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"He lost once, so he plays against children to feel better" Wasn't this an episode of iCarly?
That's just competitive Pokémon.
That's just Alpharads job
Yes.
he actually lost on purpose in the game, though it’s hard to tell
@Paraster lol I was thinking thinking that
20:26 “It gets hit by a car” being immediately followed by the game actually having the cat get hit by a car fucking killed me.
The subsequent laughter is gold.
Same with the deforestation joke.
But it didn't kill the cat.
They ripped this off yokai watch lmao
No it killed the cat not you
For some reason, I feel like Balan would be a Tumblr sexyman if this game was less obscure.
it's because he looks like fucking Jax-
@@ZaqTheMan I made my comment before Digital Circus was released, but now, I can’t unsee it.
@kokopium8003 I suddenly had the feeling, so I just HAD to.
I can already see the blonde white guy gijinka of balan
he actually is one. there's a very thriving tumblr fandom for this game.
14:29 "You had 17 jump buttons and you didn't use any of them." is the most specific and funny insult lol
The best part about the dance scenes is that everyone has flat, dead faces as if their being forced to dance
we have to dance or Mr balan will get the belt
Like puppets on a string
Balan wonderworld propaganda
They could have had everyone have permanent smiles like how Balan kinda looked like he had.
Well they are
6:46 "do they....kiss?" I swear that had to be almost everyone's first thought when that cutscene played
Your doppio pfp is how I feel about those cutscenes
What part of the video?
6:46
Im not sure if they kiss I think she just tackled a man twice the size of her
i swear i thought that too. it's the romantic music
Fun fact: Almost 90% of the actual story of this game was sold in a separate art book that might have also been JP exclusive
To any video game developers who might see this: DO NOT put the main plot of your game into a separate book. The main plot belongs IN THE GAME.
@@MajoradeMayhem I know right? It seems to be more prevalent for JP developed games. Like it’s just more common. Sometimes manga will have a canon video game that ties one part of the manga to the next, which gets extra confusing. Cuz if you don’t play the video game there’s just info missing.
@@MajoradeMayhemno i think it should be done for the sequel for this award winning masterpeice
well not artbook, just regular book. And not JP exclusive either. But yeah in an attempt to make "a game anyone can play no matter what" they ended up making a game noone can understand no matter what
"is this an allegory for ww2? several minutes later "he's probably just bad at art"
underrated comment
NAH 💀💀💀
“Is this is a story based game?” “This is just a based game”
You see that’s where you’re wrong cause it is neither based or a game
No sorry this game is bluepilled
game
Based on what?
@@current9300 based on you havin 0 hoes
I’m convinced this is the dark parallel reality alternative to one where it was called “Balan Wonderland” and was the greatest game of the decade.
we are the bizarro universe, a one-off joke where the main reality laughs at the weirdness of ours. Heck, we even got a reality television star to be our president. Regardless of your political stance, you have to admit that sounds like a joke reality.
@@jasonbrose6743 i fuckin hate this joke i wanna go to the fuckin prime universe
Tbf this game COULD be such an awesome game... it has a great idea the theme arround teather and broadway dances is an awesome gimmick and the actual story (THAT WAS RELEASED IN A FRICKIN BOOK) is pretty damn good. Its such a wasted potential that makes me sad actually
@@mauriciomeireles1210 i'm most broken up because Balan actually looks really damn good, like he looks like something from Danganronpa, he has the same vibe as that Danganronpa teddy bear
@@mauriciomeireles1210 I agree! I'm a sucker for fantasy stories that focus on someone helping other people's inner struggles that literally transform them into monsters. Plus, the whole aesthetic of the game is amazing, it's zany and fantastical in a willy wonka kind of way, which I love so much! I just wish it was put in a game with actual good controls and a more polished experience.
12:10 "This costume's lantern flickers on and off WHEN IT FEELS LIKE IT, allowing the wearer to Illuminate dark areas." That, more than anything else, absolutely kills me.
it could’ve just said “for a certain amount of time”.. sigh
when i first saw this comment i thought you were quoting alpharad or something. like it was some kind of bit that i just forgot about. no. that's literally just how the game describes it. why is this game like this
@@SQUISHYCANDYGUTI mean true, but they could have bound it to a button... any butto- OH WAIT THEY CAN'T BeCAuSE ItS AlL JumP.
