This costume allows the Player to dress as the enemy character, Moo. Adjustable difficulty settings have also been introduced to make the games more accessible to first-time players.Įnjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane playing this new and improved KLONOA. The world of the games and their gameplay elements remains unchanged, while the graphics have been upgraded. Set in a unique universe populated by a range of original characters, the game follows the hero, Klonoa, as he sets off on a journey to save the world.Ĭommemorating the 25th anniversary of the first title in the series, we are pleased to announce the release of the KLONOA Phantasy Reverie Series, a remastered title combining both KLONOA: Door to Phantomile and KLONOA 2: Lunatea’s Veil! It's a real shame, and this series wasn't even the only victim.KLONOA is a 3D side-scrolling action game series whose first title was released by Namco in 1997. It was all about a consumer culture intentionally devised by marketers to target a lucrative demographic, along with the usual bullshit from the overriding culture at the time. So that's why Klonoa is popular in Japan but not in the west. What little discussion of the game there was in video game communities mostly consisted of calling it 'gay.' (On a related topic, being a teenage girl who loved video games at the time fucking sucked.) They don't want to play a game that intentionally makes you cry at its major plot twists. Insecure western teenage boys don't want to play as a cute rabbit thing that talks in adorable gibberish. Since video games had been marketed in the west as 'for boys' since the NES, they had destroyed the market for something like this. In this environment, western marketers had no idea how to handle a property like Klonoa. There was stuff like Spyro the Dragon, which was great, but even then they had to slather him in 90s 'tude to make him palatable. Nintendo had the niche on family-friendly titles and cute stuff, which contributed to its getting absolutely buried by the Playstation. Video games were marketed almost exclusively to teenage boys, and at the time they were into stuff like Jackass. It was the mid 90s and XTREME ATTITUDE was all over pop culture. Gotta keep in mind that during the PSX era video games were in a different place. Literally the only reason that it’s nowhere near as famous as any mainstream game is due to its terrible marketing when they advertised it for the West.

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