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Balan (Costume)

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**Balan (Costume)**, also called **Balan's Costume**, is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It is obtained from a method involving Tims. It appears after feeding the Ultima Tim enough Raindrops, and giving it a King Tim. The method to do so is found here. It does not appear in any Chapter.

## Ability

*"Press (B) to jump way up high, and hold (B) to soar through the skies.*" - In-Game Description

Balan (Costume) allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to fly up into the sky, just like Balan during Balan's Bout, by pressing the action button to jump and holding it to soar. The Costume has 10 jumps, with each jump decreasing in high, until you land on the ground again.

Despite being able to jump, it can not attack Negati, but can attack Tim Traps. This trait is also shared with Merry Ghost and Fixer-upper.

## Appearance

Balan (Costume) is identical to Balan's outfit, except its wearable for the player character (Leo or Emma). The wearer's face replaces Balan's face, and the hat’s band no longer has eyes.

## Trivia

* Both the Balan Costume, and the Demo Launchers do not stack.
	+ The Balan Costume does come from a Costume Cube, but it does not need a key to unlock. The Demo Launchers do not appear in a Costume Cube in-game.
* Although you are not playing as the actual Balan, it is considered to be the only time you can play as him while not in a Balan's Bout session.
* If you lose the costume, you'll have to feed the Ultima Tim more Raindrops.
* The costume can be obtained in the demo through hacks, however it softlocks the demo if worn.
* After receiving the Costume and exiting out of the Closet, a glitch can happen where the "Obtain Costume" cutscene plays.
	+ The cutscene does not play when you initially obtain the Costume.
Sun Walker

## Sun Walker (サンウォーカー)

**Sun Walker** (サンウォーカー, San'u~ōkā) is one of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 12.

## Ability

"*Lets the world move while the wearer is in motion, and stops it in its tracks whenever they stand still.*" - In-Game Description

"*A sun costume that has the power to manipulate time. Outside of boss fights, time will flow normally while walking, but will stand still when you stop.*" - Official Website Description

Sun Walker allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to let the world move when the wearer is in motion and stop when the wearer stands still.

Sun Walker's ability does not work against Mid-Bosses or Nega Boss fights and will display a glass breaking sound/animation, though the wearer can still use the Costume even if its ability can't be utilized as it can attack by jumping.

## Appearance

Sun Walker is a sun humanoid. It has a scarlet and orange head with orange eyes and a long nose. Around it, there are seven flame-like segments alternating between scarlet and orange. Sun Walker's outfit consists of a one piece dark cadet blue suit with golden ring jewelry on its arms and neck, gloves, and boots, which are colored white and have scarlet and gold accents.

## Gallery

Sun Walker's model.Stopping time to look at some Negati.
## Name in Other Languages

* English: Sun Walker
* Japanese: サンウォーカー - San'u~ōkā - (Sun Walker)
* Simplified Chinese: 漫步太阳者 (Sunwalker)
* Traditional Chinese: 漫步太陽者 (Sunwalker)
## Trivia

* Sun Walker is the counterpart to Moon Walker, both are depictions of the sun and moon respectively, which are commonly described/are shown as opposites. Their abilities are also opposites of each other, Sun Walker freezes time while idle, while Moon Walker freezes time while moving.
	+ They could also depict the Tarot cards, The Moon and The Sun, as well.

* It is never mentioned in-game that both Sun Walker's and Moon Walker's abilities do not work in Mid-Boss or Boss fights, nor it is explained why their abilities can't work for them. Though, it can most likely be just something done for balancing.
Hiehie

## Hiehie (ヒエヒエ)

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

**Hiehie** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It is unknown if it has a red or blue variant.

## Trivia

* Hiehie is an ice variant of Balibali.
* Hiehie「ひえひえ」is a Japanese onomatopoeia/saying usually describing a chilly or cold feeling.
Pumpkin Puncher

## Pumpkin Puncher (パンプキンパンチャー)

**Pumpkin Puncher** (パンプキンパンチャー) is one of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 6.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to release a rocket-powered punch that can break brittle blocks. Punch three times in a row and the third attack will reach even further than the first two.*" - In-Game Description

"*A pumpkin costume that allows you to shoot a rocket punch. If you shoot repeatedly, your range increases.*" - Official Website Description

Pumpkin Puncher allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to attack by pressing the action button to release a rocket powered punch. When you punch three times in a row, the third attack will have a longer range than the other two. This attack can be used to break brittle blocks.

## Appearance

Pumpkin Puncher is a pumpkin humanoid. It wears a outfit consisting of a red and yellow top along with cream yellow and red shorts and gloves with a green rim. It has a green leaf ruff and a purple hat and legs. Its boots are cream yellow with bronze wiring.

## Trivia

* Pumpkin Puncher might be related to Paladin Puncher. They both have an orange complexion, cyan eyes, have identical boots, and both punch.
* Pumpkin Puncher is a costume that can attack with detached hands along with Paladin Puncher.
Footballer

**Footballer** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It is found in Chapter 1, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11.

## Ability

Footballer/Soccer can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) go into a ball-themed mini game.

## Mini Game

In the mini game, Free Kick Challenge, you have to kick a ball to knock over tiles, while trying not to get it blocked by a Balan cutout. A golden tile gives 6 seeds, while a blue tile gives 1 seed. You have 3 tries in the mini game to knock all tiles.

