Balan Wonderworld

 PlayStation 4
User Score
5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 220 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 119 out of 220
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 220
  3. Negative: 97 out of 220
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  1. Anamiq
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    If you give to this game an honest good chance, like playing world 8 and 9 of this game, I know for sure that can be a nice surprise for many people around the world.
    And if you add the cool soundtrack to the package, you obtain something that you really don't wanna miss it.
    Trust me. It's actually great
  2. Yvhes
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    I've really enjoyed my time passed with this game.
    Sure isn't implacable, but the platform section of world 5, 7, and 9 are just AWESOME.
    You should try this kind of magnificent section to realize the true scope of the game.
  3. Ghylliam
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    When you unlock the most useful and fun costumes of the second half of the game, the mechanics becomes more interesting and cool.
    And the gameplay of the game evolves.
    This is the kind of things that I'm personally adore in the platform games, the secrets to discovering in each world of the game.
    Really positively impressed.
  4. Menuvez
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    Loved it.
    One of the best platform games I've played in this gen.
    I highly recommend it to anyone who wants experience a nice game
  5. Lunalight
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    I love this game, it's beautiful such amazing art design and visuals it's cgi is fantastic as well. I had a ton of fun playing this with my kids. Reminds me alot of the games I played when I was there age. It's game play is easy but not bland and get more challenging as the game goes on but not unforgiving. It was nice to finally play another great 3D platformer and these are starting toI love this game, it's beautiful such amazing art design and visuals it's cgi is fantastic as well. I had a ton of fun playing this with my kids. Reminds me alot of the games I played when I was there age. It's game play is easy but not bland and get more challenging as the game goes on but not unforgiving. It was nice to finally play another great 3D platformer and these are starting to come back again.… Expand
  6. Ezhyq
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    Absolute funny and cutie game.
    It's something really interesting to playing, especially when you make a full immersion on it, and you find out that really blast of genius design that I love.
    Deserves all the penny spent for it, imho
  7. MinatoKun
    Mar 27, 2021
    10
    I love the platform levels made for this game.
    And I also really love all the art style of the characters like Balan.
    It is so fun to play, especially in co-op, that I've gladly start a second run with my son.

    This game is special.
    Definitely better than many platform games of today's
  8. Martyboi
    Mar 27, 2021
    8
    So far I'm enjoying the game. They have improved it slightly from the demo & have made the characters move faster which now actually makes it trickier to jump on smaller floating platforms. I'm on world 8 & have only unlocked 34 costumes out of 80+ so still a lot more to find! It really doesn't matter that its all done with one button because it works fine like that & doesn't ruin it. SomeSo far I'm enjoying the game. They have improved it slightly from the demo & have made the characters move faster which now actually makes it trickier to jump on smaller floating platforms. I'm on world 8 & have only unlocked 34 costumes out of 80+ so still a lot more to find! It really doesn't matter that its all done with one button because it works fine like that & doesn't ruin it. Some costumes can't jump (while others can hover or fly) & that is all part of the challenge of choosing the right ones out of those 80+ for the level.… Expand
  9. Eddie-Bim
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    Balan Wonderworld is the most surprising and colorful platform made today.
    And I'm satisfied by this awesome product
  10. Ichyto
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    An enjoyable and rewarding experience, after all.
    I'll give this a try, and then I've finished with an happy face.

    This game rewards the player for all the discovery made it.
    And the whole game it is also sustained by the ingenious platform design of the levels, the engaging Boss battle, and the marvelous soundtrack.

    A more than optimal game so
  11. KrilinPhil
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    This game is AWESOME
    Don't trust the 0 score babies

    Give it an honest try with the full game

    Because this is one of the best experiences ever made
  12. FuscoRo
    Mar 29, 2021
    10
    Definitely one of the best platform games of this generation

    An Instant classic game, and an ingenious platform to play
  13. WillyZen
    Mar 28, 2021
    10
    A charming game, full of cutie details and charm.
    It is really a cool game to play, and the challenge proposed by some of the advanced levels are pretty hard.
    The artstyle is Top, and the soundtrack is just wonderful.
  14. Gurenn
    Mar 29, 2021
    10
    Most charming game ever made.

