The graphics are better than anything Sega’s final console could’ve managed, but not by much, and the frictionless movement and expressionless main characters all feel like they’ve just jumped through a portal from 1999. If we’d been told Balan Wonderworld was some kind of long lost Dreamcast game, found half completed and then finished up for release on modern formats we’d easily have believed it. That’s not an especially original idea for video games (it’s not far off Super Mario Odyssey’s cap) but if nothing else Balan Wonderwold goes all in the variety of options and abilities. It’s a much more straightforward 3D platformer, vaguely in the Super Mario mould, where the main gimmick is your ability to don dozens of different costumes, all of which give you different special abilities. The first thing to realise though is that despite the obvious homages this really isn’t much like NiGHTS at all.
We did try though, because even ignoring the history of the creators there are some fun ideas at the game’s core and it’s very rare nowadays to see even a medium budget, old school 3D platformer.
#Balan wonderworld budget full
Nobody wants to discourage publishers from releasing demos but the one for Balan Wonderworld was so underwhelming it was extremely difficult to stay optimistic about the full release. The hype train for Balan Wonderworld was initially derailed by the playable demo released back in January.
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