Super Monkey Ball
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Super Monkey Ball is the second game of the Super Monkey Ball series with the first being Monkey Ball. It was developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. It was released for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2001 in Japan and U.S., and 2002 in Europe. There is the logo of Dole Food Corporation on the many Bananas in the game, on one of the stages, and on many objects that are not part of the levels.
The difference between Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball is that Monkey Ball is an arcade game with only the Main Game, but Super Monkey Ball has the Main Game, three Party Games, and three unlockable Mini Games.
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[edit] Game Modes
[edit] Main Game
- Main article: Main Game
In the Main Game, the object is to get the Monkey in a ball to the goal. There are three difficulty levels Beginner, Advanced, and Expert in the beginning. At the beginning of a floor, the ball will fall onto the floor. Then, the floor can be tilted by moving the analog stick. There are Bananas and Banana Bunches, worth 10 bananas each, on the floor, and collecting 100 bananas will cause the player to get an extra ball. If the player makes it to the goal without falling off the floor and before the time runs out, they win that floor and move onto the next floor of that difficulty. Points are earned by collecting Bananas and beating floors. After a few floors are beaten, a Bonus Floor is played. On a Bonus Floor, the object is to collect all of the Bananas before the time runs out. If the time runs out or if the ball falls off the floor, it moves onto the next stage without losing a ball. Play Points are given to the player after losing all their balls, if they got past at least one floor since the last time they lost all their balls or the start of that time they tried the Main Game, or when they beat the last floor of that difficulty. The amount of Play Points recieved depends on the amount of regular points obtained. Play Points can be spent on the three Mini Games, once all of them are unlocked, every 2500 play points will give the player an extra continue. Once the final floor of a difficulty is beaten, it will go to the Credits, or, if the player hasn't used any continues (in the Japan and Europe versions, in the U.S. version it must be beaten without losing any balls except in Expert), go to the Extra Floors. Once the Extra Floors are beaten, it will go to the credits and then, if the player has gotten a high score, the high score floor. If all the floors on Expert are beaten without using a continue, including the Extra Floors, a new difficulty level will be unlocked, Master.
[edit] Credits
- Main article: Credits
The Credits are played after beating the Final Floor of any difficulty or once the extra floors are beaten. In the credits, the player is on a platform constantly moving forward. The player can move faster by pressing up on the analog stick, slower by pressing down, and left and right by pressing left or right depending on the direction he wants to go. After a short while, the player will get to a spot with bananas and words saying the names and jobs of the people who worked on the game, in the air, whose letters will fall down once the player gets to the spot, where they fall, depends on which way the floor is tilted. If the player touches one of the fallen letters, he or she will bounce off it, sometimes causing them to go backwards, and lose a few bananas collected during the credits. After several waves of this, the player will reach the goal, will fly upwards, and find out their Monkey Rating. The Monkey Rating is a name of a species of monkeys, the one that the player receives depends upon the amount of Bananas collected.
[edit] Party Game
- Main article: Party Game
A Party Game is a game mode that is unlocked from the begining and is smaller than the Main Game. There are a total of three.
[edit] Monkey Race
- Main article: Monkey Race
Monkey Race is a Party Game that has three modes, One-Course Race, Grand Prix, and Time Attack. In it there are 3 difficulty levels, Beginner, Advanced, and Expert, like in the Main Game, each with two courses. The object is to roll around the track a certain number of laps before the other Monkeys, or in Time Attack, to roll around the track a specific number of laps as fast as possible. There are also items which can be used to hit other monkeys, or to speed the player's monkey up.
[edit] Monkey Fight
- Main article: Monkey Fight
Monkey Fight is a Party Game with only one mode. In it, the player rolls around on one of three stages trying to punch other player or CPU controlled monkeys off the stage to earn points. Even more points are awarded when the player with the most amount of points is knocked off. If the player falls off without getting punched, all the other players will recieve points. There are also three different types of items that appear in boxes that appear on the stage randomly. If a box is punched enough, it will break open revealing the item.
[edit] Monkey Target
- Main article: Monkey Target
Monkey Target is a Party Game with only one mode. In Monkey Target, players take turns trying to land on the floating targets, while trying to get Bananas. First, if the Wheel of Danger is on, an arrow spins on a wheel, with mines, bombs, and clouds marked on sections, as well as empty sections. Then the player rolls down a ramp, and then up and off another one into the air. When the player presses the "A" button once, the ball will open up and act as a glider. Then the player trys to land on the marked targets, the marks decide the amount of points received, by closing the ball with the A button, while near or above one of the targets. There are bananas on the ramp, in the air, and on the targets, that give the player points and advance the prize wheel.
[edit] Mini Game
- Main article: Mini Game
A Mini Game is a game mode with three games, each must be unlocked by spending 2500 Play Points earned from play of the Main Game.
[edit] Monkey Billiards
- Main article: Monkey Billiards
Monkey Billiards is a Mini Game with two game modes. In VS. Mode one player faces a computer controlled character or another player in a game of Nine Ball. In Tounament Mode, one player faces a sudden death tournament against 4 computer players.
[edit] Monkey Bowling
- Main article: Monkey Bowling
Monkey Bowling is a Mini Game with two modes. In it the player moves left and right with the analog stick. When the player gets to the part of the lane where he or she wants to throw the ball, he or she presses the A button. Then a line automatically swings back in forth in front of the monkey, by pressing the A button, the line stops, telling which direction the ball will be thrown. If the player waits to long, a countdown will begin, and if the player doesn't press a by the time it ends, the line will stop and be where it was when the countdown ended. Next, a gauge appears at the bottom of the screen that determines how hard it is thrown. The gauge will start moving automatically. To stop it, press the A button. The farther left it is when it ends, the weaker it will be thrown, and the farther right it is the harder it will be thrown. Like for the direction, if the player waits too long, it will be automatically stop where it was when the countdown ends. Finally spin can added to the ball by pressing the L or R buttons (L causes it to spin counter-clockwise and R causes it to spin clockwise) while the ball is still rolling before the Foul Line. The amount of spin depends on how hard and how long the button was pressed. In Standard Mode, up to four players take turns playing ten frames of regular Bowling. In Challenge Mode, the object is to knock over all of the pins with only 12 tries. There are 10 different pin patterns. The player loses a try if they fail to knock over all of the pins of a set. The player can select any of the ten pin patterns that haven't already gotten cleared.
[edit] Monkey Golf
- Main article: Monkey Golf
Monkey Golf is a Mini Game with two modes.
[edit] Characters
- AiAi is a male monkey who loves Bananas more than anything.
- MeeMee is a female monkey with a skirt.
- GonGon is a male monkey who is powerful.
- Baby is a male monkey who is a baby.
