Spot on. Especially the creepy adult characters. It seems like they should be voice acted and be telling the player something about Jesus or forgiveness while they do the awkward dance routines.
The worst part is I bet Square Enix upper management learned the wrong lesson from this. Probably concluded "The failure of this means people don't want a 3D platformer." instead of "This is a terrible 3D Platformer."
SE told Naka that they weren't a company that MADE platformers, but were willing to give them a shot specifically because Naka was a legend in the industry. If anyone's to blame here, it's Naka for not releasing a good, successful product.
Saying Yuji Naka a "legend" was too much of a stretch. He didn't do anything substantial after 2D era of sonic, and he deliberately interfered with the development of later games only to boast his ego.
@Ein Bro they literally fired him and pushed the game out 6 months early. What happened here is entirely the fault of Square Enix and nobody else. Why say shit like this when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
@@dokidokiduckie What exactly do you think would have changed if Naka was kept around for 6 months? This game was in development for 2 years before he was fired. If you or I did as bad at our jobs as Naka did for those 2 years we would have been fired too.
I really agree with the "devs trolling each other" theory, like maybe they were getting underpaid or something and decided to try and ruin the parent company by making a product that would definitely fail.
I am certain this was a result of some very disillusioned programmers following a manager’s directions to the letter. Sure, they could have fought back against middle management’s insane ideas but why bother?
"The design proposal included the 80 costume count as a hook, and Naka was sure he would need to halve the number as production went on. In the end and to his surprise, he was able to create all 80. The large number of costumes were made relevant by each having a single action tied to it, with only one button command so the younger players the team were targeting as part of their audience would not get confused." you know, in case you were curious.
Reminds me of how Insomniac initially had a *lot* of concepts for weapons and gadgets in the original RaC. The difference being them having people that knew what they were doing so they focused on the ones that would actually be fun and/or useful for the player.
It's like Naka remembered that his one button philosophy worked really well on Sonic and he just thought he could also apply it to a 3d platformer in 2021.
Meanwhile Kirby & the Forgotten Land only has 12 traditional copy abilities (not counting mouthful mode) and not only are they all fun, they have more than one use (aside from Sleep which is intentionally made that way)
@@El_Omar2203yeah but in that game you have to play as a foreskin and stuff Oreos into yourself (metaphorically; the Oreos are actually cars fridges and traffic cones) so
"Oh, okay," you think. After all, the Splatoon franchise and its mascots embrace the silliness well. And the backing instrumentation to your singing actually sounds great, if a bit uninspired. And then you saw how the rest of the game turned out.
The saddest thing about that… is that the dance sequence could’ve been a good qte like in the ff7 remake, but instead they wasted balan on making really bad qte segments. They could’ve at least made the balan sections into something like Superman 64. I mean it would still be a super shitty game, but at least then it would be slightly memeable in a good way.
3:12 - I'm really feelin' the soundtrack on this one... Also, I noticed that there is a total of 2 animation sets for the dance sequences. All the backup dancers on the outside of the ring have had their dance animations copy/pasted and are identical, then the main character and the farmer have the other animation. 10/10
The motion capture movement in this game is terrifying. Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night, you look across your room and see a farmer breakdancing in the corner before he slowly vanishes from existence
Does anyone else for some fucking reason feel like he says "it's the farmer off of Undertale" every time they watch the video even though he never does?
Other games: NPCs stop rendering when you get far away from them, in order to preserve memory Balan Wankerworld: NPCs stop rendering when you get close because fuck you
@@BlxxdLxst17 its important for kids games to send a strong message to the youth on proper etiquette and behavior; nobody will ever love you, nobody even wants to look at you, let alone smell you, let alone actually TOUCH you, you're going to die alone and everything you ever find exciting is going to be totally useless and disappointing its actually a 10/10 game but our society can't interpret such a brilliant artistic vision that actually includes a PRACTICAL and important LESSON
>On my death bed, with my grandchild beside me >He tugs at my hospital gown "Grandpa, do you want to watch Dunkey's Balan Wonderworld video with me, one last time?" >It's our tradition to watch it once a year >I shed a tear >We start quoting the video from memory >I start seeing black as the firefighter's dance song comes on >The last thing I hear is "this game costs 60 dollars" >It is the happiest I have ever been
I love how this game was just soo lame it was immediately forgotten. Being in this Dunkey video is the most cultural impact it’ll ever had. Just a complete waste of time, I feel bad for everyone who had to work on this.
7:07 The composer must have been like "Ah, fuck, I don't have enough time to finish these compositions, I'm sure no one would notice if I just took one of the themes in Ghostbusters and change like two notes in it"
I thought it was supposed to be her long lost dad or something, given all the jubilation. Then the exact same thing happened with another dude so who knows lol
"What does this powerup do?" "Oh, it opens a door." "So it allows you to open a variety of areas and open the game world up more?" "No. It opens one specific door. And then it's worthless."
@@adamocarrillo344 If I had to guess, too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough communication between different groups. Just by watching the footage I could practically feel the work environment where nobody could just say no as more and more bloat gets added and it looks like the levels and powerups where designed separately and by different people and then awkwardly frankensteined together. Damned shame because I like aesthetic and was curious about it and thought the negativity might have just been the Sonic Curse making people hate it just cause, but now that I've seen the footage I see what the problem is.
@sannio komi yeah, like, take away the shitty physics, the shittier powerups, the even shittier minigames, the dances, and replace it with actual gameplay, and you've got a pretty decent game at least, specially coming from Square Enix.
@@TheKorenji I unironically like a lot of the designs... some* of the designs. I remember seeing balan the character in thumbnails before the game and I remember thinking “wow that looks like the guy from nights!” You know... the Dreamcast game. Look the point is they blew their budget on a decent designer that they fired halfway through and then they were left with twenty bucks to fund the rest of the project. I’m one of the people who are positive this was going to be a mobile game that they (poorly) optimized for consoles and pc at the last second so they could charge the full amount for it.
