Top 10 Worst Games of 2021

[@AzureMoebius22]

The worst part for Wonderworld is that after the demo people were begging, BEGGING for the game to be delayed so that it could be better worked on. Usually gamers aren't fond of delays, but that wasn't the case here.

[@VLikaru]

It was bad designed from the start. It would of needed to be restarted from the ground up.

[@LuccianoBartolini]

Delays isn't an easy thing to do. It means spending more money (if they have it) and also having to calculate WHEN to release it.

[@KGhaleon]

Yes, I'm sure delaying would have fixed all the issues with the game...not

[@pippo17173]

@@VLikaru The game was design for a child to easily play but at the same time, follows the phone game market design. Ya it needed a hard fucking reset which sadly the director or the higher ups or both won't do.

[@jlev1028]

@@pippo17173 It was also meant to have the controls of a simple 2D platformer from the SNES days even though it's a 3D platformer with a much more complex controller.

[@hungryhippowdon7141]

2021 was such a crazy year that it feels like Balan came out years ago. I actually thought it said "Wonderland" not "Wonderworld" when I first saw it.

[@ronaldvexdian2182]

Most people thought it was wonderland. It think it’s because wonderland sounds better compared to wonderworld. Even right now, autocorrect considered Wonderworld not a word, where as wonderland is fine. Example, Alice in Wonderland.

[@blackbot7113]

That was my exact thought when seeing that here... Both of those things.

[@0megaWarrior]

I still thought it was Wonderland up until watching this video. Just heard the game was absolutely terrible and boring which was enough for me to not give two shits about it.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Baworld Wonderland.

[@masterseal0418]

Balan Wonderworld is an example of how not to work with a company whose experience with platformers are little to none and focusing too much on style rather than substance, then the game fails phenomenally.

[@Kingdom850]

But the game's director was Yuji Naka, who had plenty of experience with platformers back in the day with his work on Sonic. Square as a whole isn't to blame for this game being this garbage, it's this dude's design philosophy to create games as simple as possible. They gave him one fair chance to make a platformer and he maps a 1/3 of the control scheme to fucking jumping.

[@scarffoxandfriends9401]

It wasn't Square's fault, people just didn't want to back talk such a big name in the industry. Sorta like how almost everything Miyamoto suggests gets included. In most cases this ends up as a good thing, but there's a handful of times it caused a game to be forgettable.

[@masterseal0418]

@@scarffoxandfriends9401 Yep. And I love Square Enix. Here's the thing. Square's more of a company that makes RPGs rather than platformers unless another company who has plenty of experience making platformers could make Balan work.

[@masterseal0418]

@@Kingdom850 I agree. Naka became the gaming equivalent to M Night Shaymalan similar to Inafune on how much shit SEGA and Capcom mistreated these two, unlike Kojima.

[@XX-sp3tt]

I enjoyed it.

[@theotherjared9824]

The worst part of Balan is that it's not a broken mess in the traditional sense. Everything works exactly as intended by the developers. All the problems it has are at a conceptual level, which can't be fixed without scrapping the whole game and starting over.

[@Ravensgale]

You get a more fitting description of that piece of trash if you rearrange the letters: Banal

[@adenmitchell7633]

@@Ravensgale analb?

[@shawnheatherly]

Balan Wonderworld is indeed worthy of this dishonor, as it was one of my most anticipated titles when I first heard about it. So much promise, so much potential, all squandered.

[@MajoraWaffle]

yuji naka has had such a fall from grace since his departure from sega. it's really just sad.

[@kellygallagher7148]

Yeah, I think the game is made far worse by the fact that it LOOKs like it should be really good. Feels like a huge wasted opportunity.

[@orangeslash1667]

@@MajoraWaffle Balan Wonderworld was Square Enix's idea. Yuji Naka just said yes to making it. While Yuji Naka is a great Producer, he's sadly not a good director.

[@abbybraun7019]

@@kellygallagher7148 What makes it even weirder the fact that hardly ANYONE is defending it, even with the amazing style. Like, there are people that are still hardcore Yandere Simulator defenders. If something has a unique and appealing art style, there will be a fairly large fanbase to accompany it. That's why I've never played the game. While I'm sure there are people that like or defend this game, it does not have sizable fanbase. About the best thing I've heard said about it is "some of the costumes abilities are kind of fun sometimes".

