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Merry Ghost

## Merry Ghost (メリーゴースト)

**Merry Ghost** (メリーゴースト, Merīgōsuto) is one out of eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 9.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to float, making them invulnerable to poisonous swamps and lava.*" - In-Game Description

"*A floaty ghost costume. It can mover over poison or icy floors un-affected.*" - Official Website Description

Merry Ghost allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to float over poison, icy, or lava floors without any effect. It also gives the wearer a more floaty jump.

Merry Ghost does not protect the player from lava waterfalls (as they count as fire instead of lava), and prevents the player from being able to push any blue button in-game and interact with flying Drop machines. Merry Ghost also can not attack enemies (by jumping on them) but you receive no damage if done. Though it can attack Tim Traps.

## Appearance

Merry Ghost is a ghost humanoid. Its main body is white and wears tattered gray clothing. Its clothing has blue and yellow stitches, and a different fabric color on the tip of its hood and bottom. Its sleeves and bottom are ragged. It has yellow and pink face markings and has three different colored buttons on its outfit. There are three bumps on its head resembling hair.

## Trivia

* Merry Ghost's design may have been inspired by the Pokemon Mimikyu. It has a tipped hood and ragged bottom, just like Mimikyu's ear and bottom (of its fabric).
* Both Merry Ghost and Fixer-upper have a floaty jump and are immune to floor hazards.
Father Tim

**Father Tim** (Called **Mother Tim** in Japanese Version) (めてマザーティム, Mete mazātimu) **statues** are statues depicting a parent/elder Tim found throughout *Balan Wonderworld*.

## Information

Father Tim statues are statues often found in different Chapter's Acts. Interacting with one gives you either 1, 2 or 3 rainbow raindrops (amount given is set for each third of the game, chapters 1-4 give 1, 5-8 give 2, and 9-12 give 3).

## Locations

* Isle of Tims: Requires around 20 Raindrops to turn into the Ultima Tim.
* Chapter 1 - Act 1: On the section with Metal Bad Boy's Costume Crystal/Key. Awards: 1 Raindrop
* Chapter 2 - Act 2: On a blocky section near the floating area where you can obtain Double Jumper. Awards: 1(?) Raindrop
* Chapter 3 - Act 2: On a section near the Heart Tree area.
* Chapter 7 - Act 1: Near the 3 blue blocks which Laser Launcher is needed to activate.

Father Tim Statues are not found in the following:

* Chapter 1 - Act 2
* Chapter 1 - Act 3
* Chapter 2 - Act 1
* Chapter 2 - Act 3
* Chapter 3 - Act 1
* Chapter 3 - Act 3
* Chapter 4 - Act 1
* Chapter 4 - Act 2

## Name in Other Languages

* English: Father Tim
* Japanese: めてマザーティム - Mete mazātimu - (Mother Tim)
* Simplified Chinese: 福宝之父 - Fú bǎo zhī fù - (Fubao Father)
* Traditional Chinese: 福寶之父 - Fú bǎo zhī fù - (Fubao Father)
* Korean: 마더 팀 동상 - madeo timm dongsang - (Mother Tim Statue)
* German: Ur-Tim-Statue (Ur-Tim Statue) (Note: Achievement calls it "Vater," which means "Father" in English)
* Spanish (Spain): Estatua del Tim Arcano (Arcane Tim Statue)
* Spanish (Latin America): Estatua del Padre Tim (Father Tim Statue)
* Portuguese (Brazil): Estatueta do Pai Tim (Father Tim Statue)
* French: Statue de l'Aîné des Tims (Statue of the Elder Tims)
* Italian: Statua del Tim saggio (Statue of the Wise Tim)
* Polish: posąg Wielkiego Tima (Big Tim Statue)
* Dutch: Vadertje Tim-beeldje (Father Tim Statue)
* Danish: Fader Tim-statuen (Father Tim Statue)
* Czech: sochu Otce Tima ((The) Father Tim Statue)
* Hungarian: Tim Atya szobrát (Father Tim Statue)
* Indonesian: Piala Ayah Tim (Father Tim Statue)
* Thai: รูปปั้นบิดาแห่งทิม (Father Tim Statue)
* Swedish: Moder Tim-statyn (Mother Tim Statue)
* Norwegian: Fader Tim-statuen (Father Tim Statue)
* Russian: статую тима-Отца (Father Tim Statue)
* Greek: άγαλμα του Πατέρα Tim (Father Tim Statue)
* Arabic: تمثال "تيم" الأب (Father Tim Statue)

## Trivia

* The gender of the Father/Mother Tim statue switches often in different languages, mainly English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, and others.
	+ Though, its in-game model looks to have dark areas on its beak (possibly lipstick), and the Japanese name for it is Mother Tim.
* The Statue may represent a "parent" Tim, though it has a more bird-like appearance, with complete wings instead of small spheres.
	+ It might be a past form/evolution of the Tims, or something that created the Tims.
* In the Demo, you have to give the statue around 90 Raindrops for it to require a King Tim. The number was then dropped in the final version.
Botoboto

## Botoboto (ボトボト)

* Electric (Normal Mode)
* Electric (Hard Mode)

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

Botoboto is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can be found in Normal Mode and Hard Mode. It appears in Chapter 2 and Chapter 11. There are two variants of this Negati under the same name, an electric and fire variant.

## Abilities/Strategy

Botoboto will jump around, which each time it jumps spawning an electric or fire puddle (in Chapter 2 and 11 respectively). When stationary, it can launch electric/fire arched shots/projectiles to try to hit the player. It can also spawn a puddle by launching its projectiles if it can not move. In Hard Mode, it has a faster speed and its shots have a greater range.