This game makes a lot more sense now that we know it was just a front for Yuji Naka to hang out at Square-Enix headquarters and commit white collar crimes. My man is now doing farmer dances in JAIL
The second dunkey finds this cool exploit skip the game instantly recognizes he's having 210% too much fun and immediately sends his ass to balan's bout.
they remind me of youtube videos that use spiderman and disney 3d models and just have them do a stock dance animation and get 1 mil views because its made for kids
Literally it feels like they just wanted to be able to advertise as 'The most power ups in any game ever!' and then were like 'Oh we need to actually make all of them do stuff?'
@@Chibi_Rikka they legit just made simple platformer mechanics into individual costumes, like the gear one thats whole purpose is to turn gears for a single puzzle, or bulldozer pushing stuff, it's like those old fake NES games and shit that were like "700 games in 1!!!" but in reality it's just the same game with some assets changed 700 times.
@@lordpotatochips3973 Yeah it's honestly horrible. Even worse when you consider how overly done and boring those kind of mechanics are. I don't know anyone who actually likes the box pushing puzzle mechanic and yet they went ahead and made a whole powerup based around that.
@@Chibi_Rikka gotta love box fox though, i think that is probably one of the laziest, i almost guarantee they just made a fox model and decided "yeah fuck it just randomly place a cube object around it and call it a day", literally looks like a blender 3d model with no texture was placed around the original model, i hadn't bought nor heard of this game until charlie's video, but after seeing that and then dunkey's, this game gives me unfiltered and pure rage.
@@lordpotatochips3973 Oh yeah that looks dumb, especially the 'when it feels like it' mechanic, cause that's what I want from a powerup. I heard about this game when it was first announced and was super excited due to being a joint effort between Square Enix and the original creator of Sonic making a spiritual successor to NiGHTS, but then they showed gameplay and I was immediately put off and it somehow looks even worse now that they 'finished' it. I'm past the point of rage though, I just feel nothing towards the game, I only watched this video cause I was sure it would be funny cause it's dunkey, and I wasn't wrong there at least. xD
Dunkey thinking he was doing a sequence break with the ice costume only for him to immediately stumble into a Balan Bout is one of the funniest things I've seen
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gotta appreciate how they made all the powerups just usable for completing the main task but impossible for actually having fun with off the main path, incredible
I like the game, but I also have to fully agree with you, Sixty dollars is really bold for this. The game is nowhere as complex as others, graphically as detailed or much longer then others. I not even want to compare it with other games, because the pricepoint is like you said, bold.
The fucking dancing sequence gets me every single time. They make it seem so intimate, and emotional, then they start doing what is basically Fortnite dances.
@@moomooold It's in gibberish that's supposed to represent "all languages" for the player's experience (the game has a huge hardon for not giving text/words that had to be translated), but there is an english version that plays of each song if you 100% the world.
And then he drops his flowers and he's holding a knife. And then you hear a bang and it turned out the knife was a distraction for the gun in his other hand.
Looks like? This is absolutely a tax write-off. No sane human would look at this and think "yes, this is something we should legitimately sell for 60 dollars."
It was more like 'Yeah we got Yuji Naka, we're going to make an awesome platformer to rival Nintendo and all the old Sonic Adventure fans are going to buy it'. Then they quickly realised much like Shenmue 3 or Mighty No. 9, it isn't a good idea to pull a guy out of pseudo-retirement to work in an industry that's evolved into something he barely understands, especially when his recent track record has been low quality Wii projects and goddamn Rodea the Sky Soldier If it wasn't for Yoko Taro carrying them with Nier Replicant, SE's stocks would be in the toilet right now
The orchestration and timing of that final sequence is just perfect. Never though that Dunkey saying “this game costs sixty dollars” could function as a drop but here we are…
I've played the game. That one is no exaggeration. You literally can't decide when it turns you into a box. The box is uncontrollable, and has ice physics. It is HILARIOUSLY useless.
"The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office today arrested a new suspect, Yuji Naka, 57, a game creator, in an insider trading case involving information on the development of a new "Dragon Quest" game." "Before the information was announced, Naka allegedly purchased approximately 10,000 shares of Aiming stock for approximately 2.8 million yen. He was arrested for insider trading under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law."
how tf did square enix make this The highest rated version of this game is for the PS5 and honestly Astro's Playroom, a BUNDLED IN GAME, looks and is better.
This game is like when you're supposed to write a 5 page essay and only have a paragraph. Then, instead of continuing to write you just take that 1 paragraph and keep rewording it until you've somehow stretched it out to 5 pages.
This game reminds me of those kids shows where each episode there's a very specific problem with a very specific solution, then they sing and dance at the end.
@@snatcherofpeachs From what I've heard, it was deliberately designed that way because Yuji Naka doesn't think kids can handle having buttons do more than one thing. Mystery solved, problem not so much
I Will always defend that yooka laylee was a pretty good game with a God awful camera that made it seem like everythint was bad, but that was solid like 70% of the time. The people behind this understood what a collectathon was at the very least. I have finished it three times in fact. If you want to see genuinely bad platformer, I recommend you the ps2 era, there you will find real atrocities
@@javiergimenez40 I had literally zero issues with the camera at all, I thought Yooka Laylee was decent, nothing great tho. Haven't touched it again after my first playthrough
@@javiergimenez40 I always thought yooka Laylee got a unfairly bad rap from being overhyped, I never thought it was bad, I enjoyed my time with it but ultimately just kind of stock standard and didn't go back to it. I'd love to see a second one though, I'm sure they'd learn a lot.
