Holy shit I fucking love every single thing about this game. This is tied with super monkey ball one as my favorite monkey ball game. This was our most favorite fucking game to play on the old ass ps2 that we had growing up at the day care I went to my whole childhood. We would just spend hours and fucking hours playing this game, we couldn’t get enough of it even with how rage inducing it was. I really liked how deluxe combined the levels from one and two and added its own exclusive levels (I found these ones to be my favorite). I have so many good and bad memories with this game, it holds such a special place in my heart. This game is the reason why I love the monkey ball series so much in the first place and definitely made me who I am today. It pushed me to spend hours upon hours playing monkey ball one to perfect my skill and technique until I was able to clear expert on it and eventually reach expert extra (still trying to reach master to this day). I can’t wait to get a copy of this game again now that I have my own ps2.