Super Monkey Ball Adventure

Super Monkey Ball Adventure was an adventure platformer title based around the Super Monkey Ball series characters. It was developed by Traveller's Tales and released for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable in 2006.

Plot
AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon are barbecueing bananas on Jungle Island when all of a sudden a glider with two monkey pilots flies above them, crashes and then the alarm bells of Jungle Island ring out, stopping their groups barbecue.

AiAi and the gang jump into their monkey balls and go investigate why the bells are ringing as they are only used in times of great peril. The group discovers that cracks have appeared in the monkeys happiness and sorrow is pouring out of the puzzle realm into their world.

King Junjun informs them that the five kingdoms appear to be in disarray, and it turns out the two pilots on the glider are Prince AbeAbe and Princess Dee-Dee, two monkeys from rival islands that have fallen in love and were attempting to elope. Their love for one another is real and the monkey ball team decide to try and make peace between the rival warring islands in order for the wedding to go ahead.

Gameplay
The player starts the game by selecting which monkey they wish to play as between AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and Gon Gon. Once selected, the character can explore jungle island either racing to the bells or talking to NPC monkeys and completing sidequests such as guiding a swarm of bees back that were scared by the crashing glider, finding lost children or racing to a location to pose for a photographer monkey.

Bananas can be picked up and are used as a currency in this title, allowing players to buy additional characters for the party modes.

Travelling to the 'Puzzle Realm' allows players to play more traditional Super Monkey Ball style gameplay set atop floating platform pieces which involve collecting bananas and reaching the goal.

Trivia

 * This game was not released in Japan making it one of the few Monkey Ball titles to never appear there.
 * This is the only game in which Baby does not crawl.
 * This is the Super Monkey Ball game with the most amount of playable characters.
 * This is the only Super Monkey Ball title to not have bonus stages due to the differing gameplay.