What sucks about the whole thing is that a 3d platformer with like 50 powerups is actually a really fun idea, and they somehow managed to make every single costume feel like it’s working against you
Actually I disagree. If they made it with 10 powerups then you could make them very distinct. If you have 50 then none will be able to be fleshed out enough.
@@Bajonkas I actually really didn’t like Odyssey’s power ups. Mario is fun to control, he’s agile, responsive, and has a variety of jumps. Sure, some of the transformations were okay, but they were all less fun to control than Mario. I like additive power ups, not swapping movesets, where nearly all of the swaps are less fun than your regular Mario. That, plus the ungodly amount of filler moons and repeated content really got to me by the end of the game. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills over here having my 6/10 Odyssey experience while everyone else is acting like Odyssey cured their Mom’s cancer.
Fr, when they do the side by side aerials. I audibly gasped. I never could’ve predicted that they were also badass gymnasts Correction, everyone is amazing gymnasts lmfao
You know, it still upsets me that Balan's design is fantastic and could've easily been a highly remembered icon of gaming if the games he was in were good
😂 No it isnt. His design is some 2000s sonic cartoon garbage lol. Its part of what helps every part of this game be bad from the art, to the music to the gameplay its soulless.
It's complicated. Style wise, it feels generic and uninspired, probably because it was uninspired. That being said, the quality of the visuals itself is really nice, just generic. Same as with the music, it's nice, just generic and blatantly copying Mario as it was pointed out. There were clearly talented artists involved in this project, as usual, who either lost any motivations or were following orders in making this so generic, and that's only on the artistic side of things.
This feels like a children's Christian edutainment game without any Christianity in it.
Spot on. Especially the creepy adult characters. It seems like they should be voice acted and be telling the player something about Jesus or forgiveness while they do the awkward dance routines.
"Christian Edutainment" help me now...this is exactly what it is. The farmer gives kid diddler vibes.
Oh my god, that's _exactly_ what it feels like! I couldn't put my finger on what was so off about it until I read this.
If square enix made a veggietales game
@@black-n-gold dude don’t do veggies less dirty by comparing it to this...
"If you could have a superpower, what would you choose?"
"I want the power to climb webs that are facing the right direction"
Genie: wait webs have a right direction?
Because why not
I want the power to teleport but not through anything substantial.
-I want to be box fox!
-what's a bo...
-it's a fox that can change into a box when it wants to
-...
🤣🤣🤣
The Box Fox powerup is supposed to be a joke, but it falls flat when half the powerups in the game feel like jokes.
You misspelled all
Half the power ups?
Half? I'd like to know which powerups don't feel like jokes.
@@jonathanspolnicki1303 well the other half aren't funny
@@randomname9723 you right
The worst part is I bet Square Enix upper management learned the wrong lesson from this. Probably concluded "The failure of this means people don't want a 3D platformer." instead of "This is a terrible 3D Platformer."
SE told Naka that they weren't a company that MADE platformers, but were willing to give them a shot specifically because Naka was a legend in the industry. If anyone's to blame here, it's Naka for not releasing a good, successful product.
Saying Yuji Naka a "legend" was too much of a stretch. He didn't do anything substantial after 2D era of sonic, and he deliberately interfered with the development of later games only to boast his ego.
Oh I never said he was a good person. Just that he was considered a legend because he made a popular game for furry OCs.
@Ein Bro they literally fired him and pushed the game out 6 months early. What happened here is entirely the fault of Square Enix and nobody else. Why say shit like this when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
@@dokidokiduckie What exactly do you think would have changed if Naka was kept around for 6 months? This game was in development for 2 years before he was fired. If you or I did as bad at our jobs as Naka did for those 2 years we would have been fired too.
Remember, a whole group of people had to approve this.
Remember, some of those people were the same people behind Mighty No. 9.
None of them play video games lol
This is like having a bad high at Tetsuya Nomura's house.
Yeah I stopped listening to Dunkey when he said Balan Wonderworld was bad
I think it was less approval and more like they just gave up and didn't care anymore.
During the dancing parts I’m actually legitimately embarrassed for the characters in the game and they’re not even real.
I mean, its probably mocap so I guess you can feel bad for the mocap actors?
@@toastgoats7545 it's unity store asset level dance movement
@@toastgoats7545 Hell no that's not mocap...
I felt embarrassed for the dev team.
Tbh I think that's ligit the best part of the game
I really agree with the "devs trolling each other" theory, like maybe they were getting underpaid or something and decided to try and ruin the parent company by making a product that would definitely fail.
Square enix deserves it lol
I am certain this was a result of some very disillusioned programmers following a manager’s directions to the letter. Sure, they could have fought back against middle management’s insane ideas but why bother?
Apparently the director got fired early and they released the game 6 months earlier
Turns out it was because Yuji Naka got fired 6 months off of development, so whomever took his place probably did start said trolling.
@Erisidae so true
Notice how at 3:27 the farmer goes for a handshake while the firefighter goes for a hug 9:07 yet Square only gave the boy a handshake animation
Thanks
I don't think they expected anyone to make it that far into this game lmao
Dude don't make this weirder than it already is
Hahahahahah
I straight up thought the farmer and the protagonist were about to lock lips
Same ☹️
Old McDonald x Blue Inkling
@@greatwavefan397 EE Iii Ee ii o
That's what I thought too! I thought he was about to commit a crime.
Really? I automatically assumed the farmer was her dad.
How come every time there’s a dance scene it feels like the main character is entering a serious committed relationship with the guy
I wouldn’t know because I’ve yet to enter a serious committed relationship.
But if this is what it’s like...
Lgbtq people: "we want representation in videogames"
Big game company: "say no more, fan, i got you"
Its so weird. I cant tell if they are lovers, or father and kid, or something else? What emotions am i supposed to feel at this scene???
@@frego24 All of the above.
This feels like a acid trip.