[@naos8116]

@@abbybraun7019 Yandere Simulator's defenders seem more about the ambition and at least somewhat interesting idea, even if YandereDev generally fails to deliver on his promises. They hope there will be a solid game if and when it releases, regardless of how futile it is. The content in the novel for Balan actually shows some interesting themes about escaping your trauma in another world you can shape to your liking instead of accepting and trying to move on from what you went through. However, it's entirely missed in the game itself because there isn't any dialogue, as it's all in the novel. So without that context, the game feels hollow and you have no clue what's happening.

[@jrpludacrous]

The worst thing about the GTA Trilogy ""remaster"" is RockStar removing the originals off of every online store, as if they want the only GTA game people would want to play be their reselling cash cow

[@ryanclemons1]

not really a "as if" it's clear that is what they want :)

[@kevincatal8869]

I mean that's what every company does like fromsoft with dark souls prepare to die edition, I agree it's scummy but it's not just rockstar

[@ryanclemons1]

@@kevincatal8869 true...i guess it's more clear when a remaster sucks.

[@Chaos89P]

I would like to say it's because Rockstar heard the backlash and is getting it fixed up, but it's more likely my optimism has yet to be destroyed by my cynicism.

[@ashenone3883]

Thats why I downloaded an emulstor and used my ps2 disks to get the files of the originals to play it on pc because fuck rockstar

[@Kefkaesque13]

Brief tangent on that Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons split: SoS isn't "closer to the style of the original games", it _is_ the original games. As in it is the exact same game dev studio as the old HM games. Natsumi had only ever been the series' over-seas publisher, but that allowed them to retain the rights to the over-seas name even after their business dealings with the series' devlopers ended. The reason Natsumi appears to be fumbling with the HM franchise is because they are literally just creating their own HM knock-offs to capitalize on the name's remaining good will.

[@MythicMachina]

It always hurts my soul when an indie game or even a creative concept from a larger studio bombs. There's so many creative ideas out there, and when you realize that that could have been someone's dream that didn't become a reality, it's heartbreaking. The worst part is that a lot of those same people don't get a second chance, either because they lack the resources or the public just doesn't trust them anymore. As humans, we learn by making mistakes. The fact that some devs only get one shot at their stuff is absolutely brutal.

[@theotherjared9824]

A werewolf game can work if it's split between human and werewolf sections. Make a splinter cell esque collection of stealth mission during the day as the player tries to sneak around and silently take down foes. The game then shifts to a more standard hack and slash game by night as you run around and kill people as a wolf. The game world is on a timer and changing between forms happens automatically, forcing the player to manage their time between both sections wisely and thinking on the fly when they spontaneously change forms in the middle of a mission.

[@storyboardman8474]

I love your channel. I first saw you when I was 12 or 13.....im now 21😂. I still remember when I first saw your video top 15 most shocking moments in video games and i still watch it. Keep up with the great work 😊 👍

[@lazypaladin]

I know the feeling, 23 now and been watching Rabbid since what, 13/14. He's oddly Updated, but never Changed. Nice feeling of familiarity 👌

[@sethhowell3067]

For me, my first video of his was his creepiest Zelda moments list

[@NikoJr.]

I still remember his Disturbing Video Game Levels countdown

[@dereklewis9181]

Ribbid 2igi

[@tomjack1000000]

Yeah it's crazy how long this channel has been around. Think I found him during the undertale boom

[@mangomage33]

I had almost completely forgotten that wonderworld happened this year

[@AmethystLeslie]

Same, for some reason I thought that was an early 2020 game. It just felt like that far back.

[@fullmetalmasify]

#9 feels sad that it hasn't changed from its demo as I kinda like the idea of a bird riding a skateboard and could see some time spent on a concept like that...

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed.

[@pippo17173]

Feels like the developer hit a road block with this game.

