I beat the game, yet it never addressed once why repairing this thing was ever important to the plot at all. What is the Clock of Happiness? I have no idea. Why are we feeding them? So they can operate a machine that eventually leads to repairing the Clock of Happiness. What are Tims? They’re creatures you have to feed crystal drops that you collect. And that’s not even counting the hub world, the Isle of Tims, where you take care of fluffy bird creatures known as Tims. The Negati just sort of appear throughout the stages with no explanation of what they are and why you need to stop them, and Lance only pops up when summoning mid-bosses and appearing in occasional mini-games, never getting any dialogue that tells us who he is or why he’s doing…well, anything. Unfortunately, outside of an opening cinematic that establishes only the barest, Balan Wonderworld never attempts to explain what the main plot is or even why Leo and Emma have to do anything.
But Balan’s evil counterpart Lance has teamed up with evil creatures known as the Negati to feed on people’s fears and mess with a the balance, so it’s up to Leo and Emma to journey through the worlds and individual tales of a dozen other people in order to stop them. One day, they come across a mysterious theater, and upon entering, are whisked away by the enigmatic jester-like figure known as Balan to Wonderworld, a place where people’s happy memories and emotions mix with their negative ones, creating personal worlds out of them. I bring this all up because here’s Balan Wonderworld, the new platformer and spiritual successor to Nights into Dreams from Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima, and it’s easy to feel déjà vu.īalan Wonderworld sees you playing as either Leo or Emma (or both in the co-op mode), two kids with their own personal insecurities or anxieties. But alas, despite this, the well may have been too tainted by the first outing that everyone was banking on. 9 still arguably had potential, and the Mighty Gunvolt crossover games showed that Beck and company could still make it in a good platformer.
Alas, things didn’t work out so well, and the end product was, to quote our review, “aggressively mediocre.” And it’s a shame, because the world of Mighty No. After the announcement, fan support was through the roof, to the point of depicting Mega Man passing the torch over to what would surely be a stunning achievement in platforming. It was planned as a spiritual successor to a legendary and beloved yet (at the time) ignore gaming franchise that we all wanted to see return. You may remember the initial reactions to Mighty No.
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