Ask Me Anything: Super Monkey Ball 3DS

Brad walks Ryan and Jeff through the topsy, turvy, and three-dimensional world of balled monkeys.

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Edited by Soulblitz

Can't wait to see this in action... maybe. 
 
EDIT: Success!

Edited by maxB

woooo 
 
EDIT:  so close

Posted by DonutFever

Mmm... Balled Monkeys.

Posted by normal

I love super monkeyball.. Or I did the first game... so many now

Posted by Chavtheworld

FUCKING YES. This is what I will buy a 3DS for.

Posted by PKHilson

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Edited by Crushed

Monkey Ball was cool, but it's gone downhill really badly since the second one.
 
EDIT: I like the video quality on this. Much better than their DS videos, those looked nasty.

Posted by JohnPaulVann

Total and complete horse shit. 

Posted by JohnPaulVann

By the way, the graphics totally suck. Either the 3DS hardware blows or the developers did a shit job programming. Either way: fuck this shovelware.

Posted by artraider

It looks like a ok rendition of super monkeyball .

Posted by Agent47
@JohnPaulVann: Has to be the developers cause the 3DS has said to run on software on par with that of the gamecube.So yeah not the 3DS fault.I have seen a lot of great looking games on the 3DS.I also think it's because it's a launch title so they didn't have much to work with.
Posted by dagas

I have a sealed copy of Super Monkey Ball for the N-GAGE =P

Edited by Crushed

Holy shit, "Monkey Fight" is just Smash Bros' Coin mode. 4 players, hanging off ledges, and the Golden Barrel is a Final Smash, darkened screen and glowing character and all.
 
Also while this game looks mediocre as hell, JohnPaulVann does nothing but troll every game so ignore him guys.

Posted by iizcallum

If monkeys don't go to heaven then who were Pixies singing about?

Posted by notsonic

dont forget the 3ds is only 800x240, or effectively 400x240 per eye. 
 
thats half the vertical resolution of today's smartphone. its even less than the psp.

Posted by Hailinel

I see that one way or another, the guys got their hands on 3DS recording gear.

Posted by Babylonian

I'm gonna have to disagree with Ryan/Jeff/Brad here that this is straight-up Monkey Ball. This is NOT Monkey Ball. Monkey Ball was a brutally difficult, highly arcadey action game. You know, WITHOUT huge fences surrounding every level making it impossible to fall off. Even the World 8 stuff for Monkey Ball 3DS that Sega has uploaded on YouTube is still super easy, highly fenced off levels. It feels like they don't get it anymore.
 
I feel like Sega has cutesified and minigamecollection'd the Monkey Ball franchise into something that only barely resembles what Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 were, and that makes me saaaad.

Posted by Kjellm87

This is Monkey Ball all right.
Never tried one before, someone here recommend it?

Posted by buft

@brad Fyffe's bannanas. Giant banana corp

Posted by PatVB

I have to say, balled monkeys are definitely my favorite kind of monkey.

Posted by dragonzord
@Kjellm87 said:
" This is Monkey Ball all right. Never tried one before, someone here recommend it? "
I remember them being one of the better party games on GCN once upon a time. Seemed alright
Posted by CRACKYSTUNTYE

Man, the camera is rough. And the bannanna collect noise is nowhere near as good as the first game. I don't know, I guess this game can grow on me.
Posted by kollay

Pretty disorienting the way the producer nervously keeps tilting even though he's in no danger.

Posted by JJOR64

I like Super Monkey Ball.

Posted by zeemod155

Oh god my eyes, this is really disorienting for some reason.

Posted by Slaker117

It's probably one of those things that doesn't bother you when you're playing, but the way the perceptive tilts and stuff is really annoying when watching.

Posted by MooseyMcMan

I think that as they go forward with 3DS coverage, they should move the slider in the pic in the video depending on whether they're playing in 2D or 3D. That'd be neat, and totally unnecessary. 

Posted by TwoLines

So... you're sayin' you're controlling 12 dead monkeys?
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Sorry.

Posted by Ronald

That tilt in the camera did get annoying. So, this game is Monkey Ball, with Mario Kart and Smash Bros. thrown in?

Posted by Hizang

Man this game looks like it would make me quesy, so jerky!

Posted by DarkTravesty

the constant world moving was making me a bit sick. :S

Posted by lilarchie232

TIMEOUT: the monkey does not slip on the banana's in it's ball, but when it gets in a car all banana physics breaks loose and they are hazardous?

Posted by StandStrong

Posted by Greebman

looks like a launch title alright

Posted by mabber36
@Kjellm87: I'd recomend  the first 2
 
banana blitz had motion controls, making it way harder than it should have been.
 
the rest of them or not noteworthy
 
but i will still pick this one up, because monkey ball is always fun
 
Posted by shadyspace

Ryan: "Like maybe the person who was playing this is bad at games." 
 
Brad: "........." 
 
lol

Posted by TheMasterDS

Man that crazy tilting is disoriented in 2D, I can't imagine how it is in 3D. Also, that game looks like absolute trash. Nothing about it seems good at all. I pity the person who's going to buy this game.

Posted by InternetDetective

"prison balls"

Posted by Beb

Guys.
 
The golden barrel has appeared.

Edited by SpunkyHePanda

Why would a banana haunt another banana? I mean, those are the kind of questions I don't want to answer.

Posted by Entmoot

These are Monkey Balls

Posted by Kyreo

This is making me sick and it's only in 2D.  I can only imagine how much Dramamine I will need to ingest to muster this in 3D.

Posted by Sayishere

not gonna pick this game up tbh 
 
will probably go for street fighter

Posted by SuperJoe

Ugh, I just ate lunch.

Posted by SleepyDoughnut

Only Giantbomb can provide such intriguing commentary about the fiction of Super Monkey Ball.

Posted by Zamir

pulling a brad like always

Posted by JackSukeru

All that tilting looks super stressful and possibly really annoying until you get the hang of it.

Posted by Majkiboy

the first and 2nd one had perfectly fine racing modes -_- .. and it went downhill from there.. a shame. It was really challenging and fun "back in the days"

Edited by CoinMatze

There's a Banana Bread recipe in the back of the manual for Arcanum. I made that several times and it's tasty as fuck.

Posted by fox01313

Better yet Jeff, take the bananas cut them up & put them with some vanilla branded cookies in some banana pudding. That or put them in a blender with some chocolate ice cream & milk.

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