Klonoa's is a very different game to most platformers. Visually, it looks unique and being a 2.5D perspective game, much like Pandemonium! where a 2D plane moves through a 3D space, it's unique. There simply weren't many of these back when this game out, nor really after (I have a list collecting them all here). The story is.. serviceable but incredibly weird in places but I wonder if it's due to the English localisation. Always has been odd but it's something to do with the realm of dreams and nightmares? Regardless, the three stars rating here though is more for the remake than the original game (original's a 4).
As much as I enjoyed the visual update to the original, there's something unbelievably clunky about the controls in this version. It feels like it's something to do with the hitboxes which make landing on platforms more difficult and the 'wind bullets' inaccurate. Vision 6.2 was, aptly, a true NIGHTMARE to play and I had to set the settings to easy just to get through the boss. Much like the original, the game ought to have separated the levels from bosses.
As much as I enjoyed the visual update to the original, there's something unbelievably clunky about the controls in this version. It feels like it's something to do with the hitboxes which make landing on platforms more difficult and the 'wind bullets' inaccurate. Vision 6.2 was, aptly, a true NIGHTMARE to play and I had to set the settings to easy just to get through the boss. Much like the original, the game ought to have separated the levels from bosses.