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We all love Super Monkey Ball. It’s just a fact. Whether you see the series as an old Gamecube tech demo or Sega’s best puzzle action game, it’s hard to deny the allure of a few monkeys with cute faces rolling around in twee balls. Super Monkey Ball is just a joyous franchise. But then, it launched on the Wii, and ever since, the reputation of the franchise hasn’t been the same. A bit strange, then, that the only game getting ported to modern consoles in HD is the maligned Wii game.

Well, it’s not that unusual if you compare Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 on the Gamecube, to Banana Blitz on the Wii. Banana Blitz is on a console with more horsepower, offers a deeper campaign offering, and the stages are actually decorated and detailed, not simply floating obstacle courses in another dimension. With Banana Blitz, Sega attempted to flesh out the universe of Super Monkey Ball. And in doing so, somewhat lost what made the series so good. But now we can try and give this game another shot, after all, without the motion controls plaguing the original, we can enjoy some proper Monkey Ball challenge, right?