Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Dec 11, 1997
Klonoa has some of the most ingenious level designs this side of the 16-bit era, seemlessly blending side-scrolling platforming with the third dimension in a way that puts most modern "2.5D" platformers to shame. It's a beauty on the Wii too. The creative talent on display here makes the current stock of stale Japanese "me too!" titles all the more grating. The minds behind Klonoa were masters of their craft, and it shows even in this straight remake of the PlayStation game.
Klonoa is a remake of an old PS1 platforming game (which I never played), and it certainly carries that "old school platforming" feel into the current gaming generation, and does so with a nifty $30.00 price tag. This game is about as simple as they come, with you basically being able to move, jump, and pick stuff up, but it does what I love oh so much: it takes simple mechanics and puts them to use in every situation the developers could come up with. The result is a solid platforming experie...
Okay, so before I begin - in case it doesn’t become apparent during the course of this excuse for a review - I am a bit of a Klonoa fangirl. (that is, when I’m not throwing the controller down, screaming, after my attempt to shave a couple of seconds off my best time on the bonus level has been thwarted ONCE AGAIN.) So, yeah. Klonoa: Door To Phantomile on the PS1 is one of my favourite games ever. In case it passed under your radar back in 1998, Klonoa was a harmless 2.5D side-scroller c...