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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