"The design proposal included the 80 costume count as a hook, and Naka was sure he would need to halve the number as production went on. In the end and to his surprise, he was able to create all 80. The large number of costumes were made relevant by each having a single action tied to it, with only one button command so the younger players the team were targeting as part of their audience would not get confused."
you know, in case you were curious.
Reminds me of how Insomniac initially had a *lot* of concepts for weapons and gadgets in the original RaC. The difference being them having people that knew what they were doing so they focused on the ones that would actually be fun and/or useful for the player.
It's like Naka remembered that his one button philosophy worked really well on Sonic and he just thought he could also apply it to a 3d platformer in 2021.
They really underestimate how smart kids are
Meanwhile Kirby & the Forgotten Land only has 12 traditional copy abilities (not counting mouthful mode) and not only are they all fun, they have more than one use (aside from Sleep which is intentionally made that way)
@@El_Omar2203yeah but in that game you have to play as a foreskin and stuff Oreos into yourself (metaphorically; the Oreos are actually cars fridges and traffic cones) so
8:34 dunkey casually avoids another hat, cracks me up every time.
Nope!
Every time? Every time you watch him play this?
@@StealthyDeaddude why u got be such a fuckin nerd 🤓
@@StealthyDeadwhat about it?
@@StealthyDeadeVErY tImE? eVErY TiMe yOu wATcH hIM pLaY tHIs?
“Hey guys, I have a great idea!“
“Do you?“
“No.“
“Alright, let's do it.“
Ight this one got me good
Fantastic comment. 10/10
Sums it up perfectly.
How much do you want this game to suck?
“Yes”
“So you got a horrible idea for me?”
“Yes sir I do!”
“Great!”
This is like if every single 3d platformer ever made was fed into a deep learning algorithm
Must be a shitty algorithm
@@ilmu011 no it's a good one cuz it was fed every game including the bad ones, there are more bad games than good ones.
Haha true.
It's even got Rayman 3 gems
Needs more layers
Imagine having this amazing singing voice and the director hits you with "sing like you're a character from The Sims."
I mean it worked for Nier Automata.
"Oh, okay," you think. After all, the Splatoon franchise and its mascots embrace the silliness well. And the backing instrumentation to your singing actually sounds great, if a bit uninspired.
And then you saw how the rest of the game turned out.
"Ba-Lan" in my native tongue means "why fxxking bother". A very fitting name.
I'm curious of which language?
@@purpleapple4052 Cantonese
Somehow appropriate
They spent more development time on the dancing sequences than the entire game.
@@joey_bonzo atleast you could argue that there was enjoyment to be had in 06. This is just sad.
I will never call Kirby excessive ever again
The saddest thing about that… is that the dance sequence could’ve been a good qte like in the ff7 remake, but instead they wasted balan on making really bad qte segments. They could’ve at least made the balan sections into something like Superman 64. I mean it would still be a super shitty game, but at least then it would be slightly memeable in a good way.
The cut scenes, especially the opening one, is so fucking pretty. And the game is equivalent to a fart
3:12 - I'm really feelin' the soundtrack on this one... Also, I noticed that there is a total of 2 animation sets for the dance sequences. All the backup dancers on the outside of the ring have had their dance animations copy/pasted and are identical, then the main character and the farmer have the other animation. 10/10
The motion capture movement in this game is terrifying. Imagine being woken up in the middle of the night, you look across your room and see a farmer breakdancing in the corner before he slowly vanishes from existence
Ah yes, my new sleep paralysis demon.
i had vietnam Foodfight flashbacks during this video
It honestly gave me Killer Bean dance scene vibes but worse.
@Spatza low quality bait
It's scarier than that Six Flags dancing old man.
the line "it's the farmer" that dunkey says literally is a quote that i say all the time when i see a farmer
Including the insurance company?
Does anyone else for some fucking reason feel like he says "it's the farmer off of Undertale" every time they watch the video even though he never does?
@@randomname9723no but that makes sense, he does say "the ____ off of undertale" elsewhere n yr brain is just mixing it with "the farmer"
Yuji Naka failed the QTE and got arrested.
he balanbossed too close to the sun
💀
Other games: NPCs stop rendering when you get far away from them, in order to preserve memory
Balan Wankerworld: NPCs stop rendering when you get close because fuck you
no, it’s becuase of social distancing
HOLY SHIT THIS COMMENT IS LIKED HOW TF
@@BlxxdLxst17 its important for kids games to send a strong message to the youth on proper etiquette and behavior; nobody will ever love you, nobody even wants to look at you, let alone smell you, let alone actually TOUCH you, you're going to die alone and everything you ever find exciting is going to be totally useless and disappointing
its actually a 10/10 game but our society can't interpret such a brilliant artistic vision that actually includes a PRACTICAL and important LESSON
Ah the Cyberpunk “feature”.
@@Seedr0 dude are you ok ?
@@wolfenden9805 it was a joke
it’s long
cus it’s
a joke
The sheer emotion I felt when the dance scene happened will never be recreated in a million years
I mean tht dance part is probably the only part i liked its a shame i thought this game was gunna b good. Square is producing some serious duds latelu
It can, it recreates the cringe that pure disney movies give me when the singing and dancing starts.
@@thesamuraispirit7686 Except all dances look exactly the same and even take place on the same dumb ass floating platforms
@@Genojo 3d or 2d?
cause i agree 10000 percent if its 3d dont so much agree if its 2d.
"We DESPERATELY want the Yo-Kai Watch audience."
>On my death bed, with my grandchild beside me
>He tugs at my hospital gown
"Grandpa, do you want to watch Dunkey's Balan Wonderworld video with me, one last time?"
