Over 80 different costumes open up all the action you could want! 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.īefore they can return to the real world, they must first restore the lost balance in their hearts. 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. Wonderworld exists in people's hearts and imagination 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. Twelve different tales await our stars in the Wonderworld, each with their own unique quirks. Here memories and vistas from the real world mix with the things that people hold dear. 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. This now well-known rule was the result of improving the game until the very end, and people world-over have enjoyed it as a result,” says Naka.Welcome to a wonderous all-action show, the likes of which has never been seen before!īALAN WONDERWORLD is a wondrous action platformer game themed around the Balan Theatre.
“For Sonic the Hedgehog, 2 weeks before finalizing, the spec was changed so that if you have even one ring, you won't die.
Naka points out that he wanted to work and improve Balan Wonderworld right up until the very end. Taking a director off a project right near the release date seems like a drastic move. I don't think that Square Enix and Arzest value games and their fans." “I wanted to consider all kinds of things and release it as a proper action game. “I personally regret that Balan Wonderworld was released to the world in an unfinished state,” Naka wrote in the thread. It seemed especially strange to not delay Balan Wonderworld, considering it wasn’t a major title for Square Enix, and the company had other releases coming up anyway, like Neo: The World Ends With You. Surprisingly, Balan Wonderworld didn’t get any kind of delay, even after a mostly negative reception to the early demo. Game development was tremendously impacted, leading to multiple delays at Square Enix for games like Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Bravely Default 2. The terminology there seems to suggest pressure was already being put on the project, and Balan Wonderworld would have been somewhere in the middle of development when developers had to start working remotely in early 2020. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Imagesīalan Wonderworld first began production in 2018, and in a 2020 interview, Naka said he convinced Square Enix’s president to give him “one chance” at making a platformer. Yuji Naka served as the lead programmer on the first Sonic the Hedgehog, then as a producer for many other games in the series. Second, according to court documents, Ohshima told producer Fujimoto that the relationship with Arzest was ruined due to comments I made wanting to improve the game in the face of Arzest submitting the game without fixing bugs." “First, when a YouTuber's arranged piano performance of the game music was released in a promotion instead of the original game track, turning the composer into a ghostwriter, I insisted that the original track be released and this caused trouble. This was ultimately what led to Naka filing the lawsuit. What’s most surprising from the thread, translated by Cheesemeister3k on Twitter, is that Naka claims he was removed as director of Balan Wonderworld six months before the game’s release. It seems like there may be more to the story, as Naka himself posted a lengthy thread on Twitter diving into a lawsuit he filed against Square Enix and a host of problems with the development of Balan Wonderworld.
It was incredibly disappointing to see a game created by Yuji Naka, one of the key people responsible for Sonic the Hedgehog, do so poorly. Balan Wonderworld was an unmitigated disaster for Square Enix, released in 2021 to dismal review scores and equally dismal sales numbers, including just 2,100 copies opening week in Japan.
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