## Appearance

Footballer/Soccer gives Leo or Emma a football/soccer uniform. They both have an identical black and white color, but Leo has a blue secondary color, while Emma has red. The white icon on Emma's shorts is a cat-eared tim carrying a ball. The soccer ball is blue with black pentagons; a Tim can be seen pictured with a soccer ball on their head in one pentagon.

## Locations

Chapter 1 - Act 2 LocationFootballer is found in Chapter 1 - Act 2. (TBA)

## Gallery

Minigame setup.Leo wearing the Footballer costume.Goalie Balan.
## Trivia

* The gameplay of the minigame that the player can access from this costume is similar to GOOOOOOOAL!! from *Mario Party 4*.
Jumping Jack

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

## Ability

Jumping Jack allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to hover in the air for a few seconds after jumping by holding the action button while airborne.

## Appearance

Jumping Jack is a blue kangaroo-like humanoid. Its fur is mainly light blue with dark blue appearing on the upper section of its body, toes, tip of the tail, and inner ears. There are white tufts of fur on its forehead, neck, and near the wrists and ankles. It also wears gold and green jewelry. There is a white plush bunny on its pouch.

## Location

Jumping Jack is found in Chapter 1, Act 1. For new players, the ability is required to complete the act, and there's a Costume Key next to its Costume Cube, so there should be little difficulty in acquiring it.

## Gallery

Jumping Jack's ability in action.Jumping Jack color comparison.

## Trivia

* All Jumping Jacks come with a pouch holding a plush rabbit, including the costume itself.
	+ If Jumping Jacks follow similar principles to real life kangaroos, then it is possible that all Jumping Jacks encountered are female because of this.
* If you delay Jumping Jack's jump a little, you will have a longer hover.
* Jumping Jack's ability to slightly hover after jumping resembles Yoshi, a character from Nintendo's Mario franchise.
Kurukuru

* Default
* Easy

Chapter 8 - Act 1

Chapter 8 - Act 2

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

**Kurukuru** is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It can also appear in Hard Mode and Easy Mode.

## Abilities/Strategy

Kurukuru is a fast Negati who homes into the player while spinning. Move out of its way when it homes into you, and jump on it or use a projectile attack. Slower attacking Costumes such as Happy Blaster are not effective against it.

This Negati can be summoned by Plenti.

## Appearance

Kurukuru is a quick Negati resembling a ballerina dancer. It wears a long dress top with a Negati pattern and with petal ends. Its dress covers up its long legs which take up a majority of its body. It also has an attachment on the back of its head that resembles a ponytail. It wears a white face mask with petal ends.

## Trivia

* Kurukuru「くるくる」is a Japanese onomatopoeia/sound meaning "to spin."
Balan Wonderworld Official Twitter (Japanese ver.)

The Balan Wonderworld Official (Japanese) Twitter (@BALANWWORLD\_JP) is a Twitter account made for *Balan Wonderworld*. It has not had any activity since August 27, 2021. There is also an English version of the Twitter account.

## Information

The Twitter account mainly posts about promotional information, about upcoming features and characters (before the release.) It also encourage fan involvement, including releasing uncolored 2-D artwork of the game's characters to color in for fans.

For an unknown reason, the Balan Wonderworld Official (Japanese) Twitter ceased creating new posts, or replies, on July 26, 2021. Ceased liking posts on July 28, 2021. Its last activity present was in form of a retweet from @SQEX\_eSTORE on August 27, 2021.

## Statistics

* 321 Tweets (posts) in total
* 153 Photos and Videos total
Hardy Hammer

## Hardy Hammer (ハーディハンマー)

**Hardy Hammer** (ハーディハンマー, Hādihanmā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 8.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to swing your hammer. Hold (B) to unleash a charged spin attack. Allows the wearer to break blocks of iron and ice.*" - In-Game Description

"*An ice golem costume that swings its large hammer first around. Hold the button to charge up for a spinning attack.*" - Official Website Description

Hardy Hammer can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) swing a large hammer attacking enemies. It also has a spin attack when charging up the ability button.

## Appearance

Hardy Hammer is an ice golem monster with two ice hammers replacing hands. Its face, chest, bottom section, and feet are made of ice while its main body is black/dark blue.

## Trivia

* The Spanish name for Hardy Hammer possibly refers to it as a "lumpy mess," or "conglomerate," given its shape.
Air Double Trouble

## Air Double Trouble (エアダブルトラブル)

**Air Double Trouble** (エアダブルトラブル, Eadaburutoraburu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 12.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to create a clone of the wearer that can reach high-up areas. The wearer and the created clone will become invincible, but the clone will return to the wearers body after a while.*" - In-Game Description

Air Double Trouble allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to create a flying clone by pressing the action button, but the clone will go back to its host after a period of time. Both the clone and wearer are invincible when using the ability.

## Appearance

Air Double Trouble does not appear as a Cast Member in-game, though it appears as a bunny-like monster humanoid. It has white and green fur with shoes, long ears, and a tuff of hair.

## Trivia

* Air Double Trouble is the counterpart of Double Trouble. Both Air Double Trouble and Double Trouble can create clones for their ability, but Air Double Trouble's clone can fly.
* All costumes found in the Act 3s of Chapters and Metal Bad Boy do not have officially revealed 2D artwork.
Jolt Tiger

**Jolt Tiger** is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 12.

## Ability

*"Allows the wearer to unleash electricity simply by standing still. This costume also protects the wearer from electricity."* - In-Game Description

*"A costume of a tiger surrounded by electricity. When you stop walking, the costume will wrap itself in an electrical charge, damaging nearby foes."* - Official Website Description

Jolt Tiger allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to unleash an electric barrier while standing still and can protect the wearer from electricity. The electric barrier will disappear when the player is moving.

