Exhuminator wrote:Sarge wrote:The Wii Klonoa is really good.
I put two hours into it tonight, and I'm inclined to agree... so far. I'm now on stage 10 out of 14 stages (if I understand the world layout correctly). The Wii version has
very nice graphics and tight controls. So far it's been super easy though, no challenge at all. Maybe that will change towards the end, but this game seems targeted towards young children.
The difficulty would have been ramping up a lot around where you are in the game, if you were playing the PS1 version, but apparently the Wii version adds 4 extra health per life, for whatever reason (probably just to make the game easier). It seems there are a few other tweaks to how Klonoa controls in the Wii version that could potentially make the game a little easier, as well.
I started Klonoa 2 last night, and made it the 4th, "world," I guess I'll call it. The first couple Visions gave me some feelings of trepidation about whether this game would be as good as the first. Those feelings were assuaged by the time I got to the second world, though, which takes place in an amusement park, and was wildly enjoyable. There's a significantly different tenor to Klonoa 2, I feel, but it's quite a good game, so far.
I'm reminded of a lot of different things while playing Klonoa 2. It has the placid, serene sense of calming gameplay (in most Visions) that reminds me of Kirby. (It also just seems a lot like Kirby 64 in general.) It also reminds me a lot of playing Napple Tale, in all of the little mechanics going on in each stage, along with just how the levels feel to play, and while they don't necessarily look that similar, the visual styles still feel vaguely reminiscent of each other, to me. Lastly, Klonoa 2 reminds me a lot of some of the 3D Sonic games: Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic Unleashed, specifically.
For anyone concerned that Klonoa 2 might not do as much juxtapositioning of a light and jubilant world, with dark, painful aspects of the human condition, fear not. After the amusement park area, I was sent to a country that is in a constant state of civil war, and focusing on the backgrounds during the above ground Vision can be painful.
I think I have about three Visions left, and I'm in the snow stages now, so I'm looking forward to finishing it up. I think I might actually make sure I open up the extra Visions in this game, which I never actually bothered to do in the first game. I'm still unsure about exactly how I feel Klonoa 2 compares to the original, but either way, I have been enjoying it tremendously.
Also, special shout out to the manual, which had a ridiculous amount of energy put into the art, and paper stock. (This is the Japanese version, though. I should mention that.) It is positively stunning.