The discharge of Balan Wonderworld didn’t go easily. A sequence of questionable design selections left each gamers and critics dissatisfied with the sport that was imagined to be director Yuji Naka’s long-awaited return to his platforming heyday. In line with Naka himself, it is because he was faraway from the venture six months earlier than it was launched and the sport wasn’t completed when it hit PS4 and PS5.
Why was Yuji Naka faraway from Balan Wonderworld?
Yuji Naka left Sq. Enix on the finish of April 2021, though the explanations for this weren’t clear on the time. Following the conclusion of a lawsuit, Naka has determined to set the file straight in a sequence of Tweets translated by @Cheesemeister3k (thanks Gematsu). Naka begins by explaining how he was faraway from the event staff “about half a 12 months earlier than launch” and this was for 2 causes. The primary was for protesting over using a “YouTuber’s organized piano efficiency of the sport music” in promotional supplies quite than the sport’s authentic music, one thing that “triggered hassle”. The second was that Naoto Ohshima instructed producer Noriyoshi Fujimoto that the connection with co-developer Arzest was ruined attributable to feedback he made after Arzest submitted the sport with out fixing bugs.
Curiously, Naka additionally stated he was faraway from the staff by most of its different members, together with “the producer, head of selling, head of sound, managing director, and HR.” That’s numerous enemies. Regardless, Naka believes it “wasn’t proper” to fully take away him from the sport’s improvement staff and that the sport was in an “unfinished state” when it was launched. He’s “actually dissatisfied {that a} product I labored on from the beginning turned out this manner”. As his proposed fixes weren’t made earlier than the sport was launched, he additionally doesn’t suppose “that Sq. Enix and Arzest worth video games and their followers.” Both approach, the break-up was seemingly removed from amicable.
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