Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz for Wii Reviews by Gamers

Super Monkey Ball is a time based puzzle game where the player must tilt the world to roll their monkey down some rather inventful levels while collecting some bananas along the way. The original Monkey Ball game for the Game cube sneaked under most peoples radars, but thankfully, the game is alive and well and better than ever on the Nintendo Wii.

Thanks to the Wii's control scheme, controlling the monkeys is pretty darn simple. All you need to do is tilt your Wii-Remote to tilt the world. Thankfully, there is now a jump button, which is default to the 'A' button. If it wasn't for the new jump feature, Monkey Ball would have felt more like a bland Wii remake of the original Game Cube game. Sadly, the jump button just is not used too often in the game. Most of the puzzles just ask you to get from start to finish.

Also new is the Boss battles, which just become repetitive and monotonous after a while. Each boss is a game of jumping on a specific spot to do start some sort of event which will damage the boss. Not too exciting.

The big surprise to the game is the 50 mini game collection. All 50 games are available right from the start, for those who don't want to bother with the main campaign. Each game is different from the last, but over half of them feel like they control the same. There are only about 10 games which seem to really stand out as fun, the rest just end up as a chore as you fight the wacky controls.

The graphics are relatively good. The game looks like a game cube game, which isn't a bad thing. I mean, how detailed do bananas need to be? Sound also sounds like it was ripped straight out of the other games. A "Best hits" collection of Monkey Ball rolling madness. The built in speaker spits some little blips and beeps at you, but you learn to ignore them after a while, or just turn the speaker off.

Overall, it's a fun game with some fun mini games, but you'll be in for a bundle of repetition with this game. If you liked the first, you'll love this.