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Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, the sequel to Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, is a 2.5D platform game released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001.

History[edit]

PSM
🇺🇸 November 2000

Coverage of the game's announcement

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Concept art
🇯🇵 ~2000

An unused enemy idea (drawn by art director Yoshihiko Arai)

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How to Digital Art Vol. 1
🇯🇵 March 27, 2001

An inside look at the creation of Klonoa's model and animations

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NextGen
🇺🇸 October 2001

A news article on the GameCube claims Namco would release Klonoa 2 (among other games) on the platform, which ultimately never happened

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IGN:
- Article about Namco's autumn TGS lineup in 2000, including the first announcement of Klonoa 2 (September 8, 2000)
- Coverage of the announcement that the game would release in July 2001 in North America (February 14, 2001)
- Article about Namco's spring TGS lineup in 2001, including Klonoa 2 (March 27, 2001)
- Report on allegations that Namco will convert more of their games for the GameCube, including Klonoa 2 (September 18, 2001)
GameSpy claims the game will receive a somewhat enhanced GameCube conversion, something which never came to pass (January 16, 2002; archived via Wayback Machine)

Covers[edit]

Early American cover art
🇺🇸 2001

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Previews[edit]

Strana Igr (Gameland)
🇷🇺 October 2000

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NOURS
🇯🇵 Autumn 2000

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NextGen
🇺🇸 December 2000

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Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 December 2000

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GameFan
🇺🇸 December 2000

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Joypad
🇫🇷 December 2000

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Game Informer
🇺🇸 ~2000

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Hyper PlayStation 2
🇯🇵 March 9/23, 2001

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Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 March 2001

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NextGen
🇺🇸 March 2001

Preview blurb

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GamePro
🇺🇸 March 2001

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PSM
🇺🇸 March 2001

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Expert Gamer
🇺🇸 April 2001

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Next Level
🇦🇷 May 2001

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PSM
🇺🇸 May 2001

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Strana Igr (Gameland)
🇷🇺 June 2001

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Neo Plus
🇵🇱 June 2001

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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine
🇺🇸 June 2001

Mostly focused on the included demo of the previous game, though it also includes a screenshot from Lunatea's Veil

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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine
🇺🇸 July 2001

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Click!
🇵🇱 December 2001

Tokyo Game Show 2001 coverage

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Video preview taken from volume 0 of the Japanese PurePure 2 demo disc series (edited by Valhalla, the uploader, to preserve quality; dated February 2001, though the file is dated to November 30, 2000)

Video preview taken from the demo disc bundled with issue 47 of the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (dated August 2001)

GameSpot:
- Short article about the game's announcement (September 8, 2000)^{[note 1]}
- Further details about the game (September 15, 2000)^{[note 1]}
- Article about (then) newly-released screenshots (November 2, 2000)
- Preview (January 3, 2001; archived via Wayback Machine)
- Hands-on impressions:
  - Article by Ike Sato^{[note 1]}
  - Article by Miguel Lopez^{[note 1]}
- Short article about another release of screenshots (May 1, 2001)^{[note 1]}
PSXExtreme (archived via Wayback Machine):
- September 18, 2000
- July 15, 2001
IGN:
- Initial impressions of the autumn TGS 2000 demo (September 20, 2000)
- Coverage of a playable demo of Klonoa 2 as part of "Namco Gamers' Day Reveals..." (February 22, 2001)
- Preview (March 19, 2001; archived via Wayback Machine)
- Preview of the board levels (March 21, 2001)
- E3 2001 preview, by which time the site had already imported a final Japanese copy (May 17, 2001)

Magazine covers[edit]

Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 September 2001

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Features[edit]

NOURS
🇯🇵 Spring 2021

Explanation of various features (along with a brief preview of Klonoa: Empire of Dreams)

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Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 April 27, 2001

Guide to portions of the game

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Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 September 2001

Guide to every level

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PSM
🇺🇸 November 2001

Guide to unlockable content

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Advertising[edit]

