The voice direction for all three games was done by Collette Sunderman, one of the top VO directors over at Hanna-Barbera who worked as the casting director on the DTV movies and What's New, Scooby-Doo

When you talk about the game, it sounds it is the worst game ever. I love the music in the game anyway.

Yeah I need to play this game I love 3d platformers and this looks just my kind of game

How could he forget about Hugo Jungle Island?!?

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.

Whothisgit called they want there series back

Also the fact the Mastermind is voiced by Tim Curry is just perfect or that they randomly got Don Knots to voice the grounds keeper is just funny (they even have a joke in the Mastermind fight where he just says is that Don Knots). Honestly i wish they would remake it and continue with this style as if you edit it this does work

Seeing this video convinced me of buying one, hopefully i'll be getting one when i get paid. Thank you so much for this great video!

I will disagree with you on one aspect. TGhe voice acting in this game is DOGSHIT. The writing and the way the lines are delivered sometimes just feel wrong. Case in point Molluck: did those idiots burn down their own hideout. Slig: I know it sounds ridiculous but.....thats exactly what it looks like. Who talks like the slig in that scenario. Nobody. It just feels weird.

lol u look like abe and sound like him

Hey

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.

I was born in 98 and Rascal was the very first game i ever sat down to play solo and immediately got creeped out by the starting cut scene and the atmosphere of the game. I think if my parents saw me playing it, they wouldve stopped me, not so much from fear of emotional damage, but scarring my gaming memories and skills with the terrible gameplay.. my first rage was from this game and im pretty sure I quit on the first level😂 (Edit: That song on the first level lives in my mind forever though)

There is a holiday about dreams on March 11th if that door had to be based on a holiday it would probably be that one, also that book feels a little bit lazy and forced with it's writing. Because he literally creates another doll in the original film, so I wish they would do a little more research before making another book. Edit: Also, you forgot about the Kingdom Hearts games because they kind of fit in the timeline, too. the first visit to Halloweentown would have been right before the first film, and the second visit would have been after the film.

Just watched all your SD videos man, I have to say, NO100F was, and still is my favorite, Mayhem was too puzzle based for me, and my Unmasked disk was scratched, so I was never able to beat it without it crashing LOL.

NO, FIRST FRIGHTS IS THE BEST!!!🥇

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This looks like something from Foodfight

My siblings and I loved this when it came out. I still replay it every year. Honestly my favorite game of my life

1:05 "mimimi mimimimimi mimi" truely aspiring words

The most brutal and honest review on soulstoem good job

Damn, I was kinda hurt by your comments on Pumped & Primed and Million Monkeys because I sincerely thought that was the canon one, at least they had a moving story with the original cast. While imo Ape Escape 2 has a smoother gameplay than 1 and not going crazy as to add transformation in 3, I only cared about the OG cast on 1. Playing the story of Pumped & Primed with my younger bro was one of the best times in my gaming experience. I also got a copy of Million Monkeys though I'm not in Japan, and it was a blast! Mainly because I get to play as the OG cast! I think that was the problem with Ape Escape series. I only cared about the OG cast, why even bother introducing Jimmy, Kei, or Yumi. I also think it was a bad decision on them not releasing Million Monkeys outside Japan. I mean okay let's not confuse ppl by releasing 2 games at once, but then? Why do they not release it at all? I'm itching to translate Million Monkeys, but for that I'd need to know how ppl can actually integrate it into the game, I'm not a technical person

Childhood memories

My theory for Sergeant Bird's claim of having limited ammo is that he ran out of it when he was captured. After we free him and he says that line, the next time we see him is at his base so I figure he must have reloaded or one of his hummingbird Chicks hooked him up with an upgrade while there

If you replay the levels and save more mudokons will you get to see the extra levels and good ending?

i love the music, atmosphere, story, voice acting and stuff. the issue for me is that the camera in the game and the controlling of the characters are both fairly stiff.

Very nice review, I don't like the fact that they added an online multiplayer mode to OC1 through AYCE, and did not implement that in the original game basically asking for more money to have MP functionality, kinda leaves bad taste in my mouth for the devs.

the car segment reminded me of those trailers on the pre-game screen on old arcade machines

Great video! You really deserve more attention.

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.

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!

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

Just stumbled across your channel! New subscriber, and thank you for your content! <3 I have so many fond memories of playing the OG Monkey Balls on GC with my brother, and plan on getting this in the next month to try out :)

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!

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

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

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Btw, in PC version of the game delay between dialogue is much shorter, so I'd assume it has something to do with hardware difference or something

Amazing video as always, however, in my opinion, the game is overrated. While the level design in the latter half of the game is peak, the first half feels like it's been ripped straight from 3D. Also, it feels like for the textures, they just searched "brick texture" on Google and took the first image. I would personally rank this game between Step and Roll and Banana Splitz on your list because it's not bad at all, but it's not great either.

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

we are so back

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

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.

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

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.

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

Is the Adventure Mode Co-Op 60FPS?

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!