Klonoa Deltarune was supposed to be a joke but it's not a joke anymore. Have this

Nintendo Power 148, 2001 - Klona Gameboy Advance Ad

GBA on Wii U | Friday, 03.03.2023

Did you guys by any chance buy and download any of these Game Boy Advance games down below, regardless of what region (t.e. Europe, Japan, or North America) through the Wii U eShop before March 27, 2023 ends soon?

Story and art belong to @callumtheimp sorry i been a little busy but more to come soon ^^

A BIG THANKS TO

Jojo Jukestar and @thedragonlover95 for their voices Jojo did Emperor Jillius, Bagoo and others thedragonLover for doing Huepow

Emperor Julius in Empire of Dreams be like

It took a long time to find Door to Phantomile. But finally the dream came true!

Chipple's training for the latest fight! #klonoa #klonoafanart #art #artwork #sketches #fanart #chipple #huepow #クロノア #風のクロノア

WAHOO

My Klonoa collection! (So far).

Includes fan prints, official cassette and vinyls of the OSTs, charms, most of the games and a Japanese fanzine for Klonoa 2! Phantasy Reverie Series is only available on digital in the US unfortunately.

The Handheld Klonoa Games

*Played and Written in July 2022

Allow me to recount the great era of GBA platformers. I'm talking about the age when Rayman 3, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro 2 all came out...on the Game Boy Advance. Franchises wanted to take advantage of the portable market so they paired down their gameplay to make a few GBA games. They all have this certain flavor to them. Having pre-rendered "cut scenes", being somewhat of a soft remake of its corresponding console game, being questionably canon. As someone who spent that era without a Playstation, these games were my only window into some of these franchises. Crash Bandicoot is a 2D sidescroller first and a 3D platformer second to me. Spyro was a mid isometric collectethon to me for the longest time. Rayman was also a sidescroller...which isn’t weird at all given the history of that brand. I loved these games dearly growing up, but I had the misfortune of not even knowing Klonoa existed, so I never got to play the portable takes on the series framework.

After playing all 3 Portable Klonoa platformers, I can declare that they have the same vibes as the games I discussed before. While the portable Klonoa games can't interact with the foreground and background, they are more or less the same gameplay wise as the console games. The rest of its peers try to be similar to the games they are based off of, but are noticeably reeled back. Here, not much is lost in the translation, so not much is lost quality wise. Because the same philosophies of Klonoa 1 and 2 can be taken full advantage of, the three portable Klonoa Platformers end up being at the top of this sub genre.

Klonoa: Moonlight Museum is surprisingly great. I think dig it more than the first Klonoa game. It's less of a straight forward platformer you try to master and more of a puzzle platformer that uses Klonoa gameplay. The actual platforming aspect isn't that impressive, but these puzzles get pretty big brained eventually. The stages take advantage of the Wonder Swan’s screen and uses it to give levels verticality which allows for more space for the puzzles to stretch out. The levels start to feel like Zelda dungeons after a while, where you are required to have an intimate understanding of the stage’s structure. None of them are as complex as some of the better dungeons per say, but they are, at their worst, Breath of the Wild tier. There are no bosses and the story is told in a rather bland way so it is not as impactful or complete of an experience as the first game. But it's a more stimulating product moment to moment. You really have to get the hang the elements introduced in each world and how they interact with Klonoa’s abilities. It’s more thought out. It’s also somehow more considerate. I love how enemies don't just respawn without warning and how bomb enemies have a countdown. These are good quality of life additions that I didn't expect from a Wonder Swan game. All it really needs is a map and it's basically perfect in terms of delivering its content painlessly.

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams is incredibly consistent. I think the puzzles are a bit harder in the other two, but Empire of Dreams makes up for it by introducing more mechanics to interact with, having color to make out objects and enemies easier, and breaking up the puzzles with action stages. Moonlight Museum was 100% just levels with puzzles you can solve at your own pace. Empire changes the composition to allow auto scrolling levels to test your platforming abilities, Snowboard levels to test your reflexes, and Boss fights to cap off each distinct world. The levels are also designed in a way where it's not as easy to get lost. It's mostly a semi linear puzzle gauntlet aside from a psuedo Zelda dungeon where things are all over the place. It loops you around way better and cuts down on back tracking significantly. There’s not much else to say about this game other that. It’s good the whole way through with no baggage attached.

Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament sure has...ideas. The look around feature is welcome for sure. The edgy rival is pretty cool. Tournament arc story and level structure is novel. These are all good ideas, but only a fraction of the ideas present in Dream Champ Tournament. Having a ranking system that requires perfection is an idea. Having the surfing mini game be more similar to a Crash Bandicoot Boulder Level is an idea. Having the boss fights be timed levels is an idea. These aren't good ideas, but they are there. I don't think the good additions outweigh the bad ones, but I appreciate how much they tried for a game that, honestly, would be objectively better if the did the same thing the previous GBA title did. Also these puzzles are nightmares. They are true specters of the night. This might be the hardest puzzle game I've played in a while, sans the later levels in Mario’s Super Picross. But these puzzles aren’t hard because they are poorly crafted, I’m just stupid. And that’s why this game has my undying respect. While it may be my least favorite Klonoa Platformer, I will always feel mentally inadequate to it. And I value that a lot for some reason.

Overall, Empire of Dreams is the best one, but all three of these games are great and have cemented my identity as a Klonoa Shill.

Stream Time! Klonoa + random edition

Streaming at 5 pm ET! Resuming the stream today by finishing Klonoa and then ad libbing whatever time I have left. 

https://www.twitch.tv/tos_johnny_squid

🫐❄ EXTRA 6 - October 8th & 9th, 2022 ❄🫐

I turned it off more than an hour, but here goes the following:

-The first 2 levels complicated me, it took me a few minutes to plan strategies

- In one part I wasted a few lives that I returned to the 2nd world in the hovercraft level to collect lives again and again and again to have enough!

- Back to the 3rd, I saved them because I found the matter 😈😂

And well, I left it there for the night to follow it... time to make things complicated!

🫐❄ EXTRA 6 - 8 y 9 de Octubre del 2022 ❄🫐

La apagué más de la hora, pero ahí va lo siguiente:

- Los primeros 2 niveles me complicaron, tardé unos minutos en planificar estrategias

- En una parte desperdicié unas cuántas vidas que me devolví al 2do mundo en el nivel del aerodeslizador para juntar vidas una y otra y otra vez para tener lo suficiente!

- De vuelta al 3ro, me las ahorré porque le hallaba la m4ña al asunto 😈😂

Y pues, le dejé hasta ahí para la noche seguirle... hora de poner complicadas las cosas!

Here is a drawing of an AU idea for klonoa. Just thought this would be a cute drawing. Thank @Thedragonlover95