It’s possible to take a photo using the Vita’s cameras, and the game will render the photo into an abstract level equivalent of the photo.

On the plus side there is one new gimmick that makes up for the limited single player appeal of the party games. In other words a good half the value of the Monkey Ball series is rendered pretty useless because of the limited local multiplayer value of the hardware it’s on. Unfortunately, while the minigames themselves include the perennially-popular hand gliding and ten pin bowling, these games were built with multiplayer in mind, and there are just not enough Vitas out there to make multiplayer an easy affair to organise. The main game is complemented by a range of minigames another staple of the Monkey Ball brand. Continues are also in very limited supply which means that in the more difficult areas you’re going to need to clear dozens of levels with very little room for error. Traps and hazards are placed in the worst possible spots, platforms quickly become barely more than a few inches wide. Perhaps not quite as obsessively difficult as the Gamecube original, but close enough that there’s a real sense of achievement to this game.

By “harder levels,” it’s worth noting that this Monkey Ball has real bite to it, too.

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