@@darrellwillis4871GAMe dEsigN yAY
at 32:49, the Invisible Man costume has the same text. that's what kills me. THERE'S MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF THAT
My interpretation of each story Fuck-It-Up Farmer Ted: Lost years of hard work due to natural disasters but finding a small remainder of corn that survived gave him hope to restart Diver: Was friends with a dolphin (big mistake), the dolphin tried to kill her, sending her to the hospital, which made her afraid of the water, but she got over it soon Bug Girl: A girl obsessed with bugs tries to connect with others but gets bullied instead, only to find people who share an interest with her later Pilot: A guy who dreamed of soaring through the sky constantly fails and the video didn't show the end-dance cutscene so I can't draw a conclusion Nature Woman: A woman has the forest she loves get cut down by people who never stopped to give a shit and then she teaches them how to give a shit Cat Girl: A girl loves her cat a lot. Cat gets ran over. Girl is sad. Cat comes back. Girl is no longer sad. Grandmaster Wannabe: A guy who had a very high win streak on chess got so obsessed that he didn't care about anything else. He loses once and goes crazy because god complex. He gets over it by letting a kid win. Ice Queen: A girl who lost her parents in the winter gets too scared to love her fiancé thinking that, if she loves him, he'll die too. It's resolved by them marrying and her realizing that winter's a bitch Clown: A guy fears that he will be rejected if he puts on the persona he uses for entertainment purposes, so he confesses with his true personality Artist: A highly renowned artist gets crushed by pressure of trying to magic something up through artist block (artist block is just 'you can't get creative') without disappointing people. She resolves it by somehow finding inspiration and making the next masterpiece Firefighter: A firefighter fails at his job in saving people, blames it on himself, and loses all courage. Resolved by gaining the courage to rush through a burning building and saving the survivors Grandpa: An old guy who picks up litter out of the kindness of his heart constantly gets his hard work reversed by an entire wave of litter being thrown on the ground by entitled people, thus making him feel like nobody cares about him. Resolved by one person not littering through the kindness of their heart Protag: A person who can't dance saves everyone from their worries and regains the ability to dance
Misread the chess guy as Grandma Wannabe.
“Mom I went on a magical journey and now I finally have enough confidence to tell you, I’m going to clown college and you can’t stop me”
Good job Steve O
"Ok. I don't think any of us saw that coming."
“Okay sonny boy!”
College
What a clown.
the sad thing is the fact that the entire story of the game is in the novel. The chess Guy's actual story was that he was obsessed with chess and when he finally lost his title he found out he neglected his dying wife and came home to find her dead and he fell into a depression. Once the main characters restore his heart he moves on to tech the next generation how to play chess.
This went from 0 to 100 real fucking fast
I feel like all of the character stories aren't awful, but the execution kinda killed the meaningfulness of them
That’s fucked omg
Ok but the way they showed it in the game was just "guy loses a game of chess then gets better when he wins against children" but honestly that's incredibly sad
He teaches the new generation chess. Of course! So that THEY can then be distracted from their dying family and friends. Makes perfect sense.
My favorite part about this game is that Yuji Naka committed insider trading against Square Enix after this game bombed. Really classy, Naka.
From what I’ve read about this guy he’s only notable for coming up with the concept of Sonic (Mario but he’s a ball) and not really anything else. And even then the actual character designs and gameplay were done by other people
@@duckbuster1572 You make it sound like ain’t nobody know who Sonic is
@@duckbuster1572 Bro really tryna slander Sonic the Hedgehog by calling him “Mario but he’s a ball”
@@mettawatkutaninwat5411 You misunderstand. Sonic is a fleshed out character with an iconic design and unique gameplay. This guy had an idea for a Mario game where Mario was replaced with a ball that rolled around really fast. The character design, level design, and gameplay were actually created by other people. The role he played was very small and had little to do with what led to the game's success.
you forgot to mention: not only does EVERY new costume require a Key to obtain, some are well hidden, AND if you take ANY damage from ANY enemy, the costume is LOST and you have to unlock it again... which often means re-starting the entire level. AND using costumes in different levels from where you found them can have crazy results! oh, one more thing: the game has a 2-player co-op mode, and of the players TOUCH, they get stuck together, allowing one player to control both characters... AND, if the second player presses any jump button at the right time, you can DOUBLE-JUMP, even with NO costume!
WHAT
God, makes this game sound more like Balan BROKENworld to me. 😭😅
Love how the tragedies of these characters range from "My entire family died" and "I lost a dear childhood pet" to "I had artist's block" and "I, a firefighter, was alarmed by the fire"
Don't forget "I lost a game of chess."
@@jasonkeith2832 and "frick, I'm a nerd who likes bugs."
@@abbycollins and, "DAMMIT! I'M A CLOWN!"
A dolphin maimed me
Next is gonna be, “The underside of my pillow was room temperature”. Balan Wonderworld 2, I’m calling it
I had a fever dream last night, there was a new level of Balan's Wonderworld. Its fucking Grubhub. The boss's back story was that the kid dropped his burger.
i can see the cutscene so vividly
Ayo new Balan wonderworld dlc 😳😳😳😳
oK😐
LMAOO
XD
This is probably my 10th time watching this and I just realized that Balan is in every flashback, so my theory is Balan makes these people lives miserable just to kidnap them, and Evil Balan is just a manifestation that actual Balan made to try and stop the kids from helping everybody.
