Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is available on October 5th on Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC.Super Monkey Ball returns to the spotlight to cause some chaos in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, the ultimate Super Monkey Ball experience. But for those not already on the inside, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is skippable. Nostalgia might have some fans of Super Monkey Ball trapped in the little ball with them, running their little feet, futile against the inevitability of gravity. It’s a solid remake, but with nothing to make the game feel fresh or to modernize its physics or camera, I’d simply say some games are better left on the shelf. Besides completing levels and collecting all the bananas within, there are time challenges, reverse levels, banana collecting versions of levels, customization options and game modes to unlock, and a host of multiplayer mini-games.īut if you’re not a fan already or not used to the way the game handles and the crushingly frustrating monotony of restarting these short levels countless times, don’t count too much on finding new joy in the game. It’s graphically strong and has truly endless levels and challenges. If you’re a fan of Super Monkey Ball, surely you’ll enjoy this game. The game’s levels have been tweaked to eliminate some of the worst of the gravitational annoyances on individual levels, but that can’t change the fact that the whole game is based on a sticky premise of letting gravity move you while you jog helplessly from within a ball. It feels like playing a clunky Gamecube game with sharp graphics because that’s basically what this is. It’s chiefly because the physics of this game, as well as its poor camera tracking and angle, are just entirely non-intuitive. I remember always eying it on friends’ shelves and perhaps thinking it looked fun on the scant occasions I saw them playing it.īut it’s not a difficult game simply because the levels get longer and more complicated. I’ve never played a Super Monkey Ball game before this one: I harbor no nostalgia, only an affinity, usually, for the type of game this is where you have a simple goal but an increasingly difficult time achieving it. Unfortunately, neither really is Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. I can’t help but feel, especially these days, like we’re all basically just little monkeys trapped inside balls with the floor constantly moving beneath us no matter how hard we run our little legs. You’re showered with praise, prompted immediately to do it all again, and so on and on and on. At this point, you either accept it so you might move on faster or don’t because you’re stubborn, and the pain of having so little control over your fate somehow also manages to exhilarate you.
Other times though, you just fall completely off track and are forced to restart your little levels over and over and over until the game asks if you need help. Maybe worse for wear and shaken up but, still there nonetheless. You grab your bananas along the way, probably miss a bunch since you’re not exactly in control, and eventually wind up in the goal. Sometimes, it tilts you precisely where you intended to go. And the world tilts violently beneath your feet and moves you as it wills. But ultimately, you are insignificant against the forces of gravity and inertia. Sure, you scramble away with your little feet, rolling yourself harder and pushing your acceleration.
In Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, you play as a monkey trapped inside a ball, the world constantly pushing you around.
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It’s a remake of every level the series has ever had with a few extra bells, whistles, and playable SEGA characters trapped in balls to roll around. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is the latest Super Monkey Ball game from developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and publisher SEGA celebrating AiAi and the series’ 20th anniversary.
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