#### Electric

Botoboto will spawn an electric puddle, and launch an electric projectile. Jellyjolt is immune to the puddle, but not to the projectile, the projectile is not deflectable as well.

Spawns In
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## Trivia

* 「ぼとぼと」 is a Japanese onomatopoeia for "dripping."
Chapter 8

> *Chapter 8:*
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> *A heart of ice is a heart that can't be hurt.*
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**Chapter 8** is the eighth Chapter in *Balan Wonderworld*. Its Inhabitant is Iben Bia.

## Description

Chapter 8 is based off on the idea on how Iben's heart has been turned cold or frozen solid due to her parent's death traumatizing her and her shutting off from her lover. It is a snowy winter wonderland with various village-home buildings.

## Acts

Below are all of the Acts of Chapter 8. The boss page links to the boss fight for The Grim Creeper:

* Chapter 8 - Act 1
* Chapter 8 - Act 2
* Chapter 8 - Boss (The Grim Creeper)
* Chapter 8 - Act 3

## Costumes

There are six Costumes found in Chapter 8:

* Frost Fairy
* Frost Giant
* Seal Skater
* Amadeus
* Hardy Hammer
* Lethal Laser Launcher (Act 3 Costume)

## Boss

*Main article: The Grim Creeper*
The Grim Creeper is the Nega Boss corruption of Bia's Heart.

## Trivia

* The soundtrack refers to the location Chapter 8 takes place in as **Bells of Ice** (鐘の鳴る銀世界, *Kane no Naru Gin Sekai*?, "Silver World of Ringing Bells").
The Grim Creeper

**The Grim Creeper** (テラーリーパー, *Terā Rīpā*?, "Terror Reaper") is a boss in Chapter 8 of Balan Wonderworld created by Lance to stop Emma Cole and Leo Craig from progressing.

## Boss Info

The Grim Creeper lurks in the depths of the world born from Iben’s heart, embodying her warped emotions. He attacks with sharp sword-like icicles and a freezing chill, and some of his attacks leave behind objects that can be knocked into him to reveal his weak spot.

## Abilities

His opening gambit is to summon 2 rotating lines of sharp snowflakes [with gaps in them for dodging] and then tries to bring claws of dark ice upon the player. He will also drop a line of icicles [cross on last hit] upon the player. When enraged, he will bring upon a wave of frost through his Frost Giant aspect that will freeze the player. [while still making platforms]

## Boss Fight

Method 1: Immediately after he lowers his guard, strike his cracked crystal with Hardy Hammer to release his mark, and then strike it.

Method 2: Knock the icicle that didn't break in its fall into him and then strike his mark.

Method 3: Quickly break out of the icy prison created from his rage attack and then go up and strike his mark using Frost Fairy to ascend to it. [must be brought in and held onto before this] Alternatively you can fire a snowball into it with Frost Giant, as well as use that to avoid getting frozen yourself.

## Appearance

The Grim Creeper is composed of Frost Fairy, Frost Giant and Hardy Hammer all used to corrupt Iben Bia's heart. His horns match the horns that the Frost Fairy has on her head, the shaggy fur on his cloak comes from the Frost Giant, and his single icy "leg" comes from the Hardy Hammer.

## Costume Concept

* **Frost Fairy:** His horns. He can also create giant snowflakes that are similar to the ones created by Frost Fairy when using its ability.
* **Frost Giant:** The shaggy fur on his cloak. He can also freeze the player with his rage attack.
* **Hardy Hammer:** His icy bottom.

## Trivia

* Despite his cold-hearted appearance, the Grim Creeper simply represents Iben Bia's fear of her love bringing death to those close to her.
* Despite the fact that Iben Bia is female, the gender for him is male.
* The Grim Creeper is one of two Nega Bosses that is stationary. The other is the Hydrac. Additionally, the Grim Creeper stays put at the centre of his arena, much like the Hydrac does.
* His appearance represents 10% of Wizeman the Wicked, the main villain from *NiGHTS into Dreams*.
* The Grim Creeper's name is a pun on the word "creeper" and the name "Grim Reaper" with the latter representing that both Iben's parents are dead and the grief it gives her.
* The Grim Creeper is one of three bosses to have a boss theme in an unusual time signature; his theme is in 5/4 time.
	+ The Inkabelle and Lance also share this trait. The Inkabelle has a 5/4 time theme, while Lance has a 7/4 time theme in his first phase.
Floaty Flower

* 2D
* Icon

**Floaty Flower** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 7.

## Ability

"*Hold (B) while in midair to glide slowly.*" - In-Game Description

"*An adorable flower costume. It can glide gently through the sky by spinning the petals on its head.*" - Official Website Description

Floaty Flower allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to glide slowly midair while holding the action button.

## Appearance

Floaty Flower is a flower humanoid. It is mainly pure light green with two green leaves and a flower on its head. Its sepals are light pink and pure light green. It has a pink flower for a dress with a spot on each petal. It has light green and light pink sleeves shoes.

## Gallery

Reveal promoEquipping the costumeFloaty Flower is blue when used by a second player.
## Trivia

* Floaty Flower is a costume that can glide across the air along with Soaring Sheep. Although this one can move faster and further in the air.
* There is a fleeing cast member of Floaty Flower found in Chapter 7 - Act 1.
Telepotter

## Telepotter (テレーポッター)

**Telepotter** (テレーポッター, Terēpottā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 2.

## Ability

Telepotter can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) teleport to far distances and warp behind walls. It can also be used to teleport above elements.