OOOORRRRR you could just read the novelization tie-in that explains Balan and Lance's backstories.
@crystaljon you shouldn't have to do that to understand the story of a game. It should've been explained in the game
I mean you're remarkably close to the actual lore, even if you got it exactly backwards, so good job!
Let’s rewrite the story of Balan Wonderworld. Starting by renaming it Balan Wonderland. Balan lives in Wonderland as the caretaker of people’s hopes and dreams. When not helping people he is performing in his theatre for the denizens of this magical world. While performing a sudden darkness encompasses his theatre. There are 12 people who have lost hope. Awakening Lance, Balan’s shadow who grows stronger the more souls lose hope. Lance transforms the lost souls of these 12 people into monsters who terrorize Wonderland. Lance’s goal is to break down the walls between worlds and bring despair upon all the souls of the real world. The hub world is Balan’s theatre. With various wacky means to access other places of Wonderland. As you progress you get more people living in the theatre that help you in some way. Power ups, skill upgrades, costumes, etc. Balan’s basic move set is a double jump, backflip, a slide kick, wall jump, and a punch. Upgrades include a cape that lets you glide, wacky melee weapons like a big hammer, throwing cards like ninja stars, a floating power, and a mega jump. Power ups are fire that lets him lite fuses, do a ram attack, and melt ice. A lightning ability that lets him run fast and activate machines, with certain areas letting him ride power lines. A climbing power that replaces the wall jump and dig up treasures. A rolling power that bowls through obstacles and enemies. And a phase power that lets him walk through walls. Each power up can be upgraded in the theatre and can be swapped for at any time. After saving the souls, Balan returns to the theatre to find it taken over by Lance. The final boss takes place on the stage. Going from the 3D boss fights to a 2D one as Lance attacks from backstage with props. It finally ends when Balan uses the power of hopes and dreams of the saved souls to banish the darkness within Lance. The ending shows Lance is now performing with Balan, free from being a shadow and devoted to despair. He found the dream he truly wanted, to be his own person like Balan. The End
Ngl, this is a pretty good concept for a more coherent story than what’s shown in the game, provided we’re actually told the story instead of having to read a tie-in novel
Good idea
Damn I wish THIS was the game's concept, it's just so well thought!
The last part is so awesome! It would add to the Balance theme so well!!
Wow, I'm glad this is the canon version of Balan Wonderland.
"Is that a love interest or a child?" "God I hope it's not both."
Same
When do they say that
@@nathanmartinez4718 23:35 after the chess guy fight
I hope its both 😳 (This is a joke)
@@patriciacardenas958 you and i are not so different (this is a joke)
This game is a perfect example of a group project, the animators did an amazing job but everyone else didn’t
That's not fair, I say the composer and character designers pulled their weight 😂
@@casperrabbit7254 Music, designs, and the primal idea were delightfull. But then there was story, gameplay and the rest...
@@casperrabbit7254 yea ur right
@@gaburieruR The story's fine, it's just... not in the game. Or barely in the game. Like what kind of story doesn't even bother telling you the names of over half its characters?
I'd say cooking makes a better analogy. You can have all the most premium of ingredients but it will still be a waste if you don't know the recipe. Sure this Flatbread is salvageable if used like a tortilla, but everything was prepared with intention to make a fluffy loaf of bread.
30:39 Ladder man is so powerful he can spin a ladder without even touching the ladder
Wireless touching
Balan still has a pretty unique character design imo and I kinda love it.
I quite enjoyed his design and pretty much all of the bosses' too But good lord why did they turn him into a human in the end
It looks like the Lidl version or Arsene from Persona,not really
He looks like a tumblr sexyman ngl
“Is this a story based game?” “It’s just a based game” So true bro
Redpilled game.
My exact thoughts
All I want to say is baron is just based hisoka
that was such a raw line on jawsh's part
Based? Based on what?
i like how two of the stories were "my cat literally died" and "my parents are dead and i don't love anyone anymore" and the final one was "people litter"
Priorities
"i lost a chess game"
And don't you dare forget "people don't like what i like"
But like, it's not. It's about being underappreciated for the work you do. That's why the chapter was called "the man no one saw" and why he was invisible in cutscene. I know it was REALLY subtle and all, but bear with me on this.
@@Glitch_Man42 yeah but the funny interpretation is funnier
32:50 I find it funny how the invisible man costume says it switches between visibility and invisibility when it feels like it.
"Does she believe in deforestation?" is SUCH a wild line with SO MANY implications
Balan Wonderworld is like that one kid who spent 3 days studying for a science test, but did that studying for a math test. You can't deny the effort they made, but they most certainly put their effort in the wrong subject
No, because studying math can actually help with science. It's more like they studied archaelogy for a math test.
I agree. Make this into a movie or netflix series and you'll have all my money. But I aint buying a game that plays like garbage.
