Eat your heart out Sonic!
The Charge:
Wahoo!
Opening Statement:
Klonoa is a somewhat sad case for me to talk about. The oft-forgotten franchise got its start with rather humble beginnings on the original Sony PlayStation with 1997’s Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. The general consensus of reviewers at the time was that while a solid game, Klonoa had missed out on the early nineties ‘mascot’ craze of the last generation’s console war between the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, and most gamers of the late nineties wouldn’t be terribly interested in a cute platforming adventure along the lines of Kirby or Super Mario. So while Klonoa did manage to garner enough praise to warrant an equally unappreciated sequel in 2001 on the PlayStation 2, and a handful of Game Boy Advance titles; the series has remained tragically toward the bottom rungs of the cult ladder. Luckily for gamers who missed out on a more than solid platformer that could easily hang with the Yoshi’s Islands and Sonic 2s of the gaming world, Klonoa is getting another shot at fortune and glory via a painstaking remake on the Nintendo Wii. So, twelve years after the original’s release, is there enough wind left in this wonder to capture some late-in-the-game glory?