Super Monkey Ball for N-gage
Super Monkey Ball started life as an arcade game that had a banana for a joystick. This Marble Madness-like arcade game found a wider audience in the US with its release on the GameCube, and a sequel soon followed. After that, Sega took its ball-rolling monkey simulator to the Game Boy Advance, which took the level of control down a notch or two, but it still did an admirable job of moving such an analog-friendly game onto a system without an analog joystick. Now that handheld version of the game has been placed onto Nokia’s N-Gage with its multiplayer features stripped out and a slightly less-colorful appearance.
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Super Monkey Ball would have been a much better game if it had included multiplayer support in its minigames.
Monkeys actually have very little to do with Super Monkey Ball. In the game, the monkeys are confined to balls, and you move a monkey-filled ball around by tilting the playfield in different directions. The N-Gage’s two raised buttons are used to affect the angle of tilt you place on the playfield, giving you a touch of speed control over the proceedings. The object is to roll your monkey ball from the start of a level to the finish line, collecting bananas along the way. The courses are large, winding platforms suspended in midair, and as you proceed through the game’s different levels and difficulty settings, the level design becomes more and more devious. A soft touch and a good sense of the level layout are key to doing well once the game gets tough.
That brings up one of the game’s problems. It’s occasionally difficult to get a good idea of the size and layout of some of the game’s levels due to the N-Gage’s narrow screen, which cuts off much of the peripheral territory that was easier to see in the Game Boy Advance version.
The game is broken up into different difficulty settings, each of which has its own set of courses. In addition to the main game, you can also unlock three minigames using points earned during the main game. However, the minigames were designed for multiplayer play. Considering that most of the other N-Gage launch games have contained support for multiplayer matches over the system’s built-in Bluetooth support, it seems like a real oversight that Monkey Ball’s monkey race, monkey fight, and monkey target games are only playable against computer-controlled opponents, which really isn’t much fun at all.
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