Ape Escape 3

Ape Escape 3 (2005)

by SCE Japan Studio, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Genres:Platform
Themes:Fantasy, Comedy
Game modes:Single player
Story:Kei and Yumi take the lead as the new heroes. Their quest is to capture all 400 monkeys. You control either Kei or Yumi. The gameplay involves using various methods and weapons to catch them all. The game has many levels with different themes, such as a Haunted Castle, a Racing level, Jungle settings, TV studios and other settings. You can slow the animals down with various objects such as a stun club or a slingback shooter, and then you can capture them with a net. New to the series are the morphing abilities, eight in all. You can morph into various characters, like a knight and perform a powerful attack or a gun fighter and shoot em up or a ninja and run along walls. You can also vehicles such as a race car to knock down the monkeys. Other features are the familiar Monkeypedia and the unlockable Mesal Gear Solid mini-game (a Metal Gear Solid spoof).Show more
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user avatar@Ethanormoususer avatar@Ethanormous
January 30, 2025
This game is above and beyond one of my truest loves in both of my worlds of music-adoration, and playing games. Just an allure that cannot be described with simple words - An ape with a birthday for each day of the year, charm out the wazoo and incredible pieces that just make you wanna sit on the beach and soak it all in!
Ape escape 3 is the perfect example of a perfect game to me. The gameplay is perfect The writing is perfect The levels are perfect The minigames (or at least the Metal gear crossover minigame) are perfect. I hope Ape escape 3 and the rest of the series can come to modern platfroms one day.
user avatar@Camtronic16user avatar@Camtronic16
February 01, 2025
One of the best, yet underappreciated (at the time) collectathon platformers that's stuck on a console from 25 years ago. At the time, I only knew about Ape Escape 1, 2 and EyeToy Monkey Mania, and didn't realise that there was a 3rd one until Astro Bot PS5 properly reintroduced me to the series. The music is fantastic, Satoru (Kei) and Sayaka (Yumi)'s transformations are fun to use and the level designs are great. My only complaint is, when running on the PS2, the frame rate is all over the place often running lower than even 30 fps which can affect the music at its worst. If this game ever gets a rerelease, letting us choose between the European/ UK and US versions would be nice (Like the Ape Escape 1 rerelease on PS4/5) as there are a ton of differences, mainly with the Dubbing, character names and the secret Ratchet and Clank-themed monkey that only appears on the European and Japanese versions.
Please, for the love of all that is holy and banana. PLEASE. I just want to be able to play ape escape again!! maybe if we give it enough love sony execs will notice and give us what we want with a new game
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