It’s more like they spent hours perfecting their handwriting for a math test. Sure their handwriting, looks nice, but they have no idea how to do it
@@brethebird3148 that sums it up best they polished the cutscenes so much they forgot they were making a game
They might have studied, but they still get an f lmao
moral of this game: if you have social anxiety, just backflip
If I could back flip I wouldn't have social anxiety.
@@fictionarch there you go, learning already
"Oh, you have social anxiety, just fucking dance!"
But a backflip is a 360! You can't turn your life around with a 360
@@tinkerermelon6599 Proceeds to stop at 180 degrees and starts walking like a dog in Minecraft named dinnerbone.
I like how Square Enix’s solution to not putting crucial story elements into their games that would make it less confusing is “Eh, make a movie or a book or something”
Its a shame this game is so badly written because the visuals and art are beautiful! 😭
generic trash
This game to me reminds me of the ads you get for games the art makes it look really good but in reality the gameplay is the total opposite
Apparently this is because only the artist was doing the role he was good at. For the rest, the game was pretty much an experiment for the roles they don't usually do.
you mean extremely generic?
If you love this 2d art, you most love most games. Bc 95% of them look better than this game!
It’s even worse. The guy you played as was so good at dancing that he felt ostracized from his peers because of how good his dancing is. That’s the book.
moves so good they gave me depression
The fuck ? Is that legit ? And people all over the comment section praise the book like it's a masterpiece. God damn.
@@miserirken shmoovin to an early grave
@@sirocco2810 when compared to the game, it is a masterpiece. It isn't a hard feat, of course, but at least it made sense.
@@LockeGran I respect this take
the game gets rid of the protagonists depression by giving it to me
and me-
"Here player take this so our protagonist doesn't have to deal with it!"
Everyone say thank you Kagamine Len for absorbing our problems
@@benotafra1d Thank you banana boi
equivalent exchange
I can't tell if the lyrics of the dance segments are an odd Japanese dialect or a fake Sims language, but I won't look it up "BALAN'S AN ORDAINED MINISTER!?" This just killed me just as much as it did the first time I watched this
It's deliberate gibberish. There are "translated" versions of all the songs. The lyrics have all the originality and emotional depth as a bumper sticker.
You can seach for Balan Wonderworld's OST and find that all the songs have versions with actual, spoken lyrics. They're all very well performed too, if not a bit campy. Largely just "feel-good" songs meant to just be uplifting, because that's kind of the entire theme of the game. Moving beyond the bad in life and finding good together. Even the theme music of the game itself is a full 2 minute song, which is unironically good. The problem is that for some esoteric fucking reason that we won't ever know unless Yuji Naka is forced into a life or death situation and made to explain it all, they decided it would be an apex brained idea to replace all the lyrics with baby-speak gibberish. Surely a decision made halfway through the same bowl he was smoking when he decided that that every climax should just be a recycled dance sequence with emotionless stage enemies instead of, you know, actually explaining what the fuck happened so people didn't have to buy an arbitrary tie-in book.
@@Mgaugeit's like splatoon but worse
i saw this in a different video: if you manage to 100% the game, find ALL the items and get all "perfect" in ALL the "Balan Bout" scenes, one of your rewards is: ENGLISH LYRICS in the dance scenes!
@@kotozaki-psplatoon is at least like...garbled Japanese or something
To be generally honest, this game has its charm and its withdraws. While I do see many of the things that make it not as good at ALL, you can see here and there that some people in the team actually wanted to give it their all, such as some of the art, character designs, and sometimes even the animation (not all of it though). Like in some cutscenes, you can actually feel a nice warmth to it, kind of like the ending scene where everone thanked Balan. Breaks my heart even more seeing the art and such at the start of the video that actually look like it has passion in it. If the team was set up right, I'm betting this game would have been a unique one of it's kind. Not record breaking, but would definitely stand out more positively.
Yeah I agree don’t know how they got it so wrong
I too hate when my social anxiety causes me to be transported into a metaphysical dream dimension overseen by someone who doesn't know how to wear a hat.
i like vodka
just a typical tuesday for me tbh
Yeah! I was promised a train that goes on forever!
@@Sandux930 same
My guess is that he’s supposed to be the foil for the kids in a sense. He’s got magic but he was anti social and shy so he wore the get up to preform but also interact with people because he couldn’t do so normally. The kids overcoming their issues and thanking him in the end made him take it off because he was inspired to try and make friends on his own.
Fun fact about this game, all the cutscenes were added later into development because play testers had no idea what was happening so square Enix got a different company to just add them in at the last minute
And they did an amazing job.
And the best part? We still don't know what's happening! 10/10
Apparently they didn't send it back to the play testers.
