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Balan Wonderworld (2021)

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Review

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Insert joke about Yuji Naka being in prison here.

A few thing I opted not to mention in the video because they're not that important. The Tims, this game's version of Chao or Nightopians. Very negligible. The system is nowhere near as robust or deep as Chao, and you don't get anything for growing your numbers and working on the machine in the hub. The only thing you can get is a special Balan power, which is cool. But I never bothered to do it. And the gems are used to feed Tims. So with Tims not being valuable, it also makes the gems pretty worthless as well. Probably would have been better if there was an ingame shop where you could buy costumes or something so you wouldn't have to grind or revisit levels.

Another poor choice in my opinion, having almost no dialogue for the entire story. Again, another thing we see in Sonic and NiGHTS. And because of it, I don't really understand what's going on in Balan Wonderworld. Is Balan real? Do these places really exist? Or is this all metaphorical? Why are these random kids helping everyone through their troubles instead of Balan? It's kinda weird. And some of the stories have strange resolutions where the problem just goes away, rather than the person learning how to deal with it. A little weak.

Also, maybe this is because I just played Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, the mocap dancing in this game looks awful. In fact, a lot of the animations in general in the game look pretty weird. And I didn't really care for most of the music either.

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