Picking up enemies is your main attack too, with your wind bullet enabling you to hold them above your head. While this aspect offers a welcome level of puzzling, there are far too few examples for it to really raise the game above the competition. Switches and eggs containing collectables can also be found in the background and you must pick up and throw enemies to activate these. Verticality plays a major role and there are transitions that see you moving into the screen. Most of the time you’ll be moving left to right, but there is more variety than in most standard games of this genre. There is a wealth of extras such as cutscene viewers and music jukeboxes which will surely be a treasure trove for the hardcore Klonoa-heads – although the deluxe edition DLC is hugely overpriced considering it is a couple of costumes and a digital soundtrack.īoth games play out in a similar fashion as you traverse a series of sidescrolling platforming stages from a 2.5D perspective. However, having played through both games, I’m not sure the collection entirely justifies itself outside of the nostalgia. The first game in particular hasn’t aged well, and both can be finished in just a few hours each.
So, with that potted history complete, how do the games stand up nowadays?Īs a package, Reverie Series compares favourably price wise to the secondhand originals, containing both of the main platformer titles – Door to Phantomile for PS1, and Lunatea’s Veil for PS2. That is, until the announcement of the Phantasy Reverie Series – a collection that brings remastered versions of the two original games to modern day systems. Physical copies of the games are highly sought after and fetch high prices secondhand, and Klonoa’s legacy seemed destined to be about collecting rather than playing. Unfortunately, longterm fame was not to be for Klonoa. While nowhere near as prolific as the likes of Crash Bandicoot or Spyro, this cute feline biped with wings for ears starred in two well received platformers and an obligatory sports spin off – Beach Volleyball in this case – as well as a couple of great GBA games. For a while there was a real chance that Klonoa would be the lasting mascot of the PlayStation.
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