Why is this me when I finish an essay but didn’t include everything I needed from the prompt
Not just any different company. The guys who make the FFXIV opening cutscenes
37:48 this part just yells at you: “Yay Lance is dead! 🎉🎉🎉
Other Characters : *Near-Death Experience, Lost Loved One, Can’t Make Up Mind* Chess Guy : “no i lost at chess 😢”
"What are you in for?" "My entire family died" "Cool, my invention broke and I got mad"
I love the implication that this is just a fucking prison
@@shadowsableyexd2660 It is
"I lost a game of chess." "Oh it must've been a pretty important game, did they take something from you?" "Yeah, my dub"
i lost a a game of chess
@@Asa44y But to someone whose entire world and self is predicated on being the best, losing shatters everything. As an anime example, look at someone like Vegeta or Kaiba. They see themselves as the absolute pinnacle of what they do (martial arts and Duel Monsters, respectively), and their first real loss causes them to briefly snap (and in a way, they never quite recover, thus their obsession with beating their rival)
"I think its to remind the protagonist that he has social anxiety" But yet he's been dancing with everyone he sees for 13 chapters
its helping him not have social anxiety
It's because he forgot that's why he had to be reminded!
@@bombyman84 10/10 plot
this game skips the entire prologue and setting to pop us right in the middle of the story. Which is incredibly shitty. Leo actually meets the people in the Wonderworld and actually develops bonds with them, the he and Emma remember this, they are unable to turn into Guardians and Balan is capable of telling them what actually was going on in the Magical Theater, so they decide to help him wake up the dreamers of the Wonderworld and make them face their problems, to resolve them. The moment their stages change to battle mode is on the middle of the story, when Emma and Leo receive the power to use the power of dreams to turn into the denizens of the stages and use their abilities. Another shitty thing, is that there were a lot of scenarios they were able to use....but a review panel was the one that chose the most "safe" of the scenarios. Remember, this place is for people with severe trauma......so yeah, there were a lot of darker scenarios. The girl that got her cat ran over and the bride whose family died were among the original darkest ones.
@@garreonlefay6703 question: why do you know that? Why did you bother to know that?
I love how the cutscenes are meant to be heavily symbolic and their just taking them all at face value
Half frustrated half tickled pink
"Wow I hate when I lose at chess *once* .
I think theres a limit between symbolism and gpt-generated nonsense
You can't tell me that there is any symbolism that justifies the guy losing at chess once thing that isn't from the novel
tbf it's so poorly presented that there's not any other way to really take it
So you see, the story of this game is quite easy to understand. Balan is a demon who waits until people are at their lowest point and offers them deals to get out of their problems, and you are trapped in the prison made from the souls he's claimed over the years. A prison he calls his Wonderworld. The world-theming and the first cutscene in every boss encounter shows what drove the victim to accept Balan's "help". The boss itself is the imprisoned soul, now dark and vengeful against its tormentor, and is freed once you defeat it (hence the dancing / celebration). Then the last cutscene shows the result of Balan's deal: he gives them exactly what they ask him for, but he knows their souls are bound by his contract and will end up in this prison eventually. Lance, a rival demon, had infiltrated Balan's Wonderworld to steal these souls and, in doing so, destroy Balan. That's when he makes a deal with your character. Your character's deal with Balan was to be able to make friends. Normally the price for this deal would be your soul, but with the threat of Lance to contend with, he decides to set his price as the death of Lance.
I once got my head actually stuck in a top hat as a kid, and Balan's design reminds me of that, except maybe a universe where I either couldn't get my head out and had to cut holes in the hat for eyes, or I just straight up suffocated and still couldn't get the hat off and then decided to become a ghost stripper once of legal ghost age. Horrifying.
I'd watch that anime
I'm happy we're in the universe where you're alive, but I can't help but feel we're missing out on undead ScarfDragon stripper of legal ghost age because of it.
You know your history can be a balan chapter "the kid who has nightmares with hats"
@@ycleptprof.5249 tfw no undead ScarfDragon stripper of legal ghost age bf
I died at *ghost stripper*
The worst part about the Polar Express cutscene is that it serves literally no purpose. Trains are meant to take you to different places. But all that happens here is you circle around the island, and then go right back to where you started. You get on this fantastic magical train, and go NOWHERE!
Just like Infinity Train but Not Good
@New Under Craft no 796 like now
Like in life in general
Also the train it Balan wonderworld is like if the train in Japan just went around your house
Alex the 9 has better trains
Can we just talk about 33:08, where he's nearly at the end of the game with 1634 ball things, and this game has prepared itself for you to get over 1 fucking million of them...
12:22 The sound effect for the light turning on and off sounds like Sparx from Spyro. Specifically, when you click in the right stick and he points you in the direction of the nearest uncollected gem.
"The Man Seen By No One": Credit where it's due, they understood well how many people would make it to the last level of the game.
Ouch, wicked burn. Made me laugh!
"The cats gonna get hit by a car" The game immediately after: "CORRECT!"
