Ape Escape
Back in the early PlayStation years, Sony had a weird and wonderful game series in the form of Ape Escape. Tasking players with capturing a ton of escaped apes hidden through a variety of levels in increasingly difficult and trivial places, Ape Escape had charm and humor by the ton. With different types of apes having varying special abilities and requiring the use of different items in order to capture them, some of the later levels required a bit of thinking as to how to grab those pesky primates. When you wanted a break from capturing apes, there were always fun little mini-game distractions as well.
We’d love to see the series return with its unforgettable style, humor, and charm that each monkey perfectly encapsulated. Bringing the series to the modern day could provide for an even longer experience with more apes to catch and gadgets to help you with your task. Sometimes a sequel doesn’t need to change the basics too much. Simply reiterating from the previous games and adding on some new bells and whistles is the right thing to do, and the Ape Escape series is a prime example of this. As long as they keep ‘Monkey Football’, and the other mini-games, we’d be a happy bunch.