[@Vee_Sheep]

i think it being called "Balan Wonderworld" instead of "Balan Wonderland" is a pretty perfect sample for everything wrong about this game you had a better alternative that's even a little bit more fun, but then they cocked it up and their choice makes literally 0 sense also worth mentioning: That game was apparently Yuji Naka's one and only chance to make a platformer for Square Enix, and he'd only get more if it was a success _Whoops_

[@ryanfagen8248]

I was honestly extremely disappointed when Balan Wonderworld turned out to be as bad as it did. I was really hoping it would be the next revolutionary platformer, especially because it was the Sonic creator's last hurrah before his retirement from the gaming industry.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

He hasn't retired yet actually.

[@ryanfagen8248]

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 Really? I thought this was supposed to be his last game.

[@sonicmaiden2871]

@@ryanfagen8248 I read somewhere on internet that he is working on a mobile game currently and left Square.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

@@sonicmaiden2871 Yes, as the only employee of Prope.

[@sonicmaiden2871]

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 oh! I see.

[@songohan3321]

Turns out for Balan Wonderworld, you literally have to read that book that went with the game in order to even begin to make since of this game. A person shouldn't have to do homework in order to understand your game. Also, the book is about 300 pages. And no, it still doesn't help this game at all.

[@naos8116]

The book shows it has interesting ideas narrative wise, but it doesn't help the gameplay at all.

[@AmethystLeslie]

@@naos8116 It's a shame that the novel is where the good parts are and they're not even in the game itself. We're long past the days of stories being in manuals cuz the game had no room to tell the story. Now games can tell us ALL the story with no need to hide anything and Squeenix felt the need to do that for no reason other than money, probably.

[@AngelScolarus]

SE apparently learned nothing when this concept was already attempted with Final Fantasy XV

[@Yoshixandir]

Not surprised. Thats what happen with final fantasy 15.

[@crcoghill]

It's really sad what happened to Balan Wonderworld (which should have been called frickin WonderLand!) Cause it had a lot of promise and talent behind it. But like the cutscenes compared to the gameplay: it was all flash and show with no oomph.

[@SupremeMarioGamer]

can I recommend a few future lists for next year: - Top 5/10 Best Video Game Trilogies (there were tons during the PS2/Xbox/GCN generation, also Mass Effect) - Top 5/10 Video Game Composers (you could do up to 25 with how many great ones there are) - Top 5/10 Worst Friends in Gaming (friends that are annoying/harmful to your MC that you wonder why they're friends) - Top 5/10 Video Game Definitive Editions (already good & FINISHED game packed with even more stuff for your money's worth) - Top 5/10 Comic Reliefs in Gaming - Top 5/10 Relaxing Video Games - Top 5/10 Influential Indie Games - Top 5/10 Best Romances in Video Games (you did a worst romances list, why not the opposite for Valentine's Day?) - Top 5/10 Video Game ARGs - Top 5/10 Video Game Musical Sequences (FF6 Opera, Great Mighty Poo, Mario/Rabbids Phantom, etc)

[@jordanhunter3375]

Top 5/10 Mildly Surreal Moments in Otherwise Straight-Forward Video Games (that Cloud dancing sequence in FFVII Remake)

[@lucina2111]

If he brings up Garrus or Tali for best romances Rabbid would have achieved excellent taste status

[@rpgranked]

Hire this man.

[@FletcherReedsRandomness]

10: I’ve thought of a lot of weird-ass concepts before, but never in my wildest dreams would I have come up with something like this. Never played it, though I kinda wish I had because it looks bizarre. 9: Still looks better than Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. That’s embarrassing. Cute concept though. 8: These simulation-type games have never had much appeal to me, so I skipped on this one. Seems I made the right decision. 7: I guess this is the year of bizzaro garbage video games. I kinda want to try this out for the weird factor. 6: There are so few good crazy driving games these days. We really need more, and not like this. 5: I have nothing to say besides I miss PT more than ever. 4: A werewolf game sounds so cool, why haven’t we had more of them, let alone good ones? Yeah, Twilight Princess and Sonic Unleashed had Link and Sonic turn into wolf creatures, but I don’t hear many people saying the werewolf parts were the best parts of either game. 3: Hey look, the first one on this list I’ve actually heard of! This was super disappointing, especially since Rockstar took down the original games off of Steam, kinda like how George Lucas didn’t want people to watch the non-Special Editions of Star Wars. At least the glitches are funny. 2: Keep in mind, this came out alongside one of, if not the worst-rated FIFA ever, and this somehow turned out worse. 1: I only played the demo, and that was enough for me. How anyone thought a platformer where you only use ONE BUTTON was a good idea blows my mind. At least it’s better than Sonic Free Riders. I don’t know if it’s because I couldn’t find the newer consoles or wasn’t keeping track of terrible games, but I haven’t heard of most of these games on the list before. Clearly, I’ve been making some good choices. Except for playing the Balan Wonderworld demo.

