Ape Academy 2

released on Mar 21, 2023

A port of Ape Academy 2

Experience Ape Academy 2 originally released on the PSP system, enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. The apes have finally graduated from the Ape Academy, so this term things are going to be a little different! Evil genius Specter has invented a new card game and it’s sweeping the globe, helping him on his way towards world domination. Get ready to mix it up with the monkeys using Specter’s ‘scissors, paper, rock’ cards – there are 300 to collect – before taking them on in over 100 fiendishly difficult mini-games. Just don’t underestimate the apes, no matter how silly they act; Specter has put an ultra-rare platinum monkey card up for grabs (not to mention a year’s supply of bananas) and they’ll do anything to claim the prize!


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The exclamation "MY DECISION IS FIOOOOONNALLLL" seems to encapsulate the essence of Ape Academy 2. This game, like a firm and unwavering declaration, tries to assert its identity within the realm of quirky and unusual mini-game collections. However, whether this final decision leads to pure enjoyment or a head-scratching experience is a matter of perspective.

Ape Academy 2 offers a slew of mini-games that range from bizarre to outright absurd. You'll find yourself engaged in tasks like catapulting monkeys, participating in rhythm-based challenges, and even embarking on peculiar races. It's a carnival of the bizarre, and it's clear that the developers didn't hold back when concocting these peculiar challenges.

The game's aesthetics, characterized by colorful and cartoonish graphics, do add a touch of whimsy. Still, even this visual charm can't quite mask the fact that Ape Academy 2's mini-games often feel disjointed and lack cohesion. It's as if the developers took a bunch of zany ideas and tossed them into a blender to see what came out.

Despite the evident chaos, there's a certain charm to Ape Academy 2's madness. If you're seeking a gaming experience that defies convention and embraces the absurd, this title might be right up your alley. However, for those who prefer their gaming experiences to have a bit more structure and coherence, this may be one final decision that leaves you scratching your head.

Score: 5/10

It's an okay mini-game compilation that's really carried by the unique rock-paper-scissors card game. The format of it allows for some pretty strategic plays. The mini-games themselves, however, are largely forgettable.

Kinda sad how this game got ported to modern consoles before Ape Escape 3 did, and because it initially didn't come out in America, this is technically the newest entry to the series (so long as you're American, anyway).

This is an incredibly weird and like objectively bad spin off but…idk I had fun. I like rock paper scissors. It would’ve been bad without rewind but idk I had some fun. Kinda a grindy platinum tho.

Couldn't make heads or tails of the card game aspect, and the mini games felt very bare bones. Had fun a little here and there but could have been way better.

This is an incredibly weird spin-off. I don't know much about the first Ape Academy game, but this one is a Collectible Card Battling/Minigame compilation and it kiiiinda works? The cards have a Rock/Paper/Scissors gimmick attached to them as well as a specific Minigame. If your card is the winner, you play the Minigame of the card in hopes of winning to activate the effect of the card. This mostly results in your opponent taking a specific number of damage, but can also result in you stealing or gaining bananas from them as well, which can help you play more powerful cards. These cards can also be chained together in a combo to do even more damage to your opponent if you use your deck correctly. The minigames in the compilation aren't too bad either, and I even enjoyed and mastered a decent amount, but the main problem with this game is that it just plain isn't fun to play it alone. Playing the single player story is so boring and tedious. The AI is mostly really stupid and more time than not will never pose a threat to you at all, not to mention that the whole card/Deck building system becomes a bit moot when you realize you really don't ever have to change your cards out of edit your deck at all in order to beat the game. Sure, you can find better and higher powered cards, but you could also chain your lower cards together for bigger combos as well. Not to mention if you care about platinuming this game, the grind to Rank A is so incredibly tedious and mind numbing mostly due to the fact that you are never given a specific amount of XP to grind to or even know how much XP each of your opponents give you. Your best chance is to grind the final boss battle, where while his AI can be a bit unfair in a couple of games, is just as much of a pushover as every other character. Would definitely recommend playing this game multiplayer with a friend. I could see this being a fun afternoon where you play 2 or 3 rounds and fuck around with different cards and games, but I'd say it's not really worth it in the end. If you're a huge fan of Ape Escape, then I guess just play through the main campaign and stop once you beat the final boss.

Very bummed out about this one. At first I was honestly enjoying this game but as you continue through the main campaign is just turned for the worse.

This base gameplay loop is a Rock , Paper , scissors and mini game marathon mashed into one. Each player has a deck of 20 cards of each type of attack and whoever wins the exchange the card of winner's mini game will be played. At first it was fun enough but the pure RNG really started slipping through alongside the good amount of bad minigames.

I think for me why by the end I wasn't having that much of a good time was because of the mini games themselves. Not only are so many of them unfun but the CPU is just plan unfair in the later levels making some of the Mini games as far as I am concerned very unbeatable unless you just get extremely lucky.

Its s shame because this game could have been so much better but it isn't the worst experience ever maybe you might have more fun with it then me.