Yuji Naka, the creator behind Nights into Dreams and Sonic the Hedgehog, has revealed to IGN that he feels that his new project Balan Wonderworld is his one big shot to create a platformer with Square Enix. Mr. Naka was told by the president of Square Enix that he had one chance to make a full-scale platformer with a decent budget. Hopefully, he succeeds. Balan Wonderworld comes to Nintendo Switch on 26th March.
For Naka, who joined Square Enix in 2018, Balan Wonderworld will be his first full-scale platform game in quite some time. “I think Square Enix has an RPG image,” Naka said, “but I don’t think I’d be good at making RPGs.” Of course, Naka has made RPGs, such as Phantasy Star and Phantasy Star Online. However, the genre he feels he is most skilled at is still platform games. Therefore, he received permission from the company president to make a full-scale platform game with the condition that it was his “one chance”.
The thing that throws me off with this game is that the player characters have this permanent “I don’t really want to be here” face.
For me, it’s not really the faces that throw me off, rather the stiff-feeling walking/running animations the dev team gave the protagonists. It just looks really stiff to me.
Keep in mind this game doesn’t release until March next year- they’ve got time to polish it, and maybe altering those animations is on the agenda.
I don’t think it will go to well, so far the little bit of gameplay showed in the game’s trailer has not been very impactful, it looks and feels like a Wii game
Why, because Rodea and Journey of Dreams?
I think it will be a good game, but idk if that $60 price tag is gonna go well.
I don’t think it’s going to go too well. But I hope it will, and I’m going to buy it
Mario Odyssey set the platformer bar really high. Anything would pale in comparison.
And that’s really not fair, especially Mario’s big name already makes the game a priority in sales before factoring in anything else.
And then there’s the matter that biggest platformer yet isn’t perfect if you consider the ending with Peach. It’s like a Christmas Day parade, only to be pelted with coal at the last second.
When I saw this I immediately was reminded of Nights and I thought it looked interesting. I hope to give it a try some time down the road
I thought so myself.
This would be a good game for me to enjoy later on. I would say this game will have a chance to be one of the greatest on other platforms.
The game looks pretty rough from the gameplay they’ve shown. The animations are stiff, there’s way too much clutter on screen, the movement looks janky. I don’t have much faith in this one, to be honest. Hopefully I’m wrong about it.
I don’t have much faith in it as well but I will buy the game to support him.
It looks interesting to me; I’ll be picking it up. What matters is that it appeals to enough people so it does sell well and thus his “one chance” won’t be blown.
this did not age well…
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