BALAN WONDERWORLD EMMA FULL

When entering the available chapter level, you will be faced with an experience whose design reveals that you are looking at a platform game from the 90s, but with very specific mechanics. The protagonist you choose is taken to a magical place by Balan and it will be from the central hub that you will enter the doors for the different levels of each Chapter. Thanks to the sensational cutscenes of Visual Works, a subsidiary of Square Enix that dazzles with its CGIs, Balan’s lovely narrative becomes unexpectedly appealing, always with that childish and specific touch of Naka’s records, who apparently so determined to create a game similar to what he presented in the 90s, he even makes a point of including something similar to the Chaos and Chaos Garden of Sonic Adventure. This is precisely the charm of the game, the fact that it seems to have been frozen in time (with the exception of the visuals), with a charm so typical of SEGA from the 90s, but plagued by clunky gameplay and strange mechanics (like the 80s) facts!!).īalan puts you in the role of Leo Craig or Emma Cole, children with social interaction problems and who find Balan who takes them to a magical world where they will save other children and even adults with their problems. When playing Balan Wonderworld, that feeling is reinforced and it seems more that Naka and Ohshima hid the game in a box, buried it and 25 years later decided to do what SEGA doesn’t want, a sequel to NiGHTS. However, everything seems to be purposeful and the flaws themselves may simply be part of its facet because Naka and Ohshima seem to have wanted to create a 3D platform game in the style of the glorious 90s classics and by doing so in an extremely faithful way, neglected decades of evolution.įrom the very first moment, when Balan Wonderworld was announced on the July 2020 Xbox Games Showcase, that Balan Wonderworld looks like a spiritual sequel to NiGHTS: into Dreams by SEGA, one of the diverse collaborations of these Japanese creators, sweating through all their colorful pores a classic 3D platform in a register that seems to have simply been lost over time. In fact, this is one of those games that is especially difficult to analyze because it is a game that has managed to evoke some charm, but that just seems dated.

BALAN WONDERWORLD EMMA FULL

Yuji Naka’s latest work, accompanied by Naoto Ohshima, is a title full of flaws, but with its charm. Something I must say right now is that Balan Wonderworld is not the disaster you may have heard of.

True to the 3D platforms of the 90s, the lovely nostalgia means that the advances and refinements of the past 25 years have been neglected.

Balan Wonderworld review – A return to the past

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