Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
Product Description
The weirdest ears in gaming come to the Game Boy Advance in Klonoa: Empire of Dreams. Klonoa, the supercute critter with limblike ears, must help Emperor Jillius, who has been struck with a weird illness that robs him of the ability to dream. It’s up to Klonoa to defeat the monsters that are terrorizing the empire and solve the mystery behind the emperor’s ailment.
Featuring 40 levels across five worlds, this title mixes up gameplay nicely. Action stages are traditional 2-D platform levels, similar to classic Mario and Sonic sports meeting. In these levels, Klonoa runs or rides a hover penetrate owing to obstacle-filled lands. Boss stages pit Klonoa against a large creature with a hidden weak point. The most engaging levels are the puzzle stages, which require Klonoa to gather three keys to unlock the exit. These stages are very well designed, requiring thought and imagination on the player’s part. In order to reach some keys, Klonoa will need to grab certain objects, monsters, or a combination thereof to reach his goal. Because each monster produces a different effect when thrown, and various surfaces react differently when hit, lots of trial and error is required.
Although the game’s graphics are very bright, they aren’t as detailed as in other GBA sports meeting. The sound is brilliant, but the cute music and effects–particularly the gibberish language spoken by the characters–might be irritating to grown-up gamers. Those with an aversion to cuteness should just hit the mute button, sit back, and delight in one of the best platform sports meeting for the GBA. –Raymond M. Padilla
Pros:
- Brilliant level design
- Excellent use of the GBA’s sound capabilities
- Classic gameplay that’s exact for fans of 16-bit platform sports meeting
Cons:
- Sound miAmazon.com Review
The weirdest ears in gaming come to the Game Boy Advance in Klonoa: Empire of Dreams. Klonoa, the supercute critter with limblike ears, must help Emperor Jillius, who has been struck with a weird illness that robs him of the ability to dream. It’s up to Klonoa to defeat the monsters that are terrorizing the empire and solve the mystery behind the emperor’s ailment.Featuring 40 levels across five worlds, this title mixes up gameplay nicely. Action stages are traditional 2-D platform levels, similar to classic Mario and Sonic sports meeting. In these levels, Klonoa runs or rides a hover penetrate owing to obstacle-filled lands. Boss stages pit Klonoa against a large creature with a hidden weak point. The most engaging levels are the puzzle stages, which require Klonoa to gather three keys to unlock the exit. These stages are very well designed, requiring thought and imagination on the player’s part. In order to reach some keys, Klonoa will need to grab certain objects, monsters, or a combination thereof to reach his goal. Because each monster produces a different effect when thrown, and various surfaces react differently when hit, lots of trial and error is required.
Although the game’s graphics are very bright, they aren’t as detailed as in other GBA sports meeting. The sound is brilliant, but the cute music and effects–particularly the gibberish language spoken by the characters–might be irritating to grown-up gamers. Those with an aversion to cuteness should just hit the mute button, sit back, and delight in one of the best platform sports meeting for the GBA. –Raymond M. Padilla
Pros:
- Brilliant level design
- Excellent use of the GBA’s sound capabilities
- Classic gameplay that’s exact for fans of 16-bit platform sports meeting
Cons:
- Sound might be too cute for mature gamers
- Graphics lack detail
- Can be finished in fewer than 10 hours
Amazon.com Product Description
Klonoa is a gifted side-scrolling action game. As Klonoa, a catlike character with wings on its head, you must outmaneuver the terrible guys with a prowess that isn’t merely limited to smacking them upside the head–this cat has one mean jump! The game’s graphics are highly engaging, and, even though Klonoa is a side scroller, its environment strives for a 3-D look. Challenging bosses and diverse levels test your gameplay.Buy Cheap Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
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The already legendary cat like thing is about to have his game boy advance debut. In his PS and PS2 sports meeting, he has won many fans, and now it is GBA’s turn. As Klonoa travels owing to the world where dreams are forbidden, he must save many towns and vanish mystical monsters. When he comes to the end of this game, the dreamless people of this world will finally get to sleep. Some of the levels in this game are full of action, while others are filled with puzzles and other problems. The total number of levels in this game are more than 40.
This game should turn some heads with graphics and sound, but what is splendid is the nonstop action of Klonoa sports meeting. It is also made by Namco, the company that makes Pacman and other puzzle sports meeting. It should be a hit for GBA as soon as it hits the shelves.
