Banana Mania Fails to Respect the Original Games 

There is a common misconception about wether you move the monkey or the stage, what’s actually happening is that you are moving the monkey and the stage is standing still, there is a game mechanic called stage tilt, it creates the illusion of the stage moving when you move the monkey, if you play SMB1 or SMB2 with debug mode enabled, you can turn stage tilt on and off.

Honestly Touch n' Roll is goated. I think the structure of playing through 10 levels on set of lives is the most fun way of playing.

This was an awesome review. And I agree, Monkey Billiards from SMB2 is incredible with one of the best songs from the franchise.

Ey, don't diss Touch N Roll. You know full well you can use the D-Pad.

When did the original music pack come out? I recently bought this deluxe edition and it came with the option for all the original songs… I don’t think I could fathom playing it without those tunes

I also agree taking out lives was a good idea for single-player (especially because every run has a mission that says to complete it in under a certain amounts of deaths) but i think they should add them again when and if they make local multyplayer

This video is 1000% correct about the remake I'm surprised you didnt mention the overly tilting stages/camera in it, its so disorienting compared to the original

So on the money with this. This was a big part of childhood gaming with my siblings. Was so ready to relive the glory days with the fam. Guess I'll be digging out my Gamecube instead. Sad. What a poor way to serve such iconic games. Hope the mod community can fix some of this on PC. I'm fucked on console.

dude how tf do u not have more subs and views, so well made. Idek abt super monkey balls. Great vid man👍

Ok, your review is good but your video fell flat for me. Your language was uncalled for and so out of place. This game is a kids game and you dropped so many F bombs and vulgar language that you just came off as a word that I cannot type out of my comment wants to stay on YT.

Even as someone who never played a lot of Monkey Ball post-Banana Blitz and onwards (and also as someone who thinks the difficulty balancing in SMB1 could use a LOT of work (yes i'm yet another person that got walled by Exam-C)), I can't not see Banana Mania as a soulless recreation hoping to cash in on the same hype brought in by the originals. The originals were superb, Jr. was okay for what it was trying to be, Touch and Roll was also great *if you ignore the touch screen and just use the d-pad* , I haven't played enough of Adventure to hate it as much as other fans, but tbh I at least respect it for trying something new and failing as opposed to Super Monkey Ball 3D which is just Banana Blitz again but even worse. And I owned 3D before I even owned SMB1 (though i had Deluxe on a modded xbox), so if this was the Banana Blitz era at its worst, and its best doesn't look that much better, then what's the point in putting faith in a remake that is just a Banana Blitz in Sheeps clothing.

I really like your voice and eloquence. This is a great video overall!

That SMB bit was reeeeeeeally good, well done!

I loved Smb 1 and 2 but since the wii-games there were this change in art design with this more childish and more plastic „lazy“ look and i cant stand it 😞 The rearranged music here is bland and even if i have to buy the DLC-classic-music there is the problem with art design…so no buy for me (unfortunately)

I haven’t seen anyone talk about the game really. I was planning to get it eventually though, until I saw this vid.

I wish they would fix the camera.

'start passing around the wavebird" LOLLLLLL yesssss

Best series review ever! I think if they'd kept making good sequels SEGA would force them to make them forever

A new Monkey Ball game is coming out in june Called Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble

Honestly the only remakes that fit my standards are Fire Emblem Echoes, Link's Awakening, Pokemon HGSS and REmake. Remakes are 99% of the time soulless cashgrabs

ever watch a gem of a video that reflects your own frustrations out of curiosity years later

I played the originals. I played the remake. And I'm saying this take is a load of garbage. It seems to me that your hate stems from *checks notes* The graphics and the sound effects aren't the same...? Do I have that right? Which I'm chalking up to nostalgia blindness. The gameplay is the same. the levels are the same. This is the same game as before with a fresh coat of paint and I'm really not entirely sure why you seem to have such a vitriol towards it other than 'it's not the original'

You gonna talk about the new monkey ball?

come back and make a video on banana rumbleeeee

Hey there

Its the artstyle / vibe

good soup, good vid

Finally some mention hiw crazy they move inside a fast ball THATS WHAT I MISS I miss wheb im going fast and turning the monkey in the ball start to rotate and spin all kinds of ways

I'm kinda blown away by the number of comments that just sort of.... missed the *entire* point of the video

It is not as bad as you think, do not listen to this if you like SMB Banana-Mania

It might seem crazy what I’m bouta say

Agree they missed the mark on some of the details, but gotta applaud it for the attempt to get back to form. There is one great song on the soundtrack (unfortunately only one), Volcanic Magma, check it out.

You described the issues perfectly, nicely done

Monkey ball would be a great series today if they would have just made good games up until now. They did this to themselves

These are great videos keep it up !!!

I found the assist mode prompt in banana mania so annoying that I made a mod to disable it.

yea you're just complaining to complain I'm one of the ogs biggest fans and even though I think they're superior, the remake is just as stellar as those, hell I managed to get all the medals on SMB1's missions,, its a great game,, just a weird remake. But it's not bad, you're just really salty imo

19:35 autosave is turned off on default

Amazing video. You deserve way more viewers!

what a banger video

Thanks for the breakdown. I was thinking about getting it

This was my first monkey ball game and I loved it, if you wanted the originals then play them

The fact that Boiling Pot has dubstep music in Banana Mania makes me unreasonably upset. I've been playing Super Monkey Ball 2 on Dolphin, I installed a mod that turns 2 into Deluxe so I could get the first game's stages and Ultimate difficulty on a "gamecube." I tried actual Deluxe on a PS2 emulator and *holy 30fps with twitchy controls and lag, batman*

I liked Banana Blitz it was better than 2

I dunno, I kinda feel like you're expecting a perfect recreation of the games... It shouldn't really be. Not always of course, there are some valuable points, but what can I say, I get the vibe you didn't like some of the changes just because they were changes. Still a good video though

Just be happy that Banana Mania was a huge step in the right direction. Now we’ve got Banana Rumble whose levels are reminiscent of the original two games.

This review is asking for the exact same as on the Gamecube, which is unreasonnable.

Way too hard to be fun.