[@Arlesmon]

if balan wonderworld had more time to cook, and improved the gameplay, it would've gone to be a better game. But sadly they didn't gave it to a proper developer and went for a shitty one

[@amirgarcia547]

@@Arlesmon Well Yuji Naka *is* a good developer, if the Sonic games he’s worked on are anything, but not a very good director. Being that he’s much better at just being part of a larger team instead of in charge of an entire project.

[@TriforceZard]

Taking this moment to say Square Enix marketed Balan Blunderworld more than Neo The World Ends With You, a sequel to a cult classic DS game that met and exceeded everyone’s expectations.

[@austin5259]

I had a hunch from the start that Balan Wonderworld would be bad, because from the beginning they advertised the sheer number of costumes and that told me their priorities were heavily skewed, but I could never have guessed it would be bad to the extent it turned out to be. And you know damn well they thought it would work out because Mario Odyssey has a ton of power-ups, the difference there is that a large number of those power-ups already have mechanics that have been established over decades as well that there are some that are literally used for a moment very specifically with the rest being multi-layered and fully designed with a couple (like the zipper) being used to change how you interact with the core mechanics, all of this by people who have been making these kinds of games since the 90s.

[@dustymcwari4468]

Another huge issue I have with the excess of powerups, is that in order to fill that 80 costumes mark, they purposely stripped the main characters off several basic abilities like running or swimming, and lots of powerups are also super barebones or downright useless because once again, they had to fill that 80 costumes mark, and the customization aspect is flawed as heck with how some costumes can do more harm than good, they’re easy to lose, and they can even trap the player and force a reset

[@elin111]

And to follow up on the Mario Odyssey comparison, when Mario doesn't have any capture powerup he still has lots of mobility options that make navigating the worlds fun on itself, meanwhile in Balan the generic kid with no personality is the most useless videogame character in a very long time.

[@emanmodnar2]

Balan Wonderworld is still one of the strangest games to research of the year. The fact that the game actually did have a massive amount of story text and heavy RPG elements but they were removed last minute and shoved into a book that wasnt advertised at all completely blows my mind. Square Enix is known for stories... It was bizzare they chopped it last minute.

[@michaelnelson1127]

I’m kind of surprised that Battlefield 2042 wasn’t on here. From what I’ve seen and heard, it has more glitches than all the other games on here combined.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

Honorable mention?

[@lnsflare1]

Puppeteer for the PS3 basically already did the broad strokes of pretty much everything that Balan Wonderworld was trying to do, but much better.

[@dustymcwari4468]

And Psychonauts 1 and 2 did the whole “help people solve their problems in their own world” much better in every way

[@Nekucloud]

I was extremely disappointed with Balan Wonderworld. It was a game with a lot of potential with style and creative, but the over-simplicity and restraint makes this just not worth the time and money. It's really sad that could of been something great, but that greatness just didn't shine.😢

[@Castersvarog]

Honestly, Balan wonderland kind of feels like Karma for Yuji Naka’s past game developments. Because wow that man has a history when it comes to game development and it’s not pretty

[@Zorroark]

Balan Wonderworld released this year? Feels like it's been out way longer than this.

[@amirgarcia547]

Even if there weren't many truly terrible games this year, I think we can all collectively agree that Balan Wonderworld is flat-out the worst. Both due to having the most wasted potential and being a $60 Triple-A game from both a renown developer and trusted publisher that ended up being one of the worst platformers in recent years. When Gears for Breakfast with A Hat in Time can outclass both Yuji Naka and Square Enix with a much smaller team *and* budget 4 years prior, you know you've done effed up.

