Help me identify this random PS1 game.

Hey guys! So i'm trying to remember a PS1 game.

I remember the year was 2001, and I played it only briefly in a demo kiosk at a "Nobody Beats The Wiz" store, back when those were still around.

My parents were getting broadband internet and had to get a cable modem from the store. I also remember it was likely January of 2001 because this was the same day I got Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast, which came out in November of 2000 and I remember getting that game with my Christmas money.

Anyway, here's what I remember about the game:

1. It was polygonal.
2. It was a side-scroller
3. The characters seemed to be anime inspired, and felt very cartoony with vibrant colors... I think one of them may have had blue spiky hair.
4. It's definitely NOT Tomba.
5. There was a lot of dialogue, making it feel almost like a JRPG...
6. The level I played, you were in a jungle or swamp of some kind, and in the level, you eventually ended up getitng into a boss firht with these two guys who were trying to kidnap a little girl... One was tall & thin, the other was fat & short, and they MAY have been wearing safari hunter outfits too, but I'm not 100% sure.

Does anybody know what game this is?

Ah, after doing a little more searching of my own... I found out what the game was:

It's the 1999 Squaresoft RPG Threads of Fate.

It sounds a bit like Klonoa, but that came out in 1998, so that may disqualify it.

And nobody read the second post.
Glad you found the game though, also gave me a reason to find the game and pop it back in the Playstation and play it.

@zeforgotten said:

Funny thing, I've also played both Tomba and Klonoa in store demo kiosks back then... it just wasn't the game I was thinking of here, lol.

I played the demo for Threads of Fate a few times; though the demo for Front Mission 3 was much better since it was like 5 hours long.

Holy shit, the second I read the title of this post, before I even clicked I thought "It's probably Threads of Fate" because I too played that demo and forgot the name only to rediscover it out many years later.

Looks like OP triple OG found the answer, so I'm lockin' this down... like a baaaawwwwsssss.