Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Review

By Kristan Reed Published 11 December, 2006

Slipping on its own banana skins.

Version tested: Wii

Just how did those monkeys get trapped inside those balls anyway? How do they eat/sleep/go to the toilet? Aren't they annoyed at their captors for holding them hostage for the past five years? How is it they've suddenly developed the ability to jump? Why do I get to review the duff Monkey Ball? Questions questions.

Banana Blitz - in many ways - neatly distils everything that's good and bad about the Nintendo Wii at the present time. It shoehorns an interesting tilt control system onto a game that, well, already had a perfect control system, and then throws 50 dreadful multiplayer mini-games at you - almost none of which provide a solid case that the experience is in any way improved by the use of the Wii remote.

When Super Monkey Ball first graced the GameCube five years ago, those mini-games were the perfect reward for chipping your way through all those fiendish stages where you rolled your Monkey with precision towards the goal. For many, multiplayer sessions on Monkey Bowling, Monkey Golf and the like were the best thing about it.

Party fears too

'Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz' Screenshot 1

I like to get down with my posse when I play Monkey Ball.

But now, you get all 50 multiplayer party games right from the beginning - some playable in split-screen, others set on one screen - and the order in which you play through them is left entirely up to you. While this sounds like a good idea for those of us that only held onto our copies of SMB for the party games, the process of wading through the vast number included here feels suspiciously like hard work for the most part.

In terms of the 'good' ones we came across, there were precious few that we felt compelled to play repeatedly (and when we say 'good', we generally mean 'the ones we could control'). The most playable games seemed to be the ones that didn't overcomplicate matters with bizarre, counter-intuitive control schemes, but then also suffered from their total lack of depth.

For example, the games where you simply had to aim at the screen and react quickest, like Bug Balance, Keepy Up, Number Ball and the 3D Space Invader clone Space Monkey Attack were all immediately playable, but about as interesting as a throwaway Flash game. Pointing and selecting the pool ball numbers in order in Number Ball feels simple and intuitive enough, but did it warrant inclusion? Similarly, Bug Balance's pile-the-ladybirds-on-the-stick premise sets the tone for a lot of the throwaway crap you have to plough through.

Baby steps

'Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz' Screenshot 2

Hurdle Race is probably the most fun you'll have in the party games. Shake those controllers like you're REALLY RUNNING.

Mostly, the games included are just concept efforts that demonstrate tiny elements of what you can do with the Wii remote - such as Fruit Basket (deflect the fruit into the right basket by tilting forward, left or right), Jump Rope (move the remote up as the skipping rope swings around), and Whack-A-Mole (errr, whack moles by pointing the twitchy cursor at the right hole and strike). Individually not terrifyingly awful, but collectively it's mystifying why SEGA felt the need to throw so many undercooked games into the pot.

Sooner or later you hope for better things, but it's a long wait. The promise of Wii versions of Monkey Bowling, Target and Golf seemed destined to be great, but within seconds you'll just want to go back to playing the originals. Bowling, for example, has none of the finesse or fluid interpretation of your movements like Wii Sports, while Golf and Target instantly rile with their inexplicably terrible control systems that make simple actions complex and unwieldy. You'll repeatedly refer back to the 'how to play' instructions, and still be utterly rubbish at them. So you move on in the hope of better things.

Newcomers like Monkey Darts sound fantastic, but sadly confirm the suspicions at E3 that the execution is so far away from being playable that, frankly, you'd be better off trying something that doesn't make you feel like you're mentally impaired. Monkey Boxer, again, isn't even in the same league as Wii Sports, while Monkey Fencing just has you prodding haplessly at your opponent in the vague hope of being first to parry. Monkey Squash isn't too bad; it's controllable enough and easy to pick up but there's no real speed or feeling of connection with the ball. Likewise, Monkey Race's sideways control system makes it easy to take corners with precision, but the tracks are just too simple to be interesting. Home Run Derby is just a simple timing exercise and requires little actual motion sensing skill. It's all a bit depressing, really.

Arrrrrrrgh

'Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz' Screenshot 3

That's Doctor in the bottom right. Looks uncannily like the local GP.