[@lazypaladin]

Welp, looks like it's Sunday again! 'Sees Stage and Suit' Oh it's that's time of the year Sundays?! Even better!!

[@burtbackattack]

4:27 Well if your old roommate didn't know how you felt about him he sure will now! 😂

[@OHG_Fawx]

I was actually surprised at how few of these games I'd heard of. First time this has ever happened for a Worst of 20XX list lol

[@MrNikkusama]

To me, #1 has a "I don't have any experience in game design but my uncle is on the board" type of feel.

[@rpgranked]

LMAO

[@Justice1Knight3]

rabbidluigi did a better Top 10 Worst Games of 2021 list than WatchMojo.

[@bulborb8756]

how bad was there list if i may ask, even if you tell me the games they had on it cause thats got me curious

[@Deepdarkbasement]

Anyone notice how Square has been releasing 1 REALLY Bad Game once a year at this point? - Baland Wonder World - Avengers - Left Alive - The Quiet Man … wonder what the next’s years bad one will b- *Remembers how “Babylon’s Fall” has been looking shaky* Oh… OH NO!!!

[@amirgarcia547]

It’s like they’re contractually obligated to release at least one bad/mediocre game each year lol.

[@troykv96]

To this day I still feel like Balan was a game that it was suppose to be a mobile game, which could explain some of the weird quirks (like an overall slow moving characters, and having only one main interaction active at the time), if the game wanted to become a proper Console it need to fix so much that it could need to get some heavy reworks. I'm still sad to this day that Yuji Naka record is probably gonna look like a joke because of all the surronding issues around his games.

[@Xifihas]

I’m not sure what’s more mind boggling. Balan Wonderworld being a platformer without a jump button or GTA trilogy for making the games look and play worse than the PS2/Xbox originals.

[@daz1543]

>SE put all their advertising on Balan >But not Neo Twewy I will never stop being mad

[@mr.vanillamilkshake3]

Honourable mention: World of Warcraft Patch 9.1 - shallow rubbish that led to a massive exodus culminating with a Demand Overload for Final Fantasy XIV that could potentially harm it down the line (Square could drop it with the game being released freely for 3 weeks, and anything after Endwalker will be compared unfavourably). Well done, Blizzard; you've ruined the MMO market's biggest games.

[@ProXYOneCreations]

I have somehow never heard of any of these games, except the GTA Trilogy.

[@arcengal]

I actually enjoyed Wonderworld. It still had some big flaws and I would like to throw the QTE minigame into the Sun, but it had its charms. Shame Square-Enix weren't wanting to give them time to make it good. :(

[@JABRIEL251]

These games blended together so hard and were so forgettable that when you got to number 1 I thought you were only on number 5.

[@CmdrVoltaire]

When you have hundreds of thousands of potential players screaming desperately for you to take a step back and look at what your actually making, and you decide to press on ANYWAY, you get a hot mess like Balan Wonderworld. I wish I could have loved this game. But I can't forgive bad game design, no matter how flashy you make the visuals.

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I've never seen a "remaster" that felt like it was done by algorithms with no human involvement whatsoever. Then the GTA trilogy came along, spelling errors, messed up textures, and games that run worse on the PS5 than the originals did on the PS2 while delivering PS3 level graphics at best. Seriously, it had to be automated. I cannot believe that even the most inept human could screw it up this much.

[@amirgarcia547]

Idk if you’ve seen Mat McMuscles’s “Wha Happun” video on it, but tl;dr, the developers did actually use an algorithm for most if not all of the character models and textures since it was developed by a very small team who had to remaster three entire open world games with a tight deadline.

[@John9Fold]

I'm here for 18:58, ironically. So much went wrong here. I'm still baffled as to how NOONE picked up on the red flags here. Not even Sega without Naka, flumped this badly IMO.

[@mastrxl]

Rabbidluigi is the only constant in my life. Hell or high water, december is time for "the suit".

[@xPhoenix926x]

The only thing that saved me from buying the GTA trilogy "remaster" was the fact the RockStar servers went down immediately after launch. That gave me the time to see gameplay and realize I didn't want to spend my money on it.

