Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a side-scrolling platform game viewed from a "2.5D" perspective. The player moves the protagonist, Klonoa, along a path in a two-dimensional fashion, but the game is rendered in three dimensions. This allows the path followed to curve and for the player to interact with objects outside of the path.
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Klonoa is a very beautiful and charming 2.5D platforming game comprised of everything that made mascot platformers from that era so... Unique. Everything is so colorful and charming, the music is so nice to the ear and is quite impressive spanning multiple genres, the story and characters are cutesy and interesting, the levels are filled with pure fantastical and creative magic until it all turns dark and serious like games around these times do, but that's pretty much part of the fairytale-resembling world of Klonoa. It really is a simple game but with a very dreamy (get it) coat of paint to it and a nice degree of difficulty that simply feels natural as you progress. It's short but very sweet and I feel like it should be a game that people should play especially if you have missed out on games from the PlayStation era.
It's short, sweet, and beautiful. Its world building, its aesthetic and themes, its graphics and its character design, come together and make a world that knows it is fictional, and so it becomes even more believable.
The menus feel outdated, but the gameplay is engaging, and each level was cleverly designed to explore what a 2.5D plane can do. If only the gameplay could be as exhilarating as the bonus level.
There's other things that may disqualify a masterpiece status from other players, but to me this is everything I've felt and lived for.
The menus feel outdated, but the gameplay is engaging, and each level was cleverly designed to explore what a 2.5D plane can do. If only the gameplay could be as exhilarating as the bonus level.
There's other things that may disqualify a masterpiece status from other players, but to me this is everything I've felt and lived for.
decided to play because of klonoa's character design. he would be a great fit for smash.
started off boring/basic and slowly captured my attention for a very strong finish. was definitely hooked by the end, despite how basic the mechanics of the game are, they really manage to come up with some interesting level design/boss fights. excited for the next one since that's everyone's favorite
started off boring/basic and slowly captured my attention for a very strong finish. was definitely hooked by the end, despite how basic the mechanics of the game are, they really manage to come up with some interesting level design/boss fights. excited for the next one since that's everyone's favorite
This game was so incredible, the voice acting, the platforming itself, the INSANE difficulty curve, the story, and the music especially.
Replay necessary for in-depth review, a game with a serious personal impact that I adore.
While I don’t know what animal Klonoa is I know this game kicks ass like that one dude when he’s all out of bubble gum. Klonoa is a perfect game for cold, dark, and twisted sigmas like me who derive pleasure from jumping off Yoshisaurus Munchikoopas in the Mario World video game. The mechanic is explored more thoroughly than my cat Ginger discovers where his bag of food is hidden (hes really fat.) This is coupled with gorgeous PS1 graphics that are the 32 bit 2.5D equivalent of the Mona Pisa or whatever they Shakespeare painting was called. And spoiler alert… but the story will make you call your Mom a B word like Walter Jr!!!!!! Opening the Door to Phantomile feels like opening the door to one of the goodest games on this system.