Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Nintendo Switch Review - Is It Worth It? 

Seems perfectly reasonable

It's important for the real monkeyball heads to see the physics don't suck

@@spacebasely64 Reviewers usually suck at games. That's why it's crazy.

Why no mini games though?

30 year old man too and despite playing all kinds of games, I just haven't been as excited for a game release as I have been for this!

Oh, I found the comment where everyone states their age for no reason

Mate...I was a 30 year old man when I played the original on the Gamecube! Still at it...

I'm 46 and I still play these games. I'm bloody shite at them though 🤣

​@@blacksunshine7485Is there something wrong with someone stating their age?

Came here to say this😂

I'm guessing maybe it's a British English pronunciation? There are a lot of significant differences in word pronunciation even when accounting for accents.

English is his THIRD language. He speaks his third language better than most people speak their first.

@@Iceman81FIVE Completely agree! Most linguists I know are keen to learn even the more obscure pronunciations

Can someone update on this?

It only goes up to four players you can only do the races not rumble it’s fun but it does get boring kinda quick

Depends on what you’re looking for I suppose but if you’re wanting to play the story mode with others then the local multiplayer is fantastic, me and my fiancée were able to play through the entire story mode together without any issues

Really? To this day we often play the party games on banana mania with my friends when they’re over. We mostly play bowling, golf & pool though, so I would be interested to hear why you think the game selection is botched? Im assuming monkey target is the main draw for you if you’re a series veteran, but its a bit too hard to pick up and play for some of my friends so I haven’t played it much.

@@spurdomies546 Similar situation, had my buddies over who played these mini games with me in college but we all hated them because they controlled so different and felt wrong. Sure enough, all the reviews seem to have the same problem. I will say that Golf and Pool were fine, Bowling was missing some features and felt a little off but we kind of adjusted. but we used to spend hours on Monkey Target and were shocked by how unplayable it was. The controls, physics, the strategy of rolling to gain momentum and then pulling back and opening your wings to ride on your speed? Gone, all of it. No one wanted to touch the game again, so it's basically single player only for me and it just sat on my console taking up space until I finally removed it.

I like cucumbers

I like sausages​@@Kdkjdjewerdnxa

I like zucchinis

I like strawberries

I like bananas too, banana is the only fruit what I'll eat! 🍌

Think so

Other reviews mentioned that there's co-op adventure mode to go through the stages but I think it might be simultaneous

@@FeelinFlurgyy That’s a nice feature but having no turn based multiplayer again! Something Banana Mania screwed up big time is unforgivable lol Who plays Monkey Ball for the gosh darn story?

Classic Sega fumble

But there is multiplayer?

@@trumangraham2602 No hotspot Multiplayer though. That was such a huge part of why the first 2 was so good.

I wasted money on that, which is why I'm probably not getting this

@@keithmichael112Banana Mania was awesome though

​@@triple7marcIt wasn't, for me. Physics in Monkey Ball 1 & 2 made those games. They were amazing. The "remake" was like a similar terrible version of a once great game. Like playing SF2 on Gameboy after playing it in the arcade. I want purchase these games until they figure out what went wrong and prove they've fixed it.

@@penguinreloaded7756 I don't think it was terrible. The physics was a bit wonky compared to the originals (2 still being my favorite of any SMB game) but it was an added challenge. Plus I played with a GameCube Switch controller which really helped.

@@triple7marc fair enough! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I love me some old school Monkey Ball. If you liked the last one, this one will probably be right up your ally, too. Enjoy!

The upside is that these are brand new stages, so they should be better suited for the physics of the game, whatever they may be. The problem with banana mania was that they were the same stages from the GC games but with different physics, which made them extremely jarring and nearly unplayable for returning players.

@@nicholasdiaz1925 Ah okay, got you! :) Maybe I will try the game, I love 3d platformers and these games tick a lot of the same boxes.

Banana mania physics wasn't bad at all, just different. As Nicholas said above it is hard to have levels from a different physics based engine into a completely new one. The facts that these levels are new will fix that

I got used to the physics in Banana Mania, I think they worked fine in single player. Was shocked by how poorly multiplayer was handled though.

Why can't they? Genuinely, I continue to be confused and baffled by their inability to make it play like Monkey Ball 1 & 2.

​@@penguinreloaded7756because they (the devs) want the game to look good on more modern consoles. This game on the PS5 & XSX would look way waaay worse if it was made with a 25+ yr old engine. Yes, the physics would feel more familiar and subjectively better for some people, but it would still look incredibly outdated... which again I personally wouldn't care about. We all know how retro can sometimes now look better than photorealistic visuals.

emulation

@@emulord6248 Too much hassle than it's worth for Switch. I don't wanna hack my console until the switch 2 comes out and I don't pirate current gen games.

@@emulord6248 Or, you know, an actual PC port.

basically playing it now or waiting.

I was convinced to buy Banana Mania and I regretted it immediately. The single player was great but they didn’t care about the multi. Opting out of multi-Challenge mode and altering the way games like Target and Bowling controlled was such a sore spot for me. The fact that this game continues to ignore the feedback they received really bums me out. Going to skip this unless I hear about an update or patch.

This has multiplayer

@@chantellethecool1 never said it didnt but most reviews say it just feels tacked on at best. Plus no classics like Monkey target.

Those aren't in the game

@@geoffingoff🤣🤣🤣

***EDIT I was wrong, Jon loves it!! Considering NintendoLife said it has the issues that Jon had with Banana Mania I have my doubts.

@@CrowTRobot Good ending

This is a completely different art style lol

I liked the og style and design much more too. Sad they went completly in this childy looking style, a mix of both old & new or a redesign would be welcome.

This lol and that spin dash sounds fun as hell.

This is the best one imo!

@@azelpha Oh okay, thank you!

and we haven't had good mini-games since the gamecube era. I wish party mode was given more love, that's like HALF the game.

Nope

Update: Damn. Not a deal breaker, just still sad about how it turned out in BM

I hope so. I’ll buy it if they fix the multiplayer. My friends were so disappointed by how badly the party games were handled in BM and I was sad they never updated it.

Felix is dope

This is a video not a "content". That said, yes, Alex is the best they have as far as narration goes. Zion is an annoying nancy-boy and I cannot stand him. I like Felix, but he talks with too much spit in his mouth or something and always makes this unbearable sloshing sound. He's still way better than Zion though. 👍🏻

Nah. It's much more like the first two games than anything prior. In regards to the main game it's a return to form imo.

If anything this is the closest we’ve gotten to the original 2, what are you on broski

​@@TheLonelyGoomba Even closer than Banana Splitz? Hmm, starting to feel a little tempted now...

@@DeskoDev I personally think it is quite a bit better than Splitz. It's the best one since the original 2 imo

they asked for feedback on Banana Mania on Twitter and had like 200 responses begging them to fix Monkey Target and give the party games more love. But they never updated it and it seems that this game has the same problems as well. I’m happy for the people that only buy these games for the single player but I’m not one of them. 😢

What do you mean? Almost *every* SMB game is in 3D with the exception of Jr. and a few mobile titles in the 2000s (and to a lesser extent Touch & Roll which combines 2D characters with 3D graphics).

I'm pretty sure there's multiple correct pronunciations. That is one of them, though!

@@edwheezer6231 For the word he was using it's just "troff"

English is a great language. Just not when foreigners speak it. lol

Skill issue

@@Therealones745 SMB 1&2 are harder than this game lmao