Crazy Taxi's Axel Joins Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble This Fall

Wow, that's crazy!

You mean the final DLC character for Pack 1, right?

Morgana should be brought back.

I didn't realize Sega had two Axels. Guns n Roses was big when Streets of Rage came out, but Monkey Ball came out soooooo much later.

Super Monetization Ball

This seems like it’s intended to raise awareness for the upcoming Craaaaazzzy Taxi game (I’m pumped btw). I can’t help but think if it was free or £1 then it would gain a lot attention. £4.49 is taking the pizz

I like when they put the little humans in the monkeyball

BD Joe or no sale

Opa-opa for monkeyball

I was planning on getting Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble when it launched, but seeing just how far they're pushing for paid DLC even before launch... well, hard pass for me now, thanks.

So need crazy taxi back I use play that in arcade when I was 16 2001. Twenty quid a week on that game. I lucky I game across it and got a PS2 copy. Own it on 360 Dreamcast collection. And psp. It one a my favourite games. Would I pay this prob iam a sucker for crazy taxi. The music was iconic shame removed it from Xbox version due to licensing. First played this game on Dreamcast with a school friend own they were the days.when game were simple but fun need more or that than triple AAA title that takes years to develop then when release a over hyped let down .

What a rip-off. Paid DLC is increasingly putting me off from buying a lot of games I would have considered otherwise.

Remember when this sort of content would simply be a base game unlockable?

Save the crappy nickel and diming for F2P mobile crap.

sigh I miss when games would launch complete.

@Sabruka I'm still getting the base game, but definitely passing on the DLC (for now).

The only way I'd ever consider the pass worth a penny is if they pulled a deep cut and added Billy Hatcher. Bring him back Sega, I miss my son!!!!!

And I'm sure they'll be doing the same thing for Jet & Jam if they do come back. Kiryu as well since he was in Banana Mania as DLC.

Why couldn't these characters be an in-game shop item for this game anyways? I wouldn't mind that. Nope, SEGA gotta go the DLC route like this. Money pinching just like with Sonic Origins Plus.

I don't know if I'm really gonna go for this one. Hard pass for now.

Kororinpa had a taxi-ball first!

A ball of taxies:
https://www.nintendolife.com/games/wii/kororinpa#enlarge-9

Feel there should be accompanying Offspring/Bad Religion tracks.

How is this Crazy Taxi (mostly) staying at the bottom of this ball while the ball is rolling around..

Physics where are you?

The wheels are not even touching the ball.

Maybe it is super heavy and has greazy corners.

Somehow it made a lot more sense with the monkeys walking and running inside these balls.

@SillyG To be fair, there were four versions of Street Fighter II on the SNES and each iteration had an extra character and feature or two. Imagine owning the original SFII and then a year later it gets a re-release with extra content that you can't access so you have to double dip on a yearly basis just to get the extra stuff at full price.

In relation to the story, as much as I don't mind DLC, as far as I'm concerned it allows developers to explore ideas that may have been too late or ambitious in development to include in the final product. As far as I know DLC helps recoup some of the costs for the main product expenses too. I do think 4.59 is a bit much for something like this. Maybe it's due to the Mii costumes in Smash that I see this sort of thing as steep.

Anyway, final character prediction? Probably Alex Kidd or Billy Hatcher. A surprise character? Diddy Kong as this game is Switch exclusive

@Peteykins Super Money Ball would also work.

Crazy Taxi for Switch

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@Clyde_Radcliffe remember when they put him in Sonic Racing Transformed? FOR FREE?!

@martynstuff : While I'm not crazy about Street Fighter's approach either, you at least got a full game for your money every time (one which you could also gift, sell, or simply keep). No such luck here. What irks me most, really, is the fact that the content itself is not stored on the cartridge, as well as the fact that it could create problems if playing the game on another console (such as a spare Switch Lite), in which case, the game may prompt an online check if you have any DLC installed for that game (and is the main reason why I've been deterred from buying the Fire Emblem Engage DLC, which is currently on sale, as I mainly play the game when I'm out and about on my Switch Lite; that, and it's a rip-off, even at a discount).

"Season passes", cosmetics, and the like, often cost as much (often more) than the base game nowadays, in which case, the old Street Fighter model would actually be preferable.

Take Smash Ultimate for example. Two character packs (that's a measly 11 characters relative to the base roster) plus Piranha Plant already costs as much as the base game at full retail price. Add the plethora of costumes on top of that, and that's three times the cost, all for a ridiculously minuscale fraction of the base game's content.

I'd take Smash Ultimate Deluxe all day long over paying for all of that and suffering the inconvenience of essentially having it locked to a single console.

Where is B. D. Joe?

@NinChocolate

I love me some Opa-Opa and Fantasy Zone.

They better put Samba de Amigo in there. He's a freakin' MONKEY for crying out loud!

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Kiryu was in the base game.

Ah yes, I can just picture an entire generation of gamers responding with..."Who?"

I've had my fill of rubbish SMB games. SEGA couldn't even re-release the GC games without messing them up. So, unsurprisingly a Crazy Taxi DLC hasn't shifted my opinion much!

Last character could be either Shin Megami Tensei guy (don't know his name) or Metaphor's new protag 🤓

@batmanbud2 This isn't Youtube 🫵

@Ulysses am I wrong, though? If Burnout Paradise runs at 60 on Switch, then so can Crazy Taxi.

@batmanbud2 Definitely not wrong! I was just sending up your fishing for likes is all 🙃

it's B.D. Joe or nothing.