A game that just doesn't quite work as a compilation of minigames.
User Rating: 6.8 | Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz WII
Although Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz has 50 minigames, and a main story mode, for some reason it isn't engaging enough to maintain attention for as long as it should. The graphics and sounds can at times be slightly irritating, due to it's over-the-top toddler style that mains that half of the time the sounds sound as if they'd do best in a children's TV program. Graphically, although it looks the way it was probably intended, the colours slightly over-power itself and make the colours clash and strain on the eyes, whilst the characters seem irratating as none of them appea to be over the age of 5. The single player gameplay is entertaining for a while, but it would seem that they developers spent the majority of their time on the minigames, which is probably best, seeing as the main game gets irratating and too difficult torwards later stages. Sadly the minigames, although imaginative, don't seem to grasp and engage one's attention and excite one as much as most Wii games would. At the same time the games aren't face-paced enough for them to work as party games so the whole game just doesn't quite work. Super Monkey Ball could have done so much better if they had just upped the pace of the games and made the characters slighlty less irratating. Sadly because of a few small, but fatal problems Banana Blitz just doesn't have enough to compete with other Wii party games. 
