The giant friendly farmer of Balan Wonderworld haunts me. Its characters feel ripped from a Nights into Dreams sequel - particularly the eponymous Balan, a flamboyant showman who pulls a young man and woman into a colorful fantasyland. The 3D action-platformer’s game world is rich with the grassy greens and energizing blue skies of a 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog game.
(The full game drops in March.)īalan Wonderworld is a new project from game director Yuji Naka and artist Naoto Ohshima, and it harkens back to that duo’s early creative works at Sega. 28 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The same holds true for my time with Balan Wonderworld’s new playable demo, which arrives Thursday, Jan. But I’m glad to have known such weirdness. I saw Cats on a lark out of morbid curiosity, and still have conflicted feelings about the whole jellicle experience. Balan Wonderworld had already featured plenty of ambient dancing, but this spectacle was on an entirely new level. I beat him back into human form with a couple punches to the paw and a blast to the derrière, and we celebrated with song and dance. I sat stunned after watching an in-game musical number starring my player character and a corn farmer, who had just minutes before been transformed into a giant clownish dog by an evil wizard. The same sense of confusion and awe at witnessing Judi Dench and Idris Elba in singing cat form is evoked by Balan Wonderworld.
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Balan Wonderworld awakened a feeling I haven’t experienced since 2019, when I saw director Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the musical Cats in a movie theater.
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