Final 12 months’s Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Collection — a remastered compilation of two traditional PlayStation and PS2 platformers — was really developed for Swap first, producer Ryo Ishida has revealed.
In an interview within the latest difficulty of Misplaced In Cult (through Nintendo All the things), Ishida shares some transient perception into the event of the sport, and that they have been really completed with the Swap model of it earlier than it was even introduced on the February 2022 Nintendo Direct.
Ishida says that the staff engaged on the remastered assortment have been introduced the possibility to disclose their recreation on a Nintendo Direct, they usually clearly grabbed it with each palms. This is an extract from Ishida’s interview in Misplaced In Cult:
“The […] platform we occurred to start out improvement on was Swap. Across the time we accomplished the Swap model, we have been introduced with the chance to place it on Nintendo Direct and, consequently, [reveal the existence of the collection] to a worldwide viewers. We thought that [this was] a wonderful medium for spreading info and consciousness amongst recreation followers, as a result of that’s the place recreation bulletins are actively [anticipated]. So, we have been very grateful for that chance.”
A Klonoa remaster had been rumoured for a very long time previous to Phantasy Reverie’s announcement, plus that eventual reveal got here throughout a fairly cracking direct, so it simply made it all of the sweeter. Ishida has beforehand gone on document saying that the remaster might properly result in extra Klonoa remasters — or possibly much more Klonoa video games sooner or later. We have not heard a lot from the Dream Traveller since final 12 months, however there’s nonetheless loads of time.
Bandai Namco managed to do a fairly darn good job with the remastered duo — we slightly loved revisiting these classics, at the very least: