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#Super Monkey Ball

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Review

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It almost hurts to write that it’s been 13 years since Sega released Banana Blitz back on the Wii. At the time, I know I couldn’t have been more excited that we were about to see a Monkey Ball game that leveraged the motion capabilities of Nintendo’s hit system. However, when it finally released, I wasn’t thrilled with the results. Rather than leveraging the Wii remote in its horizontal orientation, like many other motion-centric games had, it forced you to point forward and contort your arm in awkward ways to tilt the stage. I quickly shelved the game and wrote it off as a failure. I suspect I wasn’t the only one, because after all these years Sega has released an HD remaster of the game leveraging more standard console controls using the analog stick. Unfortunately, the transition has introduced level design changes that bring things to a degree of difficulty that I’ve found to be insurmountable.

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Toshihiro Nagoshi of Sega Working on Something New

The head of R&D has something new up his sleeve.

At the Tokyo Game Show during a panel, Toshihiro Nagoshi revealed that aside from the latest Yakuza title, he is working on something new.

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