''Super Monkey Ball Jr.'' is a platform game, part of the ''

Super Monkey Ball ''Super Monkey Ball'' is a series of arcade platform video games initially developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2001 with the arcade game ''Monkey Ball'', which was ported to GameCube as ''Super Monkey Bal ...

'' series, developed by Realism for the

Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2 ...

. It is one of the few games on the system to make use of its 3D graphics capabilities. It is generally seen as a port of the first game in the ''

'' series, as it reuses many levels from it, but has a few differences.

Gameplay

Main game

As with previous entries, the objective of ''Super Monkey Ball Jr.'' is to control a monkey to reach the goal before time is over. New to this game, the player has the option to speed up or slow down the tilt by pressing the A or B Buttons respectively.

Party games

*Monkey Duel: Playable with only two players, both players race to the finish as fast as they can while picking up any nearby bananas. The winning player gets 5 bananas added to their overall total. The mode can be played up to five rounds and the player who has the most bananas at the end of the specified number of rounds wins. There is also an option to give one player or the other a head start, up to 5 seconds. Monkey Bowling, Monkey Fight, and Monkey Golf, all three minigames that were present in ''

'', return in this game and function exactly like their original appearances. With the exception of Monkey Fight, players can play Monkey Bowling and Monkey Golf on one Game Boy Advance system by alternating turns.

Characters

Like many other games of ''

'' series, the player has the option to choose AiAi, MeeMee, Baby or GonGon. In multiplayer, two to four people can pick the same character.

Reception

Reviews for ''Super Monkey Ball Jr.'' have been mostly positive, but the game was criticized for a lack of analog movement. IGN gave the game a 9/10, GameSpot gave the game an 8/10, and review aggregator

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gave the game an 82/100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".metacritic.com
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References

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