Oh man, you guys have no idea how long I've been sitting on art and screens and trailers and who-knows-what else for the Wii version of Klonoa that was announced for Japan... I think over the summer. Well, the new Nintendo Power issue was doing a preview round-up for 2009, and what should be sitting there with four-page feature coverage but Klonoa! Yes!
While I know Klonoa primarily because I liked using him in Namco x Capcom (his sidekick was a gun-toting dingo or something!), his game was one of the tiny handful of really good platformers made for the original PlayStation system. The Wii remake is going to keep the same 2.5D gameplay, but with graphics that are immensely prettier and a few "new" bits and bobs like customization options that will only make a difference to the twelve people who played it the first time around.
Klonoa is going to support a range of control schemes, including the Remote by itself, the Classic Controller, and the GameCube Controller. The North American release is also getting a set of exclusive motion-based controls that, let's face it, are probably going to suck. Still, who cares? We're getting Klonoa!
