Review: Klonoa: Empire Of Dreams (GBA) – One Of The System’s Best Still Plays Like A Dream

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This review was originally published in May 2014. We’re updating and republishing it in honour of the game’s arrival on Switch 2 as part of the Nintendo Classics GBA lineup.


Starting life on the PlayStation in 1997, at a time when Super Mario 64 had just brought the gaming world triple-jumping headlong into the era of 3D platforming, Namco’s Klonoa series has always done things differently. Klonoa’s first outing, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, was a pioneering foray into 2.5D, mixing polygonal backgrounds with sprite-based characters, and restricting movement to a two-dimensional path while letting the path itself wind its way enchantingly through a three-dimensional world.

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