Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie Series - My Thoughts. 

“Lolo’s actress passed away from Ovarian Cancer.” Oh, that’s EXTREMELY SAD!

"Welcome back you long eared fuck" Genuinely made me laugh.

As someone who only played PRS, I loved it and had zero complaints for either game

great video ! made me lol thanks for the care and effort - those gorgeous, animation cut scenes from the original replaced with... that ? I feel so blessed to have experienced the original as a child

Ever since PRS got announced, Klonoa has become one of my new favorite video game series. After beating PRS, I later bought Klonoa Empire of Dreams and Dream Champ Tournament on the Wii U before the eShop closure. I hope Bandai Namco continues to support the Klonoa franchise. I have become a new subscriber since I enjoyed your Wiimake video and this video, which I consider myself the 1,000th viewer of. Keep up with the great content.

No way, my friends in my discord @ me on this video saying that the first minute into the video my reaction was in it LMAO. Never would I thought I would hear myself in someone's video. Great video nonetheless! 👍

The reaction was priceless 😂😅

Klonoa's gba games are unfarely slept on

i sure want to wear a mask in the likeness of the one who murdered my relative

I'm glad I played and beat Klonoa DTP before seeing the original ending, because if I played the original before playing PRS, I would've had high expectations that wouldn't have been met. I love this series to death, and here's hoping for Klonoa 3

I can give some additional commentary on the Switch version. I am the textbook example of the toughest customer to sell this collection to, especially for Lunatea's Veil. I have truly ungodly hours sunk into LV, Klonoa was a massive part of my childhood, it holds more meaning to me than I can put into words, and I live in fucking AUSTRALIA. Do you have any idea how hard it was to obtain non-Mario games in Australia back then, let alone the cultest of cult classics? I was introduced to Klonoa via the PS2 demo discs and my parents had to quite literally scour the country to get LV for me. But they did, and it was wonderful. The switch version of LV has problems. You outlined a bunch of them in your video already, but it goes beyond the major ones like performance, too. There's the air bullet range, for starters. That GIF actually undersells it. Whether because the bullet's hitbox is significantly smaller than its graphic, or because enemy hitboxes are smaller, or some other problem, you literally have to be standing on top of enemies to grab them. I can't count the number of times that I would be running at an enemy, ready to grab them, and I would slam face-first into them because the range on the wind bullet is so pathetic that even firing at point blank would miss half the time. Now imagine what this does to the platforming. You know, the mechanic that the entire game is built around, where Klonoa grabs enemies to perform double jumps and many of the later levels are designed around risky platforming over extended bottomless pits... yeah. Easy mode turns into "actually be able to play the game" mode for LV. The other huge problem the switch version has is the physics. I have no idea where this problem came from. If LV was built from source code like some people theorise, then it couldn't have come from that. If it was, maybe it was a Majora's Mask 3D situation where the world was updated but they didn't update Klonoa's movement to match. Maybe it's some weirdo interaction with the switch's coding. Who knows. For whatever reason, the physics in LV on switch are subtly - but noticeably - fucked up. Klonoa's jumps are fractionally smaller, which is totally fine for most of the game but gets very annoying very quick when you realise it means you can't make jumps that were perfectly doable in the original. His hover feels a little weaker too but that might just be a result of the initial jump being shorter. However, this did actually result in one jump being impossible for me to make - thankfully it was an optional jump! But I spent twenty minutes testing it, thinking surely it couldn't be right. This impacts the overall play experience and as a veteran it made the entire game feel slightly Off. Sadly the hoverboard sections were also hit by this. The hoverboard has a REALLY bad turning radius now, which makes the non-sidescrolling slider levels a gigantic pain. Forgotten Path in particular became a total menace - you know those sections where you're in the spiralling tunnel, and the hoverboard can turn juuuuust tight enough to follow the curve of the path? It can't do that in the remake. The path curves faster than the board can turn, so you have to start those sections really wide or else you will fall off. It's so sad. Door to Phantomile was already kind of a half job, but LV was the clear winner of the two and yet it got so shafted for the switch release. It's heartbreaking to me.

idunno what yall are up to but i recently downloaded the latest PCSX2 for mac and miss lunatea has been running without a hitch. though i enjoyed it quite a lot and it has higher highs (and lower lows) i think miss phantomile is still a consistently concise and just a magical package. much luv to the series, now finishing dream champ tournament (pulling my hair out) and cant wait to start legendary star medal.

iirc now the emulation of klonoa 2 is perfect on pcsx2 if you use the latest NIGHTLY release. Don't remember if the site says nightly build is unstable but don't worry, it is not! 😉

I ended up ordering the Japanese import since we Americans weren't blessed with a Physical version. Still worth it.

I think LV might be from the original source code, making it a remaster, not a remake. Also, there's already a mod to restore the lost facial expressions. Hopefully it gets properly patched in.

