![]() ![]() When turned on, it prevents you from recording your best times, but you're still able to freely clear stages without issue. This time around, however, it's not only unlockable but also totally optional. It's simply a shame it hasn't been properly addressed.īorrowing from Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz and its HD remaster, a jump ability is included. And it's not like this is a new problem to the Super Monkey Ball series-it's been a niggling issue since the series began. Yes, the mini map in the bottom-right corner of the screen does alleviate some of the burden here so you can tell where you're going to fall, but not entirely. ![]() This is incredibly frustrating when your ball is catapulted into the air, and you need to land on a platform below you. Unfortunately, there is no option to look downward when you're in the air, making it so trying to finetune your approach to platforms below you much more than trouble than it needs to be. You move with the left stick, and this time around you can slightly pivot the camera around your monkey with the right stick. The controls of Banana Mania are as simple as any other game in the series. What monkey-hating monster built these deathtraps!? By the end, I was cursing the Super Monkey Ball gods after each and every (and there were so MANY) failed stage attempts and fall outs. Stages in Super Monkey Ball run the gamut from simply designed with gentle twists and turns to navigate that hold helpful railings to prevent falling off too easily, to death traps that make you wonder just who the heck hates monkeys in balls so freaking much! At the start of the Story Mode (more on modes later in this review), I was finding myself casually strolling through stages without much issue. ![]() There's more need to worry about effortlessly rolling through the beginning stages only to lose all of your lives to one particularly tricky stage. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania makes for a more welcoming adventure for beginning players as well as veterans too due to forgoing the use of lives. Fall off, and it's back to the beginning of the stage. Reach the goal to successfully complete the stage. The quantity is definitely there, but how is the quality?įor those new to the world of Super Monkey Ball, the games all have the same objective: tilt and tumble the level to guide your monkey mysteriously stuck in a ball through progressively more difficult stages. The series itself celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania serves as the anniversary's celebratory game, offering over 300 stages plucked and rearranged from the original Super Monkey Ball, its sequel, and the Deluxe release. Right away when the super-catchy opening theme song of the game "Hello Banana" greets your ears with its infectious rhythm and melody, you know Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is going to be one of those special entries in the Super Monkey Ball series. ![]()
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