![]() ![]() The other place you may notice this is in the more difficult Expert and Master stages, where minute control is essential in crossing hair-wide tightropes. Super Monkey Ball speedrunners often use pause buffering to start their runs at a specific point on the timer in order to perfectly catch cycles, and using any stage guide to try this in Banana Mania, you'll see it doesn't work - the difference, while barely detectable to the untrained eye, means the old timings are just off, and there'll be new ones (likely both timing changes and strategies that weren't quite possible before on some stages) for this new version. Faster acceleration is the most prominent, and some have put this down to the new tilt plane perhaps being a different shape to the original, resulting in slightly quicker movement. ![]() Banana Mania is a ground-up remake of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe - a compilation of the first two games in the series with some extra content thrown in - and despite a few foibles, it's generally a faithful recreation of the unique and beloved Super Monkey Ball experience, and these classics scrub up wonderfully.īanana Mania's new engine provides a largely authentic framework for the core game, bar a few ever-so-minor physics changes that only the most hardcore Monkey Ball fanatic is likely to notice. To be fair, Super Monkey Ball was refreshingly simple even on its first release on GameCube 20 years ago, and it's every bit as challenging and entertaining today. ![]() Where we're going, we don't need buttons - a single analog stick is all we require to be able to tilt the world and guide our brave monkeys through hundreds of gruelling platforming stages, mazes, obstacle courses, and seemingly impossible gauntlets. Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania Super Monkey Ball SEGA Local Multiplayer Game review Review Platformer Luke Albigés In an era ruled by games so complex that they struggle to fit all of their inputs onto a controller, and dominated by live service titles with like 18 different currencies, the return of Super Monkey Ball is the breath of fresh air we need. ![]()
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