## Appearance

Telepotter is a light blue genie with dotted eyes and wears a blue and gold Arabian-styled outfit alongside dark blue fingerless gloves with gold cuffs. It has a dark blue tuft of hair connected to the head by a gold sphere, resembling a hair band. Compared to most of the body, the arms are thinner.

## Location

Chapter 2 - Act 2 LocationTelepotter is found in Chapter 2 - Act 2.

## Trivia

* Its name is a pun on the word "Teleporter."
* Telepotter is most likely based on a genie, an Arabian magical humanoid who grants wishes.
* Telepotter is the only Costume in-game who has black dotted eyes.
Guigui

* 2D
* Easy Mode

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Guigui** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can be found in Normal Mode, Hard Mode and Easy Mode. It is found in multiple Chapters.

## Abilities/Strategy

Guigui swoops down to the player, and usually floats, so its out of reach for many Costumes. Wait until it swoops down and hit it. You can use a Jumping Costume such as Double Jumper or Frost Fairy (to an extent) to reach it. In Easy Mode, its speed is slower. In Hard Mode, its speed is faster.

## Appearance

Guigui is a flying Negati enemy resembling a Pelican. It has a small body with a majority of it being its jaw, along with wings and a tail. It wears a white, beak-like mask. In Hard Mode, it is red, with yellow markings. In Easy Mode, it has a blue hue.

## Trivia

* Guigui has official 2D artwork of itself.
	+ It also appears alongside other Negati in the Trophy/Achievement *Non-stop Negativity*.
Key Mouse

## Key Mouse (キーマウス)

**Key Mouse** (キーマウス, Kīmausu) is one out of eighty the unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 11.

## Ability

"*This costume's tail is shaped like a key, allowing the wearer to open costume cubes even when they're all out of costume keys.*" - In-Game Description

"*A costume of a mouse with a key shaped tail. With this costume you can open costume boxes without needing a key.*" - Official Website Description

Key Mouse can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) unlock and obtain costumes from its respective crystal/cube without using any keys. Besides that, it can be used to attack enemies by jumping on them, much like other Costumes.

## Appearance

Key Mouse is a blue mouse humanoid with a golden key for a tail. It has a key hole in the middle of its body and wears gloves. It has cream colored fur going from its pink nose to its dark blue "pants" section.

## Name in Other Languages

* Polish: Kluczomysz (Key Mouse)

TBA
Balan Company

**Balan Company** is a Square Enix subsidiary studio focusing on the creation of action games. *Balan Wonderworld* is currently their only game production.

## Information

> "BALAN COMPANY is a new action game brand from Square Enix, founded around Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima, bringing together action game development, video and music production professionals from both inside and outside of the company."
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Balan Company is a game brand/studio founded on July 16, 2020 by/around Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima. They are a subsidiary to Square Enix, focusing more on action games, rather than the game genres that Square Enix specializes in.

## Members

* Yuji Naka - Founder
* Naoto Oshima - Founder

## Trivia

* It is unknown if Balan Company will create new productions, due to the negative feedback around *Balan Wonderworld*, and Yuji Naka leaving Square Enix.
	+ Despite this, there is no news about the subsidiary closing down, or merging with another brand/studio, leaving its status dormant.
* The word "Company," in Balan Company, refers to the theatrical term for an entire cast and team, rather than a regular company.
	+ The company's namesake and the logo are based off the titular character Balan. The logo being Balan's hat and eyes.

## Sources

1. ↑ #https://balanwonderworld.square-enix-games.com/en-us/main/
2. ↑ #https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202007160086/
Hyururira

## Hyururira (ヒュルリラ)

* Default
* Hard Mode

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Hyururira** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It is the ice variant of Hirahira. It is found in Chapter 8.

## Trivia

* Hyururira「ヒュルリラ」Is an uncommon Japanese onomatopoeia usually describing the sound of wind.
	+ It has mainly been used in Japanese songs, though Hyururira is most likely not a reference to any song, and its name just matches the theme of onomatopoeias/phrases used for Negati.
Negati by Chapter and Act

This is a list of all appearing Negati enemy and mid-boss by Chapter and Act. This list can be used to find Negati in a respective Chapter and Act. Ghostli is not included because it can be found in any Chapter and Act while in Hard Mode. This does not include Nega Bosses, as they have their own respective level per Chapter.
Web Wrangler

## Web Wrangler (ウェブラングラー)

* 2D
* Icon

**Web Wrangler** (ウェブラングラー, U~eburangurā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 3.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to traverse sticky spiderwebs*." - In-Game Description

"*A costume of an elusive spider. Access those hard to reach places by grabbing onto spider webs and crawling your way up towering heights*!" - Official Website Description

Web Wrangler allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) crawl on spider webs to access secret and hard to reach areas and can make the wearer immune to webs including webs shot by Wormsworth.

## Appearance

Web Wrangler is a humanoid spider with purple, light-green and yellow features. Its face, torso, feet and the top part of its arms are colored black. The black tuff/collar on its chest resembles a spider's web. On its face, it has green eyes and purple eyelids.

## Gallery

The wearer uses Web Wrangler to climb on spider webs.

## Trivia

* Web Wrangler is one of the costumes whom Wormsworth‎‎ is composed of, the other two being Sickle Slinger and Dusk Butterfly.
* Leo uses the Web Wrangler costume in the novel.
Bangbang

* 2D
* 3D
* Hard Mode

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Bangbang** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can appear in Normal Mode and Hard Mode. It is found in Chapter 8 and Chapter 12.

