After a number of trademarks, Klonoa makes a return across multiple platforms this week in KLONOA Phantasy Reverie Series.
This new collection features remasters of KLONOA: Door to Phantomile and Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil. As part of the game's launch, Bandai Namco has shared not one but two trailers on its official YouTube channel.
The first is a launch trailer and the second is a time attack video - highlighting the extra stages in the game, which runs for about six minutes:
Will you be checking out Klonoa on Switch this week? Tell us down in the comments.
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Klanoa made it to the Switch, nice stuff
Klonoa trending on Twitter was interesting to see. I hope this game sells well.
is this a good game?
Very excited to finally experience this game for myself for the first time! Not sure if I'll pick it up at launch or not since I have an ever-growing backlog and an ever-shrinking wallet.
Namco is really out here firing on all cylinders this year for me personally: Pac-Man Musem + in May, Klonoa in July, and Pac-Man World in August, baby! If they have another Katamari remake lined up for this year with Pac-Man World 2 coming next year or something (and maybe a new Mario Baseball), I can die of happiness.
Namco is probably my favorite third-party development studio right now. It used to be Activision--I went from hating them immensely for only milking Call of Duty and shelving Crash and Spyro after acquiring their licenses to make garbage sequels like they did with the SpongeBob games license, to loving them for releasing such lovingly-crafted remakes of Crash and Spyro--but...well, ya know. They wanted to see how fast they could ruin their positive PR, and it was honestly pretty impressive. They deserve a Guinness World Record for that.
...But yeah, Namco lookin like a snacc, tho.
@DarkFighter though I can’t vouch for the remakes (yet) the original two were phenomenal side scrolling platformers. Loads of imaginative backgrounds, characters and design. As long as they didn’t tamper with their source material too much, these should be amazing 🤞
Hopefully this gets a physical in the US.
I hope the full game is not as janky as the demo.
@RobotReptile thanks for taking the time! so if I don't care for imaginative backgrounds, characters and design but for Gameplay only - would you still recommend?
All I see when I watch that trailer is that generic Unity/Unreal engine look and feel. That's not to say it won't be fun, but for me it looks cheap and nasty.
Physical copy arrives tomorrow. Its gonna be fun!
@DarkFighter There's a demo on the Japanese eShop you can try if you make a Japanese eShop account... my opinion... the gameplay is very dated and basic and just felt a little boring. Definitely feels of it's time, more so than the Crash Bandicoot trilogy. I'm sure people with nostalgia for the original games will love it though.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I've never played the originals but loved the demo 🤷♂️
Worth playing through purely for the ending sequence.
@Clyde_Radcliffe:
I have never played the OG games back in the day, but I do love platform games. I pre-ordered the physical version of the game. I hope that the games are fun for people that never played them but love platformers.
The game has been arrived in my country Indonesia.
Yay...!
I will get the PS5 version.
The original 1997 and 2001 games are classics. Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil has a 91 on MetaCritic. But if you think 3D platformers that are over 20 years old aren't your thing...
Will you be reviewing this? My order from Amazon has already dispatched anyway, but would be good to know how well it plays and compares with the originals
@NeonPizza There's always the GBA games for a better challenge, especially Dream Champ Tournament!
@MontyCircus
"But if you think 3D platformers that are over 20 years old aren't your thing..."?
On the Canadian Switch Eshop this game isn’t even listed yet. It’s only on the Nintendo store website when you search and even then it doesn’t have a release date yet despite releasing soon… and also when you wishlist via the Nintendo site it won’t appear on your console wishlist until the listing is actually present on the Switch Eshop smh.
This happens far too often with already announced games I’ve noticed. Nintendo needs to work on and fix this for their already confirmed/announced/upcoming games.
… Wun can only hope.
Oh man lived this PS series. Loved Klonoa 1s Wiimake. Looking fwd to this.
I played Door to Phantomile quite a bit as a kid, so I'll probably pick this one up at some point.
I played the Wii version of the first game. Pretty fun time. I imagine most people would find it a bit on the easy side, but I liked it.
@NeonPizza In America, both are available through the Wii U VC. Sadly, here in Europe only Empire of Dreams is and we've never seen a release of Dream Champ Tournament
Enjoy Phantasie Reverie! I'll support the cause too by buying it when I have the chance
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