pretty fun game. I rarely play these type of games so I am terrible at this. 

first level would be nice to have infinite lives or just easier, but like i mentioned i dont really play these games so it was very challenging.

rotating camera felt a bit off, maybe it was too slow. not sure if i would prefer free aim camera

UI is also counter intuitive, it would read better if the current UI element selected is highlighted and not grayed out

UI sound fx  is a bit jarring, especially when flipping quickly through elements, I think it should sound a bit softer

Hey bro! I just played this, I'm glad to say that I'm much better at the game. This time though I found some game breaking bugs unfortunately.

When I died, for some reason the ball shape got smaller and affected my collision area as well (pic related) - I don't think this was intended, but it made the levels much harder to play due to the ball having less size to climb those slope areas.

Also, in that level where you have to jump to a floating island to push the button (the one I had trouble with last time, not sure if you remember), well for some reason by the checkpoint after that point I died and the player kept spawning below the level making me lose all my lives (I couldn't take a pic as I was dying too fast). It was frustrating to say the least but it's a must report bug issue.

Everything else from what I saw seemed to be working fine.

I'm new to the genre, I think got filtered pretty hard, some easy level to teach the player some robe would be nice, I think I figured the "bounce enemy to drop them down" a bit too late, I keep trying to avoid them and it was kinda miserable.

I think the difficulty is fine, but would be good if I can have some win first, before reaching the level where I'm going to fall constantly will many jumps.

The music is nice, menu SFX is bad, in game SFX is ok.

Music is fantastic, as a Super Monkey Ball enjoyer myself, the music is 33% pf the fun.

The hovering over buttons seems weird since I can hover over multiple buttons at once. I wish the text on the buttons could be more easily read aka darker than the button text when it's having the weird thing when it appears hovered twice. The character select should allow the big circle to be clicked than only the tiny one.

World 0 is hard, Monkey Ball has the first two worlds being joke simple worlds to teach the game's mechanics.

Levels are also very long at the start. One improvement would be for the banana system many monkey ball games have which has multiple bananas being gotten giving a free life, giving a reason to collect them.

I like how the game over in modern monkey ball shows the monkey in the ball sad and then getting very happy before being shot into space when selecting restart and acting more sad when trying to quit. Something like that would make the characters in the ball much more expressive so there is a real difference between the characters. 

I would buy it once I get a portable PC for work breaks if you have controller support. Since I love monkey ball for switch and it would be too much of a stretch to request switch support at this stage of development, but you should consider it for the future.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2504179775

I really appreciate the physics and how forgiving the platform generally is, I mean that you have some leeway on the edges and bounce off them favourably and so on.

Combat against those robot guys is really satisfying, they have a nice movement pattern to dance against.

About the difficulty design I’m not sure. I’d personally find it more fun if you weren’t restricted in number of lives you got, but instead there was some goal for each stage "finish with less than X drop-outs" to unlock the next stage (or a time goal). This would make it easier to practice the later parts. And please add a "quick respawn" button.

Also with the current design it would strictly speaking be correct to always fully reset a level when losing a life before the first checkpoint.

The very first stage seems oddly hard, it has advanced elements like those parts where the camera is angled badly so you must play blind; it also has a number of very strategic parts, where you can’t really figure out the solution on the fly, but probably need a few tries to figure it out. And that’s a long way from the previous check-point.

In the current state, it would probably be too frustrating for me to play through, with more checkpoints and infinite respawns I might be more interested. Though I’m definitely not the main audience for this kinda game regardless.

But good stuff, keep it up!

The main menu is really awful. The fact that the selection indicator is the menu option looking grayed out? I kinda hate it. It should really just be a pointer that moves between the different options. As for the gameplay, that I enjoy, though I wish I had proper camera controls with the right stick. You can still include the shoulder buttons setting the camera in specific positions, just give finer control with the stick.

I would like if you could cancel rotate camera and go back the other way if pressed during transition. Or maybe just freelook with right stick.

The UI is confusing because the active is greyed out instead of highlighted.

i got past the rly hard part in the space level and then i went up the ramp while hugging the wall like i did with the other parts but the camera was orientated in a way where i couldnt see that i couldnt hug the wall on this one and i died and then i spent 20 minutes trying to get back there after getting there first try and then i accidentally pressed Quit in the menu i think because my mouse was over it but i was on controller and i couldn't go back to the space level and ayako didnt ever seem as scared as i was 

8.5/10 game, rly good, might beat space level later