Bad Habit Productions has announced Marble It Up! for Nintendo Switch, a spiritual successor to the Marble Madness and Marble Blast series.
In Marble It Up!, players are tasked with jumping, bouncing, boosting, and rolling their way through 40 levels of moving platforms, icy terrain, gravity-bending surfaces, and kinetic platforming puzzles. You can use power-ups to slow time, launch into the air, and glide to the finish line as quickly as possible, all in an effort to truly master your marble's physics.
The game features a replay system which lets you watch and race against the ghosts of your best efforts, as well as those of the world’s top players via online leaderboards. The game aims to offer a challenging experience that rewards skill and determination, with both docked and handheld modes running at 60 fps - and the use of the Switch's HD rumble - helping you to feel as immersed in the gameplay as possible.
Marble It Up!'s Technical Director, Ben Garney, has said the following:
“An intense love for the genre, for the subtle joy of rolling, led us to develop Marble It Up! It’s unique; it has a trancelike quality… you get into this flow and this focus that you don’t necessarily get in a lot of games. Of all the products I’ve worked on, this is the one of which I’m most proud. It has the most compelling gameplay, the best looking art, and everyone on the team building it are people I really respect.”
The game is set to launch on Switch this September, although no exact date or pricing has been revealed just yet.
Do you like the look of this one? Are physics-based platformers your thing? Let us know down below.
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Looks interesting. I enjoyed Kororinpa on the Wii.
Marble Madness is one of my favorite games, and Kororinpa on Wii was great as well. Looking forward to this. Every console needs marbles.
I’d prefer Monkey Ball but this will do I guess.
Wait. This uses 'traditional' controls? I'll stick with Kororinpa, thanks.
If only Aiai was in that marble...
All this does is make me want Monkey Ball
This actually looks really good!
Maybe there will be some marble designs that will place a character in the ball... maybe... a monkey?!
Also, it reminds me of the fun I had with Mercury Meltdown Revolution on Wii (though I wasn't a huge fan of SMB: Banana Blitz)
This looks cool..... will at minimum wait for a sale to pick up- possibly day one buy if it reviews well.
Pffff, roll-playing game of the year. I love it.
The game looks really fun too honestly, one to keep on my radar as well.
My jam. SOLD!
@polarbear Hell yeah, a fellow Kororinpa fan!
That said, I don't think this looks quite as charming as Kororinpa, though still looks good.
Marble Blast Ultra? Instant purchase!
I Love games like this, time to add another game to my Switch list.
FarSight Studios called; they want their MOJO back.
Marble Blast Ultra consumed many an hour on my 360. I can see getting this for a decent price for sure.
Getting this just for that play on words.
Monkey Ball meets Kula World meet Sonic the Hedgehog?
I could be up for that.
Marble Madness was good. Super Monkey Ball and Kororinpa were both so so good. I'm looking forward to this but it's lacking some charm IMO
@Gorfvic20 Wasn't Mercury Meltdown really slow? Like this oozing liquid and more of a puzzler than a reaction/balance game? I always wished for something faster, I think I liked Monkey Ball more.
I can't wait for this game. I need my ball rolling fix after Super Monkey ball disappeared off the face of the planet and also stopped being good. And the demo of marble blast on 360 was amazing back in the day.
This looks great. Marble-less
I loved Marble Blast Ultra, and this looks like an absolutely fantastic title building upon exactly what I loved about that title, superb and innovative level design, challenging times, tight physics and controls, precision tricks, great power ups. I can't wait to get this.
It looks like the game only has 40 levels though, I hope it gets more in the future.
Marble Blast Ultra has 20 Beginner, Intermediate, and Veteran levels for a total of 60.
Shame on Super Monkey Ball for not waking up sooner !
This reminds me of marble madness, which is a great thing. I’ll check it out.
This one's right up my alley! Looks like a well-rounded game. I'm glad the developers had the balls to release it! I'm on a roll!
Looks fun....will go on the wishlist!
Yes Kororinpa Marble Maniac was one of my most play Wii games.
So monkey ball without the adorableness
If it's not too expensive and isn't a cake walk I'll definitely give it a try. I love the old Monkey Ball games but most of the newer titles have been too easy and uninspired. The Vita version was a nice exception, though.
A bit of a bla bla trailer but the "RPG of the year" joke at the end me laugh a bit. Looks fun. Maybe I'll give it a whirl.
I wish this game had that more simple, somewhat abstract visual style of Marble Madness but it still sounds rather novel.
Like.
@mercgentz
Same here, now I want to go back and play it again. I need to see if it’s playable on the XB1, because I really don’t want to bother with my slow as molasses 360.
No way! I love Marble Blast! I'm totally keeping my eye on this one
Sega just release monkey target as a full game please.
@GrailUK ha ha , thought you might be me too. Happy to have this genre on the Switch, no monkeys but I suppose you can’t have it’s all...
Name sucks, but Marble Madness was a personal crutch for me as a kid. As was Super Monkey Ball on GameCube.
We need motion controls though. It's a must. If this game doesn't incorporate motion controls I may not even buy it
No thanks. Marble Madness was an exercise in pure, blood-pressure-raising frustration. I don't need that in my life. If I want to roll around a spherical object in my games, I'll play Tumbleseed.
@mercgentz yessss. Loved that game. This is day one for me
OMG !!!! I absolutely adored Marble Blast Ultra, it was one of the best games of the last generation for me, i am so hyped to see this, and it looks even better, day one buy for sure !!!
@JaxonH It really isn't that type of game, motion controls really wouldn't work well with it, see it more as a 3d platformer with an emphasis on the physics of the marble itself, hard to understand i know but if it's even half as good as Marble Blast Ultra it'll still be an amazing game, trust me.
@Kang81 The game isn't even available on the store any more sadly, some legal problems arose and it disappeared.
This genre seems extremely popular with beginner game devs. My younger brother used to love them and play them all the time.
Sidenote, in tabletop gaming "roll-player" is a derogatory term for a player who doesn't put any effort into roleplaying his characters and only cares for combat/rolling dice. The kind of guy who says "I roll for Diplomacy, is 16 enough" without actually saying what his character is telling the other party or whines when there's nothing to kill at the moment.
@Toadie
Bummer, at least I have it on my 360. I just hate starting it up because it’s so incredibly slow after all the UI updates Microsoft put out over the years.
@Kang81 Yeah same here, i luckily still have it too, i dread turning it on in case it gets the red ring of death lol which is why i'm grateful for the X1's BC as there's still quite a few games from last gen i haven't gotten around to playing yet, and i'd rather play them on the X1 where possible.
@Toadie
Definitely the way to go, I went through 8 Xbox 360’s. 😡 Thankfully I was buying warranties from Best Buy/GameStop so I was relatively inexpensive to replace them all. Basically the cost of buying a new warranty each time.
@Mr_Horizon You're right; it was much slower. I think it's the design of the shimmer of some of the balls in the above trailer that made me think of mercury. Also, I'm quicker to bring up MMR as I was much better at it than I was at Banana Blitz (though I can admit that SMB 1 and 2 were the superior games to all of the abovementioned).
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