Balan Wonderworld and Sonic lead Yuji Naka says Square Enix "do not care about games"
Theatrical 3D platformer Balan Wonderworld released last year to dismal reviews, despite familiar names like former Sonic Team head Yuji Naka at the helm. Last week Naka took to Twitter to air his displeasure at Square Enix's treatment of him and the game, concluding by saying that he believes "Square Enix and Arzest are companies that do not care about games and game fans."
Naka posted the thread of tweets twice, first in Japanese and then again in English, seemingly by relying on a translation tool such as Google Translate. The below quotes from the thread are drawn from Naka's English language tweets, although Twitter user Cheesemeister has an unofficial by-hand translation that may more accurately reflect the original Japanese intention.
"Six months before the launch of #BalanWonderworld, a work order was issued removing me as director, so I filed a lawsuit in court against Square Enix," says Naka's first tweet. Now that the court case is over, he's free to discuss it, he alleges.
"According to the court documents, I was removed as director of #BalanWonderworld on two points. It was executed by the producer, advertising, sound, director in charge, and human resources," writes Naka. "First, a YouTuber was going to play the piano and publish the score of a game song for a promotion, and I got into trouble because I thought it was strange that the music was arranged and a ghostwriter wrote the score, and I insisted on publishing the score of an original song."
"Second, according to the court documents, what I said in response to Arzest submission of the game without fixing it despite the fact that there were glitches in the development process," the next tweet continues. "That my comments to make the game better are
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