Rating: 5 / 5
Klonoa is a really excellent game…..for those who have no thought what it is about,read carefully. In the game, Klonoa is transported to a world that is devoid of dreams. Klonoa must defeat four mystical monsters to give back the ability to dream to the people of this world. Adventures of Klonoa will take him owing to a world where dreams are forbidden.This world includes four major towns, and Klonoa must vanquish four mystical monsters and restore the ability to dream to the sleep-deprived people of the world. The side-scrolling gameplay is a mix of action and puzzle elements–some levels are more action-oriented, while others require players to solve a wide array of puzzles. There will be a total of more than 40 levels in the game. Naturally, Klonoa’s general moves, which are intrinsic to the series, will be available in Klonoa for the GBA.The graphics should be excellent also,and by and large the game should be a huge hit!
Rating: 5 / 5
This was my second game for the GBA, and I loved it! I was merely only eight years ancient, but the game was absolutly wonderful! I am now a huge fan of the Klonoa series. They are the best sports meeting I have ever played in my life! I am using this review also as a compliment to the wonderful creators of this game, Namco. Please Namco do keep making more Klonoa sports meeting. Platform game buffs all over our United Nation are counting on you, and the rest of your splendid company.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the first Klonoa game for Gameboy Advance, released in 2001. If you’ve played the more recently released sequal, you know what to expect from this game. For those that haven’t, in my humble opinion, it truly is a hidden gem! It’s a 2D platformer specializing in solving enviromental (the kind were certain things and items block your path and such, not tetris type) puzzles. The cool thing about this game is how much you can do with the unadorned amount of moves given to you, by the time you get to the 3rd of the 5 worlds you’ll start to reflect there’s not much more you can do with the moves, but there is! The moves include walk (of course), jump (but dont be trying to jump on badies, you’ll only hurt yourself), hover, and attack with the ring. When you attack, instead of killing the enemies, you pick them up and then can throw them or do a double jump – the largest part of solving puzzles. All the enemy’s serve a purpose. In the normal stages (or “visons”) you have to solve the puzzles to advance and collect the three stars that open the door out of the level. Also, aside from the normal puzzle/platform levels, there are also “action stages”. The first type is snowboarding, which is defententaly a excellent change of pace, and the moving stages (where the screen moves and you have to keep up). Note for those who like to keep to the slower paced normal stages, the snowboarding and moving stages are optional. Unless your trying to “really” completet the game by getting all the blue and green gems called “dream stones” scattered in the levels. 30 per normal stage and 100 per snowboarding or moving stage. Collecting the gems adds to the comeback regard alot, and is not to hard – not to simple (alot harder in action stages). Succesfully acomplishing this nets you the EX stages – two of which are time attack stages and one that’s just a really hard normal stage. Pretty excellent rewards. There are also boss stages (which are required and not optional), they are pretty basic, hit the boss three times to win. They are also very simple. This splendid game has two main flaws though: too simple (unless you aren’t a excellent puzzle solver, the puzzles do get pretty hard), and too small. If you can overlook these though, this (and it’s sequal) is defenetly one of the best sports meeting on the GBA. I sure loved it anyway! I hadn’t played or even heard of any of the Klonoa sports meeting when I saw this at the store, but I chose to buy it anyway – and I was so glad I did!
Rating: 5 / 5
This game kills me. Not because of how terrible it is, but because of how GOOD it COULD have been. The original Klonoa had that special something that made me want to play it over and over, even though the game took only a scant few hours to complete. Maybe it was the pseudo 3-D look of the levels, the addictive gameplay, the character.. no matter what it was, it was addictive, and fun.
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams lacks a lot of these, as well as being a painfully small game. Don’t let the ‘40+ levels’ fool you. 5 of those levels are not anything more than a unadorned boss screen, and to get to the boss in each of the five worlds, you can skip 2 of the stages over in each world. They’ve messed with the simplicity of the original, which involved jumping and throwing in different patterns to take you to where you needed to go, with limited puzzle solving. It kept thing going at a nice clip. This game is nearly all puzzle solving, with a couple of ‘action’ stages which are so simple it’s laughable.
This wouldn’t even be so much of a complaint if there were just MORE of them. Didn’t they reflect there would be a conundrum of people turning the game inside out in three hours tops?
I loved Klonoa, it’s just a bring shame on this game didn’t live up to it. The graphics are nice, sound is okay, but who cares when it’s over so quick? At least Mario had the multiplayer aspect.
Rent this one, spend the 35 bucks you have left to get Advance Wars, you’ll be more pleased.
Rating: 3 / 5