Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-4959

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

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Critic rating

80.0 / 100

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Release

Dec 11, 1997

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Overview

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a side-scrolling platform game viewed from a "2.5D" perspective. The player moves the protagonist, Klonoa, along a path in a two-dimensional fashion, but the game is rendered in three dimensions. This allows the path followed to curve and for the player to interact with objects outside of the path.

Storyline

The game is set in Phantomile, a land fueled by dreams people have at night. An anthropomorphic animal named Klonoa has had a dream about an airship crashing into a nearby mountain known as Bell Hill, and the next day an airship does indeed crash into the mountain. Klonoa and his friend, a "ring spirit" named Huepow, decide to investigate. They find a dark spirit named Ghadius and his henchman Joka on the mountain searching for a magical moon pendant so he can turn Phantomile into a world of nightmares, all the while kidnapping the diva Lephise in order to prevent her from renewing the world with her "Song of Rebirth". After a brief scuffle,…