## Trivia

* Bangbang has official 2D artwork of itself.
Guardian Bird

## Guardian Bird (ガーディアンバード)

* 2D
* Icon

**Guardian Bird** (ガーディアンバード, Gādianbādo) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 5.

## Ability

"*Press (B) while in midair to let loose wicked wind attack, which also has the power to deflect tornadoes back at enemies.*" - In-Game Description

"*A costume of a bird that protects the forest. Press the button mid-jump to stir up the wind, attack enemies or repel tornadoes.*" - Official Website Description

Guardian Bird allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to stir up a wind attack while mid-jump to attack enemies and repel tornados.

## Appearance

Guardian Bird is an anthropomorphic parrot-like bird, representative of the inhabitant Sana Hudson. It mainly has cream yellow feathers, with dark purple feathers on its head and tail feathers. There is dark purple on its hands and talons as well. Yellow, orange, and green also appear throughout its body. It wears a colorful light green top. Its head and tail feathers are stylized like dreadlocks with orange and yellow tips. It also has light green eyeshadow and an orange border separating the head and hair.

## Trivia

* Guardian Bird has physical similarities to its stage inhabitant, Sana Hudson. Including its stylized hair, eye color, and similar top.
* Guardian Bird appears on Chapter 5's poster, along with Sana.
Sickle Slinger

## Sickle Slinger (シクルスリンガー)

* 2D
* Icon

*Not to be confused with Sickle Slayer.*

**Sickle Slinger** (シクルスリンガー, Shikurusuringā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 3.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to hurl a sickle. Throw three in a row and the third one will fly even further than the first two. The sickles can also be used to trigger out-of-reach switches.*" In-Game Description

"*A praying mantis costume that shoots out scythes like boomerangs. The flying scythes can attack enemies or move objects in the environment.*" - Official Website Description

Sickle Slinger allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to hurl a sickle to attack enemies. When you throw three in a row, the third sickle will go either further than the first two sickles. The sickles can be used to trigger switches as well.

## Appearance

Sickle Slinger is an anthropomorphic praying mantis-like insect. It is mostly green, with some yellowish-cream skin, yellow lining, and darkish-green spots. It has sickles around its hands and red eyes.

## Name in Other Languages

* English: Sickle Slinger
* Japanese: シクルスリンガー - Shikurusuringā - (Sickle Slinger)

## Trivia

* Sickle Slayer is a stronger variation of Sickle Slinger.
Toge Guigui

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Toge Guigui** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can also appear in Hard Mode.

## Abilities/Strategy

Toge Guigui is spiked variant of Guigui. It maintains all the abilities of Guigui, while being spiked, so it can not be hit by normal means. Use a Costume who can attack spiked enemies.

## Appearance

Toge Guigui is a larger, spiked variant of Guigui. TBA

## Trivia

* One meaning of *toge* in Japanese is thorn.
* One meaning of *guigui* in Japanese is drinking heavily or gulping down a drink.
Slow Tortoise

**Slow Tortoise** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 9.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to shoot bullets that slow down anything they hit.*" - In-Game Description

"*This magician costume has the ability to shoot slow bullets. These bullets can make an enemy or specific object move slowly once they've been hit.*" - Official Website Description

Slow Tortoise can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) shoot out slow bullets that affects either enemies, or specific objects, slowing either one down.

## Appearance

Slow Tortoise is a tortoise humanoid with a jester outfit. It wears a green suit with a patterned cloak resembling a shell, sleeves with yellow rims, shoes, and a jester's hat patterned in a lighter green and with yellow frills on each end.
Elastiplant

## Elastiplant (エラスティプラント)

**Elastiplant** (エラスティプラント, Erasutipuranto) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 1.

## Ability

"*Hold (B) to stretch the weaer's body for a while to collect floating drops and Balan statues.*" - In-Game Description

"*A fast growing plant costume. With its stretchable body, you can get to drops and Balan Statues that are in high places!*" - Official Website Description

Elastiplant allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to stretch to higher ground. This can be used as a higher jump.

## Appearance

Elastiplant is a cartoonish flower humanoid. Its stem, limbs, and twisted body are all light green, and wears white gloves while its sepals have darker green on the edges. It has yellow and red petals on its head along with the same coloring on the wrists of his gloves. It uses a umeboshi (salted/pickled plum) pot as pants/legs. It always has a happy grin.

When the Elastiplant costume is worn by Emma or Leo, the player looks about the same as the species, except their face replaces that of the plant.

## Location

Chapter 1 - Act 2 LocationElastiplant is found in Chapter 1, Act 2. Its Costume Cube is along the main path of the act, with a Costume Key nearby, so there should be little difficulty in obtaining it.

## Trivia

* The name "Elastiplant," is a combination of the words "elastic," and "plant."
Amadeus

## Amadeus (アマデウス)

**Amadeus** (アマデウス, Amadeusu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 8.

## Ability

"*Stand on a stage and something special might happen.*" - In-Game Description

"*This musician costume is wearing a piano. What will happen if you try getting up on a stage somewhere in the world!?*" - Official Website Description

Amadeus allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to perform on a stage.

## Appearance

Amadeus is a gray humanoid with a musical outfit. It has a red outfit with gold lining appearing around it as well as bordering its hair. It wears two pianos as well with one as a tutu and one as a ruff. Its hair is based on powdered hair often worn during the Renaissance.

## Name in Other Languages

Note: Because Amadeus' name is based off a real person's name, its name stays the same for a majority of languages supported in *Balan Wonderworld*.

