![]() ![]() There’s Monkey Race, Monkey Fight, Monkey Target, Monkey Billiards, Monkey Bowling, Monkey Golf, Monkey Boat, Monkey Shot, Monkey Dogfight, Monkey Soccer, Monkey Baseball, and (monkey) finally Monkey Tennis. When you need to cool off from the main game, Banana Mania has a ton of minigames to play. However, this costs an unknown amount of coins, so if you run out you’re screwed. If that’s not enough, you can outright skip levels by marking them as cleared and not recording your score. At any time, or if you die too many times, you can activate Helper Mode which will show you an optimal path as well as allow you to slow down time with the L button. Thankfully, Banana Mania has a few tools to help you through some of the more difficult stages (sometimes). There’s a reason Super Monkey Ball is known for helping even Doctors with hand-eye coordination. This game gets insanely difficult near the end, so much so that I couldn’t finish the second to last world. As levels slowly ramp up in difficulty, you’ll encounter hazards that make your life hell like moving goalposts, pistons that will instantly send you out of bounds, and perilous jumps. Per the title, your character is in a ball and you move them around by tilting the stage with the left analogue stick. The goal of each course is to cross the ticker tape, which can be much, much harder than it sounds. In the Main Game, you’ll find every course from both games in one long campaign spread across ten worlds containing ten courses each. From the catchy theme song to the various shades of yellow in the menus, this really feels like a celebration of the series’ roots. The first thing you’ll notice about Banana Mania is the presentation – this game has style. But the monkeys have been making a comeback recently, with the latest game Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania being a remake of those first two Gamecube titles I rented so long ago. Aside from its sequel and the DS and Wii games, I actually haven’t played that much of the series since then. That game was, of course, the original Super Monkey Ball. While the main campaign is way too hard for me, I adore the minigames and rent it a few more times to play with friends. I see this weird Gamecube game about monkeys in balls, so of course I have to pick it. The year is 2002, I am seven years old and looking for a game to rent at our local Blockbuster.
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