## Appearance

Jolt Tiger is an electric tiger humanoid. Its fur is blue, yellow, and black throughout its body and has brown eyes. It has a light blue tuff of fur on its neck, and has a symbol on its body with a dark blue border. It has a sharp, jagged design with numerous lighting bolts and spiky patterns/fur appearing all other its body.

## Gallery

Jolt Tiger's model.While running, no electric barrier is created.Most Negati will be hurt upon contact.Demo icon.Final icon.Jolt Tiger's barrier.

## Trivia

* Although a stretch, Jolt Tiger may have been inspired by the Japanese mythological creature Raiju, whom is sometimes depicted as a tiger, or as an other animal including being depicted as a dog or a wolf.
* Jolt Tiger's ability is similar to Jellyjolt's ability, as they both admit an electric barrier, but Jolt Tiger's is activated while stationary, while Jellyjolt's is activated by jumping.
Inkabelle

**Inkabelle** (ペインクラーケン, *Pein Kurāken*?, "Pain Kraken") is a boss in *Balan Wonderworld*. Created by Lance to prevent Emma Cole and Leo Craig from progressing, this Nega Boss makes her lair within the depths of Chapter 10.

## Boss Info

The dark form that Lucy’s feelings have created lurks in the depths of her inner world. She hides in a tubular space and attacks by throwing paint and serrated picture frames.

## Abilities

The Inkabelle can throw paint at the player as an attack. She can also make some of the platforms vanish between her and Emma, and when attacked, she counterattacks by summoning painting frames and launching them.

## Appearance

Inkabelle is composed of the following combination of costumes: Inky Blaster, X-ray Ape, Sneaky Lizard, and Double Trouble. She is the corruption of Lucy's Heart.

Inkabelle is a colorful ink monster. She has a hat with a brush resembling a flower, a black dress with a golden lining, and two brushes for hands with pink and green paint also appearing on her dress and on her head resembling hair. Under her dress, there is a black ink mass with creatures poking out of it.

## Boss Fight

Method 1: Strike a fallen paintcan to expose Lance's mark on her hat, then strike that. Reccomended to use Inky Blaster when at a fair enough distance.

Method 2: Switch to X-ray Ape and dodge the ink creatures to strike her hat.

Method 3: During her rage attack, dodge the spiked frames and strike her hat.

## Costume Concept

* **Inky Blaster:** Her hands and head.
* **X-ray Ape:** She has invisiblity and can create invisible platforms, which only X-ray Ape can see.
* **Sneaky Lizard:** She has a body of Sneaky Lizard.
* **Double Trouble:** She can summon shadow ink creatures resembling Double Trouble.

## Trivia

* Her blobby appearance represents Lucy Wong's struggle through an artistic slump.
* The Inkabelle is one of three bosses to have a time signature in uncommon time, as she has a 5/4 time theme. The Grim Creeper is the first boss with this trait, as his theme is also in 5/4 time, and Lance has a 7/4 time song for his first phase.
* Inkabelle's name is a pun on the word "Ink" which is something squids and octopi can reproduce, and the name "Isabelle".
Super Skater

## Super Skater (スーパースケーター)

**Super Skater** (スーパースケーター, Sūpāsukētā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 1.

## Ability

Super Skater allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to go at a fast speed after charging its ability with the action button.

## Appearance

Super Skater as a creature is not shown officially, though it appears as a humanoid wearing a pink and blue skating outfit. Its outfit includes a helmet, top, pants that go into roller-blades, and plates covering the lower sections of the arms.

## Location

The Super Skater costume is found in Chapter 1, Act 3, which is only unlocked after defeating the final boss. To collect this costume, the player needs to have a costume capable of breaking stone blocks, and another costume for maneuvering fast moving platforms.

About 3/4 of the way through the act, there will be an area with multiple floating platforms and a mirror floating in the air with 3 stone blocks in front of it. The player should break the stone blocks and use the floating platform that hovers beneath them to reach the mirror.

Once through the mirror, the player will be on a floating island next to another island with the Super Skater Costume Cube on it. Connecting these islands is a string of floating blocks, which periodically switch between being underneath a cliff side of the island and being beside the cliff letting the player walk across them to reach the other island. The player should switch to a different costume that either is capable of moving quickly, or can glide/hover for the periods of time when the blocks are unreachable (underneath the cliff).

Once on the island containing the Costume Cube, there is also a Costume Key, but it's on a piece of land separated from the player by a fast moving block, which has a chance of pushing the player off of the island entirely. It would be best to use a costume that has some sort of hover ability, to be able to bypass the fast moving block completely.

## Gallery

Super Skater as worn by Leo or Emma.Using Super Skater's ability.When Player 2 uses Super Skater, the costume is blue.Super Skater's ingame model (visible through modding)

## Trivia

* All costumes found in the Act 3s of Chapters and Metal Bad Boy do not have officially revealed 2D artwork.
Itsy-bitsy Elf

## Itsy-bitsy Elf (イッツィビッツィエルフ)

* 2D
* Icon

**Itsy-bitsy Elf** (イッツィビッツィエルフ, Ittsu~ibittsu~ierufu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 3.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to pass through tiny doors*." - In-Game Description

"*A tiny elf costume that looks a bit like a flying squirrel. It lets you squeeze through tiny doors you can't normally fit*." - Official Website Description

Itsy-bitsy Elf can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) turn into a rodent-like elf that can fit into small doors.

