[Late to the Party] Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

[sabrecat]

SabreCat:

These reviews' tag line is doubly appropriate here, as not only is this a PS2 game from 2001, but I finished playing it in early November. It's a testament to the game's strengths that I still feel it's fresh enough in my mind to write about it!

Premise: Floppy-eared anthrocat Klonoa is the Dream Traveler, a hero who visits and aids

Comments

[kmbrown6]

Yay! Welcome back from your trip! I see you are playing EO! Good stuff!

Thanks again for the World of Goo! It's way fun and has a cool style! Expect a present soon that I sent back with James and Kristin!

[sabrecat]

Yup, EO's my main squeeze at the moment. You'll note, if you check in on my Backloggery page itself, that I've changed my theme to suit! I played to midway through the second Stratum before taking a break because I was playing Persona 3 at the same time; turns out I can't quite sustain two dungeon-crawling time sinks at once. ^.^; But I started back up during vacation, and think I might be able to push on to the boss now.

Glad you're enjoying World of Goo, and I look forward to seeing whatever it is you sent my way!

[cornerrider]

Are you sure they didn't use some real but obscure language for Lunatean? It's cool either way, it just seems like it'd almost be easier to use something real.

[sabrecat]

Pretty sure it's not real, as the sound of it is just too cute and character-appropriate. Like, the support character who's a dog sounds like "bow-wow-wow-wow, wow-wow, wow-w-w-woow", and a villainous catlike thing has phrases like "Mukudu mew! Nyao na!" If the language of any real place has dialects like that, I want to move there!

This is also why I kinda doubt they built an entire language, as opposed to scripting euphonic phrases for each line of dialogue. That way they can reuse sound bites here and there without it sounding Star Foxish, so long as the pool is fairly large and they record unique lines for things featuring proper nouns.