This is easily the closest Sega's ever got to a proper Super Monkey Ball 3, all it needs is a PC version running at a higher framerate.

Love Love Love this game! I've been having a blast, and to me, this plays almost the same, and at least the closets we've been with SMB 1/2. I also am relieved its on the switch. Perfect platform for it! The mini games are fun, I just wish the Lobby system was better but I have finished Season 1 already and am excited for Season 2! I was worried for the future of SMB but I now know we're in good hands

I really wish Jam and Jet were playable, I think it’s weird how they’re the only characters from the modern era who were left out this time around, even after Banana Mania had them as playable characters for the first time

I'm in the same camp of wishing for Simultaneous multi-player since Monkey Ball 1. Very glad that it's finally arrived.

No way.... I got notified Rob is uploading again on his channel? Oh my god how I missed this.

Great video! You really deserve more attention.

They took notes when making Banana Mania. I was pleased with the new additions they added to Banana Mania with the challenge modes offering a new kind of challenge that fits the series’s main appeal, but I was nervous on whether or not they’d be able to pull off a new game successfully. While there is a significant chunk of levels that are decently easy, I am very satisfied with what they’ve done with Banana Rumble. The Adventure Mode is some of the best of Super Monkey Ball that I’ve played in a very long time. A lot of the levels really understand what made the first 2 games so much fun to play, exemplified by the Spin Dash. The game is fairly beatable yet challenging when playing regularly to get to the goal of every level, but going for the missions honestly turns this game into one of the hardest in the franchise. It can be extremely difficult getting the right number of bananas in the EX levels especially, I had to plan and route my way through every EX level to see how I could get each banana the fastest. That challenge alone adds so much more depth to every level in the game that I haven’t seen in a long time, I’d argue that the mission system is an excellent source of optional difficulty for those who do want a harder Monkey Ball game. I legit started spending half an hour on certain levels past World 9 EX, it’s great. Battle mode could’ve been better… I do prefer it over them botching Monkey Target, but it doesn’t feel entirely like a suitable replacement for the Party Games. They’re okay, but I will say that the framerate affects about half of my enjoyment of them. Overall though… more games like this, please. I don’t think we’ll ever get to a point with this franchise where they fully make a game that recaptures the same essence, style, and feel of the original 2 games, but if they make something of their own and design good levels around it… That’s all I can ask for.

Omg you’re back! And with a monkey ball video! I remember finding this channel through the monkey ball retrospective

omg it's the video I was waiting for

Ok so technically while the game does run at 60fps for the most part, from the vgc review it seems to suffer from a common unity issue that pac-man world re-pac at launch also had where every sixth frame you don’t move. Which would affectively make movement be 50fps. It’d probably explain the responsiveness issue of battle mode, as cutting 50fps in half would be 25fps for movement there. And that’s not even accounting for any additional frame drops. Doesn’t seem like something that’d be difficult to fix in a patch though, as pac-man world re-pac did (both run in unity), but we’ll see.

Rob! Its so good to see you upload, love your videos! Are you still a member of the Retro Dodo team or are you focusing over on here now? Either way, i love your videos!

Also, I even ask a youtuber name Nick Robinson, will he make a video of him asking illumination to make a super monkey ball movie, and he said "Yes". Another reason why because in 2019, he made a video of him finding an uncredited Super Monkey Ball voice actor named Brian Matt.

Just stumbled across your channel! New subscriber, and thank you for your content!

Hey, glad to see you back. Glad to see Monkey Ball continuing too

I think I agree with nearly all your opinions here, I'm loving my time with this game and am so glad traditional monkey ball-esque stuff has returned! I also agree the online does need some tweaking up, I find it annoying how there's so many bots in the online mode, I feel like there should be an option to not always have a full 16 player roster, as sometimes to me it felt a little TOO chaotic, however this could also be because of the delay in inputs. The only thing I would disagree with you on would be that I personally still found the levels before world 8 incredibly enjoyable and creative, however this is probably a subjective thing. Still, probably the best video I've seen covering the game so far, I really hope this game gets the more attention it deserves.

now they only need to interpolate the physics to the 60hz camera

I really don’t see why they wouldn’t add a toggle in the settings to have lives? I had completely forgot this game released. Probably because: a) it’s only on Switch b) I almost never buy games at launch Your Monkey Ball videos are always great!

