MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- OS : Windows 7 ( 64-bit only)
- Processor : Intel® Core i3- 8100 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory : 6 GB RAM
- Graphics : Intel® UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
- Storage : 60 GB available storage
RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS
- OS : Windows 10 ( 64-bit only)
- Processor : Intel® Core i5- 9600K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
- Memory : 8 GB RAM
- Graphics : NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 580
- Storage : 60 GB available storage
Balan Wonder world is an absolutely fascinating disaster story. The game started life as a collaboration between Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima, two of the developers who helped shape Sonic the Hedgehog. When Balan Wonder world released, its shallow design and awkward controls led many players to compare it to some of the least beloved Sonic titles, such as Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic The Hedgehog 2006. So what went wrong? How did such an iconic development duo create such a reviled final game? Looking back at interviews with director YujiNaka, it’s clear that the game’s problems were baked into its initial concept. Balan Wonder world was doomed from the start. Work on the game took just two years, with Naka starting on the project in 2018. He had just joined Square-Enix, and was eager to make something different. While initially considering making a social game, he instead decided to fall back on his primary strength: action games. He hoped to create a long running 3D platforming franchise. Here was the first hurdle to the game’sdesign, though: Square-Enix is not known for creating platformers. The company typically puts storytelling, rather than tight controls and balanced physics, at the core of their games. Said Naka:“Square Enix's management philosophy is ‘to contribute to the wellbeing of people all over the world by providing the best stories.’ When I joined the company and heard that,I was like ‘Stories, huh...’ “To be honest, I'm not really the type of developer who focuses on a game’s script. I always emphasize how the game feels and the action, while the story may be a bit weak. I wasn't very good with stories.” So, desperate to figure out what he was missing,Naka decided to try learning how to write a story that would live up to typical Square-Enixfare. His plan was simple: he would read JosephCampbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces, an academic text about the universal monomyth which initially inspired Star Wars, and which is often used in Hollywood as a basic initialstory structure for many films. The book is not actually designed as a how-toguide for creative writing, so we have to hope that Naka was reading an analysis, rather than the text itself. Naka clearly felt very confident with his newfound storytelling abilities, because he decided that the story was so good that he should work with a former Sega employee and writer Soshi Kawasaki to create a Balan Wonderworld novelisation.