[Let's Play] Kaze No Klonoa: Empire of Dreams [Set 6: EX Visions]

Dragonatrix · April 2010

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Main Game~
Part 14 - King of Despair: Hosted

Post Game~
EX Visions: Forum Post

Since the hosted versions are down for everything pre-part 12 at the moment, have a YT playlist.

A faraway empire, where none shall sleep and dreams are forbidden...
A hero rests, but little does he know that it's too late already...
A light tapping at the door, and a break in post-haste!
The hero is captured, taken before the ruler...

An old man? Nay! A young man and his Minister are afront...
A test of mettle? Four fiends? A new journey!
'Where IS this place?' The hero cries approaching the first...

This... is the Empire of Jillius. A place where dreams are outlawed
due to selfishness and idiocy. An insominiac ruler with a god complex?
Where did the fiends come from and who are they truly?
None know and none care. Only one thing is certain...

Klonoa can... nay will stop the fiends to save the empire!
Maybe then he can finally get his rest...

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams (Kaze No Klonoa: Empire of Dreams; lit. Klonoa of the Wind: Empire of Dreams) was released in early/late 2001 for Japan/America (respectively) and early 2002 for Europe on the Gameboy Advance. Whilst it doesn't change any gameplay mechanics, it does change the way the game is played - if that makes sense - from a 3D environment to one that is a 2D sidescroller of sorts and is more of a puzzler than your typical 2D sidescroller; however, it's not fully a puzzler, either, it's still very much so a platform game at heart - it just has puzzle aspects.

The game itself falls somewhere between Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil, and it finds Klonoa waking up in the Kingdom of Jillius, rules by the insomniac Emperor Jillius, wherein dreams are outlawed and since Klonoa was dreaming, he finds himself in a bit of a bother as the Emperor is an insane git and has decreed that if he cannot dream, no one can. Instead of punishing Klonoa by convential methods, such as decapitation, the Emperor instead decides that if Klonoa can - somehow - defeat the four fiends (the game abstractly refers to them as monsters) terrorising the Empire, then he'll be spared.

For convenience, and simplicity, most of the scenes will be posted in the thread. This is because they are basically just a lot of talking; scenes prior to bosses are fairly short and so will be left in the videos (unless the general consensus is to remove them from the videos also) and, with the exception of the first, all scenes following bosses will be omitted from videos as well.

Introduction (paraphrased above):

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Part 1: Kiteless Tutorials - Hosted|Viddler
Part 2: Ghazzaland's My Bitch Now - Hosted|Viddler
Part 2b: Hiccoughs and Pain - Hosted|Viddler

Spoiler:

Part 3 - Soothing Melody: Hosted|Viddler
Part 4 - Lack of Manual Labour: Hosted|Viddler
Part 5 - Ode to a Soprano: Hosted
Post-Boss plot stuff;

Spoiler:

Part 6 - An Explosive Start: Hosted
Part 7 - Insert Witty Title Here: Hosted
Part 8 - Glutton for Punishment: Hosted

Post-Boss Scene:

Spoiler:

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Part 9 - Aquatic History: Hosted
Part 10 - Obscura Discusso: Hosted
Part 11 - Take Your Medimcine: Hosted

Post-Boss Scene:

Spoiler:

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Part 12 - King's Knight to E4: Hosted
Part 13: Raison D'être: Hosted
Part 14 - King of Despair: Hosted

Ending:

Spoiler:

EX Vision 1: Hosted
EX Vision 2: Hosted
EX Vision 3: Hosted

Other:

01 - Title
02 - File Select
03 - Opening
04 - World Map
05 - (Intro/End) Fighting City, Ghazzaland
06 - Vision Select
07 - Vision of Ghazzaland
08 - Vision Clear
09 - There's the Monster!
10 - Boss
11 - (Intro) Opera Town, Priamill
12 - Vision of Priamill
13 - Surfboarding
14 - Good Night
15 - (Ending) Opera Town, Priamill
16 - (Intro/End) Food Land, Jiobob
17 - Vision of Jiobob
18 - Auto-Scroll Vision
19 - (Intro/End) Forest Village, Santal
20 - Vision of Santal
21 - (Intro) Imperial City, Leljimba
22 - Vision of Leljimba
23 - King of Despair, Bagoo Evil Scheme
24 - Final Boss
25 - (Ending) The Empire of Dreams
26 - (Credits) Staff Roll
27 - EX Vision

Fanart:

Klanoa Kourt by Sir Mecca the Prime

And, that's everything!

Kitsuna · April 2010

I'm rather enjoying this. It's looks like a simple little game and those are the ones that are often the most addictive and fun to play.

I'll keep an eye out for the next part.

Dragonatrix · April 2010

Part 2b: Hiccoughs and Pain

Youtube version;

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Kitsuna · April 2010

A short but interesting set. That looked moderately difficult.

Out of interest, do you have to collect all of the gems on a level for it to count as completed or can you afford to miss some of them?

Dragonatrix · April 2010

You can miss pretty much all of them, finish the level and it'd still count as complete. I'm just getting them all partially because OCD and partially because it's not that hard to so anyway.

Dragonatrix · April 2010

Added a few things to the OP; most notable are Viddler links.

