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Latest revision as of 06:28, 22 April 2024
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]
- 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]
Previews[edit]
- 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:
- Short article about another release of screenshots (May 1, 2001)[note 1]
- PSXExtreme (archived via Wayback Machine):
- 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]
Features[edit]
NOURS
🇯🇵 Spring 2021
🇯🇵 Spring 2021
Explanation of various features (along with a brief preview of Klonoa: Empire of Dreams)
Advertising[edit]
Interviews[edit]
Reviews[edit]
- 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)
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)
- "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]
1000 Game Heroes
🇫🇷 2002
🇫🇷 2002
Excerpt from a book (containing a plot synopsis and pictures, including some from the game's predecessor)
- 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]
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).
