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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
NOT the SMB we all know and love, August 22, 2006
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good game, but not as good as the first two, October 1, 2006
A Kid's Review
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
All work and no play, November 26, 2006
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
SMBA has a couple good things, and a couple bad. The GOOD: #1 Excellent graphics for gamecube, cool cartoony feel. #2 Character variety, you can play as at least 15 different monkeys. #3 Cannon party game RULES! Now the BAD: #1 you have to work [..] to tend to the needs of lazy chimps who give you boring or extremely tough tasks, and few fun ones. #2 Monkey bounce is pathetic. I couldnt understand it, and when i did figure it out, it was LAME! the other new party game, monkey tag, was a pretty cool, but so were the other 6 party games they dropped from smb2. #3 the monkey voices. when I first played the party games with my all new granpa character, I was thrilled... but then, as the elderly chimp hit the wall, he let out a squeal that was suspiciously like AIAI's. that's right. over 15 simians and only 4 voices to chatter with. #4 the new puzzle stages aren't very charming. The original super monkey ball's puzzle stages where charming and fun, SMB2's where Awesome and exciting, but SMBA's just don't take the cake.
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