User blog:PoseidonR/Ways to calm yourself down when frustrated at your Super Monkey Ball Game

Super Monkey Ball is definitely the best puzzle series out there, having 1000's of levels (with all games combined)Some levels I definitely want to do over and over, but my favourite part is the worlds, being able to marvel the backgrounds. But then you get to the hard levels. I can stand these sometimes, while other times I just want to throw the controller at the screen or the handheld console out the window. So I created this list of listing my ideas of how to keep calm while in this state or heading into this state.

1. Pretend to abuse your monkey.
For some this might be bad advice, but if you do it in a way that you find fun, you shouldn't have much worries. Call it names, insult it. Say "you better win this level or I will  try to have some fun coming up with insults. Although, you should be aware of your real world surrounding to avoid any suspicion.

2.Take a break.
This really sounds like advice your parents would give you and this is for games in general, but it really works, for a little while, the longer the break the better. I go for a minimum of 5 minutes but when really frustrated, 20.

3. Look up walkthroughs.
I know there are some useful walkthroughs on the internet, I would personally recommend youtube first, then you can get a visual on how the level is done. There are also written PDF's of walkthroughs for download (I find it easier to copy to a word document.

4. Look up cheats
If you just can't take it any more, just look up some cheats. Some times there just are none (Super Monkey Ball Deluxe) If there are no cheats, you will be likely to find unlockables, it would be pretty boring without unlockables. sometimes this can be useful, doing this allowed me to discover, sinking swamp, ultra heavens, mystic dome and siliconia. Other wise this peice of advice is useless