Super Monkey Ball Adventure: Путешествие по Островам Обезьян

2006 video game
Missions involve helping haywire problems going back to normal, fixing machines, and helping local monkeys out. Pospos the mailmonkey helps deliver messages to some characters invited to the wedding for a band reunion. However, he needs a little help remembering their name. Although the player has to bring peace back to the five islands, there are some monsters, called "Naysayers", trying to stop them. These Naysayers are monsters that are formed from sorrow, as the peace had become disturbed. In order to advance to the next world, the player must complete at least 60% of missions in each world. Some missions are simple, while others are lengthier and challenging.

Re visit puzzle stages that have been unlocked in the game and compete for high scores (possibly to win bananas that can be used to unlock new items). Unlike all the other games, Super Monkey Ball Adventure has no practice mode to practice levels that were previously completed by the player. These levels are contained in story mode. Like all games in the Super Monkey Ball franchise, the player must control their selected monkey of the four main characters (AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon) with the analog stick to cross platforms, to reach the goal in a time limit of a minute. The goal is a circle shape with a party ball on above a banner reading "GOAL". The monkey must pass through it to complete the stage, breaking open the party ball and celebrating. Falling off the platforms or letting the timer reach zero causes the player to lose a life. Fifty bananas are required to gain a life, which are usually placed in corners of levels and hard to reach and risky places. The monkeys have unlimited lives here, with the choice to give up and return to the game. The levels are themed as the same as the main Monkey Kingdoms, depending on the difficulty (ex. Jungle Island's color, green, and backdrop is used for the beginner levels). Also, a feature removed is that there are no extra stages added on to the Beginner, Advanced and Expert modes. There are 49 stages; 12 beginner, 20 advanced and 17 expert. Stages have several random music tracks playing, some from previous Monkey Ball games. During Story mode, these levels are in areas of the Monkey Kingdoms. In order to unlock new areas of the Kingdom, AiAi must complete a majority of the levels to progress. Stages come in bunches of four to ten stages per area.

There are six different available mini games, complete with multi player support, with 20 selectable characters to choose from. Additional features beyond the basic ones are unlocked through an NPC Store using bananas gathered during adventure mode.

Where as previous Super Monkey Ball games focused mainly on innovative gameplay, Sega emphasized plot in Super Monkey Ball Adventure as a move to make the game more accessible.

Super Monkey Ball Adventure received "mixed or average reviews" from critics on all platforms, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. It obtained a rare ranking of zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes' video game section. The game was criticized for the series’ unwelcome shift to platform adventure gameplay, controls, and difficulty, with many publications deeming it the worst in the series. Nintendo Power gave the game a 5.5 out of 10 rating and it, along with many other sources, claimed it was the worst installment thus far in the Super Monkey Ball series. X Play gave it a 1 out of 5. IGN gave the game a "Bad" rating at 4.8 out of 10, criticizing the gameplay and difficulty, but the game's soundtrack was highly praised.