Some though are just irredeemably awful thanks to control systems so far away from being usable that you'll want to stab yourself in the eye with the Wii remote after a couple of goes. It's hard to know even where to start. Trombone seems simple in that it requires you to move over the colour-coordinated note as it appears, but doing so is hilariously hit and miss, Scoop the Goldfish ought to be easy enough but actually breaks your net the second you plunge your net into the water and is just plain fiddly and annoying, while the simple target games like Free Throw, Sling Shot and Ring Toss never seem calibrated to measure the force of your throw like the Wii Play or Wii Sports games do.

Some of the games here even require you to rotate by pulling the nunchuk back while pushing the remote forward (and vice-versa to rotate the opposite way), but it feels like the most unnatural thing in the world to have to do. Games such as Alien Attack, Hovercraft Battle and Hovercraft Race are instantly rendered unplayable as a result, or even with some dogged persistence not-as-playable-as-with-a-joypad. And I haven't even mentioned some of my least favourites yet, like Rock-Paper-Scissors Attack, Racing Birds, Yacht Sailing, or the entirely pointless and fiddly Jigsaw Puzzle.

There are less offensive party games to be found - like Dangerous Routes or Banana Thief - that neither inspire annoyance or pleasure, but the net result is you won't particularly want to play any of them more than a couple of times. The general quality of party games came as a major shock to a long-term Monkey Ball fan such as myself, and also as someone who has been hugely entertained by Wii Sports. Even next to the lightweight Wii Play, the party games on this collection rate very poorly indeed.

Bad start

It's truly remarkable that anyone thought these games would be a fun way to show off the Wii remote, as at least half the party games on this collection would baffle hardcore gamers into submission, never mind casual gamers looking for some pick up and play fun. In multiplayer, any issues you may have with the controls extend to having to deal with exasperated friends as they too have to try and suss out the new and interesting ways they are being punished. If anything, it makes you long for the simple pleasures of a joypad, and will add weight to the argument that we're very much in novelty territory with the early Wii games - and dangerous territory at that if these are people's first impressions of what the Wii's about.

Given the genuinely appalling state of the party games, it's just as well that the single-player mode holds up as well as expected. Structured over eight worlds of six levels each (plus a bonus level after the fourth stage and a boss fight at the end), you get the usual devious array of twisty ramps and ledges to negotiate within a time limit, with the option of picking up bananas along the way - no change there, then.

The ability to control the tilt of the landscape with the Wii remote is perhaps the most fundamental alteration to the gameplay, and one that is - at least in theory - something of a perfect fit for a game that relies solely on subtle, ultra responsive movements. Adapted exactly as you'd expect, every slight movement applied to the Wii remote causes the landscape to respond accordingly. So, it goes without saying that small downward motion with the remote causes the world to tilt with precision in that direction, making the gameplay feel enormously intuitive and satisfying. No longer are you restricted by the limitations and variations in control pads - only the steadiness of your own hand.

For the high jump

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Split screen Fruit Basket. Not that you'll want to.

But rather than just design a SMB game around that solid principle, the ability to jump has also been added (either by simply pressing A or swinging the remote up at the same time as pressing B), which has a fairly dramatic impact on the level design. With more obvious static and moving obstacles to hurdle and ramps to get the required speed up on, the game's now as much about timing your jumps as it is about charting a precise path to the goal. The levels now appear to be a little longer than in previous games, and while this makes it a wee bit more challenging in itself, the early worlds are nowhere near as demanding as previous SMBs. If you settle into the control system early on, you can expect to clear most of the early portion of the game in your first or second attempt.

Bonus levels work exactly as they did in the past, while the new boss encounters require studious use of the jump mechanic to target their weak spots with precision. It's all fairly standard stuff, with a health bar to whittle down and predictable attack patterns not making it too tough to figure out. As much as boss encounters aren't really required in a game like this, we didn't mind their presence.

What does feel a bit of an oversight, though, is the inability to wrestle camera control back from the game at crucial times. As with all SMB games, Banana Blitz makes odd camera shifts at the most inappropriate times, such as when you've been forced to hastily backtrack to avoid spilling into the abyss. With the viewpoint often looking entirely the opposite way that you need it to, you have to make tiny tweaks to your movement to encourage it to rotate around the right way again - something that could have so easily been assigned to the nunchuk's analog stick. While we realise that at least some of the purpose of the automatic camera is to convey the tilting of the level, it would benefit the playability like most third person games.

