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
Alpine’s Sam Gertsch is a Wyoming Ultimate Angler
◆ Working to legally catch 10 trophy-class fish required 200 days of his time and took him all over the state.
Though he had questioned his decision to fish north Pinedale’s Soda Lake that day in October, 2020, Sam Gertsch of Alpine was glad he had determined to brave the biting wind and cold temperatures. With his seventh cast of the day, he landed his tenth trophy-class Wyoming fish, a 24-inch brown trout. With that catch, he also earned the prestigious Ultimate Angler Award.
Gertsch now runs in an exclusive circle with only a handful of anglers to reach Ultimate Angler status as part of the Wyoming Game and Fish Master Angler program, which launched in 2019. According to wgfd.wyo.gov, “to be an Ultimate Angler, a person must legally catch 10 trophy-sized game fish species in Wyoming. Each fish must meet or exceed a minimum length, which is determined by Game and Fish sample data and represents the top five percent in len