Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble review: top-tier puzzle platforming

About a month ago I accidentally bought the wrong Super Monkey Ball game on sale. I bought Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD, the remake of the Wii game, which I thought was Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, which is a remake of the first three console games. I consider myself a fan of the series, and I still dropped the monkey ball — I just had no idea which game was which. Good thing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is here to clear up the confusion. That’s all to say that Sega has really fumbled the branding across the new Super Monkey Ball games. Two of them are remakes of older games – games of very different quality, at that – and the first original console game in the series to be released in over a decade is finally here, and it’s impossible to distinguish it from the others at a glance. This is complete madness, and the main reason I’m frustrated about it is that Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is a fantastic all-new entry in the series that fans shouldn’t miss out on, as long as they can figure ou