Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble is my Game of the Year

After a remaster and a remake, we finally have a brand new Super Monkey Ball game with Banana Rumble...and it's incredible! I just wanted to rave about it for 20 minutes.

[gnore_me.]

I love how this game finally understands the abstract nature of monkey ball 1 and 2's levels. they're just floating objects in the sky, that's the whole point. it doesn't have to make any sense at all, so do whatever you want.

[GarlyleWilds]

Banana Rumble feels like the first monkey ball game in years to really 'get' the level design sensibilities that made the originals so good. The first time I tricked to the end of the stage off physics nonsense, and saw I *barely* got the time trial? It solidified that feeling of "the devs actually get it".

[Bumpadump]

I love the genre of “people talking about a product while the product is on the floor”

[Luigiman-rcfi]

Crazy that this is the first game I've properly tried grinding for speedrunning. Like, I've speedran other games once or twice without properly grinding for a good time, but for some reason this game made me want to grind the time trials. It's a great game, I also love it.

[TheLonelyGoomba]

Agreed with pretty much everything in this video.
The missions, character stats and spindash are just great additions. Its my GOTY so far too.

[sausagesausage]

This may just be the best Monkey Ball game.

A lot of critics don't understand what the joy of the series is but I've seen many youtubers echoing your sentiment and I agree. Amazing MB game.


My only gripe is that Monkey Target is not here.

[averysmalman]

Long time Monkey Ball fan here who grew up with the Gamecube games. I immediately condemned Banana Rumble on its first trailer because it looked like they were turning Monkey Ball into Fall Guys. But now that I've heard that the core gameplay is just as good if not better than the GCN games, maybe I'll pick it up after all.
Won't bother with the online multiplayer though because I'm a poor boi

[sphereofcompassioncreation]

The voice acting in this game is stellar! Actually felt emotion from the cute monkey sounds. Nintendo should follow suit!

[Pownchao]

Rose Garden's music is my favorite track in the game!

[aboxyguy]

I genuinely love pairing my adventure mode time with battles mode games after. Im a newcomers to the series and while the adventures super fun and addictive for missions, they can also feel super precise and stressful

its fun to chill with the battle modes after and even get rewards for doing so, makes me hope they add more stages since they clearly wanna incentivise playing it. Even if the mode is so bizarrely dead already? Makes me wonder if they prioritize starting matches faster than waiting for rooms to fill up

[interval_]

I 100% the game after only a week and it was a super fun experience! Speedrunning this game will be super fun!

[CrowTRobot]

The Party Games being poorly received (for the third time in a row this gen) definitely turned critics off but for the first time, I think the single player is good enough to make up for it. Seriously Ant is right about the single player content it’s top tier and deserves more love.

[Cilverkid]

I do hope they update the battle mode with better framerate. Literally Sega compromises their Switch games when they don't need to! The Switch can run this game no problem. The graphics are not that intense. Its Sega and their Teams i swear. But i do love love this game! This is one of the best games this year!

[gamestation]

It’s “Touch & Roll.” You’re thinking of the Yoshi game with the similar name.

[Orpheusftw]

I know hardcore "Monkey Ball fans" are NEVER happy, but I'm surprised at how decent this game seems.

The control feels FAR better than Banana Mania (which I still enjoyed.)

[Serch_YB]

Im playing it and love it as well, cant see a new monkey ball instalment without the spin dash, it really is that good

[wileywood]

It was concerning this wasn’t in the direct at first. But I’m so glad this is getting great reception! Definitely gonna pick it up

[Saiune]

There was so many points in this game where i was like, NO they did not just do that!

But i had a smile on my face the entire time because it felt like i was playing Monkey Ball 1 & 2 again! They really nailed the level design here and thats really all i could ask for!

[brandonizaguirre]

I beat it two weeks ago and I seriously enjoyed it. It was a bit on the easier side but had a blast with it nonetheless. The one level that truly had me almost throwing the Switch across the room was the tornado one at the very last stage.

[Euclideia]

I haven't played the game, but through watching streams of it Rose Garden's ost is such a banger.