When I saw that this game had proper co-op in the adventure mode, I thought to myself "Oh, Pixel Pursuit will probably love that!" lol. They finally did it! I came away from Banana Rumble really loving it. I think if you primarily care about Monkey Ball's singleplayer content, you could make a solid argument for it being the best in the series. In a weird sort of way, the added Spin Dash seems to give me a lot more confidence to try risky, goofy strategies. In earlier Monkey Ball games I've always played it a bit too safe, but now that I have this tool I'm way more eager to try stupid stuff... Ironically, this means I die way more now than I have in the past. It's worth it though! I really hope the Spin Dash sticks around in the future. Also, Baby in particular is crazy. He's so fast and brakes so quickly that playing as Baby is almost like playing a different game.

Such a good game such a shame jam and Jet can't get in on the fun although I have heard the online mode will have holiday events so maybe they'll have a jam and Jet event I love all the new characters I love doctor coming back easel and pallet are both super cool and A Team Rocket references always welcome and Doctor Badboon should I say more also I love the little Hub World area at the beach and when you change the outfits of any of the monkeys they will change their to

I got it and Im really enjoying it. The Spin dash is amazing, it really unlocks a new way of playing and its really fun!

I love how banana rumble pays homage to smb1 and smb2 stages. I dont like the banana blitz like stages but its a good mix. Yeah the controls of the game is a bit frustrating but i love the stage designs. The EX stages have more wow factor but i love it. I cant put down the game.

I'd like to imagine the Switch was choose as the Switch as a nod to how Monkey Ball was originally a GameCube exclusive.

Newcomer Plalette easily became one of my favorites she's adorable,and spindash I used way more then thought I would, glad it waant purely situational, and is fun speed running tool.