## Appearance

Itsy-bitsy Elf is a white, rodent-like elf similar to a chinchilla or a flying squirrel. It has a hooded outfit with a cloak colored red and yellow along with a yellow scarf. It appears to have arms hidden underneath the cloak.

## Gallery

Unlocking the Itsy-Bitsy Elf special door using the Costume
## Name in Other Languages

* English: Itsy-bitsy Elf
* Japanese: イッツィビッツィエルフ - Ittsu~ibittsu~ierufu - (Itsy-bitsy Elf)

## Trivia

* When you jump, this costume makes a squeak/chirp noise.
* Itsy-bitsy Elf is one of the smallest Costumes in *Balan Wonderworld*.
Chapter 4 Act 2

Chapter 4 Act 2 (called Chapter Four Act Two in-game) is the second Act of Chapter 4.

## Summary

Chapter 4 - Act 2 introduces the player to the abilities of Laser Launcher and Happy Horn. There are turret Negati, along with small round and thin hand Negati. There are also fans and balloons for you to use. The heart tree is on the flying whale island, called Cetacean Island, to get to it, wait until it is near you, and float to it.

There is 1 Balan's Bout in this Chapter's Act.

## Strategy

Bring attacking Costumes that have projectile attacks. Aero Acrobat can be used to jump to new places by homing in on balloons, though Costumes like Double Jumper can jump to those new spots without Aero Acrobat. Floaty Flower can also be used instead of Soaring Sheep. You can use another music playing Costume such as Amadeus or Metal Bad Boy instead of Happy Horn.

## Statue Locations

* Statue 1 - Go behind the blue spike spheres, and go up the fan with Soaring Sheep or Floaty Flower to a platform.
* Statue 2 - Move from the grassy floating platform to a platform with a blue spike sphere on it.
* Statue 3 - Move the construction block with Bulldozer or go into the small area with Telepotter.
* Statue 4 - Shoot 3 blue blocks at once with Laser Launcher.
* Statue 5 - Jump onto a metal platform with Aero Acrobat, and use a jumping costume such as Double Jumper to jump to the Statue.
* Statue 6 - Move pass the blue spike sphere with Soaring Sheep or Floaty Flower and land on a small platform.
* Statue 7 - Preform perfectly in Balan's Bout.

## Costumes Available

You can find the following Costumes in this Act:

* Soaring Sheep
* Laser Launcher
* Aero Acrobat
* Happy Horn

## Trivia

* There is a Stage in this Act.

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Laser Launcher

## Laser Launcher (レーザーランチャー)

* 2D
* 3D
* Icon

**Laser Launcher** (レーザーランチャー, Rēzāranchā) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 4.

## Ability

"*Allows the wearer to shoot lasers in three directions simply by standing still. The beams can be used to break brittle blocks and even trigger switches.*" - In-Game Description

"*A robot costume that shoots a laser for its chest. Use the laser to break blocks and flip switches.*" - Official Website Description

Laser Launcher allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to shoot lasers (at once in three different directions) while standing still. The beams can break blocks and trigger switches.

## Appearance

Laser Launcher is a white humanoid robot. Its armor is mainly white with purple sphere halves on its feet and head. Its chest can open up revealing three yellow spots where the lasers are shot out of. Under its armor is a black robot body.

## Gallery

Shows Laser Launcher costume when equippedLaser Launcher's model.Firing its attack.
## Name in Other Languages

* English: Laser Launcher
* Japanese: レーザーランチャー - Rēzāranchā - (Laser Launcher)
* German: Laserwerfer (Laser Launcher)
* Spanish: Lanzaláser (Laser Launcher)
* Portuguese: Dispara-laser (Laser Shooter)
* French: Lancerlaser (Laser Launcher)
* Italian: Lancialaser (Laser Lance/Launcher)

## Trivia

* When Leo or Emma obtains the Laser Launcher costume, he/she does the robot dance.
Activating Hard Mode Guide

This is a guide on how to activate the Hard Mode difficulty in *Balan Wonderworld*. More information about the difficulties in-game are found here.

## General

Think of doing the process as a meter. Attacking more enemies quickly will bring it up. Getting attacked brings it down. Activating and staying in Hard Mode is generally sensitive because getting attacked at least once will bring you back to Normal Mode, but you can go back to Hard Mode after doing more of the process. You can also do the opposite of it and let yourself be attacked (in your base form or with spare Costumes) to go into Easy Mode.

## Costumes

Costumes good for activating and staying in Hard Mode are:

* Bullet the Kid - This Costume can be used to defeat multiple enemies at once, it can generally be used on all enemies except for enemies with spikes.
* Moon Walker - This Costume can be used to defeat multiple enemies at once, since it can freeze time. This Costume can attack Gachigachi as it freezes it in place so you hit the back and defeat it.
* Air Cat - A general Costume that can be used for both traversing and attacking (mainly in Chapter 6). Air Unicorn can also be used.
* Sickle Slayer - This Costume can attack spiked enemies. Useful for Chapter 3 - Act 1.
* TBA - recommend Costumes will be added as the list expands
* Generally any Costume that can be used to attack enemies can be used.

