good at all and you'll still enjoy it. This game is undoubtedly harder than Super Monkey Ball 1, but learning is part of the process to any game.
The main part of the game itself consists of you having to maneuver your way through different courses and worlds to reach the end, while collecting secrets on your way to "beating" the game. Those secrets range from unlocking new multiplayer games to obtaining new music. Besides that, there is a plethora of party games that can keep children and adults alike entertained for hundreds of hours.
All in all, this game is just plain fun. The game tries to keep cutthroat competition at a minimum and makes it enjoyable for everyone.