"A wonderful series gets another great addition.."

The Klonoa series continues to impress this gamer with solid platforming gameplay with bits of skill necessary for some tricky puzzles sometimes. Though I have only played two, including this one and with the PS2 one being my first, I must say I love the series.

**GRAPHICS**
I believe this game has pretty good graphics. The story elements are told by still pictures and all of the stages are side-scrolling, which is perfect for this type of game. Oh, one last thing before I depart from this section; the game is animated beautifully.

**GAMEPLAY**
For anyone who has never played a Klonoa game before, Klonoa uses a special ring to do basically everything. Each world is divided up into 8 stages, with the fourth and sixth stages being automatic scrollers and the last stage being the boss of that particular world. Each each normal stage, you must collect three bells and find the exit of the stage before moving on to the next stage. Whether you collect all the gems in each doesn't matter to actually beat the game once, though I'm not exactly sure what collecting everything does in the game other than the satisfaction of doing so.

**STORY**
This is one of the better stories I've seen in a platformer. It starts out with Klonoa being awakened from a dream and being brought out of his house, to Jillius, who is the king of the empire. He was brought before Jillius because dreams are forbidden in his kingdom. It seems that Jillius has amnesia, and banned dreaming because of that very thing. Now, Jillius has decided to try and test Klonoa's skills, as he says that there are 4 monsters terrorizing the surrounding lands and Klonoa must get rid of them.

**SOUND & MUSIC**
This is probably the weak point of the game, but it's not entirely too bad. It's not bad music and it doesn't get to the point of annoyance, but it's just average.

**REPLAYABILITY & DIFFICULTY**
While the story-progression part of the game isn't that difficult, getting everything on every single stage is one tough act to accomplish, especially the auto-scrolling stages. This is one of those platformers that I can see myself going back and playing like 10 years down the line.

If you're looking for an original platformer to play on the Game Boy Advance, then don't pass up the chance of owning this game. Trust me, find it and buy it before it goes the way of the original Playstation version of Klonoa.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/30/02, Updated 01/07/03