Last gen first gen

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Monkey Darts - quite possibly the most horrible use of the Wii remote yet.

Technically speaking, Banana Blitz could easily pass as a standard GameCube title. That's not to say it's by any means a bad looking game but the simple level designs and cutesy graphics have never been the most system intensive in any case, and so it's hardly a shock to come away from this with the same feeling as five years ago. Even so, it's a style that we've long held dear to our hearts, and as a result it looks great, with character bursting out of every screen. The silly noises, dumb little ditties and the arrival of two new characters (Doctor and Yan Yan) only makes it more appealing in that respect.

Overall, though, the use of the Wii remote feels like a logical and well-implemented decision that gives the single-player portion of Super Monkey Ball the degree of novelty it badly needed at this stage. Adding jumping and boss monsters, though, is questionable, and it's arguable that Sega should have included the old 'classic' levels in there to appease the old school fans who might fancy seeing how they fared with the new control system. The multiplayer party games, though, are a total waste of effort, and justify the docking of at least two points off the final score. With only a couple of exceptions, the games either under-utilise the Wii remote and feel pointless, or overcomplicate inherently simple actions to the point of being maddeningly unplayable. As much as novelty value can be a good thing during the launch of a new console, the unavoidable conclusion is that Super Monkey Ball is more fun on a joypad on the GameCube than in this flawed experiment. If you're a die-hard single-player fan, by all means give it a try, but for the party game fan, avoid this at all costs.

6 / 10

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  • SeesThroughAll #1 5 years ago

    I can imagine the darts mini-game causing the death of many TVs.

  • thefilthandthefury #2 5 years ago

    I'd agree with this review to be honest. The single player game is rather good and very challenging but I spent last night attempting to play the mini games with a friend and there we so many awful games we had to quit in the middle of. Get this for single player, if you like Monkey Ball already.

  • RE*AC*TOR #3 5 years ago

    ok the mini-games suck, but the main game is solid and controls excellently with the wiimote. I think 6 is too low. Surely a 7.

  • Xerx3s #4 5 years ago

    Why? Because it's being used with the wiimote?

  • morriss #5 5 years ago

    Ouch!

  • Muddtallica #6 5 years ago

    Oh jeeze, that's not very good...I would have thought that the Monkey Ball team (AV, is it?) would be shoo-ins for wringing some innovative fun out of the Wiimote...obviously not. And I was always a bit sceptical about the jumping mechanic...why add that it now?

    I was quite keen to pick this up before, and some of the other reviews have been good, but now I'm really not sure. Then again, most people hated the DS version, and I thought that was OK...I dunno, maybe when it comes down to about a tenner. Which, if it's that bad, will be quite soon. :(

  • tinocat #7 5 years ago

    'Party Fears Too' - The Associates - Great tune.

  • Darren #8 5 years ago

    I bought this game along with Zelda: Twilight Princess, simply because I loved the previous two GC games and was curious about how the Wiimote would work with it. Also there was absolutely nothing else in the launch lineup worth buying!

    The controls do take some getting used to as they're extremely sensitive and there seems to be no way to configure them from within the game (like Zelda) which is an oversight. You kind of do for the mini-games (aiming the cursor at the centre of the screen) but you can't for the single player mode.

    So far the single player game is fun but frustrating at times when you die for the 20th time on the same part of the level. Shame about the lack of a silly story to link the levels together like the first sequel (I thought it was a cute touch) and the game's credits roll when you've completed a world rather than when you die and decide to quit. Took me by surprise as I thought the game only had one World!!!

    As for the mini-games, well with 50, there are bound to be some duffers but even if you ignore them then there are 20 or more decent ones that are good fun to play with friends. The boxing game is better than the Wii Sports one and I liked the Keepy ups one.

    Overall I'd rate the game about 7/10 but it's not as well designed as Super Monkey Ball 2. Also I'm still undecided at the moment as to whether the Wiimote makes this game feel better and more enjoyable to play or whether the analogue stick was better. It works very well for the mini-games but not so well for the single player... or maybe it's just because haven't practiced enough?