## Acts

These are good Acts for activating Hard Mode. The Balan Costume is generally needed for traversing the Act.

### Chapter 3 - Act 1

This Act has 3 areas where Negati can spawn. The enemies present are Pukapuka, Gachigachi, and Chickn. Chickn spawns are the most favorable, as they often spawn in packs and are generally easy to defeat with Bullet the Kid.

### Chapter 6 - Act 2

This Act has 3 areas where Negati can spawn. The enemies present are Kurukuru, and Sutasuta. Gawgaw can also appear in 1 area. This Act has Tim Traps.
Chrono Bunny

## Information

### Ability

Freeze Time by Going Through PortalsMakes Wearer Immune to Time-Freezing Attacks

## Physics

### Ice Preformance

No

**Chrono Bunny** (クロノバニー, Kuronobanī) is one of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 6.

## Ability

“*Allows the wearer to stop time by pass through time portals. This costume also protects the wearer from being frozen in time by enemies.*” - In-Game Description

"*A rabbit costume with a clock in its stomach. You can enter time portals and move freely around a world frozen in time.*" - Official Website Description

Chrono Bunny allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to stop time by going through time portals, and can protect the wearer from time-freezing attacks by enemies.

## Appearance

Chrono Bunny is a rabbit humanoid. It has white fur and orange gloves, and has a giant clock replacing a portion of its body. The minute hand is blue, while the hour hand is red, and are put in place by a golden dial.

## Gallery

Reveal promoTime is paused.When time is stopped, the Chrono Bunny NPCs will keep moving.Running into a portal.
## Name in Other Languages

#### Other Names

This name has the same meaning as the final name.

## Trivia

* When you obtain this costume, the wearer does a pose resembling Sonic's (where one knee is back and the left hand is pointed and moving).
Haoyu Chang

## Haoyu Chang (チャン・ハオユー)

* 3D
* 2D

Haoyu Chang (チャン・ハオユー, Chan Haoyū) is one out of the 12 Inhabitants of *Balan Wonderworld*.

## Information

He is a young boy who dreams of flying through the sky, and keeps trying to make a flying machine by modifying bicycles.

## Appearance

Haoyu is a boy of around high school age with fair skin, green hair, and brown eyes. He wears an orange sleeveless vest with a grey hood, a white long-sleeve shirt with a green stripe around the neck, green capris pants, and orange and white sneakers. He also wears brown and gold pilot goggles.

## Synopsis

Haoyu dreams of flying through the sky. After he throws a paper airplane into the air, he runs into his workshop in his house and starts building multiple inventions that would enable him to fly. Unfortunately, all his attempts result in him crashing to the ground and leaving nothing of his crafts but a pile of scrap metal. (The last attempt nearly takes his life in the novel.) After so many failures, Haoyu screams in frustration. In this state, he is corrupted and turned into the monstrous Worville Wright.

Upon his defeat, Haoyu calms down, and regains inspiration from another paper airplane and he begins drawing on his desk. Several days later, he comes out of his garage riding a flying bicycle similar to his paper airplane. His invention falls off the runway at first but then it pulls up and flies gracefully through the sky. Haoyu is happy that he finally succeeded and his dream has come true.

## Personality

In the game, it is shown that Haoyu is interested in being able to fly via aircraft and in the field of mechanics. It is also shown that he knows how to build or at least is learning. In the novel, he is shown to be a dreamer- often wistfully gazing up into the sky. He's a little playful, but he's mainly quite relaxed.

He appears to be athletic, especially when he is shown to walk faster than the other characters.

## Trivia

* Haoyu is the first of the twelve non-playable Inhabitants to have a unique hair colour going by chapter number, with his hair being green. The other three are Cass Milligan (turquoise or emerald green), Lucy Wong (pink), and Bruce Stone (white).
* In the novel, his "name" while Wonderworld was under Lance's control was "Skygazer".
* In the novel, he seemed to be closest friends with Fiona Demetria. This is due to their similar loves for exploring the unknown.
* Judging by his first and last name, Haoyu might be Chinese.
* His costume counterpart/representative is Aero Acrobat.

## Quotes

* "Don't tread on me, Clocktower Kid." - Haoyu's first words in the novel.
* "What's it look like, Streetbeat? Living up to my name and gazing up at the sky." - Haoyu answering Leo's question.

 Characters
Yuji Naka

**Yuji Naka** (中 裕司) is the director of *Balan Wonderworld*, and is one of the founders of Balan Company.

## Information

Yuji Naka is a Japanese video game programmer, designer, and producer, who programmed the first *Sonic the Hedgehog game* in 1991. Alongside Naka, Naoto Ohshima created the characters (including Sonic) and is now the character designer of *Balan Wonderworld*.

### Involvement on *Balan Wonderworld*

Naka began working with Square Enix on January 1, 2018 and ended work on April 30th, 2021. He founded Balan Company alongside Naoto Oshima. In *Balan Wonderworld*'s credits, he is credited as the director.