*yokai watch theme starts*
@@swallow_skyla3602 I miss him
@@swallow_skyla3602 lol
And then the girl comitted suicide by jumping into the sewer lol
*seconds later* *extreme laughing*
Balan just said :are you ready to trust yourself and your friends? Me: no Balan: I don’t care 🤷 And then he gone
Ah yes the artistic temptation to redesign this thing and make it actually have an intresting plot that makes sense
“Is this a story-based game?” “It’s just a based game” Fucking golden
I know right
Classic Jawsh
Iconic
It is definitely one of the games I've ever played.
I remember that line when I first saw this but I can’t find it now
It's so annoying, because this game could've been such a good "fun" way to teach kids how to process all kinds of emotional stuff, like defeat, loosing someone you love etc. But instead they did this...
Y e h
Or it could've been a story telling masterpiece about letting go of your grief in a Willy-Wonka-esque fantasy narrative.
It's like someone gave that pitch to an alien who had no conception of human emotions or experience and could only try to imitate them while hoping that no one would notice.
@@Ciretako Either that, or they fed countless of musicals and feel good movies to an AI and this is what the computer generated based on those.
@@abbycollins That would also be coolm
It almost feel like someone in the game’s team heard that metroidvanias open up more of the world because you got a new power, and then said “I can do that” when they, in fact, could not
6:53 “Your a pretty strong Pokémon trainer! I can’t wait for our rematch!”
"Morale of the story: if you're getting bullied... Stop" This got me dying really hard
A lot of topics have been handled really badly in this game.
If you're dying, stop
@@Simon-yp7rv Because you can't do a character arc with a 20 seconds voiceless cutscene
I feel like there was some kind of Mandela effect because there's no way I'm the only one that thought this game was called Balan Wonderland
painful thing is that the name "wonderworld" actually has a reason..... in the fucking novel. spoilers: . . . it's because the world is known as "wonderworld" that the characters start to think "well if its called wonderworld and not just 'the world', then it must be fake" and thats how they realize they're in balan's theater. game kinda shafted the story? hell yeah.
i searched up about this and apparently because when they were announcing it last year they DID call it wonderland by accident
@@liben5052 yea most of the time when a story is adapted you’d get it just by the adaptation but they really threw it out the window, I thought it was just SQ having one of their employees on a drug trip writing the story
@@lanceylagan9826 😂 of course they did
no i thought the same thing. i think it’s because it literally just sounds so right your brain convinced you that it is
18:24 “I’m pulling my jaw up off the floor because I’m just in awe that they could make a game that was this good” Greatest quote ever
27:26: This line came right out of nowhere and sounded plain dark.
This game is like if Persona 5 and Disney had a deformed child, and then Disney cheated on Persona 5 with Hamilton, and then the house caught on fire and Mario Oddessy jumped in. *chef's kiss*
Mastahpeece lmao
Why does this make sense?
This is exactly it
This is very oddly specific and I'll die for that
And they are all cousins
Fun fact: dolphins have the capacity to be evil, so the dolphin from chapter 2 was definitely trying to kill the girl
Yes
God, in all hail King Julian the dolphins try to kidnap sharks to sell to the Russians
That's pretty tame for dolphins
They're kinda into recreational murders and gang r*pe. Dolphins are fucked up.
Well that took a turn
Why do the cutscenes in this game look so good
When the cutscenes are better than the game in its self💀
This whole game feels like a whimsical and silly April fools joke
Still can’t believe this is a game that exists
Guess what today is!
Balan’s character design is amazing, so this is just a tragedy.
yeah, the game itself looks awesome. really wish it wasn't crap
Balan just looks like every tumblr sexyman and the other designs are... well they're really bad
@@arachnofiend2859 some of the boss designs are really cool though
You can see the Nights oozing out of Balan
@@matthewwylie2735 And that makes sense, considering the head of the Dev Team was the dude behind the original Sonic Games.
My least favorite part of the game is the fact that if it had been released like 6 years earlier balan would be the most thirsted after character on tumblr and honestly that scares me
There would have been yaoi fan art of him and Lane Ship name Balalance
@@flowersandcheesecake1710 you are correct and I absolutely hate you for it 🤣
@@agent_8167 ☺️
@@flowersandcheesecake1710 wouldnt that be like selfcest?
@@breannecandelaro8013 Yes
Love how Square Enix's logic was hiring the two guys that made that one game for SEGA 30-ish years ago that a lot of people liked so they could get in on that sweet sweet 3D platformer action
And then made a platformer game that is is the most basic kind ever- game could have been actually decent
This game doesn't deserve this high of an animation budget
But in its defense, its what saved this game from even worse critics.