[@cocoz1034]

Can't wait for the Buildings have Feelings Too sequel, Buildings have Feelings Two

[@Aqua_Ampora]

Ah yes, PES, the game you mod in order to spectate CPUs as your favorite 4Chan boards. Good times.

[@PhantomShadow224]

I played and finished Balan Wonderworld last summer, and I’m sorry but god damn did the ending kinda made me tear up. Although explaining this game to any of my friends almost got me institutionalized -_-|||

[@KhanShotFirst]

There's actually a companion book that's... apparently surprisingly well written and VERY enlightening about a lot of the weird stuff (fun fact: dancing is the protagonist's Thing, and balan's pad is a dreamland rest stop for emotionally vulnerable people to take a moment to recuperate and reassess their life).

[@PhantomShadow224]

@@KhanShotFirst yeah I watched Austen eruption’s vid on the book and it kinda helped put things into perspective

[@ValiantSpear]

Wait Balan wonderworld was 2021? Man has time gone by

[@bulborb8756]

yup, it came out this year....and it was a total disaster

[@ShadowJinjoYu]

@@bulborb8756 yep it was The game really had solid ideas but it was just annoying,piss easy so easy that my great grandfather can beat it and he dead I know it was trying to be simple for children but even Kirby wasn’t as easy and boring mess of a 3d platformer that doesn’t know what it wants to be and a what to be psychonauts I won’t call it bad just disappointing it couldn’t have been so much more I like the ideas more than the actual game but at least the music is pretty banging

[@SnafuOrganization]

I still make the mistake of remembering it is Balan Wonderland and not Balan Wonderworld if that says anything about that particular point.

[@MidwestArtMan]

I hadn’t realized how late in the year it was until I saw this. Tis the season!

[@Jazzer995]

10: And I just purchased it too. 6: I'm of two minds about this one.

[@JerryMcB3rry]

It's always nice to just sit back, relax, and watch some rabbiduigi videos.

[@Shantae1188]

I was surprised to see you starting with the bad this time. Still good to watch

[@gryphonnecrox2065]

Balan Wonderworld is definitely Yuji's biggest bruh moment since Shadow the Hedgehog-

[@MCLefka]

6:50 I've never actually seen a picture of Eric Barone and I can say that was not what I was expecting.

[@alexmabey7791]

Those E Football guys messed up faces would make great meme pictures! 😂👍

[@MacyPooh196]

It’s sad the Harvest Moon has turned so bad but I will say that Story of Seasons: PoOT has been something I’ve been sinking a lot of time into this year.

[@Alchemistice]

"Balan Wonderworld? More like Bland and Underwhelmed!" - Past me

[@grayfox4819]

.... did they seriously made a game about... BUILDINGS WITH FEELINGS?

[@robertwoods3871]

"yes." - Seymour Skinner

[@alvaroperez2349]

That game has obviously been influenced by drugs.

[@shadowlinkbds]

I've seen worse. Well sort of worse

[@Santoryu90]

@@alvaroperez2349 Sounds like a weird concept that could’ve been good

[@moister3727]

Yes, plain yes

[@eatatjoes6751]

I still can't believe they staked an entire company on Balan.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

And it payed for it. I'm not even sure if it exists right now.

[@eatatjoes6751]

@@manuelalbertoromero9528 That's what amazes me.

[@minhv5513]

Love your content mate. I’ve gathered you’re just a few years younger than me but have the same taste in video games. Happy holiday and cheers from the US

[@dsadgegdsg4740]

10:46 If it's Crazy Taxi but less crazy, does that make it just an Odd Taxi?

