just beat the arthropod, use the tips suggested aboe and aim a little right of the center when you start your sprint across the rings

Well, I"m back, and they're out. I called and they said they had them, and when I get there they're gone. I told them to hold em, but she thinks I must have talked to "the wrong person" ha. Oh well.

Havne't played the 2nd obviously, but I was a master of target on the 1st, I found it was better to let the ball go to it's max point and more, I wouldn't open until it started dropping down, and yanki down on the stick as I opened the ball to get a huge burst of speed and height. Was harder to get the bannanas, but the speed and height was unbeatable. Who knows if it works on this one as well.. I hope to one day find out.

whatcha out for the wind. there is an arrow that tells you what direction the wind is going in. if you can, try to follow the path of the wind and swoop back if neccessary. dont pull up so much on the stick, you'll gain altitude but lose speed.

We never played with it on anyway. Maybe it was just us, but once you get good enough at flying the obstacles were easily avoided.

The problem I have with Target is that it seems to be more action oriented rather than strategy. The fact that you had to collect items to earn items offered amazing strategy options. Also the flying physics seems to be a bit different. The wind seems to be much stronger at lower amounts (like 12 mph in the new one seems to be as strong as 18mph in the original).

Oh well, we'll see how it plays out. There's always the original (though I think the original plus some of the new features/levels could have been great).

now that i've played a little bit more, i think smb2 is equally difficult to the first, but in different ways.
i think the puzzles are more creative, and not relying heavily on extremely narrow walkways like in the first.
now, there are launchers and paths that bend up, obstacles that attempt to crush you, goals that skateboard, switches that change the world around, and of other such nonsense. overall, with the level of the creativity in this being 'kicked up a notch' i think smb2 is better than the first
plus i think the soundtrack is kickass

I finally picked it up Fri, at Wal-Mart.

I must say I think the games quite a bit easier than the first one, at least in story Mode. Already on the 10th world, and have only found a few ones taht took more than like 10+ turns.

Haven't had teh chance to play competition, so that may provide more difficulity.

Out of the Mini Games, I like the new bowling lanes, and the way each monkey has a different strength. Such as the baby's aim meter is super slow, however the drawback, is little spin etc.

Target is pretty fun, like way the Star's and other things work. The mechanics is def a lot tougher, and often found myself just suddenly dropping.

Golf is 100X times better. Actually like it now.

Only mini games I've unlocked and played have been fine, nothing to exciting. Esp DogFight, boating etc. Baseball is sorta fun I think.

Overall, excellant followup.

Is it just me, or are several of the world 4 stages more difficult than anything in 5,6, or 7?

Arthropod, for instance, took me a real long time to beat...

I'm in world 8 now, and the game is starting to get pretty difficult for me now.

I've played the mini-games, and I have to say that i think monkey baseball and monkey boat are both lame. I like the other ones though.

That's probably what you're doing wrong. Try opening the ball at lower points. The longer you wait to open your ball as you are dropping the more speed you'll pick up. I usually wait until the last second to open my ball, pull back on the stick and steer towards the first star.

finished story mode over the weekend.
w00t!!
unlocked all the mini games. i think the new bowling is my favorite. tennis is a lot fun, almost direct copy of mario tennis.
i like the fact that you can hit the person and knock em over.
i love doing that.

My roommate got this a few days ago. The new target, race, soccer and rowboat games are really hard to control. I haven't played the others, but it's 10 times harder for me than the first one. If you liked the first one, I suppose you'll want this one too, but I don't recommend it personally.

I should play the greatest game in the world again, it's been awhile...

Anyone care to offer a little help on a level 4 track? I can't seem to figure out how the hell to make it through a finish line after being launched up the tree. Do I just have to get lucky or is there some way to do it? It's the only one left on level 4 for me. I just picked this game up today and love it. Unlocked Monkey Baseball - that's fun stuff.

is the one with the goal rotating atop the piller and there are 4 launchers that launch you up the side of the colomn?
if so don't try to aim for the goal as you go up, try to get shot up and fall (like in the free fall one, move the joystick) on top of the column. once on top use the map to see where the goal is and roll over the edge into it

I agree with this advice, also what helped me out, was when you got shot in the air, use the radar/map in the bottom right corner to align your monkey as you're flying up in the air. As you begin to drop, you can use the mainscreen again to make sure you land on the top.

To fall down into the target, it's important to remeber or it seemed to me on this one at least, you didn't have to go directly through the tape, you could also go through the golden ball above the tape. I believe if you get close enough to the edge, you can see it the ball part of the target, before rolling off into the target.

I still find this one hard in challenging modes, and have beat story mode etc., seems to be harder to land that initial fall with say the baby monkey etc.

That's what I was trying to do, but I was unable to stay up top. I kept hitting it and in the subsequent bounce, would fall off. I just got lucky though while playing it earlier today and while falling down, somehow hit the goal. Now I'm stuck on a level 5 course - the one with little platforms that keep rotating - every other one at one time, then when they're done moving, the others move. I forgot what it's called, but it's all I have left on level 5. Oh well. Just unlocked Tennis...

Do you mean the one that's short platforms in a long row, about half way there, there are are two long platforms. It's setup so ever other moves at once, so 1st all the odd ones move, then the even ones move once the odd have done a full rotation?

If that's the one, you gotta take it slow and slowly walk across them, just making sure to stop on the appropriate one, even or odd..

A shortcut, and what I norm do is to simply wait until just after the first set is about half-way rotated, so that it and the next set of platforms is basically an X shape(because the first set has already rotated 50%), and jam the stick forward just to the right of the where the 1 platform has already rotated over, if you do it right, you will be motoring, and as the even ones begin to rotate, they will push you over slowly and will get thrown off right as you reach the platform with the goal, hard part is to stop on there with the speed you accumulated.. Prob not the prettiest way, but the fastest, and pretty easy once you do it once, and get the timing down.