## Trivia

* Its name and appearance is based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a famous musician.
* When you obtain this costume, a special version of the *New Costume* song plays.
* Amadeus is a costume that performs upon a stage, along with Happy Horn and Metal Bad Boy.
Rail Runner

## Rail Runner (レールランナー)

**Rail Runner** (レールランナー, Rēruran'nā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 9.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to summon rails in certain spots and run along them.*" - In-Game Description

"*A steam engine costume that can make special tracks appear. By getting on the tracks, it can run around the stage at high speed, emitting light as it goes.*" - Official Website Description

Rail Runner allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to summon rails in select areas, and to run along them. While on the rails, you can jump to the side by holding to the joystick to the desired direction and hitting the action button, and can jump upwards by simply hitting the action button.

## Appearance

Rail Runner is an orange animal/plush-like humanoid wearing a conductor outfit. Its outfit is mainly blue, and has yellow rimming along numerous borders. It wears a hat, coat, shoe/pant combo, and also wears a train as part of its outfit. Its face is separated from its head with a yellow border, and is white, with black surrounding the eyes, a zipper going down to its big, smiling mouth, and has red blush marks at the ends of the mouth. The train it wears resembles classic trains, and is dark gray, with yellow and red wood, and green wheels.

## Gallery

Costume artwork revealRail Runner's model.
Difficulties of Balan Wonderworld

In *Balan Wonderworld*, there is an AI put in place to adjust the difficulty of general gameplay. The AI used is called "Meta-AI," and was developed by Yoichiro Miyake, though the development team calls it "Balance AI" (バランスAI).

## Information

Balance AI picks up the player's habits and skills to adjust the setting up of Negati enemies. It changes what the enemies spawn at (location/placement), and the number and types of enemies present. It affects the enemies, Tims, and other characters in-game.

The AI also changes where Costume Crystals spawn at, and can change the gameplay to have a minimal amount of enemies possible, if the player chooses to not focus on enemies, and focuses more on beating the game, the story of the game, or another aspect of *Balan Wonderworld*.

The AI is designed to adjust the game's balance to play through the game as comfortably as possible.

The AI's performance in *Balan Wonderworld* does not reflect all of its capabilities, though focuses and builds on select capabilities best fit for the game.

## Stamp System (Difficulties)

To know what difficulty the AI has placed you in, simply complete an Act. The Stamp System is present in all Acts, including Boss Acts. The stamp (clear mark) will be of different colors based on the difficulty the AI has put you in.

You can also look at the Negati while in an act, if they are all red-colored, then that means you are in the Red Stamp setting, aka Hard Mode. If more Costume Cubes/Crystals and Keys are offered, and less Negati spawn, or blue Negati show up, that means you can in the Blue Stamp setting, aka Easy Mode.

### Colors

* YELLOW - The Yellow Stamp is the default difficulty of *Balan Wonderworld*. (Normal Mode)
* BLUE - The Blue Stamp is an easier difficulty, for "not-so-good" players. (Easy Mode)
* RED - The Red Stamp is a hard difficulty, for "good" players. (Hard/Challenge Mode)

## Yellow Stamp (Normal Mode) Aspects

* Normal spawning rate/normal variant of Negati.
* Normal spawning rate of Costume Crystals/Cubes and Keys.

## Blue Stamp (Easy Mode) Aspects

* Lower spawning rate of Negati.
* Increase spawning rate of Costume Crystals/Cubes and Keys.
* More Costume Crystals in different locations.
* Blue Negati Enemies: more docile, slower blue variants of any Negati enemy.
* Blue variants of Mid-Bosses
* Possibly makes Nega Boss fights easier. (Unconfirmed)

## Red Stamp (Hard Mode) Aspects

* Red Negati Enemies: Harder, red variants of any Negati enemy.
* Increased spawn-rate for Negati Enemies.
* Chance for red or Lanced Negati Mid-Bosses: The Red variant for the Mid-Bosses are much more easier to get than Lanced variants.
* Chance for Ghostli to appear.
* Harder (faster) Nega Bosses.

Specific enemy designs/strategies can be found on their pages.

## Trivia

* The Balan Wonderworld (Demo) has the difficulties system as well.

## Sources/Links

* Article explaining the AI, along with other gameplay details. (Japanese)
The Hydrac

**The Hydrac** (ドラゴンハイドラント, *Doragon Haidoranto*?, "Dragon Hydrant") is a boss fight in Chapter 11 of Balan Wonderworld created by Lance to prevent Emma Cole and Leo Craig from progressing.

## Boss Info

The dark form that Eis’ warped feelings have created lurks in the depths of his inner world. Not only can he release great sprays of lava from his torso, but he can also launch heated blocks.

## Abilities

Hydrac Breaths fire and Launch heated Blocks

## Appearance

The Hydrac is composed of Water Blaster, Bulldozer, Ladderman and Flame Blaster all used to corrupt Eis Glover.

The Hydrac has the body of a fire hydrant while his three heads looks like a lot like a dragon's head.

## Boss Fight

* Method 1: Use Water Blaster to clog up his spouts, then strike him in the head.
* Method 2: Wait until he finishes raining fireballs, then strike the remaining rock to send it flying into him and strike his head.
* Method 3: During his rage attack, switch to Bulldozer [must be brought in] to shove one of the blocks into his head. [mash the action button to ensure effectivity]

## Costume Concept

* **Water Blaster:** His body.
* **Bulldozer:** His left and right heads that resemble the hands.
* **Ladderman:** His head and tail that resemble Ladderman.
* **Flame Blaster:** From his dragon-like heads, he spews fire, just like Flame Blaster.

