This game was a huge letdown. I bought it on release date, having spent hours enjoying the previous monkey ball releases. I thought it also looked cool that you could fly and jump in this game, but there is nothing cool or fun about this game. Please save your money for something else. I am hoping the Wii Banana Blitz is better. This game sucks. It sucks because you have to play through the lame story mode to unlock the party games. It sucks because of the horrendous loading times. It sucks because the timed stages get very difficult very quickly, where the others in the series had a progression to the more difficult stages. And, it sucks, because that is the sound that is made when you realize that you wasted $50 on a really horrible game.