{"id":96694,"date":"2019-07-16T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/famitsu_confirm_rumoured_super_monkey_ball_banana_blitz_hd_for_switch"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:10:00","slug":"famitsu-confirm-rumoured-super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd-for-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/famitsu-confirm-rumoured-super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hd-for-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Famitsu Confirm Rumoured Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD For Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4a5691ee34257\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4a5691ee34257\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>After weeks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/sega_trademarks_super_monkey_ball_banana_blitz\">rumours<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/new_super_monkey_ball_game_rated_again_this_time_in_south_korea\">leaked ratings<\/a> regarding a remake or rerelease for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/super_monkey_ball_banana_blitz\"><strong>Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz<\/strong><\/a>, a new version of the Wii game has finally been confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/news\/201907\/16179604.html\">Famitsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much to go on, with full details coming in the issue of the Japanese magazine coming out on Thursday 18th July, but it&#8217;s confirmed the game will feature &#8220;additional functions&#8221; and is arriving on 31st October on Switch (and PS4). Famitsu <em>did<\/em> publish these screenshots, though, so prepare to bask in the glory of those patented Sega colours and blue skies:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6227c47c2a0d4\/1.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6227c47c2a0d4\/1.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"1\"><\/a><a title=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/696914e81629d\/2.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/696914e81629d\/2.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"2\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ebeab59e37331\/3.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ebeab59e37331\/3.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"3\"><\/a><a title=\"4\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/604deb5d4686e\/4.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/604deb5d4686e\/4.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"4\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It certainly looks pretty, but in all honesty we&#8217;re a little disappointed that we&#8217;re getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/2007\/02\/super_monkey_ball_banana_blitz_wii\">the uninspiring Wii game<\/a> as opposed to one of the mighty GameCube iterations, but perhaps the dodgy controls will be sorted out for this new version. We&#8217;ll be keeping our eyes peeled for more details as they come to light.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited to play a &#8216;new&#8217; Super Monkey Ball game? Which one is the best in the series in your opinion? Share your thoughts with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of rumours and leaked ratings regarding a remake or rerelease for Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, a new version of the Wii game has finally been confirmed by Famitsu. There&#8217;s not much to go on, with full details coming in the issue of the Japanese magazine coming out on Thursday 18th July, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}