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Balan Wonderworld Openings for all 12 chapters
- Thread starter pleaseinsertdisctwo
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Lack of jump button? On the contrary. EVERY button is the jump button.
I'm buying this game. Not since Duke Nukem Forever have I been this morbidly curious about a train wreck.
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Not quite. If you're wearing a power up suit that doesn't allow you to jump, none of the buttons will allow you to jump.
I stand partially corrected.
In a way this situation reminds of Sonic Boom. That game also had great cutscene animation and character designs despite being placed in an undercooked game.
Not to mention, it's usually a lottery here in Europe if they'll come translated to other languages other than English. Heck, they even refused to translate Kingdom Hearts 3D back in the day. Thankfully when they do the translations are top notch.
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Did I get that right?
The girl used to hang out with a dolphin, but then Ecco betrayed her (accidentally?), almost drowning her and traumatizing her for life.
I so wanted to love this game. I'll wait and see what that day-one patch holds.
This sold me more on the game than the Demo did. Just noticed the seaweed are actually hands, Jesus fuck.
"Drown."
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Ecco the Dolphin out for blood
Seriously though you can already guess that the resolution for that. It will turn out that the dolphin saved her.
Seriously though you can already guess that the resolution for that. It will turn out that the dolphin saved her.
This game is gonna bomb so hard. All the budget went on CGI and nothing went on making a fun game to play.
The lamenting of BD2 having no CGI cutscenes in this thread is bizarre. Team Asano clearly has the budget for whatever he wants in his games, and what he wanted was hand-drawn environments and in-engine cutscenes. If that game had more money, it probably would have been spent on QA and optimization, since it does have some technical hiccups.
Then again, Team Asano games have good project management. Balan clearly does not lol.
Then again, Team Asano games have good project management. Balan clearly does not lol.
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What's utterly bizarre is your post.
"Budget for whatever he wants"?
You cannot look at BD2 and tell me that that's a result of a director with a blank check. The sentiment of BD2 feeling like a "budget title" is quite common. Did Asano use his budget well? Yes. Does this mean he "clearly had the budget for what he wants"? No.
Also, many people are probably talking about the lack of CG considering the fact that BD had a lengthy CG intro and BS had an opening montage and an ending clip. It's odd that the 3DS entries had lavish openings and the newest entry doesn't.
I also saw a couple of previews and a few people with earlier/Day 1 copies noting the lack of a CG intro.
You think Asano DREAMED of the stiff animations in the in-game cutscenes? No. If he had the budget he probably would've at least had CG for a nice opening montage and I'm sure no director on earth with a blank check would look at the cutscene of Adam vs. Sloan and be like "yep that's exactly what I want."
I just find the people claiming BD2 doesn't have budget constraints to be really odd. It obviously, obviously does.
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Maybe it was just playing and was overly rough and accidentally knocked her out and she goes into Balan Wonderworld dreaming while drowning and the final cutscene is the dolphin saving her?
That's my best guess.
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Nothing beats the boy's intro where he's break dancing and then randomly gets depressed and walks away
Yeah it's a shame how the game is considering the core idea of a very weird, Japanese take on Psychonauts where you enter these peoples' inner worlds to solve their issues is potentially neat.
Agreed and I think the CG openings are actually pretty good, the game itself just doesn't seem fun to play and I hate certain design choices (the dancing animals, the nausea inducing moving levels, the lack of a jump button in certain costumes, the combat, whatever the Tim's are supposed to do, the character designs... etc)
The idea itself was fairly cool and gives me major 40 Winks vibes
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Did it actually share writers and character designers? I always thought they did the show based on the game's idea for the characters/setting.