Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble (25th June 2024)

[Julius]

Switch exclusive! 

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Hold on to your bananas! and friends are back in the first all-new Super Monkey Ball game in over 10 years. Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble rolls exclusively onto Nintendo Switch on June 25, 2024!

For the first time in the series' history, up to 16 players from around the world can now battle it out online across multiple game modes! Be the first to the finish line in Race, grab the falling bananas in Banana Hunt, team up to take down robots in Robot Smash, and more. Hungry for even more? Grab your favorite bunch and slip into a wonderfully crafted story in an a-peel-ing new Adventure mode. Journey through 200 all-new stages, featuring support for up to 4 players in local or online play! With over 300 ways to customize your character and their Monkey Ball, along with a new Spin Dash technique, you can bounce, tilt, roll, and now dash past the competition in style as you aim to become Top Banana!

Experience thrilling gameplay that is easy to pick up and play yet challenging and fulfilling to master. Go bananas with your favorite bunch and drop into online multiplayer for up to 16 players or local multiplayer for up to 4 players! Slip into a wonderfully crafted story either locally or online in the all-new Adventure mode, where you will journey through 200 newly crafted stages either in 4-player co-op or solo. Show off your style by customizing your character with over 300 fashionable items to choose from. Use the new Spin Dash technique to sprint past rivals or create new shortcuts to victory!

 

[Dcubed]

Not overly impressed with the level design that we've seen so far; it all looks very wide and seems to lack the intricacy seen in the original two GCN games.  But I'm still cautiously optimistic about this one, I'd hope that SEGA would've learnt a thing or two after remaking the GCN Monkey Ball titles.

At least it seems to be bereft of the incessent barriers that ruined the previous post-GCN Monkey Ball titles; that's a good start

With the new spin dash, I bet that jumping is going to be a big element of the gameplay... that sucked in Banana Blitz, so we'll see if it's done better here...