Print ad
🇯🇵 2001

Taken from the spring 2001 issue of NOURS

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Print ad
🇺🇸 2001

Taken from issue 145 of EGM (dated August 2001)

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Japanese television ad (with English translation by Chris Aaron; 2001)

Interviews[edit]

Hyper PlayStation 2
🇯🇵 March 9/23, 2001

Hideo Yoshizawa (writer) and Yoshihiko Arai (writer, artist, and more) discuss the game, particularly in relation to its predecessor

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NOURS
🇯🇵 Spring 2001

Director Tsuyoshi Kobayashi and art director Yoshihiko Arai discuss the game

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Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 September 2001

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi discusses the game & the series as a whole

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Reviews[edit]

Consoles+
🇫🇷 May 2001

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Edge
🇺🇸 June 2001

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PSM
🇺🇸 July 2001

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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine
🇺🇸 August 2001

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Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 September 2001

Panel review

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NextGen
🇺🇸 September 2001

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Click!
🇵🇱 October 25, 2001

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Play
🇵🇱 November 2001

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Power Unlimited
🇳🇱 November 2001

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Hyper
🇦🇺 December 2001

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PlayStation Revista Oficial
🇧🇷 December 2001

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Video Game Review
🇺🇸 2001

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IGN:
- "The Must-Have PS2 Games of 2001" includes Klonoa 2 (June 30, 2001)
- Full review (July 23, 2001)
GamePro review (July 19, 2001)
GameSpot review (July 27, 2001)
GameSpy review (July 2001; archived via Wayback Machine)
GameZone review (September 20, 2001; archived via Wayback Machine)
Netjack review (November 17, 2004; archived via Wayback Machine)
Allgame review (archived via Wayback Machine)

Sales[edit]

Japan[edit]

Date	Copies sold that week	Total sold	Chart position
2001-03-25	33,785^[3]	15
2001-04-01	11,855^[3]	45,640	30
2001-04-15		56,065
2001-06-24		71,197
2001-12-30		74,233^[3]^[4]

North America[edit]

Note that the below data was taken from the NPD Group's TRST, which did not include sales from Walmart (and potentially other retail chains) at the time.

Date	Copies sold that month	Total sold
2002-12	1,138^[5]	97,220
2003-01	546^[6]	97,766

Websites[edit]

Official Japanese site
Official American site (reuploaded on archive.org; uses Ruffle to emulate Flash)
- Original site (archived via Wayback Machine on July 15, 2001; non-functional even with Flash working)

Forum posts[edit]

GameSpot forum for the game (archived via Wayback Machine on February 15, 2004; none of the threads have been saved)

IGN Klonoa board (archived via Wayback Machine)[edit]

"One of my favorite games of all time.........." (daviddoel offers high praise for Klonoa 2; July 23, 2002)
"Klonoa 3?" (while most of this thread is about the eponymous hypothetical sequel, wilachu opens it by demanding the reader purchase Klonoa 2; began October 31, 2003)
- Page 2
"Elemental colors" (SilverFang15_Autobot asks for the colors of the emotions at the heart of the game's story; February 2, 2004)
"Mometsuto??" (confusion over online claims that one could unlock and play as the eponymous character; began April 11, 2004)
"Klonoa 2 FAQ" (matthewdorey's ultimately unfinished walkthrough for the game; began July 12, 2004)
"Help! O.O" (Maxeen seeks advice while trying to get through Noxious La-Lakoosha; began July 28, 2004)
"Klonoa 2 was very under-appreciated" (a lamentation of the game's obscurity; began August 10, 2004)
"Blah, help again!" (Maxeen once again seeks advice on completing a level, this time the Ark Revisited; August 11, 2004)

Miscellaneous[edit]

Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 September 2001

Time attack contest

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Play
🇵🇱 November 2001

Two-page spread with promotional art

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Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 January 2002

Time attack contest results

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1000 Game Heroes
🇫🇷 2002

Excerpt from a book (containing a plot synopsis and pictures, including some from the game's predecessor)

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Code Vault
🇺🇸 September 2003