Another area, more plot;

Spoiler:

Part 3 - Soothing Melody: Hosted|Viddler

Youtube Version;

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Dragonatrix · April 2010

Rest of Set 2;

Part 4 - Lack of Manual Labour: Hosted|Viddler
Part 5 - Ode to a Soprano: Hosted|Viddler

Post-Boss plot stuff;

Spoiler:

Youtube links for those into that sort of thing;

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Kitsuna · April 2010

A nice set.

That vertical scrolling section had me wondering whether you were going to make it through intact. There were a couple of moments where you seemed to be cutting it awfully close.

Dragonatrix · April 2010

Well, looks like I did what I intended to then

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Spoiler:

Part 6 - An Explosive Start: Hosted|Viddler
Part 7 - Insert Witty Title Here: Hosted|Viddler
Part 8 - Glutton for Punishment: Hosted|Viddler

Youtube-y Stuff:

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Post-Boss Scene:

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pslong9 · April 2010

Yay! I was actually about to bump up this thread to see if I could find out whether or not this was abandoned. I've only played through the Wii version of Klonoa and thoroughly enjoyed it, and I've really liked this playthrough so far. Using text instead of speaking works surprisingly well.

Kitsuna · April 2010

Finally gotten around to catching up with the latest set - you can blame the Snooker World Championship for my tardiness - and I very much enjoyed it.

It'll be interesting to see what puzzle mechanic comes up next, although given the ending of the last video, I suspect I know what it'll be.

Dragonatrix · August 2010

From the ashes of computer trouble, having to play through the entire game over again and general procrastination, I am born anew and I come bearing updates. Well, just one but that's not the point. It's a one video thing right now since it's been, what, three months since I last updated? As per usual, I'll upload the rest of the area before updating the thread in the future.

Klonoa - Empire of Dreams_01.png

Spoiler:

Part 9 - Aquatic History: Hosted

Warning: contains some Door to Phantomile spoilers, but I'd presume you've either already played that or don't really care if you're watching this.

Kitsuna · August 2010

Ah, so this is still alive. Excellent. I was beginning to wonder whether Klonoa would ever go "Wahoo" again.

I enjoyed the set. I assure you that the levels are far more interesting for those of us who know nothing about the game.

I was surprised to hear that we're near the end, though. I didn't realise that the game was so short, although that's probably to be expected given that it's a Gameboy Advance game. I keep forgetting that this is a handheld game.

Anyway, I shall look forward to the next set.

Dragonatrix · August 2010

And, thus, Santal comes to an end;

Part 10 - Obscura Discusso: Hosted
Part 11 - Take Your Medimcine: Hosted

Post boss cutscene:

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Kitsuna · August 2010

I imagine the levels where the screen is moving - both the waterboard and the ones where you're on foot - are rather more easy if you aren't aiming to collect everything.

Some of the puzzles are definitely getting fiendish though. And the last part of the boss fight... very evil.

As to the big baddie...

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Dragonatrix · August 2010

Welp, due to minor... errors, none of the older videos are currently available. I'll get them back up before the thread is finished, at any rate.

Anyway, have the last area of the game;

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Spoiler:

Part 12 - King's Knight to E4: Hosted
Part 13 - Raison D'être: Hosted
Part 14 - King of Despair: Hosted

Ending:

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Kitsuna · August 2010

And so we reach the end of the main story. Thanks for playing through this. It was an intriguing game and it was fun to watch you work through the puzzles.

Regarding the ending, that was kinda unexpected but it seemed appropriate.

Spoiler:

I assume the upcoming EX visions are basically murderously hard versions of existing levels? I know Valkyria Chronicles used the EX tag to indicate that there was much pain ahead for the player. It'll be interesting to see those. I look forward to them.

Dragonatrix · August 2010

Now all I need to do is get all the pre-Set 5 hosted videos back up and then the thread's officially done.

The EX Visions are supposed to be the hardest levels of the game. I, personally, find 5-6 harder however. That's not to say that they aren't hard, mind, because they are (...apart from EX 1, which is a total joke). They each have unique requirements for unlocking them;

EX Vision 1 requires the final boss beaten. That's it.
EX Vision 2 requires every regular level beaten, in some capacity. Whether you get every gem or not is irrelevent.
EX Vision 3, however, requires every level beaten with all the gems. This includes EX 1 and EX 2.

EX 1 and EX 3 are fast-paced platformers, and are kind of short. EX 3 can take a very long time, because you have to constantly chain jump repeatedly. It also throws a ton of extra lives at you, and if you screw up in the latter half, you'll probably need them.

EX 2, on the other hand, is a puzzle level through and through. It's the longest of the three, and it's pretty hard in its own way. It might seem easy at a first glance, but merely finishing the level is no easy task, especially finishing it with all 30 gems. The final puzzle, in particular, takes a long time to do.

There's no commentary, in any capacity, on these videos because there really isn't anything left to say at this point. Even if there was, I'd likely have just done the same.

This is probably a giant wall of text, comparatively, at this point so without further ado...

EX Vision 1: Hosted
EX Vision 2: Hosted
EX Vision 3: Hosted

I do believe that's everything there is to the Empire of Dreams. Au revoir, et beau chance.

Kitsuna · August 2010

Those EX vision were pretty nasty. Especially the last one. It usually isn't a good sign when a game starts throwing extra lives at you like they're going out of fashion and I could certainly see a lot of players really needing them on that last level.

It's been an enjoyable LP. Thanks again for playing it.

Penny Arcade

[Let's Play] Kaze No Klonoa: Empire of Dreams [Set 6: EX Visions]

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