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BALAN WONDERWORLD

Developer Square Enix, Arzest Publisher Square Enix Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Origin Japan Release March 26

One thing you can count on from any Yuji Naka game is a sprinkling of magic. Since he left Sega 15 years ago, the career of Sonic’s creator has been mixed, but as producer at indie studio Prope he’s overseen a range of smaller on Wii U – yet that was a bastardised version of a Wii game that turned out to be much better. We hoped, then, that his reunion with director Naoto Ohshima might be a return to Sonic Team form. Alas, our optimism seems to have been misplaced.

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