A decent remaster, but the changes to Door to Phantomile were honestly disappointing and I have such mixed feelings on it.
Pretty much all of the designs from the Wii version were cut out without an option to toggle them, which feels baffling. The script is reverted to the PS1 version, which has a lot of stilted lines and some mistranslations. The environments are brightened up in places which looks nice, but the animations are stiffer and pretty much every bonus feature from the Wii game was cut out. It still plays decently, but it just overall feels like a step back aside from the environmental touch-ups.
Klonoa 2, on the other hand, I've experienced pretty much no issues with aside from the boss death animations not being as good.
Honestly, they should have just ported the Wii version unchanged alongside the PS1 version, that way everyone's happy regardless of which one you prefer. Overall, it's not bad, and I appreciate that they bothered to remaster the series at all, but I feel like the changes to DtP are super unnecessary.
Pretty much all of the designs from the Wii version were cut out without an option to toggle them, which feels baffling. The script is reverted to the PS1 version, which has a lot of stilted lines and some mistranslations. The environments are brightened up in places which looks nice, but the animations are stiffer and pretty much every bonus feature from the Wii game was cut out. It still plays decently, but it just overall feels like a step back aside from the environmental touch-ups.
Klonoa 2, on the other hand, I've experienced pretty much no issues with aside from the boss death animations not being as good.
Honestly, they should have just ported the Wii version unchanged alongside the PS1 version, that way everyone's happy regardless of which one you prefer. Overall, it's not bad, and I appreciate that they bothered to remaster the series at all, but I feel like the changes to DtP are super unnecessary.
Bojangles4th
1 year ago