>It's our tradition to watch it once a year
>I shed a tear
>We start quoting the video from memory
>I start seeing black as the firefighter's dance song comes on
>The last thing I hear is "this game costs 60 dollars"
>It is the happiest I have ever been
❤️❤️
W
Don't make me feel things over a Mario Odyssey rip off for 5 year olds
You get to the afterlife and the Balan's Bout music starts playing, making you instantly realize that you're in Hell
Mf this is not 4chan
this is like if skylanders and mario odyssey had a child but the doctor accidentally dropped it on the floor a few times
A few dozen times
If you ever feel like your talents have been wasted, just remember that they made an actual book to go along with this game
i might be getting the book so I can try and understand the story and what they were going for, I'll update when I read it lmao
@@balanon_ @ me in the comment when ur done
@@borkogot5738 will do
I heard the book is actually not completely terrible. Helps that it's reasonably priced ($10) compared to the game.
@@reallyrll oh dude, I might need to get it now - I’ve heard the same things. I want to get it so I can enjoy the story without buying the game HAHA
“This game costs 60$” was the best joke of this video.
That's not even a joke
The game legit costs 60$
@@hamedalzarooni442 It's a joke it cost 60$
@@weap0nizedthiccness it’s real, it costs $60
You have to actually be brain damaged to pay 60$ for this pathetic bootleg lmao
@@RatKing2137 well actually the one whose idea was to put a 60 dollar price tag on this crap was the most brain damaged
I love how this game was just soo lame it was immediately forgotten. Being in this Dunkey video is the most cultural impact it’ll ever had. Just a complete waste of time, I feel bad for everyone who had to work on this.
I kinda hope that the developers made it shitty on purpose, to get back at swuare since they are underpaying their workers
No way m8, this is gaming's Plan 9 From Outer Space!
With the addition of Ladder Man, Balan Wonderworld becomes the true 2nd strand-type game.
"this game cost $60"
thats practically a steal for the farmer dance sequence alone
Pros: farmer dance cons: everything
imagine this as your first video game ever
@Followup Account I thought it was a cool ninja god of war rip-off back then
@Followup Account You just watched a video on Balan Wonderland and are convinced Ninja Blade is worse?!
Ya know I've never been so happy about how Sonic and the Black Knight is my 1st video game I ever played.
Hey at least 100% of the games you ever played would be up from there.
@@cyrilgigee4630 Isn't that assuming you're still interested in video games after Balan?
7:07 The composer must have been like "Ah, fuck, I don't have enough time to finish these compositions, I'm sure no one would notice if I just took one of the themes in Ghostbusters and change like two notes in it"
This game really makes you feel like youre Yuji Naka laundering money
"I discovered a glitch. They actually put in a power that does something"
My favourite sentence in this video
Yeah lol
Same
Pfp twins
Why does Nintendo even try when square Enix is putting out masterpieces like this?
Nintendo is going bankrupt if square enix keeps this up :(
nitedo is bank rubt :'(
ninbo is kill:(
@@bruhmentium2693 No....
pein260 true, they lost their brains
it's kind of impressive how they crammed so many things I naturally hate into a single game.
The only thing it's missing is a forced stealth section
@@ikebirchum6591and a water level
and a trailing mission
And an escort miss...wait, the Tims are an escort mission
Well it's got that covered
Dunkey's regret of encountering Balan after doing the skip is the reason why you don't fly too close to the sun
Was anyone else expecting a passionate kiss from the farmer? Lmao
I thought it was supposed to be her long lost dad or something, given all the jubilation. Then the exact same thing happened with another dude so who knows lol
Same
@@1000_Gibibit Mama Mia part 3?
I did
I was genuinely disturbed by those scenes. It looks like a fucking NAMBLA meeting or something.
Be honest. During the 1st dance section , your mind went blank for a few seconds before you realize what was happening.
Yep
Pretty sure your mind needs to go blank completely to even hope to complete this game.
I still haven't realized what's happening and why this game exists.
I was expecting a QTE for the dance sequence DDR style.
My jaw was open for the whole sequence, I was just astounded.
"I've discovered a glitch. They actually put in a power up that does something"
That one flew over my head the first time 😭
Each costume is just "convenient solution to specific puzzle"
More like most are completely useless and the ones that are useful are only used for a specific puzzle
The farmer dancing scene is a prime example of what all fever dreams are like
This whole game feels like a fever dream
I think i might have predicted this game when i had pneumonia a few years ago lmao
"Fuck it up, Farmer Ted!"
The dancing sequence is the only way to know if someone is TRULY your friend.
I loved this sequence and i am not sure if this was meant ironically by me or not...
This video is presented in 480p to preserve the original vision of Yuji Naka
This video is presented with 300K views upon release to perserve the statistical vision of Balan Wonderworld's regional sales
@@mboz_2108 you’re being way too generous
Mine only goes up to 360p
The “hit it paulie” kills me every time
mee too lmao
I just can't help but come back to see this masterpiece at least once a month
"What does this powerup do?"
"Oh, it opens a door."
"So it allows you to open a variety of areas and open the game world up more?"
"No. It opens one specific door. And then it's worthless."
Yeah
How could the game devs possibly think that was good game design XD
@@adamocarrillo344 If I had to guess, too many cooks in the kitchen and not enough communication between different groups. Just by watching the footage I could practically feel the work environment where nobody could just say no as more and more bloat gets added and it looks like the levels and powerups where designed separately and by different people and then awkwardly frankensteined together. Damned shame because I like aesthetic and was curious about it and thought the negativity might have just been the Sonic Curse making people hate it just cause, but now that I've seen the footage I see what the problem is.
It's like if Hollow Knight sucked
what a terrible timeline that would be
“this is the only game they have in north korea” -dunkey stream
@sannio komi yeah, like, take away the shitty physics, the shittier powerups, the even shittier minigames, the dances, and replace it with actual gameplay, and you've got a pretty decent game at least, specially coming from Square Enix.
@@TheKorenji I unironically like a lot of the designs... some* of the designs. I remember seeing balan the character in thumbnails before the game and I remember thinking “wow that looks like the guy from nights!”