[@phantomhurricane666]

top ten games that had the right idea, but cocked it up.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

9:30 I'm reminded a little too much of brutal legend here, and yet this somehow feels worse. ...how do you do that

[@genericfriend2568]

I forgot that Balan Wonderwall was a 2021 game lmfao

[@Traysandor]

I feel like 2021 highlighted a lot of what is currently wrong with the video game industry as a whole and why I get the feeling that we're going to have another big collapse of the industry at some point in the near-ish future. It's not just a single factor, it's all of the issues coming together: 1. Video game publishers (many of the big names in the business) being generally evil (controversies, cost cutting, general practices) or generally lazy (like releasing mobile ripoffs or pachinkos for easy cash) 1a. The mobile market is a ginormous dumpster fire that no one (specifically governments or regulation) wants to do anything about. 2. C-19 (and other factors) creating global labor and supply shortages. This especially targets the new XBox, PS5, and graphics cards that scalpers seem to love hoarding... but also has had some physical releases affected too. 3. Pushing out products that are clearly not ready for release but do so anyways to salvage the corporate earnings reports. Many of these releases are never truly fixed up, just have bandages thrown on to address most of the major issues. 4. Post-purchase transactions of any kind (DLC, Pay to Win, subscriptions, etc) 5. The cost and time required to properly develop games for hardware. It increasingly grows more with each new console version or GPU that comes out - setting the bar even higher for those that want to experience the latest and greatest in technology

[@apollorock3r244]

I was expecting that Popeye game on the Switch to make it somewhere on this list. XD What makes Balan Wonderworld more depressing is that this was going to be Yuji Naka’s big return to the gaming world but I think Square Enix really put pressure on him since they said he has “one shot” of making a platformer game. Unfortunately, the game flopped pretty badly, releasing it on the same day as Monster Hunter: Rise which didn’t help, and after this game, Yuji Naka left Square Enix afterwards. Talk about a very depressing story. 😟

[@LadyLeomon]

Thanks in advance for the List, can’t wait to see which game has the dubious honour of being the Biggest (Gaming) Loser of 2021 😅😅😅 Thanks for the new vid and Merry Christmas RabbidLuigi 🎁🎄💙🐱💙🎄🎁

[@Turner_Strait]

It still baffles me that even after the stupid "remastered" GTA releases, Rockstar trusted the same company to pump out the definitive trilogy. Like, no, dipshits, the actual definitive trilogy is the originals on the PS2! You blew it! TWICE!!

[@meikahidenori]

There's a what happened video by Matt Mc Muscles on it. Worth a look.

[@AADP]

Dude, you need to do this list at the very start of december, by the time you upload this many of us already bought our games

[@expendableindigo9639]

As soon as you said Team 6 I froze up. Just Saw Rerez’s video on their handling of the Flatout series... They’ve been rushing car games out the door for decades now... wasn’t surprised to find out they were behind Road Rage, the hyped but disappointing followup to Road Rash either.

[@zombieslaya3456]

I remember the first year you did this. Glad I've stuck around this long.

[@Riverbed_Dreaming]

Balan wonderworld is really a tragic story. If you read the book explaining what is going on in the game everything makes so much sense and you can see the half-decent story they were trying to tell and completely and utterly forgot to actually put into the game. You don’t know what’s going on because, literally, the plot stayed on the paper.

[@TonberryQueen]

Timestamps! 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Sponsor 2:38 - (10) Buildings Have Feelings Too 4:15 - (9) Skatebird 6:28 - (8) Harvest Moon: One World 8:07 - (7) Of Bird and Cage 9:57 - (6) Taxi Chaos 11:19 - (5) Evil Inside 13:06 - (4) Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood 14:54 - (3) Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition 16:59 - (2) eFootball 2022 18:57 - (1) Balan Wonderworld

[@EjayT06]

THANK YOU

[@deathserpent9747]

As someone who works at gamestop, let me tell you that i fucking hated balan before it came out. The ad would come on once every fucking hour and i had to listen to some over the top disney but worse style singing when it did. I hate it almost as much as the puyo puyo tetris 2 ad.

[@Canadamus_Prime]

"In good conscience" Well there's your problem. You're assuming there's actually any conscience to be had when a big publisher like Square-Enix is involved.

[@territoriesoflegreaterbrit8877]

Just as i read this he said that.

[@rirururu4697]

This feels more like a "most disappointing games" list rather than a "worst games" list. Pretty much all of the games you talked about have potential in a lot of place but messed up everything else so badly that it just makes it so much more painful than the low-bearing fruit games where everything is awful.

[@shoon8837]

Great list Rabbid (very stylish suit), even though I haven't even heard or played most of these games. Have a Merry Christmas.

