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[edit]
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
- 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[edit]
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
CoroCoro Comic
🇯🇵 October 1997
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
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[edit]
Features[edit]
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
Reader submissions[edit]
Nice Games
🇯🇵 Spring 2001
A reader shares their impressions of the game at length
Advertising[edit]
Booklet
🇺🇸 1997
Excerpt from a booklet outlining then-upcoming Namco games
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)
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[edit]
Reviews[edit]
🇯🇵 ~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
Super Game Power
🇧🇷 March 1998
Computer & Video Games
🇬🇧 May 1998
PSM (Italy)
🇮🇹 May 1998
Italian translation of the English PSM review
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)
Hardcore Gamer
🇺🇸 January 2007
Retro review
Flights of Fantasy review
Sales charts[edit]
Dengeki PlayStation
🇯🇵 January 30, 1998
The game ranks eighth in the issue's "Top 20"
Miscellaneous[edit]
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
Websites[edit]
References[edit]