You know... the Dreamcast game.
Look the point is they blew their budget on a decent designer that they fired halfway through and then they were left with twenty bucks to fund the rest of the project.
I’m one of the people who are positive this was going to be a mobile game that they (poorly) optimized for consoles and pc at the last second so they could charge the full amount for it.
@@AnimatedTerror God I miss NiGHTS
@@TheKorenji so your saying if we taking away everything and put in good things it becomes a good game
@@AnimatedTerror It's on purpose. NiGHTS is the game that made people think Yuji Naka is a video game auteur.
This game makes a lot more sense now that we know it was just a front for Yuji Naka to hang out at Square-Enix headquarters and commit white collar crimes. My man is now doing farmer dances in JAIL
"This video can't get any better"
Farmer: "bet"
Really makes you appreciate Banjo Tooie's ability to make playing as a washing machine fun.
I don't say this lightly, but this game makes you appreciate bubsy 3d
@@glendarjj3991 if a game is that bad that you enjoy bubsy, then you know you flipped up
Was the washing machine transformation any good in BT?
@@theweirdone64 to be honest, every other platformer now looks like a masterpiece in comparison
@@gamingnanimatingwithm.s.n.7011 It was alright, moving around was fun. It's at the most entertaining with the super speed cheat active though.
The second dunkey finds this cool exploit skip the game instantly recognizes he's having 210% too much fun and immediately sends his ass to balan's bout.
It's like he got Rick Rolled..!!!
Except Rick Roll is at least kinda fun...
Banjo-Cargo-Toogly!
Dog, use some punctuation.
I had a stroke trying to read this
@@SunlitSonata14272 shoulda check that out
This game makes you FEEL like a vacuum cleaner.
That's because it sucks.
*Ba-dum tish!*
The way the video is locked at 480p really makes you feel like Balan in Wonderworld
Those dance sequences are peak "turn the game off if mom comes in" energy.
How is this so accurate
Or “never play it if anyone is in the house”
I have been looking for a description for this feeling and you have said it perfectly.
Precisely
they remind me of youtube videos that use spiderman and disney 3d models and just have them do a stock dance animation and get 1 mil views because its made for kids
The powers in this game feels like trying to reach the word count on an essay
Literally it feels like they just wanted to be able to advertise as 'The most power ups in any game ever!' and then were like 'Oh we need to actually make all of them do stuff?'
@@Chibi_Rikka they legit just made simple platformer mechanics into individual costumes, like the gear one thats whole purpose is to turn gears for a single puzzle, or bulldozer pushing stuff, it's like those old fake NES games and shit that were like "700 games in 1!!!" but in reality it's just the same game with some assets changed 700 times.
@@lordpotatochips3973 Yeah it's honestly horrible. Even worse when you consider how overly done and boring those kind of mechanics are. I don't know anyone who actually likes the box pushing puzzle mechanic and yet they went ahead and made a whole powerup based around that.
@@Chibi_Rikka gotta love box fox though, i think that is probably one of the laziest, i almost guarantee they just made a fox model and decided "yeah fuck it just randomly place a cube object around it and call it a day", literally looks like a blender 3d model with no texture was placed around the original model, i hadn't bought nor heard of this game until charlie's video, but after seeing that and then dunkey's, this game gives me unfiltered and pure rage.
@@lordpotatochips3973 Oh yeah that looks dumb, especially the 'when it feels like it' mechanic, cause that's what I want from a powerup. I heard about this game when it was first announced and was super excited due to being a joint effort between Square Enix and the original creator of Sonic making a spiritual successor to NiGHTS, but then they showed gameplay and I was immediately put off and it somehow looks even worse now that they 'finished' it. I'm past the point of rage though, I just feel nothing towards the game, I only watched this video cause I was sure it would be funny cause it's dunkey, and I wasn't wrong there at least. xD
The stunned silence during the weird concert scene is somehow funnier than any possible commentary
a team of people programmed and coded the musical dance scenes...and nobody stopped them.
Dunkey thinking he was doing a sequence break with the ice costume only for him to immediately stumble into a Balan Bout is one of the funniest things I've seen
They messed up and made a costume I can have fun with!
> Enter Balan
NO NO NO NO NO
*BANJO TOOIE*
He got Balan Bout'd
I laughed so hard I cried😂
"Congratulations! You found a way to have fun in Balan Wonderworld. Here's your reward!"
The reward: 6:19
just letting you know that the farmer is being added to smash.
I mean, he is an anime boy with blue in his wardrobe. It only makes sense.
I'm gonna be a farmer main
Amazing, outstanding work as always. Arigato Gozaimasu or some shit.
thanks you mister nintendo. I would also suggest for you to change kazuya to the dead fish in tekken
Mr. Sakura here are some characters I want to see in super smash bros ultimate dlc packs.
1. Bebop, Rocksteady and Anchovy The Mutant Velociraptor (IDW TMNT Comics)
2. Klonoa and Guntz
3. Razor Fist, Amy Rose, And Thresher Claw
4. Gex and Busby
5. Michiru (Brand New Animal)
6. Susie (Deltarune)
7. Papyrus (Undertale)
Tails The Fox, and Kuma the bear
That’s about it hope you understand thanks 😊
Best part of this whole thing is 3:25.
Dunkey just stops talking and lets the stupidity of the scene speak for itself
gotta appreciate how they made all the powerups just usable for completing the main task but impossible for actually having fun with off the main path, incredible
Sixty dollars is so bold for this, you almost have to admire it
Well it has a couple big names behind it.
I have no idea what the big names were doing though... outside of ruining their good name.
I mean duh it costs 60 dollars because they had such amazing characters like mother effin HOT HEAD!!
Im surprised that they didnt just slap a fat ol $70 price tag since that was supposed to be the new industry standard.
