yep, it is definitely a remake of monkey balls 1 and 2. Controls differently with a different physics model, and has different visuals and music, obviously. I think for this particular remake they played everything really safe and ended up really pleasing nobody, since the diehard monkey ball fans and speedrunners won't like the different physics and controls, with also not a lot of extra new stuff to keep any new fans interested imo. I think the game still plays perfectly fine, its just it doesn't have much of a soul, I guess. Maybe I am just weird, and you should probably try it out for yourself and see if you can see where im tryin to come from here. I appreciate the sentiments behind this game, but they just made boneless monkey ball