"Nearly Forgotten Five" sidebar

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In 2001, IGN held a contest where people who could answer three questions related to Namco and Klonoa could win up to $2,000, a two-day trip to visit the site's editors in San Francisco, or a copy of Klonoa 2:
- IGN article announcing the contest (August 7, 2001)
- Official contest mini-site (archived via Wayback Machine):
  - Landing page (archived on August 16, 2001)
  - Main page (archived on February 15, 2003)
  - Rules (archived on February 16, 2003)
  - "Thank you" page (archived on August 17, 2001)

Notes[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The current publication date of May 17, 2006 is incorrect. Whenever possible, accurate dates have been used here (derived from another GameSpot page that was archived on the Wayback Machine).

References[edit]

↑ The official Japanese "Klonoa@home" site lists this as the game's release date.
↑ Sources conflict on the exact date - they range from the 23rd (GameSpot's page for the game, as archived on the Wayback Machine in 2003), 24th (IGN, as archived on the Wayback Machine in both 2002 and 2012), 25th (GameSpot and GameZone's pages for the game), 27th (archived PSXExtreme articles like this preview), and the 31st (Allgame's listing, archived via Wayback Machine).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Niche Barrier's record of Weekly Famitsu's sales charts
↑ GEIMIN's chart detailing Weekly Famitsu sales data for 2001 (archived via Wayback Machine)
↑ Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on December 2002 game sales
↑ Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on January 2003 game sales

[gamespot-3] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 The current publication date of May 17, 2006 is incorrect. Whenever possible, accurate dates have been used here (derived from another GameSpot page that was archived on the Wayback Machine).

[1] The official Japanese "Klonoa@home" site lists this as the game's release date.

[2] Sources conflict on the exact date - they range from the 23rd (GameSpot's page for the game, as archived on the Wayback Machine in 2003), 24th (IGN, as archived on the Wayback Machine in both 2002 and 2012), 25th (GameSpot and GameZone's pages for the game), 27th (archived PSXExtreme articles like this preview), and the 31st (Allgame's listing, archived via Wayback Machine).

[niche-4] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Niche Barrier's record of Weekly Famitsu's sales charts

[5] GEIMIN's chart detailing Weekly Famitsu sales data for 2001 (archived via Wayback Machine)

[6] Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on December 2002 game sales

[7] Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on January 2003 game sales

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 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141115232124/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=31689&tab=review Allgame review] (archived via Wayback Machine)
+== Sales ==
+=== Japan ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Date !! Copies sold that week !! Total sold !! Chart position
+|-
+| 2001-03-25||colspan="2;" style="text-align: center;" | 33,785<ref name="niche">[https://nichebarrier.com/game/26300-klonoa-2-lunatea-s-veil Niche Barrier's record of ''Weekly Famitsu'''s sales charts]</ref> || 15
+|-
+| 2001-04-01 || 11,855<ref name="niche" /> || 45,640 || 30
+|-
+| 2001-04-15 ||style="background-color: gray;" | || 56,065 ||style="background-color: gray;" |
+|-
+| 2001-06-24 ||style="background-color: gray;" | || 71,197 ||style="background-color: gray;" |
+|-
+| 2001-12-30 ||style="background-color: gray;" | || 74,233<ref name="niche" /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622075723/http://geimin.net/da/db/2001_ne_fa/index.php GEIMIN's chart detailing ''Weekly Famitsu'' sales data for 2001] (archived via Wayback Machine)</ref> ||style="background-color: gray;" |
+|}
+=== North America ===
+Note that the below data was taken from the NPD Group's TRST, which [https://kidscreen.com/2003/10/01/npd-20031001 did not include sales from Walmart] (and potentially other retail chains) at the time.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Date !! Copies sold that month !! Total sold
+|-
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+|-
+| 2003-01 || 546<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030418152635/http://www.theonionring.com/01-2003-TRSTS.html Archived copy of a TRST spreadsheet reporting on January 2003 game sales]</ref> || 97,766
+|}
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