The similarities are so stark, I checked to see if Nintendo had launched a lawsuit against Square Enix. Mind you, some tracks are almost stolen from the aforementioned, Mario Odyssey. One of the biggest selling points in Balan Wonderworld is its music – which is great. That, or the game’s engine is screaming and simply can’t process that many NPCs on screen at once. Almost like you are a pariah and the game’s inhabitants are shunning you. NPCs will be jigging and jiving to the beat, but whenever you get too close, they fade from existence. Not only that, it replaces this with incredibly situational – often useless abilities that actively hinder progression or, at times, completely break the game.īalan is also empty. In a game where a third of the game’s structural pillars requires vertical movement, Balan just says no. This isn’t a bad thing – this formula has existed for decades and continues to thrive with the likes of Mario Odyssey and A Hat In Time.īalan Wonderworld truly drops the ball when it frequently removes the ability to jump.
You run around jumping on things, hitting things, and picking things up. 3D Platforming Done Wrongīalan Wonderworld, at its core, is a 3D Collectathon Platformer in the vein of Mario 64 or Banjo Kazooie. Balan Wonderworld fails on practically every conceivable level and actively ignores every mechanical progression made since 1996. It would be easy to assume I am huffing a hyperbolic bong in an attempt to chase the magical satire dragon, but you’d be wrong. With a pre-release demo acting like a portent of things to come, the final product was a festering mess scattered over the dying remains of the game industry’s putrescent body. If an ongoing pandemic wasn’t enough, gamers everywhere got a taste of Yuji Naka’s latest passion project, Balan Wonderworld. Now that Game Of The Year is over, it’s time to take a brief look at one of the worst games to grace 2021. Today I am looking at – Balan Wonderworld. Quickie Reviews are 500 word reviews designed to get across what makes a game great, or awful, in under 2 minutes.
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