### Lawsuit

Six months before Balan Wonderworld was launched, Naka was given a work order to remove him as the director. The work order was executed by mainly staff, including the producer, the advertiser/publicist, the sound director, the director in charge, and the human resources department. The first reason for the work order was due to his protest against an arranged version of the score of an original song written by a ghostwriter (possibly the BALAN WONDERWORLD x marasy promotion). The second reason given was because Oshima talked to the producer, Fujimoto, about what Naka said about Arzest releasing the game without fixes even when there were glitches during the development of the game, and the relationship between him and Arzest breaking down due to him making comments on how to improve the game. Another point given was how Oshima wrote to Fujimoto in an e-mail, about how he gathered the staff to tell them the matter of shifting the trial version, which was a decision by Fujimoto. The staff were happy at the news. He also mentioned part of a quote, "*...The staff, who had tended to be down lately, has been revitalized. Thank you very much. The entire staff will do our best*." Meaning on how happy the staff were at the release of the demo version. The schedule was decided on the producer and not Naka, which was strange to him. Interactions made by Naka on social media for *Balan Wonderworld* were not allowed, so he could not interact with any post.

## Trivia

* Yuji Naka was given one chance to create an action-platformer game.
	+ This might be a reason on why he left Square Enix, but it remains unknown if this was his or Square Enix's decision.

## Links

* Wikipedia:Yuji Naka
(Source for abridged information, includes a list with all of his work)
* Official Facebook Page
* Official Twitter Page

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.ign.com/articles/balan-wonderworld-yuji-naka-square-enix-leaves?utm\_source=intl
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/nakayuji/status/1519694607222644736
3. ↑ https://www.ign.com/articles/balan-wonderworlds-next-gen-features-discussed-by-sonic-creator
X-ray Ape

## X-Ray Ape (エックスレイエイプ)

**X-ray Ape** (エックスレイエイプ, Ekkusureieipu) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 10.

## Ability

"*A costume of* [a] *monkey wearing massive glasses. Wearing this costume will let you see invisible platforms and items hidden in the shadows*." - Official Website Description

”*Allows the wearer to see invisible blocks and items.*” - In-Game Description

X-ray Ape allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to see invisible platforms and items not visible normally.

Invisible platforms are only found in Chapter 10, including Acts 1-3 and Boss Act.

## Appearance

X-ray Ape is a reddish-orange, anthropomorphic small primate. It wears a floating red construction hat, yellow and red ruff, and tipped shoes. Its eyes are swirly glasses and its midsection and the circles bordering the eyes are dark red. There is also dark red on its body resembling a top.

## Trivia

* X-Ray Ape looks more like a small primate than an actual ape.
	+ X-Ray Ape's Italian name calls it a gibbon.
Lickshot Lizard

## Lickshot Lizard (リックショットリザード)

* 2D
* Icon

**Lickshot Lizard** (リックショットリザード, Rikkushottorizādo) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 5.

## Ability

"*Hold (B) to enter targeting mode. Set your sights on a lickshot seed and release (B) to pull yourself over to the target.*" - In-Game Description

"*A costume of a chameleon with a long tongue. By shooting your tongue out at a lickshot seed, you can launch yourself over to where the seed is.*" - Official Website Description

Lickshot Lizard can let the wearer (Leo or Emma) shoot out its long tongue at a lickshot seed, a flying seed that can only be used by Lickshot Lizard, allowing you to go to that seed's location.

#### Acts with Lickshot Seeds

List of Acts with Lickshot seeds, and where you can utilize Lickshot Lizard's ability: TBA

## Appearance

Lickshot Lizard is an anthropomorphic chameleon. It has a light green complexion among with yellow on various areas. Its chest/belly is a clear, shiny section with three colors: blue, yellow, and red. It also has a long pink tongue. The top of its head, eyelids/eye separators, lips, shoulders, wrists, fingers, feet, and tip of its tail are yellow. Its feet and tail are also curled up.

## Trivia

* Despite being called a lizard, Lickshot Lizard is most likely based off a chameleon.
	+ There is also a chameleon boss found in *NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams*, Chamelan, though Lickshot Lizard and Chamelan do not share any abilities, or traits other than that they are both chameleons.
* Lickshot Lizard's Portuguese and French names reference its ability: to hook/hoist onto lickshot seeds.
Gabugabu

* Default
* Hard Mode

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

Gabugabu is a Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It has both a red and blue variant, and can appear in both Easy and Hard Mode.

## Abilities/Strategy

Gabugabu is a sneaky Negati who usually is in puddle, until it approaches the player and rises up to attack. Move out of the puddle when it locates you, and jump on it or use a projectile attack. Due to its speed, Slower attacking Costumes such as Happy Blaster are not effective against it. In Hard Mode, it is a faster speed and the range where it emerges from is larger.

## Appearance

Gabugabu is an aquatic Negati resembling a shark. TBA

## Gallery

Attacking (Black; Default)Two Gabugabu Negati emerging
## Trivia

* Its behavior and appearance may have been based on the shark from the JAWS series of films.
Sickle Slayer

## Sickle Slayer (シクルスレイヤー)

* 2D
* Icon

**Sickle Slayer** (シクルスレイヤー) is one out of the eighty Costumes found in Balan Wonderworld. It appears in Chapter 5.

## Ability

"*Press (B) to hurl a sickle that can break blocks of iron and ice.*" - In-Game Description

"*A strong and sturdy praying mantis costume. Throw your boomerang scythes to defeat the Negati!*" - Official Website Description

Sickle Slayer allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to attack by hurling sickles. Its sickles can break iron and ice blocks.

