Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD

For the original game on Nintendo Wii, see Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD (or Tabegoro! Super Monkey Ball in Japan) is a video game in the Super Monkey Ball Series, released on October 29th 2019 on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and on Steam on December 10th 2019. It is a remaster of the original Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, which came out in 2006 on the Nintendo Wii.

It is the first official installment in the series since Super Monkey Ball Bounce in 2014.

Announcement

On May 7th 2019, SEGA trademarked the title Tabegoro! Super Monkey Ball which lead to weeks of speculation until July 10th, when a Taiwanese rating board effectively leaked that a new game was coming.

Six days later, on July 16th, SEGA officially released the first trailer for the game revealing that it is a remaster of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz.

New features

Besides hosting most of its content from the original version on the Wii, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD also has a bunch of new features and enhancements, such as:

Graphical enhancements, such as higher resolution textures, anisotropic filtering and more.
An all-new Decathlon Mode, which challenges players to complete all 10 party games in a row.
Online leaderboards for both the main game (Time Attack) and Decathlon Mode.
A Camera Mode, which takes the camera and focusses on the player character while the game is paused.
Character costumes (returning from Super Monkey Ball 3D) which are:
- C-AiAi
- W-MeeMee
- A-Baby
- F-GonGon
- P-YanYan
- R-Doctor
Sonic the Hedgehog as a playable character.^[1] Playing as him replaces the bananas with golden rings.
Adjustable settings for display, graphics, audio, controls and more.
Exclusive to the Steam version of the game, an update brought different shapes for your monkey to travel in. While on the character select screen, type in...
- cube for a cube
- star for a pointy ball
- triangle for a pyramid
- and sphere to revert back to the regular ball.

Stages

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD has the same 100 stages as Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, with a few changes to some of them in order to adapt to the new control style.

Main article: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz/Stages

Party Games

The total number of Party Games that the original Banana Blitz had has been cut from 50 down to 10^[2].

Main article: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD/Party Games

Achievements

The PlayStation 4, XBOX One and Steam versions of the game have a variety of achievements for the players to unlock.

Main article: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD/Achievements

Animations

Main article: Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz/Animations

Reception

The game received mixed reviews averaging a Metacritic score of 62 for the PS4 version ^[3], a 62 for the Switch version ^[4], and a 72 for the Xbox One^[5]. While many critics praised the improved controls, complaints were raised at it’s lackluster minigames, boss battles, and overall lack of content.

Trivia

This is the first Super Monkey Ball game to feature online leaderboards and second to bring in online content. Super Monkey Ball Adventure was the first with the PSP version's exclusive mini game Monkey Trumps.
This is the first game to feature a character outside of the series, which is Sonic the Hedgehog.
This is the first games since Super Monkey Ball Adventure to reuse assets from previous installments. In this case, the soundtrack is almost entirely composed of reused songs.
This is one of the games that doesn’t have a Practice Mode or the replay saving feature. The other game is Super Monkey Ball Adventure.

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References

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[1] ttps://www.exophase.com/game/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd-xbox/achievements/

[2] ttps://www.destructoid.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-is-in-super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd-567823.phtml

[3] ttps://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd

[4] ttps://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd

[5] ttps://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd

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