This was the cooler one out of these two games when I was a kid, but coming back to both I enjoyed it less than the first. It's definitely easier, which is good for kids I suppose, and I can't really say if it's an improvement or detractor honestly. The character models are also markedly better, and there's more levels overall. However, many levels are just reused from the first game, and the new levels are not particularly engaging at all. Music is also weaker, sound effects are frankly terrible.

The Monkey Ball-esque aesthetic is done away with here to make way for the time travel theme, but it definitely doesn't look as nice in my opinion. The "Beginning of Time" levels have this sand texture which just looks more like a shitty carpet than anything, and while the Middle Ages and Future levels look better, they're still rather bland compared to the original's vibrant colors.

Still passable overall. If my experience is anything to go by, then it's great for kids. Or, was, at least. Sites like Nick Arcade and Shockwave aren't super viable anymore these days from the looks of it, with the latter being totally gone outside of Wayback Machine and such. I suppose it makes sense, with the huge shift over to kids' mobile games in the 2010s, but you don't really see stuff like this now and it's kind of unfortunate. Maybe it's the nostalgia talking? Who knows.