The people over at GoodFeel looked at what Yuji Naka was doing with Balan Wonderworld and said hold my beer.

As Nintendo exclusives go this one definitely feels the most like a late era release for a system on it's way out the door. Visually it's really bland and surprisingly fuzzy and poorly optimized for a game made by one of Nintendo go to second party studios, besides the main visual motif of the levels being plays everything else feels very bland; even by Goodfeels standers with their last game this is the most "second party" made nintendo game I've seen since in a long time, There just isn't much heart here and you can 100% tell.
Gameplay wise it's very easy, like......really easy; as in it's a two button game only and the only time the gameplay changes is when Peach uses a costume which gives her the ability to do one whole new move (wow). Obviously this game was made with very little kids in mind but honestly I feel like even they would get bored with something like this. Hell even compared with Kirby games like Forgotten Lands or Planet Robobot still offer a greater challenge as the game goes on, for pretty much the beginning to the end the whole game feels like it's on autopilot; like it's only reason for existence is to babysit your 6 year old for 5 hours instead of being a normal parent and put your kid in front of Bluey or a Mr. Beast video (joking by the way fuck Mr. Beast).

I guess my overall problem with the game is how...completely unmemorable the whole experience was. I went out of my way to 100% the whole game and besides like 1 or 2 moments from the beginning and the end I've already pretty much forgotten almost every part of the game. And I don't like using the argument of "oh well it's a kids game made for very little kids; what did you expect?", because even if you made a game with it being very easy in mind you still need to make it a good game. Like a side before Kirby is a very pretty much made with kids in mind but those games are not only game games that both kids and adult can enjoy, and give kids a good challenge while also still being welcoming for smaller kids; but those games are also chock full of stuff for kids and adult to play besides the main game. Here I 100% the game and did everything in around 9 hours for a game that cost the same price as Kirby's Forgotten land, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Super Mario Wonder.

The nicest thing I can say about this game is that unlike Balan Wonderworld it's not a buggy broken mess and plays alright, it's just a shame the game itself is the definition of bland.