Super Monkey Ball Adventure
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| Developer(s) | Traveller's Tales |
| Publisher(s) | SEGA |
| Release date(s) |  June 30, 2006 August 1, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) PEGI: 3+ |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSP |
| Media | 1 × GameCube Game Disc, DVD, Universal Media Disc |
Super Monkey Ball Adventure is a video game in the Super Monkey Ball series.
SMBA is a departure from the series in the sense that the puzzle-based gameplay is replaced by a more traditional 3d platform game world. Traveller's Tales has retained some of the mini-games, however, and integrated the features into the gameplay. Some new mini-games are also integrated into the adventure world.
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[edit] Gameplay
There are 50 new puzzle levels in SMBA, to complement the adventure gameplay. The player is also able to use special monkey balls with abilities that include sticking to walls, hovering for short distances, floating on water, or even turning invisible.
There are five main stages, or "Monkey Kingdoms", through which the players progress. The goal of the game is to unite the feuding monkey kingdoms.
[edit] Critical Reception
The game has been nearly universally panned by critics. SMBA obtained a rare ranking of zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes' video game section. [1] Nintendo Power gave the game a 5.5 rating and it, along with many other sources, claimed it was the worst installment thus far to the Super Monkey Ball series.
[edit] Plot
According to this source [2], a summary of the storyline is as follows:
"It's a tale of forbidden monkey love. Two monkeys have fallen in love but their royal families are not on the best of terms and are keeping the two love monkeys apart. The resulting bad mojo has cast a dark cloud over the monkey world and it's your job to bring light and happiness back, and find a way to unite the star-crossed monkey lovers."
[edit] Game Modes
Story Mode - Follow the normal story and complete quests for the monkeys around the Monkey Ball World.
Challenge Mode - Re-visit puzzle stages that have been unlocked in the game and compete for high-scores (possibly to win bananas that can be used to unlock new items).
Party Mode - Play one of 6 available mini-games, complete with multi-player support. Over 20 characters are playable in party mode.
[edit] Party Games
The old, returning minigames with revamped features that are included in this game are Monkey Target, Monkey Fight, and Monkey Race. New minigames that will be included are called Tag, Bounce, and Cannon.
The three new mini-games are, however, not featured in the PSP version of the game[citation needed]. Instead, a PSP Exclusive minigame called, Monkey Trumps, a network game involving collectible cards, is featured.
[edit] Ball Abilities
The list of confirmed ball abilities, or transformations, is as follows:
- WoodBall
- ScalarBall
- StickyBall
- BoxingBall
- HoverBall
- InvisiBall
- SpeedyBall
- TetherBall
[edit] Trivia
- A total of 20 characters are playable in Party Mode, the greatest number of characters ever to appear in a Super Monkey Ball game yet.
- At the shop, new Party Games, new Party Games' levels and new characters playable in Party Games can be purchased.
- The "chant master" actually turns out to be Aiai from the future.
- Baby goes back to the future at the end of this game.
[edit] Game Features
- 3 Gameplay Modes. Story Mode, Challenge Mode, and Party Mode.
- 60 new characters. Encounter and interact with 60 intriguing characters across five fun-filled kingdoms.
- New party games. Unlock party games with bananas and play Monkey Cannon, Monkey Tag and Monkey Bounce, when you're not playing the three Super Monkey Ball favorites: Monkey Race, Fight, and Target.
- New realms. Collect bananas and cast spells in Adventure Realm or solve unique challenges set by the characters of the kingdom in Puzzle Realm.
- Transfer saves between PSP and PS2. Continue playing while you save.
- Play with friends. Enter Party Mode with up to 4 players and battle it out turn-based style or in split-screen mode.
- All-new Spell casting ability. Newfound powers allow the player to morph the monkey ball into a block of wood to float, suction cups to climb walls, go invisible, and much more to help progress through the game.
[edit] PSP Exclusive Features
- Exclusive Spells. The Banana Vacuum brings all nearby bananas to the character.
- Collectibles. A card game allows you to collect unique cards when you play with all four characters.
- Unique task giver - the Sage. Beat him in the card game and win Reveal Cards which unlock future events or Teleport Cards.
- Unique quests and director's cut puzzles.
- Customize your own card. Use a special screenshot card to take a picture and send it to other players as your own custom card.
[edit] External links
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Super Monkey Ball • 2 • Deluxe • Jr. • Touch & Roll • Adventure • Banana Blitz |
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