I love how “her entire family died” and “he lost once at chess” are treated as the same in this game
Is it not?
and people litter
I actually feel the way it handles some of these things is kind a true to life. It’s very clear that some of these things aren’t actually “problems“ but they mean a lot to the character. There are many people in this world, including myself, that put a lot of themselves or their emotions into something that admittedly don’t really matter. A lot of people do it for different reasons but I’m not one to judge and I can’t make that call. There were also some things that were in the book that didn’t get conveyed in the game about why characters had problems the way they did. The guy who “lost the chess game“ actually was feeling a sense of grief because after he began spiraling downward trying to figure out why he kept losing in chess he didn’t notice his wife was getting more sick and she passed away causing him to blame himself. Really would’ve been great to see that in the game. I’m getting off topic. One of the things I felt the game handled really well was even though it was obvious to the player that not all these things had the same weight to everyone, no one person‘s problem was treated as though it was worse than the others. Just because we agree that losing someone’s family is worse than not being able to ask out your crush, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t still horrible for the people involved.
@@w.o.iproductions248 you're looking deeper into this than they probably did
@@w.o.iproductions248 dude calm down this game is not worth a collage essay
Only one sentence was echoing in my mind during the first dance scene: “fuck it up farmer Ted”
FUCK IT UP FARMER TED!
What's that from?
@@M12GProductions From Snapscubes playthrough
EFF IT UP FARMER TED
*Dougal pops up from the hay bails dressed as a meerkat*
this game is like if sonic(specifically the chao garden stuff), mario, and klonoa had a god awful love child its like as if they tried mashing what ppl love about those and failed horribly
I love how they just progressively go through the 5 stages of grief with every dance scene
Nobody: Balan Wonderworld: *"C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S S H I N J I"*
Would have been nice if the monolough from the english dub would have been at the ending.
O M E D E T Ō
hahaha got me with that one
In a way, it's a very similar situation. Learning to get past one's trauma, to not let that consume everything.
Did you see that, Shinji?
Welcome to suffering, my friend.
There’s a hot farmer character there is no suffering friend. (´∀｀)
Suffering did not include dancing until now :)
At least he didn't play multiplayer
Choc, I'm so sorry my guy. You didn't deserve to play through this entire game
You love it dont lie.
A KZhead Short from this channel convinced me to add _Balan Wonderworld_ to my Steam wishlist. Now that I’ve seen this entire video, I’m even more determined to experience the game for myself.
Fun fact the actual story for the game is in a book that you have to pay separate from the game
The dead cat arc in particular upsets me, because I looked it up, and it turned out _the cat didn't actually get hit by the car._ That cat the girl found in the ending cutscene? _It was the same cat._ She freaked out and gave into despair, or whatever the fuck happened, and _she didn't even bother to check if the cat actually died._
Sounds like an overly cryptic way to teach about Schrödinger's cat
Tbf tho, think the girl was v young (or the sleepiness could be getting the best outta me, who knows). It is understandable if she got too scared to look at her possibly dead cat's ran over corpse with guts spilling and just assumed. (Note I said understandable, not good)
@@yasminsilva340 Fair, but I think she could’ve at least asked someone else to check.
@@Crazy56U From what I understood, it was like- as soon as the cat was "ran over", she despaired and got into the wonderworld (correct me if I am wrong). Thus, it is possible she went to the wonderland before she could even have the time to ask someone to check.
@@Crazy56U tbf, the game (or at least the video) left it rlly unclear about when exactly the chars get sucked into the wonderland... Hard to tell.
You know, considering ice girl’s trauma is that her *family literally died and she can’t bring herself to be emotionally vulnerable with another human being again* , she would’ve made a better final level than “I feel like nobody appreciates the work I do”
These definitely need to be reordered for sure- I'm like 90% sure they kept them in the order they came up with them in.
Shes a better final boss
the art girl should be next to the farmer dude because their scenario is kinda the same
@@tonykhang1984 thsts something that depends on the person. In my opinion, losing your family is way worse
@@phantomnite i was talking about the next to last person who didnt lose thier family and the first one who also didnt
The fact that it has so much potential with the high level of animation, yet it sucks at everything else (except for the costumes the vacuum is gold 😂) is just 💀
I think it would make a pretty fun game if there were the different costumes in a more regular 3d Mario style platformer and actually a story that made some kind of sense
Looking back on this game, the costume mechanic would be pretty interesting if each level was a creative puzzle that you could incorporate any costume you've collected in the past into solving. That would require effort though.
Yeah that’s my thoughts as well don’t know how they messed this game up so badly
The costume mechanic was stupid because they made like, 60 costumes which only each did one thing, and that is including basic things like jumping and shooting. A non-moron would've made 10 costumes that all could do basic combat and jump but also a few other things. Like that old original Xbox game Kameo.
Ahh yes, the main character of the story, once a boy with social anxiety, now a boy with social anxiety, PTSD from being kidnapped and forced to solve other people's problems, and sick dance skills
But those dance skills tho
@@abbycollins the dancing reminds me of the cod bo2 secret ending with avenged sevenfold
@@kaproskarleto5136 PFFFT OMFG!!!