If Phantasy Reverie’s overwhelming success didn’t clue in Bamco to the fact YES, Klonoa deserves to live, I genuinely don’t know what will.

I skipped the DTP section of the video as I have not played that game yet (regardless of version). I'm thinking about picking this game up either on Steam or on Switch but I want to try the PS1 original a bit more first and I probably should beat Klonoa 2 first too as I am lucky enough to own it and I've almost beaten it. After hearing from you how good the remake of Klonoa 2 is, I am really impressed as most remakes/remasters are not very good. Great video!

Funny how the digital US problem with Phantasy Reverie is the inverse when it comes to PMW Re-Pac, as japan is only getting it physically on switch and digital everywhere else.

Finally commenting here like I said. It seems like we pretty well agree on Door to Phantomile, though you didn’t have the same strong reaction against Lunatea’s Veil that I had. Again, Reverie DtP is in such a weird position that I think I might actually have preferred playing the Wiimake. I guess I can accept determining Reverie LV’s art-style changes to be a matter of preference(though I do still believe the loss of cel-shading is genuinely horrible). There are some very specific control differences with Reverie DtP that I’m not sure if you ever noticed. I haven’t played the Wiimake, but I’m going to assume these changes are in the Wiimake and Reverie never bothered to fix them. First, something is very wrong with Klonoa’s jump arc now. Instead of a smooth curve, he sort of snaps to maximum height, hangs for a moment, then snaps back down like a rock. Basically, his jumping arc is closer to a half of a square than to a half of a circle, and there are so many tiny moments all throughout the game that get so completely screwed up by it. For just one of the side-effects, it provides a far stricter window for grabbing enemies out of the air while moving up and down. Second, and this is easier to notice when staring at background elements as it happens, Klonoa does this really weird one-frame(I think) stutter every single time he lands after a jump. He just halts for a brief moment no matter what the terrain looks like and it ruins so much of the original’s flow. While I’m at it, yet another reason beyond visual differences for me to prefer the original LV, the wind bullet range is shorter. I want to say this is a problem most commonly pointed out with the Switch version, but this is an issue I noticed even while playing on Steam Deck. The wind bullet is supposed to go farther and linger for longer than it now does. I don’t have details for this, but I want to say the same thing happens to a less-noticeable extent with Reverie DtP as well. There’s probably still more I could say, but I think those are my main thoughts regarding my issues with the Phantasy Reverie Series. If it were my decision, the original ROMs of each game would have been included as a bonus for beating each game or something. I’m still overall happier to have spent my money on this than to have not. At this point, I’m just waiting for Klonoa 3 to finally happen.

One thing I didn’t like about the klonoa 2 remake is everyone looks like they are glowing and to me that takes away the detail from the character models . Like they are radiating light 💡

Honestly, I think it would have been better if they upscaled the original PS1 FMVs and put them into Phantasy reverie.

I wish that they remastered more beyond the textures from the Wii version. A lot of the cutscenes are so dated by today's standards.

Hey guys, I think he's Klonoa from Wind Village.

Great video!

Klonoa sweep was amazing. But i realy feels like Bandai namco of America just wants certen games to fail most of the gundam games rarely get any advertising from them like when gundam maxiboost was coming out some years back we had a pre-order bonus unit only for preoders to open 5 days b4 the game relesed they didnt even announce that preorders were open

Also Klonoa 2 was amazing. This was my first time playing it, and it’s one of those great sequels that deserves to be remembered along with its predecessor. They’re like the granddaddies of the 2.5D platformers we see today.

Great review!!!

Sick viddddddd!

I dont own a PS5 and i don’t use Steam so……… SWITCH VERSION IT IS!

I wish we got a remix for Rongo Lango…

Love this game

PRS felt soulless to me, somehow uncanny too but maybe just me

I do not like how PRS looks honestly, it is too colorful and too bright so I think I will be trying the original games soon. As a whole its a… fine way to experience those games for lack of better wording; it truly did feel as if there was a lack of care and attention from Namco’s part but for casuals who don’t care at all for emulators I’ll definetly be pushing them to give it a shot issues and all

i played the game on switch and honestly i didn't really notice the framerate problems

I feel like the swirch version just higjlights the problems the wii had making them worse instead of better. The color is better at some parts but most of the time the lighting stinks. The cutscenes look like youtube videos compare the wiimake ring to the switches. The wii its much shinier and serious while the switch looks like they did it in 2 seconds. Honestly id rather they just ported the wii version

Hi I found your channel from u commenting on one of my videos

i will buy it soon on ps4 :D

I know I’m late to the party but what is your current opinion on KPRS and the state of the franchise?

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile just keeps taking Ls. First the Wiimake then the cancelled anime in 2019 now PRS in 2022. I dunno how you can absolutely butcher cutscenes from a game made in 1997 but they somehow did it. I cannot fathom how they couldn't capture the same emotion/charm or even add to it 25 years later. The fact I'm generally upset about this hurts Please play the original DTP before touching the PRS version.

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