Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-679780-20191018184405

To be fair theres not much for Super Monkey Ball to make a story around. It's a monkey in a ball and you collect bananas before reaching the goal. That's about it for all the stages. Other than the skyboxes the stages are rather bland consisting of mostly flat islands to roll around on.

It's the same for the Puyo Puyo series. What they did was get the game Monogatari Madō Monogatari 1-2-3 which starred the puyo as slime elementals you encounter in fights and they just made the Puyo Puyo series expanded the lore and continue the stories of it so that the same puzzle-stacking game can be used again in almost every installment with just a new story added to it from Monogatari Madō Monogatari. I mean maybe theres some new gameplay feature in between other than "Now with Tetris", will admit Puyo Puyo Chronicles gives a somewhat creative use of the gameplay.

I guess that's why Super Monkey Ball and Puyo Puyo are the only classic-era franchises other than Sonic to still be continued because they're bland and safe. Heck if Sonic Team recycled content from Sonic Generations to use in Sonic Forces, this would of prooved the point even more.