Balan Wonderworld was unveiled roughly year ago with a theatrical aesthetic and colorful presentation. But the demo quickly dissolved the masquerade surrounding the game’s quality.
This wasn’t helped by the fact that there was a Day one patch for the game due to report of epilepsy sensitive players being triggered by scenes from the game. In short the game has had a not so favorable debut.
The folks over at NintendoLife recently reported that they found several 10/10 ratings for the game on Metacritic. Many of which have usernames which looks like jargon and reviews that contain grammatical inconsistencies.
Given the general bad reception surrounding the game, these reviews seems very suspicious. The simplest explanation for these reviews is that they were generated by bots according to Alex. How else could you explain the pattern of broken English with strange usernames for a game that is doing so darn poorly almost everywhere else?
Our Advice
Balan Wonderworld just released so we don’t know any sales numbers but it will be interesting to see where this goes but if we can give everyone a piece of advice; skip this game … it’s just that simple.
Still interested? (PS: don’t be please)
About Balan Wonderworld
Every Moment is an Adventure
Welcome to a wonderous all-action show, the likes of which has never been seen before!
BALAN WONDERWORLD is a wondrous action platformer game themed around the Balan Theatre. Led by the enigmatic maestro named Balan, the stars of the show Emma and Leo will use special abilities from a multitude of characterful costumes as they adventure in the bizarre and imaginary land of Wonderworld. Here memories and vistas from the real world mix with the things that people hold dear.
Twelve different tales await our stars in the Wonderworld, each with their own unique quirks. They will explore all corners of these labyrinthine stages, filled with a myriad of tricks and traps, to get to the heart of each story.
Wonderworld exists in people’s hearts and imagination
The setting for this tale is the fantastic, bizarre land of Wonderworld; a place where people’s happy and positive memories mix with their restless worries and negativity.
Leo and Emma are led into Wonderworld by the mysterious clown Balan and set off on a journey to find what is important to them.
Before they can return to the real world, they must first restore the lost balance in their hearts…
Over 80 different costumes open up all the action you could want!
The stars of the show can use powers from the inhabitants of Wonderworld by wearing their colourful costumes, with over 80 different ones to try on!
Bash your enemies, walk in the air, freeze time or manipulate all kinds of objects… the possibilities are endless when you pick up a new costume.
Two Legendary Creators Reunite!
Come one, come all and enjoy the pinnacle of Square Enix storytelling in an all-action world of wonder created by the legendary Naka Yuji.
For the first time in 20 years Naka Yuji and Oshima Naoto join forces forming the BALAN COMPANY team; founded around, bringing together action game development, video and music production professionals from both inside and outside of the company.
