#Balan wonderworld opencritic full#
It’s full of charming character designs and the occasional hint of a clever idea, but its insistence on being a one-button game with dozens of needlessly overlapping abilities that are thrown aside just as fast as they are introduced rots it to the core. I played this game for 1 hour or so, up until the first boss fight, and was disappointed enough to delete the game. Balan Wonderworld isn’t always an awful platformer, but it is a consistently boring one. I expected more from the lead programmer of the classic Sonic games. I know there were issues behind the scenes during this game's development, where creator Yuji Naka had a diss with Square Enix and was fired, but even if that's to blame for the technical shortcomings and lack of polish, the core game idea is nothing special. At least I didn't experience any Cyberpunk 2077-style freezes, slowdowns and glitches. On last-gen consoles and the Switch it's said the game runs horribly. On PS5 the game kinda runs at 60 fps, but moving objects and even parts of the environment that lie 10-15 meters away run at 30 fps or lower.
And I haven't even touched the technical issues of this game with low frame rate and ridiculous grass pop-in like 2-3 meters away from the avatar. Even then, controls are far from being tight and precise. You can hold 3 costumes at any time or find different ones in the levels. Abilities that are taken for granted in 3D platformers or are unlockable, here are just randomised, that's some odd decision-making. There is a costume for a spin jump, another for a long jump, a third one for spitting fireballs, a fourth one for jumping and slamming down, and so on. It's a cute 3D platformer but other than moving around, your abilities depend entirely on which costume you happen to wear.
It's a cute 3D platformer but other than moving around, your abilities depend entirely on which Balan Wonderworld is a trainwreck of a game. Balan Wonderworld is a trainwreck of a game.
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