While some of them are stale (Dogfight and Shot, I’m looking at you) the majority are great fun with some mates or even against the AI. I stopped sooking eventually and grabbed my husband for Banana Mania‘s 12 party games, having more and more fun as we worked through the list. It was enough to make me put the game away for a day or so because I just wasn’t having fun. In a day and age where the likes of Psychonauts 2 and The Last of Us Part 2 are making bold statements that everyone should be able to play a game and that there’s no shame in a lower difficulty level, Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania goes in the complete opposite direction. I understand there’s more to life than Achievements, but this nonetheless stung. I also didn’t meet the criteria for the World 2 Achievement in doing so. You can now jump as well, but that wasn’t helping me in this instance either.Īfter failing with the helpers, I decided enough was enough and marked the level as finished using the menus, again being reminded that I took the easy way out. Next is a slow-mo mechanic which doesn’t help when it comes to balancing a ball on a suspended pedestal that rockets from left to right. First, an optimal path guide will place yellow arrows along the groung, each pointing towards the level’s finishing gate in most cases, that’s basically a straight line. The prompt continues on to say that in doing so, you’ll invalidate your score, your time and you won’t get proper credit for completing the level.Īfter twenty minutes of failure, I opted to try the features out and became even more frustrated. It’s here that Banana Mania‘s “helper” features come into play a pop-up tells you that you’re awful and says that you might be able to beat the level by turning on some accessibility features. I could make it from one flying platform, to a second, maybe to a third and occasionally to a fourth, but never beyond that. In that specific level - and no matter what I did - Banana Mania‘s physics bested me. Even with some of its 300 recreated stages being reworked to offer less of a challenge, I was finding myself becoming impatient from as early as World 2-10. Super Monkey Ball is more unforgiving than difficult. As with many of the remastered variety, those that live and breathe the franchise will find enjoyment and perhaps look beyond the imperfections of a game designed years and years ago I merely found frustration. I’m sure each and every one of us could name a different remastered or remade title from within the past two years. Alan Wake Remastered is less than a week away and Diablo 2 Resurrected has just graced the PC. While Super Monkey Ball lovers will be pleased with the bundle, it ultimately splattered out for me. A remaster of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, which itself was a bundle of Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2, Banana Mania boasts 300 recreated stages alongside a host of 4-player party games. Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a franchise fan’s greatest wish… apart from an actual new entry, that is.
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