I?ll admit it. I was a proud card-carrying Nintendo Wii fanboy. As such, I felt it was my moral obligation to show as much love to the console?s launch lineup as humanly possible. Part of blind support was my purchase of Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, which, oddly enough, wasn?t anywhere near as terrible as I anticipated. When I learned the game was being ported to modern consoles, I was left a bit perplexed. This was far from what I would classify as a classic, yet for some reason Sega felt the need to bestow this upon the PS4 audience. Can this HD reimagining recapture some of the magic of my admittedly rose-colored memories, or is this less a case of ?why not"? and more a case of ?why bother"?
Glimpses of the Past
As I alluded to earlier, I was all about evangelizing the unique aspects of the Wii early on in its life span. Part of this delusion was convincing myself that motion controls were the best thing since indoor plumbing. Nothing embodied this more than Banana Blitz. Being able to control the tilt of the world with the WiiMote and using the nunchuck to control the camera felt like a match made in heaven. You can only imagine how exciting it would be to see the difference that using dramatically more precision focused analog control sticks could make to the overall experience.
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