I like the game, but I also have to fully agree with you, Sixty dollars is really bold for this. The game is nowhere as complex as others, graphically as detailed or much longer then others. I not even want to compare it with other games, because the pricepoint is like you said, bold.
@@hammerandpickle7390 Don't forget generic farmer model number 5, and who could forget generic firefighter model number 7
The fucking dancing sequence gets me every single time. They make it seem so intimate, and emotional, then they start doing what is basically Fortnite dances.
Fortnite dances hurt you inside, eh?
also, the lyrics sound like gibberish. I genuinely can't figure out what language the song is
@@moomooold english lol
@@ted9030 really? it sounds like gibberish
@@moomooold It's in gibberish that's supposed to represent "all languages" for the player's experience (the game has a huge hardon for not giving text/words that had to be translated), but there is an english version that plays of each song if you 100% the world.
It’s been two years and I still have to come back here every now and then to make sure that this was real and not just a fever dream I had
I love how everyone I've seen play this game become speechless at the first dance scene lol
This is like those sitcoms where the guy goes “At least this can’t get any worse!” And then the door slams open and you see the clown
And then he drops his flowers and he's holding a knife. And then you hear a bang and it turned out the knife was a distraction for the gun in his other hand.
bass riff plays
@@Direwoof seinfeld?
*T h e c l o w n*
that is grade A top tier high quality
*comedy*
This looks like something Square Enix would publish as a tax write-off.
LOL!
Looks like? This is absolutely a tax write-off. No sane human would look at this and think "yes, this is something we should legitimately sell for 60 dollars."
Hehe
It was more like 'Yeah we got Yuji Naka, we're going to make an awesome platformer to rival Nintendo and all the old Sonic Adventure fans are going to buy it'.
Then they quickly realised much like Shenmue 3 or Mighty No. 9, it isn't a good idea to pull a guy out of pseudo-retirement to work in an industry that's evolved into something he barely understands, especially when his recent track record has been low quality Wii projects and goddamn Rodea the Sky Soldier
If it wasn't for Yoko Taro carrying them with Nier Replicant, SE's stocks would be in the toilet right now
@@soupmug How do you people think tax write offs work lmao
The orchestration and timing of that final sequence is just perfect. Never though that Dunkey saying “this game costs sixty dollars” could function as a drop but here we are…
I must be tired af but the zoom in at 8:46 absolutely murdered me
Turns you into a box WHEN IT FEELS LIKE IT
Not even the power ups from the Wario Land games were this inconvenient, and they we're anti power ups that would make Wario suffer.
Jesus Christ I thought you were being facetious! That is HORRENDOUS.
I've played the game. That one is no exaggeration. You literally can't decide when it turns you into a box. The box is uncontrollable, and has ice physics. It is HILARIOUSLY useless.
And stretch his arms out to fire his Coconut Gun
@@LtLabcoat It's Kirby's Stone power-up but done HORRENDOUSLY wrong.
Mario walked so Balan could soar through the air and kick rocks.
Looked like mario soccer on Wii to me
Hey aren’t you the guy who said sonic stories suck now
@@teryliuhoo5989 ye thats me
@@Jacadamia knew it
mario odyssey walked so balan wonderworld could float upwards very slowly, before crashing into the ground
"The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office today arrested a new suspect, Yuji Naka, 57, a game creator, in an insider trading case involving information on the development of a new "Dragon Quest" game."
"Before the information was announced, Naka allegedly purchased approximately 10,000 shares of Aiming stock for approximately 2.8 million yen. He was arrested for insider trading under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law."
Holy shit...
1 second in the balan wonderland feels like 100 years in the real world
the dance sequence stunned Dunkey into silence for almost 30 seconds
He was clearly speechless at the masterful performance of the farmer guy
when he reacted to it on stream, he was cracking up
The makers of this game watched the shit out of Shrek 2 lmao
I had my mouth agape the entire time. At first I thought Dunkey edited the music on top of it but... no lol.
There's one after every boss fight
The essence of "We have mario odyssey at home"
Truly
That’s cool **slaps ass**
This is like dreams quality odyssey except some of the stuff on dreams is actually enjoyable
@@Nanaman720 This entire game looks like it was made in dreams engine
how tf did square enix make this
The highest rated version of this game is for the PS5 and honestly Astro's Playroom, a BUNDLED IN GAME, looks and is better.
3:33 POV: You're Shinji undergoing the Human Instrumentality Project.
This game is like when you're supposed to write a 5 page essay and only have a paragraph. Then, instead of continuing to write you just take that 1 paragraph and keep rewording it until you've somehow stretched it out to 5 pages.
wow that's actually a great analogy
lmfao yes
I hate how apt this is.
So modern BioWare games then.
*shots fired*
So true
This game reminds me of those kids shows where each episode there's a very specific problem with a very specific solution, then they sing and dance at the end.
honestly seems like what they were going for. game for toddlers.
Except it's even an insult to toddlers.
Mickey mouse club house lmao
@@snatcherofpeachs From what I've heard, it was deliberately designed that way because Yuji Naka doesn't think kids can handle having buttons do more than one thing. Mystery solved, problem not so much
@@grunkleg.3110 damn. I pity his kids.
Yuji Naka has been sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading
I love how everyone's reaction to the dancing scene with the farmer is just laughter and them going "wtf"
They spent the entire budget on those sick dance scenes and then realized they were making a video game not a musical
wouldnt call it sick 😅
@@LeafysHere I would call them sick. But more in the classic sense of the word.
@@DrunkenCoward1 i developed a new form of aids by looking at this game
@@DrunkenCoward1 thank you.