    I think that everyone should play this incredible beautiful platform game. Because it's actually great
  15. Limiro
    Mar 29, 2021
    10
    Exist people that just doesn't even play this game, and they also try to boycott it with false 0 negative reviews.
    LOL

    Just ridiculous babies
  16. HonestGamer22
    Apr 12, 2021
    0
    Don't believe in any of the score = 10 - the accounts that claim this game is a 10/10 are accounts that have ONLY rated this game in their user history. More than likely these accounts were created by the very developers or backers of this trash of a game. Truly a scam. the people involved in letting this game to be sold at all should never develop a game again. A more realistic user scoreDon't believe in any of the score = 10 - the accounts that claim this game is a 10/10 are accounts that have ONLY rated this game in their user history. More than likely these accounts were created by the very developers or backers of this trash of a game. Truly a scam. the people involved in letting this game to be sold at all should never develop a game again. A more realistic user score is closer to 0.… Expand
  17. hampact9
    Apr 12, 2021
    0
    Legitimately one of the worst games I have ever played. The controls are oversimplified and unsatisfactory. The way the level builds folds around your character makes me nauseous. It is a game with lots of squandered potential. What makes me even more upset, is all the paid 10/10 reviews on here. This game is barely a game. It is barely an alpha build for a game. It is a pretty piece ofLegitimately one of the worst games I have ever played. The controls are oversimplified and unsatisfactory. The way the level builds folds around your character makes me nauseous. It is a game with lots of squandered potential. What makes me even more upset, is all the paid 10/10 reviews on here. This game is barely a game. It is barely an alpha build for a game. It is a pretty piece of eye candy that is basically scamming people into buying it. This should not be bought or sold by anyone.… Expand
  18. hama33644
    Jan 30, 2022
    1
    Absolute garbage, plus the publisher or whoever pays to or up faked positive reviews….
  19. greninjaX
    May 11, 2021
    0
    what a waste of time. square enix doesn't make video games, they make movies disguised as RPGS. they could never make a platformer. and yuji naka is the guy who made sonic. he's never made a good game in his life. the man has no talent.
  20. Xeculiar
    May 16, 2022
    0
    Pros: there is literally nothing good about this steaming pile of ****

