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A great follow-up to the original. The story mode makes the difficulty a lot more manageable. It's a shame that some of the levels are gated behind the brutal arcade mode.

You got monkeys in balls, what more could you ask for?

We were spoiled. Add this to the pile of GameCube games that checks all the boxes: great level design, soundtrack full of bops, addictive and replayable multiplayer, all built around one easy-to-grasp mechanic.


This game taught my then child brain that strange concepts can produce the most unforgettable experiences. Even if it's a monkey in a ball being tilted through hell puzzles for bananas. My adult child brain is grateful to be so frustrated and delighted by what this game offers.

The Gamecube version is better than the modern rerelease. The music and aesthetics couldn't be more Y2K millennium-turning with all the processing power going towards the insane water physics that is seemingly there to flex on your eyeballs and distract you from said hell puzzles.


the problem with this game is this is where the series peaked its such a simple concept that its hard to just continue after this,

it also makes it hard to review, its a arcade physics game that takes a lot of skill to master but even if you suck you can get friends to play the main story with you and also suck, or the tons of fun multiplayer mini games to play.

its probably one of the best party arcade multiplayer games out there

A little less good than the first one in my opinion, it's more strongly reliant on gimmicky design and that sometimes results in some pretty questionable levels. It's still really fantastic though. Absolutely worth playing. The last good Monkey Ball game.

why did they keep making games after this and not just release super monkey ball 2 again every few days?

"I am trained in gorilla warfare...I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words."

-a Super Monkey Ball 2 veteran

There's a reason why Super Monkey Ball got a sequel. It did extraordinarily well on the GameCube, and this essentially acts as a deluxe version of the first game. It even has a story mode, but story mode was effectively a training mode for challenge mode/main mode where you clear levels sequentially and have a limited number of lives. The party games/minigames are also very engaging in this game. I am giving this a perfect score because this may actually be one of the best GameCube games you can get. Although this game might not be in my personal favorites list, or at least not within the top 20 or so, I think it deserves the praise it gets. It's a very simple to understand game but has increasingly difficult stages that require tons of focus and dedication to master.

Not as good as the first game in my opinion but still a solid ass game that I’ve had a lot of fun with over the years. I didn’t like the level design in this one as much as in the first game, and actually find this game to be much harder. This game has really awesome party games though and story mode that makes it shine.

not as challenging as one, but a much more well rounded game on the whole

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Beaten on a PC via Dolphin. Let me say that I love 2. It got me into the franchise as a whole. But I'll be damned to admit its as good as the first game. My main problem with it is that the level design just isn't as good as 1. An uncomfortable percent of it was either goo gimmicky, tedious, or borderline frustrating. Special shoutout to Arthropod. It has more party games, but I don't really care about those. It sports good graphics, amazing music, and even though the level design is a fair bit worse, I still think it's well done. Monkey Ball 2 is a good game, just not as good as the first.

This game drove me crazy when I was little but fuck it was good.

The Speedruns for this game are sometimes more entertaining than the game itself

Who keeps putting these monkeys in balls and why haven't they been stopped?!

any game with a naked monkey you know is gonna be good


I think the level design here isn't quite as good as in the first game, but this has so much more content that I couldn't possibly score it lower.