  • MisterFalseName #9 5 years ago

    "The multiplayer party games, though, are a total waste of effort, and justify the docking of at least two points off the final score."

    Spot on. Such a dissappointment.

  • Chtulie #10 5 years ago

    A two page review with only three paragraphs about the main game tucked away on the second page? What the hell man?! Even Timesplitters, which actually IS all about the multiplayer gets it's single player part reviewed first. In Monkeyball the multi is the extra, not the main thing, so what gives with these wacked out priorities?

  • AusFreelancer #11 5 years ago

    ^ Critic.....great. honest. review.

  • gizmo #12 5 years ago

    Hmm, All the Wii reviews refer to the control compromises in one way or another. Thought that the Wiimote should make the control interface more transparent, not less.

  • Steroyd #13 5 years ago

    Wow pretty shocked at this, i thought the Wii would be a shoe in for multi-player party type games, with it's controls being simplistic that anyone can do it.

    guess not.

  • foxy2006 #14 5 years ago

    jeez

    only one game worth buying for a console at launch? And only Metroid to look forward too?
    It's the N64 famine all over again. I'll give the Wii a year at best.

  • dbeamish #15 5 years ago

    overall this sounds disappointing as I was looking forward to this.. However I am buoyed by Darren's comments since I'm really only getting it for the multiplayer side.

    Anyone else got it and think the mini games are good for getting your mates over to play?

  • username #16 5 years ago

    Phew. Glad I cancelled this and got Rayman instead! :D

  • Derblington #17 5 years ago

    Rayman is the game for minigames that are mostly fun and funny, Monkey Ball is a single player game.

  • in5ane #18 5 years ago

    There are two problems with the mini games: piss poor instructions, and needing the wiimote to be pointed directly at the sensor bar for most of them. Basically, while wii sports and wii play do very well with huge exagerated motions, monkey ball utilises much more restrained motion.

    So yes, the party games aren't instant fun, and don't work how you think they should, which is a massive blow to the game as a whole. I this reviewer doesn't think you should persevere, but if you do, most of the party games are a lot more fun than first impressions. On saturday morning I thought the mini games were shite. In the evening playing with friends, something clicked, and we had a great laugh.

    The single player is solid, and again, dooesn't work entirely as you think it should, relying more on wrist twisting than rotating the whole wiimote, but play a few levels and it makes sense and is great fun.

    I'd give this game 7.5 really: eight is too generous, seven suggests it's not as fun as it is.

  • chupachups #19 5 years ago

    "I can imagine the darts mini-game causing the death of many TVs."

    Got a really good picture in my mind of some drunken uncle who's come round for Xmas dinner saying "Hey, give me a go on that thing", with hilarious consequences.

  • goodshape #20 5 years ago

    @foxy - "only one game worth buying for a console at launch?"

    Only one game that's an absolute must-buy maybe, but the pack-in WiiSports is fantastic - so that's two games straight away - and the other game I bought 'just because', Ray-Man, is suprisingly great fun too.

    Also wouldn't mind getting COD3 and Excite Truck.

    Plenty to check out tbh.
    Edited by 1 at 11/12/06 @ 10:57

  • Kay #21 5 years ago

    Looks like this is bad as I feared. I was hoping for a great resurrection for the franchise, with brilliant all-new party games that matched the quality of the ones in the first game. But 50 games - that tells you pretty much all you need to know. Going for quantity over quality is one thing, but it really is quite a shock to read that not a single one of the mini-games is actually any good. A shame. And the truth is, apart from Zelda there isn't anything decent for the Wii at the moment.

    Unless... is there a Call of Duty review coming anytime soon?

    K

  • ecureuil #22 5 years ago

    I'd give it a 7. The single player really is excellent, and I've had a lot of fun playing it. The Shadow of the Colossus style boss being a particular highlight.

    I actually really enjoyed the darts mini-game, too.

  • #23 5 years ago

    test

  • afray #24 5 years ago

    I liked the SotC boss too.

    Me and some friends persevered with the minigames on Saturday afternoon. They were ok, but many were poorly explained like the review says. There were a few where we had a laugh, but that's mainly because we're just mates rather than the game being fun.

