“Must you take everything beautiful and make it dirty?” So said one character to another in last year’s Oscar-nominated dramedy “The Kids Are All Right.” But it could just as well be “Super Monkey Ball” fans asking Sega what it has done with a series that was once among the most charming and innovative in gaming.

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