Klonoa 2 is one of the most well-designed platformers ever and I'm mad nobody told me... There were multiple stages that transcended just being a level of a video game and felt like spiritual experiences. Dreamlike visuals and sounds so engrossing I forgot I was controlling it. Despite looking like a lost Sonic Adventure character, Klonoa's gameplay could not be more his own. His moveset is very simple but used in incredibly clever ways - each stage is like a big 3D puzzle which you experience from a 2D plane and can be genuinely very challenging to figure out. The game was really ahead of its time doing things that only became more common in the genre in the 2010s.