Ape Escape 2 (Saru! Get You! 2 in Japan) is a platform video game developed by Sony and published by Sony in Japan and Europe, while Ubisoft published it in North America for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was first released in Japan on July 18, 2001, and was later released in Europe on March 14, 2003, and in North America on June 30, 2003. It was re-released in Japan under the PlayStation2 the Best line twice - first on December 5, 2002, and again on March 10, 2005. It is the second game in the Ape Escape series.
This game takes place after the events in Ape Escape, where Kakeru (known as Spike in U.S. versions and the original British Ape Escape release) stopped Specter from taking over the world. It is
a few years later, and The Professor left for a vacation leaving his granddaughter, Natsumi (Natalie in the U.S. English version), and Kakeru's cousin, Hikaru (Jimmy in the U.S. English version) to watch over the laboratory. Professor has left them with one task: deliver a load of monkey pants to the monkeys in Monkey Park. Jimmy accidentally sends not only the monkey pants, but The Peak Point Helmets as well. Specter gets a hold of one, and yet again makes an army of monkeys bent on ruling the world. Hikaru aims to capture all the monkeys and stop Specter.
GAMEPLAY HINTS
Easy money
Go to the casino level. It helps get rid of any black pants-wearing monkeys in the first part of the level. Break open all of the slot machines in a counterclockwise direction. After awhile you will meet a rat-looking enemy that takes your money when you run into him. Let him hit you and take your gold. Then, quickly hit him and all of your gold will be dropped. Grab all of it quickly; after you collect five gold pieces they turn to silver stars. After five silver stars, they turn into gold stars which are worth 10 gold pieces. Continue hitting the slots and you will find one more of these rats.
After you defeat Spector (Mech-Monkey Sub-Boss) and unlock the extra monkeys, go to the Simian Citadel level. Toward the end of this level, you will find a wizard-monkey named Tommy. If you do not catch him, he constantly creates enemies. One of these enemies is the rat thief. Let him steal your coins, then steal them back. You can use the Super Hoop to catch him. Keep repeating this until your coins are at 999. Note: even if you catch Tommy and save the game, you can still return in time trial mode to perform this trick.
Go to Casino City level and destroy the slot machines going left and around in a circle. Once all the slot machines are destroyed, leave the room and return. Destroy all the slot machines again and repeat if desired. Note: You may want do this after you catch all the monkeys in the level so that the monkeys with black pants and guns do not hurt you.
Unlimited lives
In the Ninja Hideout level, there is a garden of bamboo plants. Also nearby are a couple of rocks. If you break the rocks with your stick, there will be some cookies and a jacket. You can keep going to another part of the level and returning. The cookies and life will be there again. Do this as many times as needed to get 99 lives. Note: The fastest way to do this is to wear your Super Hoop to move faster.
GLITCHES
No See-All Scope
After getting all 300 Monkeys enable the "Play as Spike" code. While playing Spike, even though you have all the gadgets you do not have the See-All Scope which lets you find the monkeys you get with the Magic Punch gadget.
Switched soundtracks
Go to the soundtracks area in the extras menu. Select either "Gotcha Rythmn" or "Monkeys Gonna Getchu." Listen to them to hear that they are switched.
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