Just like alcohol: it makes you dizzy, but you always want more of it.

Super Monkey Ball delivers chaotic fun with its simple yet addictive gameplay. You tilt the entire level to guide your monkey-filled ball through increasingly ridiculous mazes, scrambling to reach the goal before time expires. The vibrant visuals and catchy soundtrack perfectly match the frantic pace. While precision controls can be a challenge to master, the pure joy of navigating its wacky courses and the hilarious party games make it a blast.

I like this as a fun little arcade title but I will say it gets old. I never felt much of a need to dive super deep into this game but I am glad to have played it. Speedrunners are crazy and I respect them but it's not my fate.

Feels like a game that, on paper, would only exist as one of those post-2019 Foddian games that exists just to take the piss out of streamers a la Only Up and Pogostuck but it accidentally bled into the main timeline and now we're here. Sort of like an evil Katamari. Ball is life.

That's a lovely game flavor.

This is like a character corruption arc visualized through game design

Somewhat quirky concept that works much better than it has any right to. Lot of depth to get better at over time, so it earns its keep.

Was really enjoying this until I got to the expert stages, classic case of Skill Issue™ but those were just frustrating to me so I stopped playing

Has more than enough content to satisfy the arcade design. The controls are also just difficult enough to make you feel like you did something wrong instead of the game being cheap.
But none of that matters because the best part of the game is the minigames, and the best minigame is Monkey Billiards.