[@claytonrios1]

I would put Call of Duty Vanguard here too just to give Bobby Kotick the finger

[@heroofmobius6616]

Why?

[@claytonrios1]

@@heroofmobius6616 For all of his awful deeds as the head of Activision Blizzard

[@heroofmobius6616]

@@claytonrios1 …

[@Sugarman96]

@@claytonrios1 He's also a friend of Epstein.

[@claytonrios1]

@@Sugarman96 Another reason to hate him then.

[@jakeconer]

11:20 I didn’t expect anyone to bring up Where Am I in 2021 It was created by the same person who created Slender. It was made in a Ludum Dare, hence why it is so bare bones

[@chandler2581]

Balan Wonderworld's title really does upset me more than it should. Balan Wonderland feels so much more natural to say that I've heard plenty of people call it that by default, not even realizing that that's not the game's title. Every person I've heard talk about this game has mentioned wishing that it was named Balan Wonderland. Everyone thinks this game should've be named Balan Wonderland except the people that made it.

[@ForgedCalamity]

Do I have to play Buildings Have Feelings before I play Buildings Have Feelings Too.

[@pommybomber]

Balan still hurts to this day. At least the E-novel was decent.

[@Thortron247]

I honestly totally forgot that balan wonderworld was a thing

[@Wiimeiser]

7:50 Not to mention there's a part of the main story where you need 10 milk, and cows take forever to grow up and give you some...

[@Mr.Foxhat]

I would love a Top 5 Smash Bros "Clones" or Platform Fighters list from you.

[@Gigimave]

i saw a LOT of videos of glitches in the gta trilogy and i am really astonished because i experienced next to none and i finished all three

[@donutsuego]

As a fan of the World of Darkness ttrpgs.... I have very little hope we'll see another good video game adaptation of that universe. There's another VTM game in development right now( Bloodlines 2 ), but considering the other WoD games released recently I just can't see anything being anywhere near what Bloodlines was. They've got the spirit, and the nostalgia buyers, but none of the stories have been worth a damn.

[@amirgarcia547]

Considering that Bloodlines 2 has been stuck in development hell and basically had the entire team replaced recently, I don’t think anything good will come from it if it even ever comes out, sadly.

[@Bitna01]

Idk if anyone knows about this, but Balan Wonderworld has a book that contains all of the lore that the game was supposed to have.

[@WillTBear1]

Imagine being the person who named his own game and being completely wrong. That game was just begging to be called Balan Wonderland, but they couldn't even get that right...

[@Bobson_Dugnutt_Esq]

I thought it was Balan Wonder"land" for the longest time. In fact, when I heard it called Wonderworld, I thought perhaps it was an announcement for a sequel or spinoff. I'm almost 40 and that was legit my first ever Mandela-effect-moment.

[@allegedlyfalse6779]

Could you do best boss intros (cinematics before a boss)?

[@masterpig5s]

What if buildings had feelings “too” sounds like a cracking film. I wonder if Pixar has made it. I’m pretty sure there’s an industry short like this

[@sewellydewelly8191]

its so crazy to think i was like 11 or 12 when i started watching your videos, now im almost 20

[@Jolfgard]

Yes rabbidluigi, I will "just remember Luigi" like you demand from me for years now.

[@austinaustinaustin]

I legitimately thought it was called Balan Wonderland until it came out and I saw videos about it. I still think that's what it's called. Wonderworld just doesn't sit in my head right

[@TitaRussellTrails]

Honestly I’d say games were pretty dang good this year if it took until number 3 for a game I’ve heard of to make the list

[@DT_Worlds_Strongest_Goth]

Entry #8 made me appreciate ConcernedApe more than I already do, which was already A LOT lol

[@0MidnighttheDragon0]

I was honestly super hyped for werewolf the apocolypse. playing as a badass werewolf tearing shit up in combat seemed super fun but... then there was the poor animations the side quests without indicators or a well done map to help you complete said side quests the quadropedal werewolf form just being a glorified run button just...a lot of the game was severely underbaked and had so many pitfalls that gaming has since moved past years ago now (like the map/side quest thing( that this was one of the only games I have ever almost immidiately (like day after) just brought back to the store and returned.