Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania Reviews

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
8.5 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2021

If you’re after a fun, pick up and play a game to pass the time or to enjoy party games with family & friends, look no further than Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania

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8.5 / 10.0
Oct 2, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a fantastic party game that is sure to trigger nostalgia while providing a great time to all.

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Scarlet Bell
Top Critic
8.2 / 10.0
Oct 16, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania presents a classic Super Monkey Ball experience to the modern masses, and I'm entirely captivated by it. Roll on, oh mighty monkeys. Roll on!

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81 / 100
Oct 1, 2021

It is good to know that Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania did not slip on any of its peels, but it probably could have used a little more time to ripen up. At the end of the day, this is still one of the best Monkey Ball collections we have ever gotten, and SEGA delivered a significantly better experience here than they did with Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD on the Switch. If you have a Monkey Ball-shaped hole in your heart and need it filled, then look no further, because Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is here to fill that hole and put you back in control of AiAi in a great way.

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GameSpot
Top Critic
8 / 10
Sep 29, 2021

There isn't much new in this best-of compilation, but when the core package is this well-made and feature-packed, that's easy to overlook.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania was a pleasant surprise, in that it doesn’t mess too much with a formula that works and it makes strides to welcome newcomers into the fold. Not all of its stages are created equal, but this is a great entry point into a series that’s been lacking one on modern platforms for a long while.

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TJ Denzer
Top Critic
8 / 10
Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania delivers a mostly delicious and nearly never-ending buffet of bananas and challenges to keep pretty much any player rolling for a good, long time.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

All the best of Super Monkey Ball in a great smoothie of content taken from twenty years of history. Fans will go crazy and newbies will have so much to discover.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is an excellent time with bags of replay value, potential in its online leaderboards and competitive play, and works a treat in local co-op thanks to the fun, if sometimes superficial minigames.

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Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a solid celebration for the 20th anniversary of the series' inception. It caters to fans who have stuck around to see the next big thing and does so in a complete package with new surprises and things to come.

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80 / 100
Sep 29, 2021

After many failed outings, the Super Monkey Ball franchise is back. Bubbling with content, there’s plenty to do whether you want to play solo or multiplayer. Whilst the nature of the game can cause frustration, the removal of the lives system has helped to improve the experience. The infectious presentation combined with the lovely gameplay makes this an absolute joy and an essential purchase for fans of the series.

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Gaming Nexus
The GN Staff
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Oct 1, 2021

The newest Super Monkey Ball game isn't lacking for much. With a ton of remastered levels, modes, minigames, and unlockable prizes, this enormous package could keep a fan busy for the rest of their life - if they don't mind high blood pressure. The only thing more pervasive than the mountain of content is the franchise's usual blistering difficulty. Fun, frustrating, and rewarding, this is a great collection.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 4, 2021

Banana Mania stands as a feature-packed reminder that 'simple' and 'easy' are not nearly as interchangeable as a lot of people might think.

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Will Greenwald
Top Critic
Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania combines 300 stages from Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball 2, and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe into a single, massive package of entertaining and occasionally sadistic ball-rolling action.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

Despite the twenty years on monkey shoulders, the first Super Monkey Balls remain puzzle video games of superfine quality, however tough at the limits of sacrilegious swearing. Retrogaming aside, Banana Mania is undoubtedly the best way to experience the rotating gameplay recipe, now also open to welcome any newbies thanks to the introduction of some "assist controls" with optional activation.

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80%
Sep 29, 2021

Expertly aping past glories, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania is a definitive compendium of remastered classics, stuffed to the gills with bonus modes, extra characters, and party games. It is, without question, the most fun you can have rolling a monkey in a ball around a maze - that is an empirical fact. You’d be bananas not to buy it.

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8 / 10
Sep 30, 2021

With plenty of playtime, cute characters to play around with, minigames to battle your friends in and challenging missions to overcome, Banana Mania can be everything you’ve ever needed in an arcade game on the Switch. It’s worth going ape over, folks.

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4 / 5.0
Sep 29, 2021

Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is way too much fun.

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Spaziogames
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Sep 29, 2021

Fun and unforgiving, Banana Mania is Super Monkey Ball at its finest.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 30, 2021

Banana Mania simultaneously caters to younger players and old fans alike with a solid representation of the franchise’s most successful ideas and plenty to do.

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