SUPER MONKEY BALL 3D
Company: Sega
Release: March 27, 2011
ESRB: E (Cartoon Violence)
June 3, 2012

Well, it's Super Monkey Ball for the 3DS. I'm kind of new
to the whole Super Monkey Ball thing, I have the game for
the N-Gage, but haven't played it that much. I'm really
digging the go-kart minigame, though. Sega apparently put
9 whole tracks on here, but in order to save your best
time on the tracks, you have to beat the computer's best
times (yep, one of those types of games.) Anyway, the
actual monkey ball game concept is quite simple: move the
course around to guide the ball to the goal without 
falling off the course. It's like those old wooden
labyrinth games with a marble and knobs, only with a
joystick (or gyroscope sensor if you choose) and a ball
with a monkey inside of it. Getting thirty bananas nets
you another chance, and like the Super Mario games, bananas
carry over into the next courses. Even though I have only
played through level 1 and that has rails, I'm suspecting
that later ones don't have rails and therefore will be
quite tricky. At least there are no boss stages where you
have to beat a boss. If you want to fight, however, the
other minigame would be good, as it is a fighter. Three
games in one, quite the interesting package.
rating: 7/10