Review: Balan Wonderworld Should Have Been a Movie
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, Billy Hatcher, and
NiGHTs into Dreams. (Hopefully,
Rodea the Sky Soldier and
Ivy the Kiwi? Which is a shame, because then people might have had a better idea of what was coming with
Balan Wonderworld, a bland and confounding game with missing pieces and bad design decisions.
Because so much is missing, you only have the vaguest idea of what is happening in
Balan Wonderworld. Your tale begins with one of two children who is very sad. You don’t know exactly why, exactly, because Balan is the only “person” who speaks. In the case of Emma, my avatar, she runs out of a mansion sad because the maids are looking at her and whispering. She finds herself at Balan’s theater and learns her own heart can be repaired if she aids others. She finds herself in the colorful Wonderworld, where 12 people in despair are trapped in 12 worlds. You restore them by donning costumes with special abilities an