Paon and Namco Bandai reveal how wide-screen looks like a game for the console of the fifth generation, hastily disguised as a game for the console of the seventh generation. Nothing good, unfortunately, did not show: Klonoa buy for themselves, but eventually give it to someone younger.
In April of this year, Hideo Esidzava, creator of the series Klonoa, said that ten years ago the possibility of the first PlayStation was not allowed him to depict the world Door to Phantomile as he appeared before him in the imagination, but now when the services of the creator - the power of Wii, it show a wonderful Fantomil in all its insane glory. The few fans the news cycle, of course, fascinated - they immediately remembered Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, which appeared eight years ago on the PlayStation 2, specifications of which is hardly inferior to the current console, the big N ». At one time Lunatea's Veil was for modern two-dimensional platformer in the same than is the film "Hero," Zhang Yimou in relation to other patterns of martial arts: a model of the ideal for all ages, perfectly beautiful, simple and profound at the same time. We have the right to expect that a remake of the first part will be, respectively, comparable even with the "House of Flying Daggers", but were rather "white-haired bride" - recycled, rough, pale copy of what would be Klonoa, if Esidzava -san is not limited to the duties of producer.
 | |  | Klonoa Gorazd fly, waving long ears like wings. Since the canonical platformerov double jump can not be performed without grasping any enemy, the cat ears help to avoid falling into the abyss: pinch buttons for jump - and voila | | In Lunatea's Veil fights with bosses organized along the same lines - Klonoa cuts circles, grabbing anything that grabs and attacks the vulnerabilities of the enemy - but in the second part, they deserve comparison with the puzzles rather than finger dexterity test |
Promise "miraculous conversion" did not happen: Beauty Klonoa evoke memories of the death of Dreamcast and early bezrybe on PlayStation 2 - next to a colorful, full of life Lunatiey updated Fantomil looks dead desert.
In Lunatea's Veil Klonoa walked on paved roads or footpaths, overgrown with thick grass at the edge of his eyes the whole world, the authenticity of which almost turned out doubt, along with the hero we watched as the wind carries the leaves, looked at the falls and with difficulty glance on the huge pike leaping out from the depths, right across our path, trying to swallow eared kitten. To peremahivat across the gap, often Klonoa ever feel like the nucleus in the gun, and most long-distance helped him overcome a surfboard, or perhaps a flying stingray. Imaginary operator did not stay in the shade when the time came to surrender to the madness even a modicum of dynamism - it took such sharp angles that sometimes seemed as if the cat could not walk in two and in three planes.Lunatea's Veil was lucky to come to light at a time when developers have not yet learned massively overdo technology with cel-shading, and used it to create a mind-blowing pictures and paintings of landscapes, elegant contours and pastel backgrounds.
 | Plot |
Fantomil - mysterious world, being built from the dreams that people see at night. Klonoa kitten nightmare: a mountain near his home crashed airship. Once a dream comes true, Klonoa is sent to the scene and met there two terrible creatures - Gadiusa and The Joker - they plan to flood Fantomil nightmares, and for this they need a singer Lefiza and Moon Pendant. The girl is in the hands of evildoers, and Klonoa recruited determination to prevent the tragedy - not to let the enemy take possession of the pendant, to defeat them and save Lefizu.
The game, from the name which for some reason removed the subtitle Door to Phantomile, nothing like not ennobled. Most of the adventures of Klonoa and his best friend Hupe - a spirit that lives in a magic ring - roam either issued by a green lawn spotting, or by spotting brown, symbolizing the timber, or on something like a gray concrete blocks. Kind of our elected rescuers often called it on a solid dark veil, then some of the castle wall. Between the "layers" level holder cap with a badge Pakmaya moves to dull the flying platforms, but for thrill felled a few races on the trolley, each of which lasts well if ten seconds while the script has provided excellent opportunities to create something really worthwhile - a couple of times helped the heroes flying fish Karal and Pamela, but the authors chose to leave and these moments of plot material for scenes that would be interesting to see except on the fast-.
 | And feel the immense influence was Akira Toriyama on a good half of the Japanese game artists: those ghosts like escaped from Dragon Quest |
A similar approach is worthy and the rest of the "video". Dialogues to the point aimed at preschool audiences, that stupidity, shedding from the lips of characters the series Pokemon, seem to you the lines from the plays of Tom Stoppard: here we use every one of the most frequently used words in English. Lunatea's Veil, no doubt, too, was not written as The Curse of Monkey Island or BioShock, but there, at least, come across a funny word «yonder».
Klonoa even manages to be both too short and too long: the complete passage and does not take five hours, but in the final supply a layer cake of false-endings, which have time to curse everything and risking not see any good in a shocking denouement, no slightly sad final title.
In Paon get to play, designed for children and those who, even after Mega Drive and Super Nintendo sat exclusively two-dimensional platformers, completely ignoring all the other treasures of gaming. As a result, fans of all the other treasures of gaming would be better to ignore Klonoa and pay attention to Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure and LittleBigPlanet, hidden in anticipation of the remake Lunatea's Veil, and a full third of the series, to establish which Esidzava-san now abstract thinking.
| Comment |
Artem Shorokhov
Dangerous thing these remakes. On the one hand, they are all waiting for a repetition "of those same experiences," a return ticket to his childhood, meeting up with old friends ... the other - require a graphical gloss, great work on the errors of modern standards of quality and multi-day duration of the bargain. But that does not happen. Well, almost never. Any remake depends entirely on the basics, and if the very foundation of this extremely outdated - crumbles under the fingers is not something that modern gamers - the very nostalgic fan, and there is little to change the schedule just so reshoot the cinematics, you need a major overhaul. And even better - do not exhume this game, and instead restart from scratch series, or at least give longtime fans of the normal, modern, competitive sequel.
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