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Klonoa In The Shadowed Museum Halls
Dreams of artists makes the moon glow.
I was inspired by one of the cutscenes in Klonoa: Moonlight Museum.
#klonoa#klonoa fanart#klonoa moonlight museum#klonoa fan art#redraw#fanart#digital art#my art#tiffanyelectricity#art#wonderswan#retro games#retro#retro gaming#video game fanart#huepow#klonoa door to phantomile
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Decided to redraw the Cloud Palace Dreamstone illustration for Klonoa Day. It's 3 days late now but whatever. The extra time spent was worth it, because I'm generally quite pleased with how this came out.
#klonoa#fanart#fan art#digital art#illustration#klonoa moonlight museum#moonlight museum#klonoa day#cw eye contact
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The Handheld Klonoa Games
*Played and Written in July 2022
Allow me to recount the great era of GBA platformers. I'm talking about the age when Rayman 3, Crash Bandicoot 2, Spyro 2 all came out...on the Game Boy Advance. Franchises wanted to take advantage of the portable market so they paired down their gameplay to make a few GBA games. They all have this certain flavor to them. Having pre-rendered "cut scenes", being somewhat of a soft remake of its corresponding console game, being questionably canon. As someone who spent that era without a Playstation, these games were my only window into some of these franchises. Crash Bandicoot is a 2D sidescroller first and a 3D platformer second to me. Spyro was a mid isometric collectethon to me for the longest time. Rayman was also a sidescroller...which isn’t weird at all given the history of that brand. I loved these games dearly growing up, but I had the misfortune of not even knowing Klonoa existed, so I never got to play the portable takes on the series framework.
After playing all 3 Portable Klonoa platformers, I can declare that they have the same vibes as the games I discussed before. While the portable Klonoa games can't interact with the foreground and background, they are more or less the same gameplay wise as the console games. The rest of its peers try to be similar to the games they are based off of, but are noticeably reeled back. Here, not much is lost in the translation, so not much is lost quality wise. Because the same philosophies of Klonoa 1 and 2 can be taken full advantage of, the three portable Klonoa Platformers end up being at the top of this sub genre.
Klonoa: Moonlight Museum is surprisingly great. I think dig it more than the first Klonoa game. It's less of a straight forward platformer you try to master and more of a puzzle platformer that uses Klonoa gameplay. The actual platforming aspect isn't that impressive, but these puzzles get pretty big brained eventually. The stages take advantage of the Wonder Swan’s screen and uses it to give levels verticality which allows for more space for the puzzles to stretch out. The levels start to feel like Zelda dungeons after a while, where you are required to have an intimate understanding of the stage’s structure. None of them are as complex as some of the better dungeons per say, but they are, at their worst, Breath of the Wild tier. There are no bosses and the story is told in a rather bland way so it is not as impactful or complete of an experience as the first game. But it's a more stimulating product moment to moment. You really have to get the hang the elements introduced in each world and how they interact with Klonoa’s abilities. It’s more thought out. It’s also somehow more considerate. I love how enemies don't just respawn without warning and how bomb enemies have a countdown. These are good quality of life additions that I didn't expect from a Wonder Swan game. All it really needs is a map and it's basically perfect in terms of delivering its content painlessly.
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams is incredibly consistent. I think the puzzles are a bit harder in the other two, but Empire of Dreams makes up for it by introducing more mechanics to interact with, having color to make out objects and enemies easier, and breaking up the puzzles with action stages. Moonlight Museum was 100% just levels with puzzles you can solve at your own pace. Empire changes the composition to allow auto scrolling levels to test your platforming abilities, Snowboard levels to test your reflexes, and Boss fights to cap off each distinct world. The levels are also designed in a way where it's not as easy to get lost. It's mostly a semi linear puzzle gauntlet aside from a psuedo Zelda dungeon where things are all over the place. It loops you around way better and cuts down on back tracking significantly. There’s not much else to say about this game other that. It’s good the whole way through with no baggage attached.
Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament sure has...ideas. The look around feature is welcome for sure. The edgy rival is pretty cool. Tournament arc story and level structure is novel. These are all good ideas, but only a fraction of the ideas present in Dream Champ Tournament. Having a ranking system that requires perfection is an idea. Having the surfing mini game be more similar to a Crash Bandicoot Boulder Level is an idea. Having the boss fights be timed levels is an idea. These aren't good ideas, but they are there. I don't think the good additions outweigh the bad ones, but I appreciate how much they tried for a game that, honestly, would be objectively better if the did the same thing the previous GBA title did. Also these puzzles are nightmares. They are true specters of the night. This might be the hardest puzzle game I've played in a while, sans the later levels in Mario’s Super Picross. But these puzzles aren’t hard because they are poorly crafted, I’m just stupid. And that’s why this game has my undying respect. While it may be my least favorite Klonoa Platformer, I will always feel mentally inadequate to it. And I value that a lot for some reason.
Overall, Empire of Dreams is the best one, but all three of these games are great and have cemented my identity as a Klonoa Shill.
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5/20 - 25th anniversary of Klonoa: Moonlight Museum!
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also, here's a list of writing scripts for the phantomilian language:
the script shown original dtp textures, art, and comics, and possibly in moonlight museum too (nobody knows anything about this one, and neither do i)
the script used in la-lakoosha and the terminus of tears (based on english alphabet)
the script used in joilant (based on english alphabet but also japanese romanisation; key was released in kprs digital artbook)
the script used in volk (based on english alphabet; key was also released in kprs digital artbook)
the script used in the wiimake (based on english alphabet; the ending credits cutscene has a key for it in the book)
WOOOOOOOO you’re so real!! thanks so much for bringing all of them up!!! ^_^ ill try to take a look at them later if i have the time and remember
i have seen the klonoa @ blog posts about at least one of the scripts already but i haven’t taken a close look at any of them. i should check out the art book at some point
i need to replay dtp + lunateas veil again at some point to re-familiarize myself with what everything looks like. the script used in joilant is the most memorable for me since it’s on all those signs (and also because the jungle slider intro cutscene will always be in the back of my brain)
#asks#klonoa#i also need to keep playing thru moonlight museum#the wiimake is also on my keep-playing list but the english voice in the start screen always deters me from playing#why doesnt it change languages to match the settings……….. scary#but i digress#i have much to look at#maybe i should set up a general conlang tag on my blog#not right now though
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Let’s paint! 😄🎨🖌️🖼️
#Anniversary#Dibujos 2024#Mis Dibujos#Digital Art#Klonoa#Klonoa: Moonlight Museum#Huepow#90s Games#Video Games
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uhh url change again
yoyledcake -> klonoadoortophantomile
#sorry this is so soon after thelast one but i had an Autism Momment and well#/silly#inquisitivewaltz.txt#also new layout B) its moonlight museum stuff cuz the box art is what introduced me to klonoa..
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I Want a WonderSwan
I really, really want a WonderSwan. It was first released in 1999, a spiritual successor to Gunpei Yokoi’s Game Boy. The creator left Nintendo after the Virtual Boy and worked with Bandai to create the WonderSwan using a lot of the same design principles that made the Game Boy successful ten years earlier. The WonderSwan has always stuck out to me in its look and form factor, and I think it’s…
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#bandai#clock tower#dicing knight#final fantasy i#final fantasy ii#final fantasy iv#front mission#game & watch#game boy#gb studio#ghosts &039;n goblins#golden axe#gunpei yokoi#judgement silversword#klonoa: moonlight museum#konami#m2#maikamura for wonderswan#mr. driller#playdate#puyo puyo 2#swancrystal#Switch#triple-i initiative 2024#virtual boy#wonderswan#wonderswan color#wonderwitch
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Klonoa roubando a atenção com seus puzzles.
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klonoir du vent: musée au clair de lune
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My largest embroidery project by far, based on a picture from Klonoa: Moonlight Museum. 23,040 stitches, 10 months on-and-off work, rendered in DMC Etoilé. What a journey 💙💜💖🧡💛
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I am the rare gamer whose first Klonoa game was Moonlight Museum.
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Klonoa: Moonlight Museum "Present Box” that came with a copy of the game and a skeleton blue WonderSwan unit.
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Klonoa has his art film moment. 🎭🎬 (Border from Klonoa: Moonlight Museum on Wonderswan)
This was made for Running Shine | Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil Review. You can see the illustration pop up at this time stamp (5:28): https://youtu.be/bg1E7sFLB4A?t=328
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