The whole experience has the feel of an early-era Wii game about it, like a Klonoa or a Psychonauts, but without the charm or excuse of being nearly 15 years old for all the personality Balan has, his game has none. You don’t play as Balan, the title character who’s visually interesting and exciting (except in occasional, excruciating QTEs where he kicks rocks in space for some reason), you play as the aforementioned malformed sad child, jumping around on bland, floating-block levels. That’s enough beating around the bush, let’s get to the crux of the issue: Balan Wonderworld isn’t good. There’s some cheesy stuff about “mending people’s hearts” and some allusion to an actual villain, but he just looks like Balan cosplaying as Doctor Octopus, so I’m sure it’s all part of the fun for that twisted sociopath. Balan, despite his appearance, is the villain of a psychological horror his main schtick seems to be kidnapping sad children with oven mitts for hands, subjecting them to an epilepsy-inducing stage play, then warping them to his disturbing mind-palace to do mediocre platforming. Balan Wonderworld, as you may have guessed, is a game about Balan, the chap(?) in the hat on the cover, who looks like NiGHTS dressed up to attend Bowser’s wedding on the moon.
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