You might have a power that activates only when standing still, which is just as irritating as you would think. There are several buttons here that could be used for separate actions, and you’re left puzzling over clumsy context sensitivity. Yes, it simplifies the controls, but it means that the controls end up more frustrating than anything. The camera is an ever-present obstacle, the powers don’t always activate, and the idea to map all actions to a single button (which is duplicated all of the face buttons) is baffling. To put it another way, the character control is diabolical. Your character controls similarly to modern 3D Sonic games. It’s hard to tell which is the more frustrating idea in the game the controls or the execution of the costumes. Using the device in the centre, they then gradually unlock the Tower ‘O Tims in the centre of the island for… reasons.
The unlocking of more worlds also means more Tims run around the place, eating gems, growing larger and changing colour. These statues are then used to unlock new levels once you find enough to have Balan summon a train ride that inexplicably opens more worlds around the Isle of Tims. These beasts aren’t difficult to dispatch in all honesty, but beating them earns at least one statue, and results in a gloriously excessive dance routine between your character and the one you saved. This honestly isn’t well explained, and can be tough if you don’t have precisely the right costumes, but is often the quickest method of taking them down if you get it right it. The bosses then have three statues per encounter, which are earned by approaching the fights in different ways. If you get consistent ‘Excellent’ ratings, you earn the Balan statue – if you can master the weird timings required here. This takes you to an oddly monotonous minigame in which you need to time button presses as Balan’s shadows line up with him. has contacted Square Enix for comment.Each main level contains eight Balan statues, which you’ll often need to return to try and retrieve once you’ve unlocked a later costume. One per level is behind a Balan’s Bout, hidden in golden top hat. "I think Square Enix and Arzest are companies that don't care about games and game fans." "I wanted to think about various things and put it out in a proper form as an action game." "Personally, I'm really sorry that I released the unfinished work Balan Wonderworld to the world," he wrote.
Naka also observed that game creators are often improving games right up until the last minute, citing an example from his days on the original Sonic the Hedgehog, when the game was changed to make Sonic survive any hit so long as the player had one ring in possession. He added that games should be "made by striving to make it a good game until the end, and wanting game fans to enjoy it when they buy it" but commented that the “tight schedule” was set by Square Enix's producer, rather than himself.
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Now that the trial is over and the business order is no longer in effect, he has shared more details.Īccording to Google's translation of the tweets, his removal appears to be around two disputes: one concerning the use of a YouTuber to play the game music in the marketing, rather than using the original score, and the other over co-developer Arzest submitting the game for release without fixing various issues. In a Twitter thread, he today claimed "a business order" removed him as the game's director around half a year before launch, and that he filed a lawsuit against Square Enix over the matter. Three months later, it emerged that he had left Square Enix.
The game launched in March last year to poor reviews, with a Metacritic score as low as 36 on Switch and peaking at 51 on PlayStation 5. Long-serving development icon Yuji Naka has revealed details of a dispute between himself and Square Enix over the state of Balan Wonderworld.
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