## Trivia

* The Hydrac is one of two Nega Bosses that does not move from their spot. The other is the Grim Creeper.
	+ Coincidentally, the two stay put in the centre of their arenae.
* The fact that the Hydrac takes his torso's design from a fire hydrant is ironic due to his fiery attacks; in real life, fire hydrants spout water.
* His name is a pun on hydra, hydrant, and draconic.
* His hot flames represents the fear that Eis Glover had towards the flames.
Leap Frog

## Leap Frog (リープフロッグ)

Leap Frog (リープフロッグ, Rīpufuroggu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 2.

## Ability

Leap Frog allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to perform a higher jump when pressing the action button when the wearer is about to land.

## Appearance

Leap Frog as a creature is not shown officially, though it appears as a frog humanoid. It is a green bipedal frog with a thinner yellow stomach and arms. It also wears yellow and red bracelets.

## Gallery

Leap Frog in the game's first trailer.Concept art showing a frog-like Costume.What Leap Frog looks like being worn as a costume.The triple jump.Leap Frog in an early demo sample image (top middle)Leap Frog in 2020 footage (top left)

## Trivia

* All costumes found in the Act 3s of Chapters and Metal Bad Boy do not have officially revealed 2D artwork.
* Despite being based on a frog, Leap Frog can not swim in slidestreams.
Endlessli

**Endlessli** (ニョッキィ, Nyokkyi) (called **Dororon** in the internal files) is a mid-boss Negati found in Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 Act 2. It also has a red form and a lanced form both only found in Hard Mode.

## Abilities/Strategy

Endlessli mainly attacks by shooting tornadoes at you. It can go into a puddle and pop out. If you are in contact with it when it pops out, you'll get damaged. You can attack it by either hopping on it or shooting a projectile on it.

#### Lanced Form

Endlessli's Lanced form has the same format as the regular form's battle, but its tornados are replaced by large purple projectiles.

## Appearance

Endlessli is a serpent-like Negati. It has purple Negati patterns around it and is in a puddle. It has three masks, each representing a health point.

#### Lanced Form

Lanced Endlessli has a more grand design, with black and red protrusions on the back of its head, more complex mask design, and two floating spiky "wings" with Negati patterns.

## Gallery

Clearer ImageRed formLanced FormLanced Form's Trophy/Achievement
## Trivia

* Finding Endlessli's Lanced Form will give you a trophy/achievement.
* Endlessi's name is a combination of the word "endless," and the "li" suffix used for Negati
* Dororon 「ドロロン」 is not confirmed to be a onomatopoeia or saying, though there exists an anime called *ドロロンえん魔くん* (Dororon Enma-kun.) And, a Taiko no Tatsujin game uses the saying in the title.
	+ Either it is a rarely used/relatively unknown saying, or something else.
Gear Prince

**Gear Prince** (ギアプリンス, Giapurinsu) is one of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 6.

## Ability

Gear Prince's ability allows Leo or Emma to utilize Gear blocks which cause specific platforms to move and turn in ways that can assist with certain puzzles. Gear blocks can be used by simply walking into the side of the block with the exposed gears (also signified by a gear symbol on the ground in front of it) which will cause Leo/Emma to glow. While in this state, moving either left or right will cause the affected platform(s) to mobilize correspondingly. Using any other key will detach the player from the block.

## Appearance

Gear Prince is a humanoid gear. It is a cartoonish humanoid with red eyes and a orange button nose. It has a yellow gear around the torso and the body was blue with the fingers orange.

## Gallery

Gear Prince's model.Using its ability.Wearing the costume.
Sutasuta

* Default
* Hard Mode
* Easy Mode

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Sutasuta** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can be found in Normal Mode, Hard Mode, and Easy Mode. It is found in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.

## Ability

Sutasuta runs towards the player while trying to peck him/her. Jump onto it when it is near, or use a projectile attack. In Hard Mode, it has a faster speed, in Easy Mode, it has a slower speed.

## Gallery

Sutasuta chasing the player.In Chapter 7 Act 1
Iron Panda

## Iron Panda (アイアンパンダ)

**Iron Panda** (アイアンパンダ, Aianpanda) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 9.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to transform into an iron ball that can break blocks of iron and ice whenever they jump. They can also roll down hills while in their panda form.*" In-Game Description

"*A panda costume that turns into an iron ball when you jump. When it's a ball, it can roll down slopes, defeat enemies and destroy blocks.*" - Official Website Description

Iron Panda allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to roll around and defeat enemies/destroy blocks.

## Appearance

Iron Panda is a spherical panda with no arms or legs. It is mainly white with blue markings on its eyes, ears, neck, and sides of its body.

## Trivia

* Iron Panda is a combination of an iron ball and a panda.
Tornado Wolf

## Tornado Wolf (TBA)

**Tornado Wolf** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 1.

## Ability

Tornado Wolf's ability makes **Leo** & **Emma** spin violently when jumping, creating a miniature tornado around the user (hence the name). This is used to destroy fragile blocks, fend off Negati and deflect tornado attacks.

Some fragile blocks contain Drops making the costume useful for acquiring them. However, since some blocks are also used as platforms to reach higher rewards, it is often wise to use a different costume first to see if the block serves such a purpose before destroying them. Because Tornado Wolf has to jump on order to spin, it can not destroy blocks it is directly standing on top of.

