This game has gotten the most unreasonable amount of hate I have seen in a long time. Judging by the sales numbers, it's obvious that it's mostly people parroting Youtube videos or going off the demo as it has become a dogpile flavor of the week.
With that being said, is the game actually good? No not really, but it is far from terrible, and plays slightly better than the demo. It puzzles me how this game is tracking the hate and amount of videos that it gets, because honestly the most interesting thing about Balan is how unremarkable and uninteresting it is. It's just very stale. Probably one of the most mediocre games I have played. There is nothing that stands out about it from a good or bad perspective. Bland levels, bland soundtrack, bland platforming. The most wonderous thing about it is how it manages to hit every note in the most run-of-the-mill way possible. There are way more interesting and actually terrible games people can hate on out there.