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Super Monkey Ball
- Thread starter DogcowUK
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Yeah, it seems like it takes some getting used to. Hard to figure out where exactly the "center" is.
I've only played the first few levels, but it is very difficult to get the hang of. You have to hold the phone at a 20° angle or so to get the ball to stand still. i wish that it were completely horizontal or vertical. I feel that would have made it a bit easier. I'll get used to it, though.
It's hard but I've become used to it now, it's a way better control method than it was on the GameCube. I think there's a way to pause but I seem to set it off without knowing what I've done?! I think you need to hold the iPhone vertically to activate pause, but by then your monkey will have fallen off the edge of the level... Am I right or is there a proper way to pause the game mid-level?
It's hard, but very cool. I'm amazed at the image quality, and smoothness of the animation. A year ago I would never have thought an iPhone could do that.
I wish it had monkey bowling like the SuperMonkey Ball game for Nintendo DS. That will probably be a separate release.
I wish it had monkey bowling like the SuperMonkey Ball game for Nintendo DS. That will probably be a separate release.
Tap the clock in the top-middle.
I like the game, but it's very difficult!
Thank you! I must somehow manage to touch the clock when I hold the iPhone vertically... I thought that was how you pause it as well, to hold it vertically...
Just as I start to think I'm getting it, stupid monkey accelerates to a super speed and plummets to his death.
It's incredibly intuitive, you may find it too sensitive or too insensitive at first but after about 5 (or 10 at the most) minutes you'll get the hang of it and then you'll never go back. It's a great investment of £6/$10.
You think out of all people that Sega would've thought to put some sort of settings thing on the game. It's WAY more difficult to control that Mario on a ball in Super Mario Galaxy. There also needs to be a setting for the camera. I don't want it to start flipping around every time I overcorrect because it's so erratic.
WIth an update, this will be a good game. Right now, it's kind of annoyingly hard. I also miss the other mini-games in the console versions, but I know it's just launch day.
WIth an update, this will be a good game. Right now, it's kind of annoyingly hard. I also miss the other mini-games in the console versions, but I know it's just launch day.
Its not that complicated. If you think about it, Monkeyball control is like putting a marble on a record sleeve and controlling the movement of the sleeve not the ball.
read this dont get up it is very hard at first but after a while probably 20 to 30 minutes it gets MUCh easyer.
For the question of saving is you cant save in between sets. Each set is ten levels one of them being a bonus level.
For each world there in 10 levels for easy and 10 different levels for hard.
beat all 20 to get to the next world.
For the question of saving is you cant save in between sets. Each set is ten levels one of them being a bonus level.
For each world there in 10 levels for easy and 10 different levels for hard.
beat all 20 to get to the next world.