@@DrunkenCoward1 true
The farmer dancing is when I realized that we were taking Yooka Laylee for granted
Compared to this, Yooka Laylee is looking like the best platformer ever made
Banjo Kazooie pfp checks out
I Will always defend that yooka laylee was a pretty good game with a God awful camera that made it seem like everythint was bad, but that was solid like 70% of the time. The people behind this understood what a collectathon was at the very least. I have finished it three times in fact.
If you want to see genuinely bad platformer, I recommend you the ps2 era, there you will find real atrocities
@@javiergimenez40 I had literally zero issues with the camera at all, I thought Yooka Laylee was decent, nothing great tho. Haven't touched it again after my first playthrough
@@javiergimenez40 I always thought yooka Laylee got a unfairly bad rap from being overhyped, I never thought it was bad, I enjoyed my time with it but ultimately just kind of stock standard and didn't go back to it. I'd love to see a second one though, I'm sure they'd learn a lot.
Please don't spill me in the soup.
This game was so bad, it got Yuji Naka arrested.
What sucks about the whole thing is that a 3d platformer with like 50 powerups is actually a really fun idea, and they somehow managed to make every single costume feel like it’s working against you
Actually I disagree. If they made it with 10 powerups then you could make them very distinct. If you have 50 then none will be able to be fleshed out enough.
@@11th_defender51 odyssey has a bunch of powerups and they're all cool. It's a little bit different but i think it's possible to do it right
Dynamite Headdy has a similar concept (interchangeable head powerups) its actually fun and it released in the 90’s!
Honestly the designs were pretty interesting. Too bad the powers are limiting the gameplay instead of enhancing it.
@@Bajonkas I actually really didn’t like Odyssey’s power ups. Mario is fun to control, he’s agile, responsive, and has a variety of jumps. Sure, some of the transformations were okay, but they were all less fun to control than Mario. I like additive power ups, not swapping movesets, where nearly all of the swaps are less fun than your regular Mario.
That, plus the ungodly amount of filler moons and repeated content really got to me by the end of the game. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills over here having my 6/10 Odyssey experience while everyone else is acting like Odyssey cured their Mom’s cancer.
Didn't think it was possible to get second-hand embarrassment from a video game.
Nah but this is actually how I feel
*Why is everything so fucking underwhelming*
I've only played the demo but I feel ripped off
Bro, did you just call squenix cringe?
@@Leadvest Yes.
6:10 killed me 💀
Just when he thought he was gonna have a bit of fun lol
Releasing this game on the switch that has Mario Odyssey is like putting a McDonald's in a steak restaurant
borger
This game really makes you FEEL like you wasted 60 dollars
I only watched the video and I still need my money back
If you spent $60 on this, you weren't responsible enough to have $60 in the first place.
@@ydoomenaud rip
@@deoxyribomorph99 damn you’re right
I bought the PS5 version and have enjoyed it.
This is the 2021 version of all of those 1993-1995 games that were supposed to outdo Mario before failing miserably
Bubsy Wonderworld
wouldn't it be more like 1996-2002 bc that was after Mario 64 but before Sunshine
Balan Wonder-Gex
I mean, it's literally made by the creator of Sonic. Trying to outdo Mario before failing miserably is probably the purpose of his life.
@@CaptainFalcoyd hey be nice, I liked Sonic Colors, and I know Generations is good too
I feel like this is the bubsy 3D of our generation
A moment of silence for all the kids who got this game instead of mario odyssey
This game’s cutscenes look like those UA-cam videos for kids where random inanimate objects start breakdancing to nursery rhymes
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Tbf the actual cutscenes look fine. The dance cutscenes on the other hand...
Adolf hitler jumping on the bed 😂
reminds me of the movie foodfight tbh
I am the glogogabgalab
It’s like Gex if his jokes were power ups, truly revolutionary
You fool. The game ITSELF IS the joke
Ooh, I unlocked the Arbor Day At Martin Lawrence's House powerup!
mmmmm check pleeease : The Game
ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT GEX JOKES ARE BAD!?
Except Gex jokes would be far better lol
This is the kind of game you remember 20 years later and go through life wondering if it was actually real of just a dream you had.
This game looks like a bad acid trip
the farmer dance scene is so unhinged that it makes me feel like I'M the insane one
I've never felt so gaslit by something so random
Fr, when they do the side by side aerials. I audibly gasped. I never could’ve predicted that they were also badass gymnasts
Correction, everyone is amazing gymnasts lmfao
3:42 these things dance like the ogres from Shrek 4
“This is like, playing Balanwonderland at Yuji Naka’s house.”
"I'm Joker now"
If you told me that the dancing part with the farmer was one of those mass produced UA-cam kids video... I'd believe you
90% of it is the weird fucking motion capture.
Ay yo dont disrespect farmer teds sick moves, did you see that cartwheel he did?
it had hallo aus berlin - wann hast du geburtstag vibes imma be honest
2:07 "One button to press to beat the whole game." THAT is some EXCELLENT foreshadowing
You know, it still upsets me that Balan's design is fantastic and could've easily been a highly remembered icon of gaming if the games he was in were good
😂 No it isnt. His design is some 2000s sonic cartoon garbage lol. Its part of what helps every part of this game be bad from the art, to the music to the gameplay its soulless.
It's complicated. Style wise, it feels generic and uninspired, probably because it was uninspired. That being said, the quality of the visuals itself is really nice, just generic. Same as with the music, it's nice, just generic and blatantly copying Mario as it was pointed out. There were clearly talented artists involved in this project, as usual, who either lost any motivations or were following orders in making this so generic, and that's only on the artistic side of things.
It's a similar design to characters in Nights into Dreams. It's outdated, Sega Saturn looking trash lol
this is like the video game equivalent of those algorithmically generated spider man versus elsa videos
Why did you have to remind me that those exist?
I remember opening yt in netcafe and the first video is about elsa and spiderman kissing lol
God, I got flashbacks to my childhood
@usernames are stupid oof
@@usernamesarestupid7104 Oh god you got affected