Balan Wonderworld

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ChromaticAberration said:
There already is a cult around this game, from the common suspects no less: from Tumblrites who compain that Balan is not black, to trannies who threaten to off themselves because of the game's poor reception. You can see some examples here
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Isn't it just paint or something? He looks like a pierrot or jester. People are overthinking things. People do this shit in Animal Crossing with them animal characters.
 
Bluey said:
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Isn't it just paint or something? He looks like a pierrot or jester. People are overthinking things. People do this shit in Animal Crossing with them animal characters.
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I think "Coded" is the worst new buzz word I keep seeing pop up.

But I will say, If twitter/tumbler nuts hate the game, then that is already another postive thing about it in my eyes.
 
PuffyGroundCloud said:
It’s supposed to be a fucking shadow because he wore an oversized head.
Fuck man I know tumblr are retards but this is a whole another level
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Plus Balan never moves his weird Cheshire Cat grin. These people act like they never seen a clown or mime in their bloody life and go "Mmm yeah, white boy twink".
 
Bluey said:
I like the music because even bad games can have good music imo. I can't stand Final Fantasy XV, but it has awesome music.
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Actually, there’s tons of bad media out there with great soundtracks. Sonic ‘06, Foodfight!, even The Emoji Movie managed to grab a nice selection of licensed songs. Usually a bad soundtrack is merely insult to injury.
 
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Balan said:
Also, this just proves my point that you are all basing your opinions on the tutorial world in the demo. Dainty Dragon (who I'm sure you're talking about) doesn't have a lot of use late-game.
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So what's the point of the dragon if it just gets immediately outclassed by other costumes because it's useless? Why not just have the useful costumes in the game?
 
Articuno4 said:
So what's the point of the dragon if it just gets immediately outclassed by other costumes because it's useless? Why not just have the useful costumes in the game?
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In theory, you’d start the level with the shitty version of the costume as a way to get introduced to its power, then unlock the good version later on, possibly in a different level. I think this is the design philosophy they were going for, but the level design is so shitty that it doesn’t make any meaningful impact.
 
Massively Strong Greed said:
In theory, you’d start the level with the shitty version of the costume as a way to get introduced to its power, then unlock the good version later on, possibly in a different level. I think this is the design philosophy they were going for, but the level design is so shitty that it doesn’t make any meaningful impact.
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It's a one button game, why even do this? It's to hard? Is this game made for literal retards?
They could have made 40 costumes easy if at least half of them had a jump button making them multi functional. What's so hard about 2 buttons if controlling the camera is a harder concept to grasp for more people?
 
Raiken said:
It's a one button game, why even do this? It's to hard? Is this game made for literal retards?
They could have made 40 costumes easy if at least half of them had a jump button making them multi functional. What's so hard about 2 buttons if controlling the camera is a harder concept to grasp for more people?
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Something something mobile game, something something Yuji Naka is autistic about the one button thing.
 
I wish Oddworld got this much autism poured into it, rather than it being confined to the outliers because every character is intentionally grotesque in some fashion. Tumblr can't be drawn into it despite it already having a morbidly obese genderfluid Queen (Sam) who lays all the slave eggs that belong to the same species as the hero character (Abe) and the whole anti-corporation message that permeates the series. The main bad guy is also an evil Grotesque queen who also can't be supported under her own weight and needs a whole machine just to move her around, and her mother who's afflicted with space bug diabetes from eating too much alien caviar is cryogenically frozen and can only be thawed when shit hits the fan, is also another villain in the series. So that's 3 fucking fat asses, an ugly hero, slaves rising up to destroy a corporation, and even an anti-colonialist ending for later games.

Soulstorm is decent and Strangers Wrath HD was also a good port.

But no, something tangently related to sonic gets hyped and then defended for being a fucking trashfire and deemed progressive because fujo and shota bait. I guess because they want to destroy something that's intentionally beautiful and they really don't want something made intentionally ugly.
 
VictimizedMinch said:
Developers of Yoshi's New Island and Hey Pikmin says it all.
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Again, Balan was a game that had a lot of potential and I'm honestly more willing than others to give Yuji Naka the benefit of the doubt since both he and the game itself seem to have come from a good place, but the actual developers behind it just weren't the best ones for the job. I guess he had Arzest involved because Naoto Ohshima was part of it and having Naka and Ohshima under the same roof again was possibly the game's primary selling point, but doing so ultimately did more harm than help for his and the game's reputations.

I'd love to see the concepts introduced here expanded upon in a potential sequel. Too bad that door is locked shut since the game sold like utter shit, making it both a critical and financial flop. Or maybe they'll pull a Bubsy and have the sequel come out 20 years later. Who knows?
 
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