A massive disappointment which would’ve been known if I had actively kept up with the game as apparently the “new” controls have been in place since Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz.
It appears the controls were changed and the old method of diving and pulling up to maintain momentum no longer works, leaving me to fall into the drink every time. On the surface it seems all good, but there is a horrible revelation when I booted up Monkey Target.
Unlike Monkey Ball 2 all 12 games are available outright and do not require purchasing from the in-game store. The title includes 12 party games which mirror the line up found in Super Monkey Ball 2, the game which occupied my Saturday nights in college. Now we get to my personal bread and butter of the game…the party games. However, gazing at the online rankings it looks like there’s plenty of inept players as many of the rankings only have a handful of players at best. The only penalty for using such features is that your time and score won’t be recorded online and any missions associated with the level will not be fulfilled…a fair mark on your ineptitude as a player. The Helper Function when turned on, will add a number of features which ease…but not alleviate your suffering.ĭoubling the stage time, marking an optimal path, and even enabling you to slow down time might get you to the goal, but if these don’t work for a nominal amount of banana points (earned by collecting, well…bananas, d’uh) you can outright mark the level as completed and move on to your next challenge. However SEGA has foreseen consumers like me and added a bevy of accessibility options. So at this point if you ask “you’ve never beaten a story mode in any of these games have you”…I’d have to say “yeah…”. One of the pain points is the camera is fixed to a certain angle, often making it difficult to have a sense of spatial awareness and don’t even get me started if your ball is launched into the air (which is more often than you think), at that point I hope you enjoy vertigo! What makes this Ball centric camera even weirder is you technically control the stage…not the ball. On paper it sounds easy but when you see what is between point A and point B, the task is more arduous than you think. The main mode of Monkey Ball consists of you getting your titular Monkey Ball past a goal post. Combining content from 3 core Monkey Ball titles (1,2 and Deluxe), this package is packed to the brim for fans of the series, but will the title live up to the memories stored in my head? Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a title which was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the franchise. Time has passed, people have moved on, but alas whenever SEGA releases a new title in the Monkey Ball series, the memories flood back. The most memorable moments were from playing Super Monkey Ball 2’s Monkey Target, screaming at the top of our lungs when someone would manage to get a score multiplier and landing on the 100 point spot. In the early 2000s during my college years, many a Saturday night was spent playing video games with 3 of my friends. I’m gonna pull a page out of Benny Rose’s writer’s guide for this introductory paragraph, where you tie the game that’s about to be reviewed with a personal anecdote.
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Also On: Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One
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