Klonoa 2 Remake Review

This will be mainly cover Klonoa 2 since I already went over the first game's remake on the Wii on that page.

Klonoa 2 is a very good game and it's superior to the first where Klonoa 1 was a solid foundation, 2 just ups the ante and stuff to throw at the player. There's bigger jumps, more puzzle gimmicks, different types of enemies to grab and more. It does a great job at expanding on everything the first game did even the story is pretty decent too even though the remake would've been better if it just let's you press x to skip through the dialogue faster after reading it. I guess it's because I am faster at reading and I read the subtitles faster than the characters can act out the words and I just want the character to hurry up already. It's an issue I have with anime subtitled but that's a different topic.

Also the last couple of levels especially the Ark Revisited and onwards can be pretty challenging mainly due to how long they are, it's weird Klonoa 2 before that level felt balanced around the lives system but the levels before the final snowboarding section feels like you are just wasting your time with the lives and the unlimited continues on easy comes in handy, the Ark Revisited is a pretty good level without the stress of dying and losing all your lives and doing an half an hour of content. The level after is also good.

There are issues both games have like when you use the Wind Bullet and you swore you grabbed on to to the post or threw the enemy and it should've landed but it didn't register, stuff like that can be very irritating and can lead to occasional frustration but I think it's an issue you can look past with the easy mode and lives disabled.

Overall, I am glad that both Klonoa games are easily avaliable and Klonoa 2 especially is no longer that rare collector's item that is also a bitch to run on emulator. The easy mode helps with the longer and harder levels too. 1 is worth playing but 2 is a sequel that improves upon it in every way.