Speaking for myself, I purchased the game and spent a lot of time with it (Monkey Target in particular) and I'm really disappointed with the spread of changes that exist within these games. But please don't undercut the experience of so many Monkey Ball fans that feel let down for perfectly valid reasons. **edit for those asking why Monkey Target is the worst of the bunch:Ĭlick to shrink.You've been responding to my issues with the game fairly aggressively since I started posting about it, I didn't want to push back because I think your experience is just as valid as mine. Because they are hinting at wanting to make a new game and it's so hard for me to get excited after the way this turned out.
But I do hope that they will at least address or acknowledge it on some level. I realize that it's not fair to expect devs to fix a game post-release, it's seldom their fault if something feels unfinished or unpolished upon purchase (especially in Sega's case).
I'm guessing there's no hope if these games ever being patched or updated?Įven if they don't add the 4-p Monkey Ball back in, even if they don't update the other party games, even a slight fix to how the 'chute is centered in Monkey Target would be such a massive improvement.
I totally understand why some people can shrug off the party games not being great or the fact that they removed 4-player from the main game, but I honestly think it's a huge gap in the game that deserves to be addressed. It remained in the "stack" of multiplayer games that we would revisit at parties or gatherings, with Monkey Target getting the most time from us. SMB2 lasted my buddies and I for well over a decade. With 1 half essentially gone, the game just feels hollow to me. To me, Monkey Ball is two halves of a whole:ġ half: An arcade-like single player romp through exponentially challenging physics puzzles and stages.ġ half: A fantastic party game to play with your friends, either with the party mode or the 4-player Challenge Mode. NintendoLife gave it a positive but cautious review, I give Jon a lot of credit for being more straight forward than most: And then on the far end of the spectrum is AntDude who is absolutely in love with this game, acknowledges that the party games aren't great but still fun, "the only one that was flat-out ruined is Monkey Target". I've heard some day that the single player physics feel weird but they got used to them and maybe that's why the party mode games all feel so strange and different.
Every one of those reviews was some variation on: " The single-player is fantastic! 4-player challenge was removed and they altered the party games to the point that they are no longer fun, but it doesn't matter because I love this game anyway!" I've heard some say that a couple of the party games are still fun but Bowling, Golf and Target are bad.
I listened to 8 different reviews of the game, because I'm pathetic and desperately wanted this game to be "the one that gets it right" before I bought it. Online discussions bring it up as a "great release" or even calling it a "perfect remaster" which kind of glosses over the issues that the game has. I see nearly universal praise for Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania.