- #SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA MANIA MINI GAMES LIST TRIAL#
- #SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA MANIA MINI GAMES LIST SERIES#
#SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA MANIA MINI GAMES LIST TRIAL#
The best part is that all of them are playable solo: whether through a high score/time trial challenge or by way of bots. The elimination of lives helps ensure things don’t get out of hand, but all of the layouts that pissed you off before will return in all their glory - so be warned if you aren’t keen on using any stage skips or helper options at all.īeyond the roughly 300 stages in the core mode there’s also a party gametype for 1-4 players, with 12 minigames in tow. Not every stage is a winner, and there’s some very frustrating banana placements if you want to try and 100% the game.
It helps you understand the angles and nuances required for some movement tricks, and it’s completely optional if you want to go at it with just your skills. Guide arrows are a secret weapon for teaching Monkey Ball, and it can’t really be understated. And there will be at least one of those times where you’re about to throw your remote in frustration, but get that second wind through a painless skip. If all else fails, you can spend points (which are used to unlock new modes, options, characters, and costumes) to skip a stage entirely. The toggle provides extra time to clear a stage (so you’re not racing the clock or cutting it quite as close getting all the bananas), but it also adds a slow-motion button and provides guided arrows. The helper mechanic really is key, because I can’t tell you how many people have been wooed by the promise of cuteness only to smash their controller against the wall in practice. Or, wistfully just aim for the goal and ignore the banana layer: your call. But by that same token, the helper feature is there, and you can get to that point. To master the game’s physics system to the point where you need to make jumps without jumping (though there is an optional unlockable jump toggle) can be daunting. Some stages are brutal to the point where getting every banana is going to feel like a gargantuan task. Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania does good work in terms of keeping that tight rope of balance. It’s brilliantly simple, easy to teach, and incredibly hard to master. Even 100 stages deep, your goal is the same: get to the goal, and if you’re looking to stunt/high score, get the bananas. You manipulate the stage to coax the ball (which is filled with a cute animated monkey or cameo character) to a goal, and collect bananas along the way, which operate as points/an extra challenge feature. The core formula is still so accessible after all these years because it’s inherently self-explanatory. It’s 300 levels in all, with some extra twists, more accessibility features (most notably a helper function), and some party games.īefore we unpack all the ancillary stuff let’s talk about why Monkey Ball still works. It’s timeless.Ģ021’s Banana Mania is a bundle and remaster of Super Monkey Ball 1, Monkey Ball 2, and Monkey Ball Deluxe (which itself was a bundle of the first two games with exclusive stages). You roll around in a ball in a somewhat labyrinth format a couple hundred times sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. Yakuza boss and Sega legend Toshihiro Nagoshi really was onto something when he pitched monkeys rolling around in balls as a game hook, and that’s pretty much the gist of the entirety of the series.
It was part of that magical era of GameCube where basically anything was fair game and nothing was too weird. I ended up staying the night after we played it all day long. “Watcha playin’?” “Monkey Ball,” his little brother said so matter-of-factly. I went down into my friend’s basement, and upon my descent, I heard a combination of loud noises, monkey sounds, and my eyes were immediately drawn to its bright color palette. Witnessing Monkey Ball for the very first time was a surreal experience.
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Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S) I can’t believe I’m still playing Super Monkey Ball 20 years later, but here I am.
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