    Cons: literally everything about this trash

    and most of the positive reviews are bots
  21. davidthesloth
    Aug 1, 2022
    2
    nope, just nope. forget this game exists cause you're better off, trust me.
  22. Zachu
    Mar 13, 2022
    0
    Played this with a friend on PS4, definitivley the worst multiplayer experience I have ever had the displeasure of undergoing in my life. To start, the second player in multiplayer is taped to the singleplayer, and you each share 1 screen; hope you like teleporting around the map, Player 2. I do not feel bad giving this game a big fat zero because of the bafflingly stupid design decisionsPlayed this with a friend on PS4, definitivley the worst multiplayer experience I have ever had the displeasure of undergoing in my life. To start, the second player in multiplayer is taped to the singleplayer, and you each share 1 screen; hope you like teleporting around the map, Player 2. I do not feel bad giving this game a big fat zero because of the bafflingly stupid design decisions that plague every step you take. The level design is the most straight forward crap you could ever imagine. There is barely any creativity displayed in these levels. Your moveset in a 3-D platformer is jump, every godamn button is jump on the controller and when you use a power sometimes you have the inability to jump. The costumes are not fun in the slightest, not even the ones that let you cheese the broken piss poor game design are fun. The steamy **** on top of this cake is probably the presentation, offering an overly abundant amount of ugly motion capture to every character and enemy making them look like lifeless puppets. When a character does a backflip in Balan Wonderworld its a motion captured human doing a backflip. If I were to see a human do a backflip I would be like damn that is impressive, but when it's pasted onto a cartoon character that you can animate to do anything you want it comes off lazy and sloppy. AND they retail it at $60. Avoid this game like the plague.… Expand
  23. Normaliv
    Mar 31, 2022
    4
    This game is similar to writing a book, but publishing the 1st draft. It almost makes sense in most regards, but just misses the mark. After playing the game, I genuinely did not even understand what the story was about, and the platforming was just, meh. So overall, a pretty bad game, despite the 10s from lots of people./
  24. Catboy
    Apr 15, 2022
    0
    Such a perfect game rhehdixytyhehrguguidjsbdbdhdjcuvjfjrbebebsjdicuvuvvrnrnnfdkfjdjfjtcjfnrbt
  25. Robloxian
    May 11, 2022
    0
    WORST GAME EVER idk why but whenever i get a new power up it replaces something that is required to play the game and the dance every time i finish a level
  26. WaluigisRevenge
    Jun 17, 2022
    0
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  27. gingee
    Jul 1, 2022
    0
    Just... *vomit*...
    First off, the performance. God... GOD awful.
    Second, the story... still waiting on one... Third, the graphics. They're fine... I guess... the artstyle is what brought me in to wasting my money. Fourth, misc. I HATE how this game does it's """""platforming""""". You get custom costumes by playing the game or doing tasks. And some, just remove your ability to JUMP. IN    Just... *vomit*...
    First off, the performance. God... GOD awful.
    Second, the story... still waiting on one...
    Third, the graphics. They're fine... I guess... the artstyle is what brought me in to wasting my money.
    Fourth, misc. I HATE how this game does it's """""platforming""""". You get custom costumes by playing the game or doing tasks. And some, just remove your ability to JUMP. IN A PLATFORMER. STOP GIVING THIS LAZY CASHGRAB OF AN EXCUSE FOR A GAME POSITIVE REVIEWS. 0/10.    … Expand
  28. Bl41
    Sep 8, 2022
    0
    never played it, just rating it because everyone thinks it's a bad game, thats all
  29. ImmyandPTsmack
    Apr 9, 2021
    4
    I really wanted to like this game but it really isn't good. Yuji Naka is past his prime and proves he can't compete. And careful with the 10/10 reviews. They are clearly false. They all use similar language and grammer
  30. Log2001
    Apr 11, 2021
    0
    Such a pitiful game, this is gonna kill off any future project Yuji Naka has with SE. This was supposed to be his big comeback into gaming, but instead it's easily one of the worst games I've played in a while. There's parts of the game where it chugs really bad and the resolution drops for seemigky no reason. Those moments take place in the cutscenes made in the game's engine where itSuch a pitiful game, this is gonna kill off any future project Yuji Naka has with SE. This was supposed to be his big comeback into gaming, but instead it's easily one of the worst games I've played in a while. There's parts of the game where it chugs really bad and the resolution drops for seemigky no reason. Those moments take place in the cutscenes made in the game's engine where it shouldn't lag. There's plenty of other games that are waaaay more intensive than this that run near perfect on a base PS4 console, but the engine they made this game in is absolutely awful. I would not recommend this game to anyone who enjoys playing platformers or games in general. It's a poorly made game by a man who used to make good games, but it's more than clear that he doesn't know how to make them anymore.… Expand
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 6 out of 10
  1. BaziCenter
    Apr 22, 2021
    35
    Balan Wonderworld is a boring, dull and dated platformer presented in a beautiful package to persuade parents who are looking to buy a game for their children.
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  2. GameOver.gr
    Apr 16, 2021
    30
    An oversimplified control system and an archaic level design could have been a fad if Balan Wonderworld had been released more than a decade ago. But in these times, Balan Wonderworld is nothing more than an uninteresting, tasteless relic of the past. Players who are interested in beautiful, fantasy-inspired platformers have many more interesting options out there to pick.
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  3. GameMAG
    Apr 5, 2021
    50
    All in all Balan Wonderworld is an archaic action-platformer with tons of shortcomings in terms of level design and overall presentation. If you love the genre, you would probably be repulsed by this game, instead of welcoming it with open arms.
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