Far from Perfect but has that certain something that Monkey Ball was missing.

User Rating: 7.7 | Kororinpa WII
While this game is far from perfect, while playing through this game I found my self thinking that this game has what I had been missing from Super Monkey Ball. The way the different marbles rolled seemed to move more in line with the way they do in the old fashioned labyrinth marble games do than was the case with monkey ball. Since thats how I viewed the concept of monkey ball from the first time I played it on the GC, I'm happy to see it has finally been achieved. However, the game is short, you can play through the basic levels within a few hours. What will take a little more time is getting gold on every single level (for those anal enough to do this). I would have loved to see 15 more of the harder levels. As for the graphics, it would have been nice to see the game in progressive scan as well as wide screen. But all in all I enjoyed the environments and the overall look of the game. The two player mode serves very little purpose except for cases where two children that can't share want to play at the same time. This is because there is no new gameplay strategy added by playing two player. Its the same as before, try to get to the finish as quickly as possible.
In the end it comes down to the types of games you like to play that should be the decision on whether to buy this game. If you like monkey ball then pick up the game, if you hated it then you most likely won't like this one either.