From this point onward, I will be able to react to posts tagging me or directed only toward me on SNS and such.” “Myself, I’m truly sorry to the customers who bought Balan Wonderworld in an unfinished state. There were many comments and wonderful illustrations about Balan Wonderworld, and I’m really sorry that I couldn’t react to them.” on SNS and such was banned, so I don’t think Square Enix values game fans. It wasn’t right to, without discussion, remove and completely disassociate from the project a director saying so.” “I believe that every effort must be put in to make games the best they can be until the very end so that game fans will enjoy what they buy. I believe that the game music that everyone can hum out are the original tracks.” “We were releasing an original game, but only putting out an arranged track was definitely wrong. Something was off.” Cheesemeister3k‘s translation of Naka’s tweets
All of us on the staff will work hard.’ So the schedule wasn’t up to me, but the producer, yet the schedule being tight was the producer’s doing. “The staff’s been down lately, but their spirits have been revived. Let’s do our best for him,’ the staff applauded and cheered.
“Also, in an e-mail from Ohshima to Fujimoto, he wrote: ‘I just told the staff about the demo delay. “Second, according to court documents, Ohshima told producer Fujimoto that the relationship with Arzest was ruined due to comments I made wanting to improve the game in the face of Arzest submitting the game without fixing bugs.” “First, when a YouTuber’s arranged piano performance of the game music was released in a promotion instead of the original game track, turning the composer into a ghostwriter, I insisted that the original track be released and this caused trouble.” It was done by the producer, head of marketing, head of sound, managing director, and HR.” According to court documents, I was removed as the director of Balan Wonderworld for 2 reasons. “I think it’s wrong of Square Enix not to value games and game fans. Now that the proceedings are over and I’m no longer bound by company rules, I’d like to speak out.” #BalanWonderworld “I was removed as the director of Balan Wonderworld about half a year before release, so I filed a lawsuit against Square Enix. While the original tweets are in Japanese, Twitter user Cheesemeister3k was nice enough to translate the messages to English. As a result, he filed a lawsuit against Square Enix, which has concluded and he is able to speak about the situation. There were a lot of theories as to why, be it poor vision, dated ideas and a wide variety of other things, but there seems to be more to the story.Įarlier today Naka revealed he was removed as director 6 months before Balan Wonderworld released. The title marked the return of Yuji Naka, known for co-creating Sonic the Hedgehog and a wide variety of other notable Sega titles, but the final product was arguably one of the worst games to release last year.
Balan Wonderworld is one of the more interesting releases of last year.