## Appearance

Tornado Wolf is an anthropomorphic, bipedal wolf, representative of the inhabitant Jose Gallard, with some more unique characteristics, like yellow stripes along its arms, and a prominent under-bite. The majority of its body is brown with darker brown on its torso and arms and fluffy light beige fur accenting its wrists and lower jaw reaching to partially cover its chest.

When worn as a costume, it looks about the same, except the mouth opens as a hole for Emma or Leo's face to show through.

## Locations

Chapter 1 - Act 1 LocationChapter 1 - Act 2 LocationChapter 1 - Boss Location
Tornado Wolf is found in Act 1, 2, and the Barktholomew Boss Fight. It is also given by Jose during the third part of Lance's Boss Fight.

## Gallery

Early screenshot of equipping the costume when it was known as "Whirling Wolf".Tornado Wolf is shades of blue when used by a second player.
## Name in Other Languages

#### Other Names

The name references how the Costume "spins" to form a tornado barrier.
Bowler

**Bowler** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It is appears in Chapter 5, Chapter 10 and Chapter 12.

## Ability

*Allows the wearer to bowl at certain spots. The costume will vanish when they're finished playing.* - In-Game Description

Bowler allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to play a bowling-themed mini game. This costume is one out of the four mini-game costumes. It is only played in certain areas, and vanishes after the mini game finishes.

The other Mini-Game Costumes include: Baseballer, Footballer, and Golfer.

## Mini-Game

In the mini game, *Bowling Challenge*, you have three tries to bowl a strike. You move left and right and adjust your aim with the L and R joysticks respectively, and press the action button to bowl.

A regular pin gives one yellow drop, while a golden one gives six.

## Appearance

Bowler gives Leo or Emma a bowler outfit. Each have the same clothing, consisting of a dark shirt, pants/shorts, and shoes, but Leo's outfit is blue, while Emma's is red/pink. Leo wears pants, while Emma wears shorts. This Costume does not have a Cast Member counterpart.

## Trivia

* The regular pins are detailed to look like Balan.
	+ The golden pins have a shape similar to a golden Balan Statue.
Stronger

**Stronger** is a musical number in Balan WonderWorld, and appears as a track in the BALAN WONDERWORLD Original Soundtrack. It is heard after the player (Leo or Emma) defeats a boss in Chapters 1, 5, 7 and 10. It has a Balanese and English version. It is sung by Laura Pitt-Pulford and George Blagden on lead vocals.

## Balanese Lyrics

(Transcribed by ThisismineIguess, no official lyrics as of yet.)

Renon crei, fein ya

Urin ya sala ta unthrabeth

Dem rari di hai di canalefe

Lai dilli dilli lailai guush la lum

Lai dilli dilli la la trisefa lun

Lai lof ta laif ta lailai guush la lum

Lai la ta laif ta lai senha de lun

Wenin unine, wenin unthine

Segaku lahi la ... SELAROU

## English Lyrics

**[Singing]** Sometimes we cry

We wait

Sometimes we can't see anything

But don't give up

You are not alone, ooh

We can be stronger, 'cause we have this treasure

We will survive, just like we always do

We're gonna level up 'cause we have this mission

No matter what happens we will stand by you

Some time will tell

It's in our hands

All we need is a little bit of love, little love, little love

We can be stronger, 'cause we have this treasure

We will survive just like we always do

**[Speaking]** We're gonna level up cause we have this mission

No matter what happens we will stand by you

**[Singing]** We'll be alright, we're now on fire

Come and see the other side

Let's believe!

**[Speaking]** Why do I feel so lonely? Something's gotta give! (C'mon! Let's do this!)

Life can be tough. (Heh, pretty cool!)

Why don't my friends talk to me? Have I done something wrong? (Hah, pathetic!)

I just want things to be normal. (See you on the flip-side!)

**[Singing]** Like hide and seek

Dreams are hard to believe

But we need to keep it up until the day, the day, the day

We can be stronger, 'cause we have this treasure

We will survive just like we always do

We're gonna level up cause we have this mission

No matter what happens we will stand by you

We'll be alright, we're now on fire

Come and see the other side

Let's believe!

## Trivia

* This musical number shared its title with a 2000 hit song performed by the American pop-singer Britney Spears.
* On the game's original soundtrack, the original 'Balanese' version of this musical number is track number 47 while its English version is track number 51.
* In the video "Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima present BALAN WONDERWORLD (Closed Captions)", it is revealed that the musical segments' vocals were recorded with help from some singers from London's West End, both in Balanese and English.
Gachigachi

* Regular
* Red

Chapter 3 - Act 3

*Note: All Negati enemies except for Ghostli do not have officially shown names, and were revealed in the internal files.*

**Gachigachi** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It has both a red and blue variant.

## Abilities

Gachigachi has a spiked helm, so it can't be hit in the front. It also homes into others as well, usually towards the player. To defeat it, jump on it or use a projectile attack on its back. Its back is usually vulnerable after it homes in on something.

#### Hard Mode (Red Stamp)

It attacks the same way, except that it has faster movement and attacking speed.

#### Easy Mode (Blue Stamp)

It attacks the same way, except that its movement and attacking speed are slower.

## Appearance

Regular (Black) - Gachigachi is a Negati resembling a triceratops. It has a large spiked helm, along with a quadrupedal body, with four legs and a tail. It wears a white face mask with two horns, adding to its appearance of a triceratops.

* Red - Gachigachi has the same physical appearance, though its colored red and yellow instead. Its spiked helm retains the same color as its regular variant.
* Blue - Gachiegachi has the same physical appearance, though its colored blue instead. Its spiked helm retains the same color as its regular variant.