    Having said that, the FPS in there works suprisingly well, even in 4-player split screen. Don't know how Red Steel mucked it up so much if this small minigame can get it right. :/

    Switched to Rayman after that, and had a much better time.

  • Rambaldi #25 5 years ago

    NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAF

  • ecureuil #26 5 years ago

    Which is the FPS game? I haven't tried most of the minigames.

  • Psi #27 5 years ago

    ive had loads of fun on the single player game :S so single player game 8/10?

  • secombe #28 5 years ago

    Agree entirely, the party games are hopeless, we had high hopes after playing Monkey Target/Fight/Bowling/Race on MB1&2, but every one we have tried so far has either been hopelessly complex, painfully boring or just simply...crap.

  • MadMirko #29 5 years ago

    It's a little strange that the review focuses on the mini games, which I thought of as a nice little addition to the single player game, to offset the fact that it's just a GC port.

    Can't comment on the rest of the series, as this is the first Monkey Ball I'm really playing, so I don't know if jumping ruins the game, or if boss monster at the end of a world somehow breaks the canon: On it's own i find myself returning to it frequently and having a good time with the tricky later levels. 6/10 is better than average, but for me it's "good".

    EDIT: Oh, I haven't tried the minigames, yet.
    Edited by 1 at 11/12/06 @ 12:44

  • krudster #30 5 years ago

    The review doesn't really focus on MP any more than it does on the SP. The thing that's evident is there's a lot more to talk about when it comes to the party games (50 of the flippin' things), and the SP game is very easy to explain and hasn't changed a great deal.

  • huxathon #31 5 years ago

    Why dock the game two points because of the extra mini-game content? The review says that the single payer game is good but the score doesn't reflect that. Can't you just ignore the mini-games?

  • playgen #32 5 years ago

    Mini games arent an extra free thing the developers put into the game to be nice, they ARE part of the game. So if the minigames are crap, then a good part of the game is crap

  • gamingdave #33 5 years ago

    Im really disapointed by this one. The main game is far too short, and whilst the control is fun, and I have enjoyed it, it was simply better on the cube.

    I bought it mainly for the mini games, as for me they were the best parts of the previous games. Bowling, target and fight were played so much, as they were simply spot on games. Simple fun in short bursts, that everyone can enjoy. But I havent had fun with any of them this time round.

    Such a shame that one of the Cubes best launch titles has been reduced to this. Its getting traded in today.

  • Sid-Nice #34 5 years ago

    I found this game the most frustrating game in my Wii collection. I only gave it a quick bash; yet I found the controls awkward, this game is certainly not a pick up and play game for non gamers. I was hoping for some Monkey Ball magic after the disappointing Super Monkey Ball Adventure; Sega are really going down hill, software only? Soon Sega will be a memory only if they continue producing shit games like this on the Wii and Sonic on the Xbox 360.

  • Zomoniac #35 5 years ago

    That score is far too high. My friends and I have put probably thousands of hours into the first two Gamecube games, and I was never interested in single-player, but this is an absolute disaster from start to finish. Thank god for Rayman...

  • Pinchy #36 5 years ago

    Settle a bet. Is it true that the mini games contain monkey blacksmith and monkey shepherding? and if it does have monkey blacksmith do you use the wiimote as a kind of hammer to smash down onto an anvil?

  • krudster #37 5 years ago

    Yes, that is correct!

  • jmctavish #38 5 years ago

    I thought the dodgem one was great. The turning system is pretty unique and it works just fine. The minigames aren't that bad.

  • petebritish #39 5 years ago

    Great review spot on as usual. Definitly the most disappointing of the launch titles,perhaps was expecting too much from this. Whereas Wii play went in expecting nothing and at least had fun straightaway.

    Now to trade it in. Any chance of a review of Tony Hawk Downhill Jam?

    Torn between that and Rayman

  • krudster #40 5 years ago

    Lots of other Wii reviews planned between now and Xmas - but most publishers are still unable to send us copies, so we're actually resorting to buying many of them.

    Other reviews to come:

    - CoD 3
    - Red Steel
    - 4X4
    - GT Pro
    - Tony Hawk's DJ

  • milko #41 5 years ago

    Haaarrrsh.

