Square Enix allowed players a first look at Balan Wonderworld back in January, and the reception was mixed to say the least. Many criticised the movement controls, wonky camera, and general presentation of the game. Our sister site, Nintendo Life, were not impressed to say the least. It looks as though that criticism has been taken on board, as a day one patch is coming, which is said to rectify an array of these issues.
In a new blog post from the game's producer, Noriyoshi Fujimoto, it was acknowledged that there has been "a wide range of opinions and responses to the demo". He later added how "it simply isn't feasible to reflect every piece of feedback into the game", but there will be a day one patch to address some of the problems players have faced.
"There’s been a wide range of opinions and responses to the demo, and unfortunately at the current stage of development, it simply isn't feasible to reflect every piece of feedback into the game. However, to offer you all a more balanced gameplay experience, we will be implementing a day one patch for the full game.
Specifically, this patch will adjust movement controls, camera movement, and rebalancing of the difficulty. There's just over a week left until launch now, so I hope you all enjoy the world of Wonderworld to your heart's content!"
While it won't address everything, it does seem to be a good starting point and may just even rope some people who in who had completely written off the demo. It remains to be seen how effective these updates will be, but with just under two weeks till the game's launch on March 26, it won't be too long to find out.
Will you be giving Balan Wonderworld another go? Let us know in the comments below.
[source square-enix-games.com]
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""There’s been a wide range of opinions and responses to the demo, and unfortunately at the current stage of development, it simply isn't feasible to reflect every piece of feedback into the game."
Translation - people hate the game, but we are well beyond the point of no return, so we'll do the best we can to make it more pleasant and hopefully get some sales.
I look for this to hit Game Pass by summer.
Unless they're going to update the demo to reflect these changes, I'm still out.
Yeah, cancelled my pre-order and not looking back. Sorry.
Q) Will you be giving Balan Wonderworld another go?
A) I most certainly will, though to be fair, I had nothing but good things to say about the demo. It was a relaxing experience with incredible comfort to the overall feel of the game and a ton of charm.
I suppose looking back on it that it was a bit easy and rather sluggish, but that didn't stop me from having fun with it.
I wanted to like this game, I did. But I don’t think a patch is going to fix the game design. It’s soo cute and music is so good but :/
@Souldin are you going to play it on your channel?
I wanted to like this game because i am a fan of Japanese games in general... But when i saw and played the Demo, i felt like it was a different version of Super Lucky's Tale... and that game was already made. So it's a no for me unfortunately...
Does the update include a whole new game? Because that's what was needed.
Really wanted this game to be good but the demo just felt so off, like the game was from the ps2 era and definitely didn't feel like it was a AAA game, calling it now that it will be on gamepass by the end of the year
Its gonna be on gamepass in 3 months tops.
This game has mostly had negative feedback around it so if it does flop really badly will it ever actually be added to gamepass? They do have minimum standards for what gets added and if it's not drastically changed from the demo i don't see this getting approved for gamepass.
@mousieone First off, thanks for remembering about my channel; warms my heart.
Secondly, playing this game is certainly something worth considering. It does have co-op and having a more positive playthrough of this game might make it a unique one for folks to watch.
Right now my concern is seeing whether I can get my Switch version preorder of this game changed to an Xbox Series X version. GAME didn't have an Xbox version available until recently but I had preordered this game after the demo (I wanted a physical version, so with no Xbox Version at the time, I went with the Switch version).
@Souldin ah yeah Square Enix is kind of weird over there ... Like Switch things get physical first in EU/UK but Xbox is usually the other way around .
Well I’ll look forward to it if you do play
@mousieone I managed to get the game on Xbox Series X in the end, though I wasn't able to cancel the Switch version. Luckily, it's a good child friendly platformer so I've decided to give it as a Birthday present to my nephew.
An yeah, my brother seems up to playing it on the channel, so after our current Knack 2 let's play has finished uploading, we'll starting a Balan Wonderworld playthrough. That should begin sometime in May, so I'll a note and tell you when we do.
@Souldin awesome sounds good looking forward to it. Hopefully it changes my opinion about the game
@mousieone I don't think YouTube links are against PureXbox policies (apologies if they are) but I just wanted to send you the link to my Balan Wonderworld playthrough which has just begun uploading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBfUSJUvB8A
It's a co-op playthrough with my brother which makes for some rather unique approaches to the levels. I hope you enjoy it.
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