## Trivia

* Gachigachi's behavior might be based on bulls.
	+ Its appearance may have been inspired by beetles.
* Gachigachi 「がちがち」is a Japanese onomatopoeia/sound usually describing the sound hard objects make while colliding.
Visual Works

Visual Works was a subsidiary Square Enix CGI production team who created a majority of the *Balan Wonderworld* cutscenes, that being 3D rendered. On April 1st, 2021, Visual Works merged with Image Arts to form Square Enix Image Studio.

## Credits

* Hiroshi Kuwabara (Manager)
* Sho Nohara (Animatics Director)
* Mitsuharu Fukai (Director of Photography)
* Rie Kanayama (Project Manager)

## Cutscene Filmography

*These are all of the cutscenes Visual Works worked on for Balan Wonderworld, for the full list of cutscenes, see The Theatre.*

TBA

## Trivia

* For both *Leo Craig's Opening/Leo Craig's Ending*, and *Emma Cole's Opening/Emma Cole's Ending*, each variant of Leo and Emma respectfully are fully rendered. The rendered images during the *Epilogue* also include all variants.
Pounding Pig

## Pounding Pig (パウンディングピグ)

**Pounding Pig** (パウンディングピグ, Paundingupigu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 1.

## Ability

"Press (B) while jumping to preform a ground pound, which can hammer down posts and break brittle blocks." - In-Game Description

"*A piglet costume with a large behind. Inspect stakes from the ground and obstacles that stand in your way with hip drops!*" - Official Website Description

Pounding Pig allows the wearer to perform a ground pound while jumping using the action button midair. It also can flutter for a little bit while in air.

## Appearance

Pounding Pig is a round, bipedal pig. It is mainly cream colored with a deep teal on the tips of its hands/hooves, top of its head, and a stripe around its torso. It has a slight under-bite, revealing two small tusks and it wears pink "pants" along with a belt with a pig's noise on it. It is shorter than most other characters, and when Emma or Leo wears the Pounding Pig costume, they seem to shrink in size as well.

## Locations

Chapter 1 - Act 2 LocationChapter 1 - Boss LocationPounding Pig is found in Chapter 1 - Act 2. It is along the main pathway of the Act with a Key nearby, so there should be little difficulty in finding it.

The Costume is also found in Barktholomew's boss fight (Chapter 1 - Boss Act.) As one of the provided Costumes.

## Trivia

* When you ground pound, it makes a squeaky noise, similar to a cartoon's depiction of a pig squeal.
* His appearance is reminiscent of Piglet from Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh and Mighty the Armadillo from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog.
* Pounding Pig is a variation of Pounding Robot and Pounding Duck. Each variation has different attributes:
	+ Pounding Pig has the shortest pounding range, but the longest flutter.
	+ Pounding Duck has the largest pounding range, but a medium flutter.
	+ Pounding Robot has a medium pounding range, but the shortest flutter. It can also attack spiked Negati and iron/ice blocks.
Fleeing Cast Members

**Fleeing Cast Members** are a phenomena found in some Chapter's Acts in *Balan Wonderworld*.

## Information

Fleeing Cast Members are Cast Members found in some Chapters who instead of disappearing when close, run away from the player. If caught, you obtain that respective Costume.

## Found In

* Chapter 7 - Act 1 (Floaty Flower)
* Chapter 9 - Act 1 (Happy Blaster)
* Chapter 11 - Act 1 (Key Mouse)
* Chapter 11 - Act 2 (Key Mouse)

## Trivia

* You can obtain a Trophy/Achievement from catching a fleeing cast member called *Somebody Stop Me*.
Pounding Robot

## Pounding Robot (パウンディングロボット)

**Pounding Robot** (パウンディングロボット, Paundingurobotto) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 9.

## Ability

"*Press (B) while jumping to perform a ground pound. The wearer will emit a shockwave upon impact that can take out enemies and break blocks of iron and ice.*" - In-Game Description

"*A robot costume that does a great ground pound. The ground pound causes a shockwave that defeats enemies or destroys blocks.*" - Official Website Description

Pounding Robot can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) perform a ground pound while jumping using the action button midair. It can slightly flutter on air. The ground pound can attack spiked Negati enemies, and can destroy iron/ice blocks.

## Appearance

Pounding Robot is a humanoid robot. It wears pants with a red and white striped pattern and white gloves. Near its shoes are golden bands. These also appear next to the gloves.

## Trivia

* Pounding Robot is a variation of Pounding Pig and Pounding Duck. Each variation has different attributes:
	+ Pounding Pig has the shortest pounding range, but the longest flutter.
	+ Pounding Duck has the largest pounding range, but a medium flutter.
	+ **Pounding Robot** has a medium pounding range, but the shortest flutter. It can also attack spiked Negati and iron/ice blocks.
Quad Cannon

* 2D
* Icon

**Quad Cannon** (クアッドキャノン, Kuaddokyanon) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 7.

## Ability

"Allows the wearer to shoot cannonballs in four directions simply by standing still. These cannonballs can be used to break brittle blocks." - In-Game Description

"A costume in the shape of a King chess piece. When it stops moving, it shoots bullets in four directions to defeat enemies." - Official Website Description

Quad Cannon allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to shoot cannonballs automatically when standing still. The cannons are shot from four directions.

## Appearance

Quad Cannon is a humanoid chess piece, representative of the inhabitant Cal Suresh. It is mainly white, with four black cannons stuck around its hoop. It has green eyes, a big nose, and a small cross on top of its head.

## Trivia

* The creature form of this costume utilises Cal Suresh's nose in its design.