    I had the same horrified reaction to the minigames at first but a little perseverance proved that mainly the problem was actually that they just weren't easy enough to start with. Once you know what you're doing they're actually very good. (edit - not ALWAYS of course. Has to be some duffers in 50 games!)

    Two best examples I have so far are Monkey Target and Flapping Birds. At first it was too complicated and none of us playing could do it right. Then a bit more careful reading of the control instructions later, we had a whole new game on our hands. One very much worth playing.

    Also I dunno if I like this insistence that the games should provide "a solid case that the experience is in any way improved by the use of the Wii remote". I don't want to be restricted to that kind of game only, ones where it just does the same level of job as a traditional pad are fine too. That still provides the laughs of watching each other play through gesture if nothing else.
    Edited by 1 at 11/12/06 @ 15:02

  • sharky_ob #42 5 years ago

    So, I just wanted some clarification as I don't think you went on about it enough in the review - you DIDN'T like the mini games, right?

  • Chim_chimma_nee! #43 5 years ago

    Can we have a one word review for each of the minigames?

    (Surely someone is bored enough to help me)

  • Chtulie #44 5 years ago

    "Mini games arent an extra free thing the developers put into the game to be nice, they ARE part of the game. So if the minigames are crap, then a good part of the game is crap "

    Not something I see in the New Super Mario Bros review.

  • BioSniper #45 5 years ago

    I bought this game on launch day and was terribly dissapointed. Sadly GAME no longer take back games you dislike and would only give £25 trade in price so I would up selling it on ebay :(

    I really would have to say SMB2 was alot better than this.

  • Tomo #46 5 years ago

    krudster - pleasssssseeeeeeeee review Madden 07. Pretty, pretty please. It actually looks rather ace.

  • #47 5 years ago

    I'm in no mood to argue "if the minigames are crap, the game is crap" with some sucker but what I will say is that this minigame jazz is really getting out of hand.

    I haven't played SMB Wii but on minigames in Kirby DS and Mario Kart DS (or the crappy battle stages at least) they just plain suck. And, imo, take away time and development effort that would be better spent on the main game.
    Edited by 2 at 11/12/06 @ 19:07

  • Daikon #48 5 years ago

    The first Monkey Ball game on the Gamecube is pure perfection. Well designed challenging levels with a great learning curve and superb replay value.

    No novelty control system, no switches, no jumping monkeys, no nonsense (except for the fact that you're controlling a monkey in a ball).

  • samk #49 5 years ago

    "Plenty to check out tbh."

    No, like the guy originally said, there's only Zelda. Pretty poor for a launch to only have one worthwhile game. As the review itself rightly states the initial games have been very much in the novelty territory, and unfortunately probably a sign of what's to come.

    Due to the poor standard of games I've already flogged my Wii on Ebay for a tidy profit. If I want to play Zelda I'll play the GC version. Red Steel in particular I thought was poor; compared to FPS games on other platforms it falls well short.

    And with respect to Super Money Ball, I had a quick go on various mini games and like others have already stated thought it was dire.

    If this is what we can expect from the Wii in the future - loads of novelty game toss and the odd gem - then I won't be buying a Wii again.

  • The-Bodybuilder #50 5 years ago

    Geeeez, SEGA can't even do monkay ball with the wiimote right.

  • Eighthours #51 5 years ago

    Ah, finally found a good minigame. Monkey Disc Golf. Fantastic stuff.

  • Reapergold #52 5 years ago

    This makes me a sad collector of souls. I loved monkey ball coz it got my fellow reapers together for a beer or 5 :( Damn pants party games :(

  • ChrisOTR #53 5 years ago

    While I don't disagree with 6 out of 10 overall, I disagree that (to paraphrase you) "the control system for Target instantly riles with an inexplicably terrible control system that makes simple actions complex and unwieldy"...

    It really couldn't be easier to control? They HAVE killed Target for me by simplifying the rules, but to me the control system couldn't be simpler or more predictable (in a good way)...

    Overall, like I say, I agree with 6 or 7, but I think you've gone a bit far with slating the mini-games, they're average, but you make them sound terrible. I've had quite a bit of fun with some of them!
    Edited by 2 at 10/01/07 @ 11:43