Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a 2.5D platform game released for the PlayStation in 1997 (in Japan) and 1998 (the rest of the world).

History

Concept art
🇯🇵 1997

Focusing on Klonoa's design

Press kit
🇺🇸 1997

Excerpt from Namco's E3 1997 press material (featuring an early English logo)

Press release
🇪🇺 May 1998

From SCEE, released for E3 1998

Staff photo
🇯🇵 1998

Several pages of concept art from Famitsu's official guidebook (Japanese; February 21, 1998)
IGN published a multi-part history of the game's development (among other topics) in 2009 to promote the Wii remake:
- "The Concept of the Original" (part 2, wherein Hideo Yoshizawa explains the inception, setting, and story of the game; March 5, 2009)
- "Character Design" (part 4, wherein character designer Yoshihiko Arai touches on Klonoa's design; April 7, 2009)
- "The Sounds of Phantomile" (part 5, wherein sound designer Kanako Kakino mentions the experience of composing the game's songs; May 7, 2009)
- "Level Design" (part 6, wherein Yoshizawa discusses just that; May 18, 2009)

Previews

CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 July 1997

CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 August 1997

GameFan
🇺🇸 August 1997

Short preview of various PlayStation games previewed by Namco at E3 1997, Door to Phantomile included

Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 September 1997

Part of the magazine's E3 coverage

CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 September 1997

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 September 1997

Famitsu
🇯🇵 September 1997

CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 October 1997

GameFan
🇺🇸 October 1997

NOURS
🇯🇵 Winter 1997

From Namco's official magazine

CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 December 1997

Ultra Game Players
🇺🇸 December 1997

Erroneously calls the game Kinoa

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 January 1998

Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine
🇺🇸 January 1998

PSExtreme
🇺🇸 January 1998

PSM
🇺🇸 January 1998

Ultra Game Players
🇺🇸 January 1998

Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 February 1998

Super Juegos
🇪🇸 February 1998

Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 April 1998

Also includes a very short aside comparing the game to Yoshi's Story

Official Australian PlayStation Magazine (Next Gaming)
🇦🇺 April 1998

PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española
🇪🇸 May 1998

Gameplay footage from E3 1997

Short preview from Game Catalog II (a Japanese TV show run by Famitsu; December 4, 1997)

Video preview taken from a CD-ROM bundled with issue 39 of Next Generation (dated March 1998)

Magazine covers

Game-X
🇧🇷 1998

Features

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 January 30, 1998

Guide to the endgame

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 January 30, 1998

Guide to every boss fight

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 February 13, 1998

Guide to beating the final boss

EGM2
🇺🇸 April 1998

Guide to the game

Super Game Power
🇧🇷 April 1998

Short guide to unlockable content

Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 April 1998

Guide to the game

Super Game Power
🇧🇷 May 1998

Guide to the game

PSM
🇺🇸 June 1998

Explanation of how to unlock the sound test

Dengeki Urawazaō 2000-2001 Kanzenhan
🇯🇵 ~1999

Guide to various secrets

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile Official Guide Book (Japanese publication by Shogakukan; February 10, 1998)
Official Famitsu guidebook (Japanese; February 21, 1998)

Reader submissions

Nice Games
🇯🇵 Spring 2001

A reader shares their impressions of the game at length

Advertising

Booklet
🇺🇸 1997

Excerpt from a booklet outlining then-upcoming Namco games

Print ad
🇯🇵 ~1997

Print ad
🇺🇸 1998

Taken from the thirty-ninth issue of Nickelodeon Magazine (dated March 1998)

Nickelodeon Magazine
🇺🇸 March 1998

Blurb from the issue's "advertising directory"

Print ad
🇺🇸 1998

The infamous STD ad, taken from EGM's 104th issue (dated March 1998)

Print ad
🇪🇸 1998

Taken from the eighteenth issue of PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española (dated June 1998)

Print ad
🇬🇷 ~1998

Store display
🇺🇸 ~1998

Store display
🇺🇸 ~1998

Closeup picture

Namco Soft Line-up! 2000-2001
🇯🇵 ~1999

Blurb from a promotional booklet advertising a budget rerelease

Japanese TV ad (with English subtitles by the uploader, Chris Aaron)

Japanese store promo video

Interviews

Interview with several developers (originally printed in The PlayStation magazine in 1997; translated into English and posted online by shmuplations)
Nintendo Power interview with Hideo Yoshizawa about many games he worked on, including Door to Phantomile (July 2009)
Heidi Kemps and Johnathan "ProtonJon" Wheeler interview Hideo Yoshizawa and Keiji Yamagishi for gaming.moe, including some questions about Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and its Wii remake (March 27, 2018)
Famitsu interview with Tsuyoshi Kobayashi (a designer) and Yoshihiko Arai (who worked on the plot & graphics) about Door to Phantomile and its sequel (June 23, 2022)
- Unofficial English translations (partially done via DeepL): Part 1 & part 3^{[note 1]}

Reviews

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 1997

Panel review

🇯🇵 1997

🇯🇵 ~1997

Newspaper excerpt, possibly from Asahi Shimbun

Computer Games
🇸🇦 ~1997/1998

Printed right to left

Consoles +
🇫🇷 February 1998

Import review

GameFan
🇺🇸 February 1998

Panel review

GameFan
🇺🇸 February 1998

Full review

Ultra Game Players
🇺🇸 March 1998

GamePro
🇺🇸 March 1998

PSExtreme
🇺🇸 March 1998

PSM
🇺🇸 March 1998

Super Game Power
🇧🇷 March 1998

Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 May 1998

PSM (Italy)
🇮🇹 May 1998

Italian translation of the English PSM review

Riki
🇸🇰 May/June 1998

Consoles +
🇫🇷 June 1998

PlayStation Magazine Edición Oficial Española
🇪🇸 June 1998

PSM
🇺🇸 September 1998

The game makes #19 on the magazine's revised top 25 list

PSM (Italy)
🇮🇹 November 1998

The game makes #19 on the magazine's revised top 25 list (translated from the American magazine's equivalent feature)

Game-X
🇧🇷 1998

🇯🇵 1998

Hardcore Gamer
🇺🇸 January 2007

Retro review

Flights of Fantasy review

Sales charts

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 January 30, 1998

The game ranks eighth in the issue's "Top 20"

Websites

Forum posts

"Length" (a brief conversation about how long it takes to beat the game on IGN's Klonoa board; began October 10, 2004, archived via Wayback Machine on February 22, 2005)

Miscellaneous

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 January 30, 1998

Blurb highlighting the game out of the issue's "Top 20"

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 April 10, 1998

Time attack challenge for a bonus level

Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 April 10, 1998

Contest to win a Klonoa-branded pencil board

Electronic Gaming Monthly
🇺🇸 October 2001

Short description of rising secondhand prices after the sequel's release

Tips & Tricks
🇺🇸 November 2001

Short description of the game's secondhand value at the time of publication

Notes

↑ Part 2 is focused on Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil.

References

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