Super Monkey Ball steps up to the next level on Nintendo DS with the latest installment, Super Monkey Ball: Touch and Roll! See Full Description
Super Monkey Ball steps up to the next level on Nintendo DS with the latest installment, Super Monkey Ball: Touch and Roll!
Monkey Ball DS features the same basic gameplay idea as its predecessors, although a shift in control to the stylus ought to make for a different feel. The top screen displays the action in 3D. The bottom screen shows a 2D version of your monkey ball with AiAi inside. To move on the top screen, you scratch the monkey ball with the stylus. The game offers over 100 stages, some pulled from previous entries and some new. In addition, play six party games, of which two will be playable by up to four players-- in a hockey-style party game, you draw lines with the stylus in order to deflect a puck, while the racing party game is a fast-paced racer with the top screen showing a map of the track.
The game may feel a little too familiar as many of the stages are lifted right out of previous games, and the touch-screen control can be a little awkward to adjust to, so you'll likely find yourself falling back on the D pad to control your monkey.
A bit disappointing. A portable version of Monkey Ball this is, but perfect it is not, and that's too bad.
But the touch screen control just doesn't work all that well in a game design that was established with an analog interface, and even after mastering the compromising touch controls, there's the reality check that this original Monkey Ball game just i