## Appearance

Sickle Slayer is a beetle-like humanoid. It is light green in complexion, with red, yellow, black, and gray armor, consisting of a top, bottom, shoes, helmet, and sleeves. Its sleeves have two big sickles on each of the ends.

## Trivia

* Sickle Slinger is a weaker variation of Sickle Slayer.
Lucy Wong

* 3D
* 2D

> "My Canvas was pitch-black long before I realized it."
>
>

**Lucy Wong** (ルーシー・ウォン) is one out of the twelve Inhabitants found in *Balan Wonderworld*. She is the inhabitant of Chapter 10.

## Information

Lucy Wong is a famous artist who has been suffering from art block and has not yet found satisfaction in her creations.

Her Nega Boss corruption is Inkabelle, and her costume representative is Inky Blaster.

## Appearance

Lucy is a woman of a large figure with fair skin, long magenta hair and fuchsia eyes, and pink eyeshadow and lips. She wears a green dress underneath her white, yellow, pink, and blue apron with blue and pink buttons. She also wears green flats.

## Synopsis

Lucy is an artist who loves to paint and people love her pictures. After a while however, she starts suffering from an artistic slump from not finding satisfaction in her creations. This causes her to be corrupted. After she is saved, she goes back to painting and becomes very famous.

## Personality

Lucy is a fast-talking, boisterous woman with a welcoming aura about her. She is very friendly, perhaps a bit too much so, referring to everyone as "darling" affectionately. She is very direct, and often likes to take matters into her own hands.

## Name in Other Languages

* English/Other Languages: Lucy Wong
* Japanese: ルーシー・ウォン (Lucy Wong)

## Trivia

* In the novel, her "name" while Wonderworld was under Lance's control was "Madam of the Mansion".
* In the novel, it is revealed that she speaks a different language compared to the language the other inhabitants speak. This is evidenced by an advertisement featuring her artwork that is stated to be written in a foreign language. Cass Milligan studied her language in college, and thus is able to (roughly) communicate with her afterwards. A flight is needed to reach her country. The reason they are able to understand each other in Wonderworld may be that they were speaking a Wonderworldian language without noticing- for example, Balanese.

## Quotes

* "Darlings! Absolutely marvelous to have you on my stage!" - Lucy's first words in the novel.
* "In that case, I shall come with you. I'd like to tell Checkered King of the fuzzy creatures myself." - Lucy, wanting to visit Cal on his stage.

 Characters
Kosokoso

## Kosokoso「コソコソ」

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

**Kosokoso** is a "special" Negati enemy found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It is a Negati enemy that is required to defeat in some Chapter's Acts to obtain statues.

## Abilities/Strategy

Unlike other Negati enemies, Kosokoso runs away from the player, and can not attack the player. To defeat it, chase after it, and jump on it or use a projectile attack. Use a Costume such as Invisible Man or Moon Walker to be able to get close to it. Speedy Cheetah may also work in defeating it.

There is no blue (Easy Mode) or red (Hard Mode) variant of Kosokoso.

## Appearance

Kosokoso is a timid Negati resembling a squirrel. It has large ears, a bipedal body with two arms and legs, and a large tail just like a squirrel's. Its tail also has a swirl Negati pattern. It wears a white face mask with a tipped bottom.

## Trivia

* Kosokoso has official 2D artwork of itself.
* Kosokoso 「こそこそ」is a Japanese onomatopoeia/sound meaning sneakily/stealthily.
* Kosokoso and Paripari are the only two Negati in-game that can not actually harm the player via an attack.
* According to unused dialogue, Kosokoso may have been named Cowardli.
Sneaky Lizard

## Sneaky Lizard (スニーキーリザード)

**Sneaky Lizard** (スニーキーリザード, Sunīkīrizādo) is one out of eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 10.

## Ability

“*Hold (B) to enter targeting mode. Set your sights on a large drop and release (B) to teleport over to the target*.” - In-Game Description

"*A costume of an elusive lizard that can disappear like a ninja. Aim at a* [large] *drop and push the action button to leap to it immediately*." - Official Website Description

Sneaky Lizard allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to teleport to other areas by targeting large Drops, and teleporting to the location of the Drop.

Sneaky Lizard's ability can only be used to teleport to large Drops (the ones that give 10 Drops when obtained.)

## Appearance

Sneaky Lizard is a light purple lizard humanoid. It wears a purple and yellow stealth outfit including a hood, short shirt, gloves, and shoes. It has white coloring on the bottom of its mouth and on its belly.

## Trivia

* Sneaky Lizard's Italian name refers to it as a dinosaur, hence the translated ending "saurus."
	+ Other translations call it proper words, such as "refined," and "subtle."
Steam Launcher

***~Basic Info~***

The 'Steam Launcher' costume is one of four platform specific bonus costumes. This costume is exclusive to the 'Steam' store version of the game. It features a blue and white color palette, as well as a large red valve on it's back, which is likely a reference to the creators of the Steam store, 'VALVE', who are also known for such games as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, TF2, Counter-Strike and more.

