Klonoa: Door to Phantomile Comments by Simon Parkin

I loved klonoa 2 on the ps2, this makes me wish i had a wii.

i used to like the idea of klonoa, such a great character design. never played any of them though :-/. possibly pick this up if i ever have the urge to play the wii again....

I was playing this a few months back, but now my mate has it. I loved that game. It's so cute and so enjoyable. Not challenging in my opinion, but lush and really relaxing and charming. ^_^

Klonoa immediately made me think of Quinoa, which is sort of like Couscous.

Mmmmmm.

Tasteless tagline, Eurogamer....

EDIT: Ahh, ok I get it. Sorry

ditto - MORZTAN

I fucking love EG's taglines. Absolutely unafraid to go for the cheap joke.

Good review, too. It is a short game, but it's been £14.99 since release from Play, and it's well worth that.

"While you can bounce on enemies' heads"
What?!

Liking the MJ references.

I remember having a PS1 demo of this and playing the first level over and over again, it never got old. That is, until I bought the game itself and couldn't even be bothered to finish it. I don't know what happened there, but it's a memory that stops me dipping back into this version, even though I suspect I'd probably have a good time with it.

Fair review and score. Klonoa is a pleasant game; looks lovely, sounds twee and the gameplay is fun but nothing special. It reminds me a bit of Pandemonium on the PS, although that was a better game IMO. It's nicely priced at £15 though from Play.com, etc., so it's worth checking out if you like retro-style platform games.

Never played the original so might give this a crack, I miss 2D platformers.

'' 7/10 ''

*disregards entire review sans the score*

Bugger off

Lovely little game, well worth the £14.99, bit easy really but a lot of fun, hopefully Klonoa 2 will get a revamp. Only downer really are the cutscenes, really annoying.

Love the MJ references! :)

Am interested in this game too as I missed the original back in the day.

Edit: spelling

is it 60Hz? sorry, i didnt read the whole review

is the manual in colour?

Klonoa is pure 2D platforming goodness, if you ask me. Doesn't have the slickness of Naughty Dog games, but the actual game design is brilliant. Finished both Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil this year, mind. Nothing really wrong with the latter either (level recycling and cutscenes are thoroughly forgivable). Actually some levels in Lunatea's Veil are also frigging impressive visually (something like Psychonauts done well; genuinely, er... onirique - pardon my French, I don't know the English word). Moreover, there's nothing wrong with the lack of power-ups etc. New ideas are constantly introduced with new sorts of enemies and puzzles. This game is obviously designed with a D-pad and two buttons in mind.
If Door to Phantomile on the Wii isn't broken, it's still at least 8/10 in my book. I really feel like replaying the original and the sequel someday.
Don't know about 60 Hz in this one, but Lunatea's Veil PAL supports 60 Hz.

MJ rules, but now he's dead so it's no longer cool to like him since everyone likes it all of a sudden

Don't forget the GBA Klonoa incarnations, the best of their genre on a console notoriously rife with side scrolling platformers

bloody hell.. too many good wii games now!

And i cant play any of them, because my game playing time is still taken up by fallout 3! (plus the mission packs when i finish it!)

bah.

i hjave the ps1 version of klonoa and its a brilliant platformer so you cant go wrong with this

I love Klonoa. Its genius is in its simplicity. Unlike other platformers, it doesn't seem to feel the need to shoehorn in a million different gameplay types. If I play a platform game, I want to play a platform game. I don't care much for obligatory racing/driving levels they seem to slap in every platformer now (okay there was the boarding bit in Lunatea's Veil, but it was only one level. And the hilarious song in the background made it worth it). But I stopped playing Jak II because I couldn't do one of those missions where you had to drive through all the rings and beat someone at the same time. Good at platformers, bad at driving games.

I'm another one who always liked the character, but never actually played the games.. Considering everywhere is selling it so cheap, I'll probably pick it up sooner or later.

how did i miss this??
namco please make more!