@@abbycollins they dance like a roach that got flipped over while it was on LSD
Balan’s Wonderworld 2 will include such riveting stories as “the man who found the crossword too hard for his liking” and “the girl who burnt the toast.”
If only the team that made the game didn’t get disbanded for making such a terrible game
Or “person spills milk”
Dont forget "a war criminal who cant look in the eyes of his own family because of his guilt" but that motivation is kinda mid ngl
@@user-bd1mg3zh6y I agree, I think the better story was “The man who opened the door for a woman, and she didn’t bang him in bed”
"The creator who was arrested for insider trading"
Omg I just realised: with Balan as good and Lance as evil, you can find true harmony when they're together.. in BaLance
Jawsh's perpetual tiredness really adds something to this experience. Also these characters and cutscenes unironically look like mobile game ads. I thought that farmer dude was literallt from a mobile ad.
Fun fact: Balan and Lance were named so their names formed "Balance" together, which goes back to the whole deal with people getting transported to Wonderworld when their heart loses balance like the wiki says. If this game had a cohesive and/or well-developed plot, I'd find that small detail incredibly satisfying.
Balanlance
@@hirako7620 balanlanlance
@@user-4erdsghn7e balanlanlanlanlance
@@flopdeop135 balanlanlanlanlanlance
Banban😊
14:25 "dude you had 17 jump button and you didn`t use any of them" crack`s me up every time
I dunno man, should've had 18 jump buttons.
@@RGC_animation nah 20, gotta round it up
21:02: I assume her cat came back to life, somehow.
I love how they Made Balan just be a guy wearing an oversized hat. And to be fair, some of the cutscenes do look really good
Balan Wonderworld's plot feels like it had narraration at some point, then half of it corrupted and they were like, "Fuck it, we don't care enough to add more so let's just get rid of all of it."
Well, they actually just moved the plot in a novel but yeah. That's about right.
The plot is "losing your family and losing in a chess match are tragic the same since the both have the word losing in it. meh smort"
I think the devs intended for the game to be a lot more in depth with it's presentation, but the execs said "no, kids wont understand that" and so here we are.
@@Hero_Of_Time241 Would've been better if the severity of the inhabitants' depression escalate, with chess guy and litter man being the first you encounter, and ice girl being the last
i feel like this game was made by the same people that make bowling alley animations
Bowling alleys when you get a strike: the entite famly dieing
The characters actually have good, especially balan he looks amazing
Has the same characteristics like: annoying, useless, not funny or fun and what the fuck is happening????
21:38 Same energy as “Have you ever had a dream that-that you that-uh you that-“
*loses chess once* *has a fucking panic attack*
Then feels better after beating kids at chess.
@@bast4rdlyreaper average ocd chess player gm
You'd be surprised how many people have those kind of issues to be honest.
You could shove Dora the Explorer's "We did it!" song and it'd fit with every single one of these dance numbers. You can't tell me otherwise.
I hate you for saying this.
The first song almost begins the same way
exactly
you deserve more like just for how right you are...
Honestly it would probably be better, at least then I would somewhat get what was happening
So the stories range from “I lost in chess” to “Everyone I loved is dead”
You forgot the last part “People litter even after I pick it up”
And "the fire I had to put out was scary"
Don’t forget “I had artist’s block for a short while”
Wouldn't even be so bad if it was the other way around. Start the game on litter guy and then build up the stakes, games usually start on 0 and build up to 100 not the other way around.
"my friends dont like bugs"
23:59 this is me when I lose in a game while just havin fun so I use one of the op things I have and completely dominate and go back to havein fun
most of this game feels like A Hat in Time if A Hat in Time saw it had an assignment due in 3 hours, downed an unfortunate amount of illicit substances, and kinda just... *went for it.*
I - I - fuck - I - jesus christ, I looked _directly at_ the game's name like _fifty times_ and I _swore_ it was Balan Wonderland holy fucking fuck it's like all of reality just shifted around me
it’s because a lot of reviews called it balan wonderland then even the marketing department mistakenly called it balan wonderland
It's like the Mandela effect
I just read your comment and it just happened to me.
Honestly didn’t even realise it was WonderWORLD and not LAND until I read this comment. So thanks for enlightening me I guess
DUDE same exact thing happened to me!!!
I think I’m gonna like this “I played *blank* so you don’t have to” kinda series.
Like when someone plays horrendous flash games, which are now extinct, on Girls Go Games for the first time?
18:50 is this loss?
The not blank series recoated
i played you like a fiddle so you dont have to
knowing alpha's reputation with series, i wouldn't get too attached
This hits different after learning Yuji Naka was arrested for insider trading.
welp...
Them:We still do not know the relationship between her and this man, is he her babysitter? The photo of him proposing minutes prior: Am I a joke to you?