Will illumination will ever make a super monkey ball movie, OR EVEN BETTER "THE SUPER MONKEY BALL BANANA MOVIE" and they WHOULD add Yanyan and Doctor too (and even Palette from banana rumble since she was debut) and probably Easel, Fes, Val, and Tee and maybe added the main villian DR. Bad-Boon and his assistant, I not sure if they add Jam and Jet in the movie since they officially no longer canon since since Banana splitz/super monkey ball bounce, and they both really are parts of the main Super Monkey Ball gangs like Aiai, Meemee, Baby, Gongon, Yanyan, Doctor, (and Palette) and really suppose to be 8 or 9 main super Monkey Ball characters and that is Aiai, Meemee, Baby, Gongon, Yanyan, Doctor, Jam, Jet, (and Palette) just like 3d, banana splitz, and bounce, and probably added the other villians like yoko and the other banana blitz boss fights and added the monkey ball adventure monkey characters like papa, princess Dee Dee, prince AbeAbe and more monkey characters added in the movie and also even better in the super monkey ball movie add the monkey ball mini games scenes in the movie like add the monkey race scene, monkey fight scene, monkey target scene, and maybe the monkey dog fight scene from super monkey ball 2 like in the super mario movie they added the mario kart scene and they're eyes will have actuall regular eyes like Dr. Bad-Boon, Fes, and Tee or theyre eyes will still be cartoon eyes, and all of the monkey ball characters will actually talk including Dr. Bad-Boon and the characters design will be base off of Banana Rumble design (including Jam and Jet) and jet will be wearing pants like the rest of the monkeys and jam pretty much wears pants by default. like mee mee has a ponytail with a pink bow on her head her bang her stuby tail and Baby has a stuby tail and bang too and doctor has a beard now and all of the monkeys wear pants and will aiai will have his blue backpack like in most of the modern monkey ball games and will meemee will have a flower on her dress like her classic designs and will meemee will have polka-dots on her dress or even better white flower patterns on her dress and will the monkeys will have actuall feet like they're classic designs has, but I think they wouldn't do it tho because people did just thought monkey ball is a ball simulator game and people who doesn't really know much about it just say like "oh all monkey ball is about is just a game we're you just play as a monkey in a ball" that's it and people didn't even know about the monkey ball characters story and even if they heard there's a monkey ball 2 game that has the cutscenes people said "all of cutscenes is about the monkeys having they're bananas stolen from a evil baboon and the monkeys have to stop it from stilling they're bananas" thats it and maybe Iillumination is thinking the same thing about it that why there isn't a modern monkey ball toy with yanyan or doctor toy or modern happy meal toy or even a super monkey ball cartoon, and Illustration probably don't know more about monkey ball and the characters story of how aiai meets meemee and how baby is aiai and Meemees son? how aiai and meemee were married? how aiai meets gongon, YanYan, Doctor Jam and jet (and Palette), and show how Dr.Badboon becomes a villan and how aiai and his friends finds a magical ball that they get inside and roll fly, run, and bounce, and more and people didn't know that aiai and meemee were adults and didn't know baby was there son because baby is a white monkey and not a brown monkey like he is in touch and roll maybe he's a alabama monkey, and Super Monkey Ball is a cool popular game then the other sega games like samba de amigo, crazy taxi, billy hatcher, house of the dead, Alex kid, Nights into dreams and more and again Illustration probably don't know more about monkey ball and the characters story of how aiai meets meemee and how baby is aiai and Meemees son how aiai and meemee were married how aiai meets gongon, YanYan, Doctor Jam and jet and show how Dr.Badboon becomes a villan and how aiai and his friends finds a magical ball that they get inside and roll fly, run, and bounce, and more and again people didn't know that aiai and meemee were adults mistaking that they're kids and didn't know baby was they're son because baby is a white monkey and not a brown monkey like he is in touch and roll maybe And also aiai and gongon or doctor or jet doesn't have a visible stomach under they're shirts and meemee doesn't have her lower part of her stomach eitherand even tho her skirt covers up her lower body that don't mean they don't add the visible butt a stuby tail and a lower stomach even though her skirt covers her lower body that doesn't really matter because we can see her lower body when she runs shake her butt or other victory animations or when she rolls when she runs too fast seeing her lower body that easy and she even nolonger has a ponytail or a stuby tail like her classic designs until banana rumble even doctor don't have a visible butt but has a stuby tail and Yanyan don't have a visible butt either and is it because she's a Lemur do lemurs have visible skin butts like monkeys, gorillas, and baboons has and not only that Jet the yellow monkey from monkey ball 3D or yoko the black monkey from banana blitz or what ever monkeys they both are because they both not just the regular monkeys like aiai meemee baby and doctor are, but Jet and yoko both dont have a bare butt either and also Jam from step and roll also have his body fully covered because he wears shorts and has his stuby tail sticking out through his shorts. In banana rumble baby has a stuby tail for the first time and Aiai in banana rumble still doesn't wears a blue backpack, also I'm glad that they got redesign in banana rumble since they never got redesign again since banana blitz! Their movie design is probably gonna be slightly a banana rumble design but slightly different and make it a 2-hour movie.

This game does take while to ramp up,but when it does it's easily most fun had in Monkey ball game since GameCube. I think it topping GameCube games fighting uphill battle they set bar,so high early on. I'm glad with confidence that can say we have good original Super monkey game again. As someone who plays these games for Single player I'm glad they nailed that compontnat. I can see why people that are solely init for Party games are disappointed. That this title leans more into online battle Royale style most games do. I'm just beyond happy as long time fan this game didn't disappoint me. Nice to bump into you online as well. Last thing I think that level design being so solid,and much more creative then previous entry's is due to one of ogs from first game coming back to do level's in this game. It was brought up in interview with game director.

Is the Adventure Mode Co-Op 60FPS?

Great review! I'm really enjoying the game - and even though it's not what most people wanted I think the multiplayer could have been half decent. But that frame rate though! Sheesh. I thought it was because it was multiplatform and they hadn't optimised properly for the Switch. I was flabbergasted when I found it this is a Switch exclusive! Poor effort there.

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i enjoy the updated character designs however sounds like another half baked monkey ball. exclusive, online focused, because switch is known for having best online/multiplayer, 🤣. same ol' blurred ugly hazy/fog pastel stage art from the recent games. mind boggling how lazy the music was handled. then they have the monkey balls to say "if enough people buy our cash grab we can release another cash grab"

I wouldn't play a Super Monkey Ball that doesn't even run at 60 FPS.

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