***~Jokes~***

*"Someone needs to write this...*
It is very steamy."
Wonderworld (Song)

**Wonderworld** 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 the final boss, Shadow Lance. 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, not official lyrics)

Cruen livi upa te

apperti mi livi Balan foi

Thimilin he upa ka, aberdoletha en tau

Ah, ah, ahhhhh~

Ah, ah, ahhhhh~

Ah, ah, ahhhhh~

Ah, ah, ahhhhh~

Teclouteor sumna henna ekat

enkommo naiidhea, rugenprei apowit noi

Izdibit ioi, moi galach e ein

Akamanaii de haaaaaaaaaa

Ailihandoi lu camoi

Kostilich de minya nekarus

Lagna bich pe de akful

de litterka tuakam hibasti weclo

Kostilich de minya torisha

lagna bich pe de hutluus

Meir inyun bru, di hooooooooo-oooooooooooooh

Cruen livi upa te

apperti mi livi Balan foi

Thimilin he upa ke, aberdoletha en den

Cruen livi upa te

apperti mi livi Balan foi

Datai ki ya nopa te, aberdoletha no len den

Fuen livi upa te

apperti mi livi Balan foi

Thimilin he upa ke

Agubatai ki ya nopa te, aberdoletha huoi leeeen den

(Cruen livi upa te!)

## English Lyrics

Hello to the Wonderworld

Say hello to Balan's world

Come and celebrate with me

Our new world, our life

I cried a lot

With mixed thoughts

But I always got up

Till I reached the goal

I never gave up

'Cause I believed

Now I know

Every second was precious

Don't have to be too positive

Don't need to be too negative

Balance will bring a happy ending

When we open our heart we see

The world is so magical

These dreams can all come true, oh

Hello to the Wonderworld

Say hello to Balan's world

Come and celebrate with me

Our new world, our life

Hello to the Wonderworld

Say hello to Balan's world

Flags are waving for our day

Our new world, our life

Hello to the Wonderworld

Say hello to Balan's world

Come and celebrate with me

Flags our waving for our day

Our new world, ahh, our life

Hello to the Wonderworld!

## Trivia

* On the game's original soundtrack, the original 'Balanese' version of this musical number is track number 18 of CD 3, and its English version is track number 29 of CD 3.
* 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.
Large Cannon Negati

* Default
* Hard Mode

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

*Note: This Negati's internal file name has not been found yet. If found, move the page to its new name.*

The name "**Large Cannon Negati**" is given to a Negati enemy that has yet to have its file name discovered. It is found in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11.

## Abilities/Strategy

Large Cannon Negati shoots out a big projectile upwards from faraway. When the projectile gets close to you, a shadow will appear. If you get close to it, it will back up in an attempt to flee. In Hard Mode, it will shoot out 3 projectiles instead of 1.

## Appearance

Large Cannon Negati is a semicircle-shaped Negati with a large cannon above it, making it look similar to a phonograph. This Negati changes appearance (red body with yellow markings) in Hard Mode, and does not change appearance in Easy Mode.
Dainty Dragon

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

## Ability

Dainty Dragon allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to attack with fire breath. It can also be charged for a rapid-fire attack by holding down and releasing the action button. This can be used to destroy blocks and defeat Negati.

## Appearance

Dainty Dragon is a small bipedal teal green dragon. He mainly has teal green scales all around his body with yellow on his lower jaw and belly. His horns and nails are dark gray. The center of his body is hollow housing a blue flame inside.

When Emma or Leo are wearing the Dainty Dragon costume, the head of the dragon functions as a hood of sorts, while the rest of the costume looks the same as the species itself.

## Location

Chapter 1 - Act 2 LocationThe costume version of Dainty Dragon is found in Chapter 1 Act 2. It is along the main path near the start of the act with a Costume Key nearby, so there should be little difficulty in obtaining it.

## Gallery

You can use Dainty Dragon's ability to destroy blocks by breathing fire.Dainty Dragon's charged attack.The two different Dainty Dragon colorations.

## Trivia

* When wearing the Dainty Dragon costume, the player himself/herself isn't breathing fire, but instead the dragon's mouth on the top of the costume is.
Lovely Lantern

## Lovely Lantern (ラブリーランタン)

* 2D
* Icon

**Lovely Lantern** (ラブリーランタン, Raburīrantan) is one out of the eighty unique Costumes found in *Balan Wonderworld*. It appears in Chapter 3.

## Ability

"*This costume's lantern flickers on and off when it feels like it, allowing the wearer to illuminate dark areas.*" - In-Game Description

"*This Chinese lantern plant costume dangles a lantern-like fruit that flickers on and off, allowing you to illuminate dark areas.*" - Official Website Description

Lovely Lantern allows the wearer (Leo or Emma) to illuminate dark areas through its Chinese lantern flower attachment on its head. Its light flickers on and off, "when it feels like it," meaning its light is uncontrollable.

## Appearance

Lovely Lantern is a plant humanoid based off the Chinese lantern plant. It has a plant attachment on its head, and wears a two-piece red costume with green sleeves. The top goes up to the back of its head and the bottom goes down to its feet, replacing any use for shoes. The plant attachment on its head acts as a hat and resembles that of what angler fish use.

## Name in Other Languages

* English: Lovely Lantern
* Japanese: ラブリーランタン - Raburīrantan - (Lovely Lantern)
* German: Laternenblume (Lantern Flower)
* Spanish: Lucerna (Lantern, possibly a combination between the words "Luz" (light) and "Linterna" (lantern))
* Portuguese: Lampalinda (Beautiful Lamp)
* French: Phytophare (Flagship Phyto)
* Italian: Intervalluce (Interval Light)

## Trivia

* Lovely Lantern's Spanish name, "Lucerna," is also the word for "lantern" in Czech.
* "Phyto" is a word for "of a plant."