Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil is a delightful 2.5D platformer that blends vibrant visuals with creative puzzle-platforming. You'll journey through dreamlike worlds as Klonoa, using his ability to grab and inflate enemies to solve puzzles, traverse obstacles, and reach hidden areas. While the game's core mechanics are simple to grasp, its level design offers surprising depth and challenge. Combined with its charming story and whimsical atmosphere, Klonoa 2 is a joy for fans of creative platformers.
Klonoa 2 took me by actual surprise.
Playing it by the Phantasy Reverie Collection, I tried it immediately after finishing Klonoa 1, which I thought was a cool neat title, with some major flaws.
I was expecting to see just some minor improvements from its sequel... and oh my god if I was wrong.
Klonoa 2 takes the formula of the first title and expands upon it creating one of the best 2D platformers I tried in recent years. An almost immaculate title that expands on the predecessor in every single way.
The gameplay is cozy, but not absent from surprisingly platforming challenges, that doesn't seem unfair or stright, able to make the floatier jumps endearing even to platformer veterans.
This includes skateboardng sections that while common in platoformers like this, are still really fun to navigate and repeat.
There is a lot more enemy variety, that leads to Klonoa having an incredibily varied and interesting pool of abilities, and environmental puzzles that are always fun to try to solve. Even the bosses are incredibly memorable for how they use the environment and overall abilities of our protagonist to create some really memorable encounters.
The first game was able to convey the feeling of a dream-like world solidly enough.... but oh my god the sequel did it so much better: there is not a single environment or level in this game that feels not creative: you start off with a stormy coast, to then go for a more classic forest course... only to jump into a circus, haunted house, the middle of CIVIL WAR, underground factories, floating island that reminds me so much of Laputa, giant undersea deserts, and probably one of my favorite levels I have ever seen in a platformer: the Maze of Memories. Some of the most creative realized environments I have seen in a dream-like world, sold by the stellar presentation and the amazing music.
The story of the game is also incredibly charming: yeah I liked the overall plot of Klonoa 1, but man the stakes and characters introduced in the sequel lead to much more memorable interactions, showcasing a more confident but still adorable protagonist and more deeper characterization in characters like Lolo and Leorina (also the side characters are really fun, like Tat or Popka)
I can't stress out how much this gem took me by surprise: it's not the longest experience in the world, but every single minute of it is absolutely worth it.
A must play if you are a fan of platformers.
Playing it by the Phantasy Reverie Collection, I tried it immediately after finishing Klonoa 1, which I thought was a cool neat title, with some major flaws.
I was expecting to see just some minor improvements from its sequel... and oh my god if I was wrong.
Klonoa 2 takes the formula of the first title and expands upon it creating one of the best 2D platformers I tried in recent years. An almost immaculate title that expands on the predecessor in every single way.
The gameplay is cozy, but not absent from surprisingly platforming challenges, that doesn't seem unfair or stright, able to make the floatier jumps endearing even to platformer veterans.
This includes skateboardng sections that while common in platoformers like this, are still really fun to navigate and repeat.
There is a lot more enemy variety, that leads to Klonoa having an incredibily varied and interesting pool of abilities, and environmental puzzles that are always fun to try to solve. Even the bosses are incredibly memorable for how they use the environment and overall abilities of our protagonist to create some really memorable encounters.
The first game was able to convey the feeling of a dream-like world solidly enough.... but oh my god the sequel did it so much better: there is not a single environment or level in this game that feels not creative: you start off with a stormy coast, to then go for a more classic forest course... only to jump into a circus, haunted house, the middle of CIVIL WAR, underground factories, floating island that reminds me so much of Laputa, giant undersea deserts, and probably one of my favorite levels I have ever seen in a platformer: the Maze of Memories. Some of the most creative realized environments I have seen in a dream-like world, sold by the stellar presentation and the amazing music.
The story of the game is also incredibly charming: yeah I liked the overall plot of Klonoa 1, but man the stakes and characters introduced in the sequel lead to much more memorable interactions, showcasing a more confident but still adorable protagonist and more deeper characterization in characters like Lolo and Leorina (also the side characters are really fun, like Tat or Popka)
I can't stress out how much this gem took me by surprise: it's not the longest experience in the world, but every single minute of it is absolutely worth it.
A must play if you are a fan of platformers.
a good boyfriend sequel to the boyfriend game. in fact, i prefer this one over the first.