Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a side-scrolling platform game viewed from a "2.5D" perspective. The player moves the protagonist, Klonoa, along a path in a two-dimensional fashion, but the game is rendered in…
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a platform developed by Namco, released 11 December 1997 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Legacy Mobile Device. The main story takes about 6.3 hrs to finish.
What Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a platform game developed by Namco and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Legacy Mobile Device.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is set in Phantomile, a land fueled by dreams people have at night. An anthropomorphic animal named Klonoa has had a dream about an airship crashing into a nearby mountain known as Bell Hill, and the next day an airship does indeed crash into the mountain. Klonoa and his friend, a "ring spirit" named Huepow, decide to investigate. They find a dark spirit named Ghadius and his henchman Joka on the mountain searching for a magical moon pendant so he can turn Phantomile into a world of nightmares, all the while kidnapping the diva Lephise in order to prevent her from renewing the world with her "Song of Rebirth". After a brief scuffle, Klonoa finds the pendant under a bell and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Klonoa series
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is the first of 12 entries we hold in the Klonoa series. The next entry was Kaze no Klonoa: Moonlight Museum in 1999. Its critic score of 80 is 4 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series at 81.
How it was received
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 94 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile launched on 11 December 1997, within three weeks of Gran Turismo, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II and The Last Blade. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II, The Last Blade.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Klonoa: Door to Phantomile yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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