Balan Wonderworld -

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I want my cringe New Years Announcement, dammit.
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The game's final boss in a nutshell:
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Gar For Archer

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..the only way this game is to be saved, it his game code got somewhat leak and people can hack it to make it better
If you change the control scheme and add QOL shit you could elevate it from a complete trash fire to merely a mediocre but playable 3D platformer, but you’d have to basically redo the whole game from scratch to make it anywhere NEAR “good”.
 

Neet Tokusatsu Hero

I'll never use porn as my pfp again, i swear.
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This is a better platformer with similar mechanic

Played Scaler for the very first time last year, it is a solid 7/10, worth a purchase if it ever gets ported to Steam.
This is gonna hurt, but...
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is better than Balan.

And just started Yooka-Laylee yesterday, it seems fine so far, graphics, writing and overall presentation are spot-on, and Yooka controls well while on foot, of course... i have less than 2 hours of game time, the jank is going to show it's ugly head sooner or later.
I'd say Balan is better than Bubsy. Bubsy 3D is one of the most garbage games ever made. (In Bubsy's defense it IS 25 years older.) The story behind the development is sad, they thought they were making the first 3D plaformer ever, nothing like it existed when they started making it, but by the time they were finished, Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot 1 had already come out and blew them out the water. Ouch.

(Fun fact: The developers of Bubsy 3D saw Mario 64 and completely freaked out. They wanted to do a complete rewrite of the game but the publishers told them no, they were releasing it as-is)

Bubsy at the very last had an excuse, like you said, it was made in a time where 3D platformers didn't exist yet, someone is going to fuck it up when trying to created a brand new genre. In Balan's case? by the early 2000s the 3D platformer formula was pretty much perfected, and that was 20 years ago, there's no excuse for anyone, be a game director or any game developer not make at the very least a functional platformer, small teams with a modest budget can make very good games like A Hat in Time, what's Balan's excuse?
 

NerdShamer

International Glownigger Commander
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Even with buffs giving it a little more utility, it's still one of the most hated kirby abilities, and various games have tried to improve it in various ways.
IIRC, one of the buffs was a slow as hell punching attack with limited range. You're literally better off using the hammer.
I mean, putting aside Pokemon evolve and Pidgeot is fine for the story line, Pidgey has great utility in early routes, being good against the early bugs, and most of the games expect you to have a pokemon that can use fly in them
It's essentially a rite of passage to catch a bird early on in the series. As far as it being useful, it's kind of is a mixed bag since bugs usually easy to beat, anyways.
Weird to hear people hating on stone in Kirby. I always thought it was one of the better powers due to the collision invincibility, high damage and easy aiming, especially against bosses like the knights who can easily outspeed you if they decide to do a long swipe when you’re trying to engage with hammer or something similar.
Well, the series usually travels at a brisk pace and spending roughly 5 seconds jumping to kill each enemy gets old kind of quickly.
Another low budget one that did it decently was Wario : Master of Disguise. Not the best game but there was some originality in the abilities.
Most of the suits were somewhat useful, especially with the boss fights; except for the one that allows you fly, it needed to be upgraded so you can go from just moving vertically.

Speaking of which, is possible to be locked out of a fight in this game because you've mismanaged your inventory?
 

Sundae

Weird-Ass Puppet Dog
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Saw this earlier, don't think anyone else has posted it:

So there is a Balan costume in game, however the method to obtain is convoluted and time consuming for some reason known only to the developers.

All they had to do was make this the default character/play style, and design the gameplay/levels around it, and this game would have been significantly better than what it is.

So glad I picked up a copy of Monster Hunter Rise instead of this game.
 

ChucklesTheJester

The Worst Pokemon Trainer Around
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Saw this earlier, don't think anyone else has posted it:

So there is a Balan costume in game, however the method to obtain is convoluted and time consuming for some reason known only to the developers.

All they had to do was make this the default character/play style, and design the gameplay/levels around it, and this game would have been significantly better than what it is.

So glad I picked up a copy of Monster Hunter Rise instead of this game.
You could even keep the costume gimmick with him. Just have a second button that does what ever the suits ability.

How the hell did this mess this up?
 

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I want my cringe New Years Announcement, dammit.
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It's possible to get caught in a tiny ditch if none of your costumes have jump, or you lose your jumping costumes to damage. I know it's possible in one of the bug girl's levels.

for context, here's the clip where one guy relates his experience. 14:10 starts the discussion in general, 16:22 is the start of the story, and the actual event happens over the next couple minutes of footage.
 

Raiken

Making Nanomachines great again
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I've watched some guy who played the game and got everything and read the book starting as a joke.
He said that the game was a chore to play untill the ending when the game starts to use interesting costumes.
The book also gives important context(like the girl who lost her cat is the same girl ten years later who is with the clown, or that ace convinces the people that balan is the bad guy).
The game also has so many hidden mechanics that never gets explained because some chucklefuck thought it was a good idea to remove all the tutorials.
He discribes it as a japanese game you import and have no idea what's going on.
 

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