#monkeycraft

10th June 2024 - Over the past few days of Summer I’ve played through the first Klonoa game in Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie Series and, wow, it was a really great game! Great platforming, well-designed boss fights, colourful and cheerful visuals, engaging 2.5D level design, a depressing ending that was a kick in the gut, it was fantastic!

they didn’t even bothered in bringing back their we love katamari designs in we love reroll, so it’s kind of worrying. And on that note, I’ve already talked about my friends about how young king of all cosmos’ blush looks off here let me just show you a comparison between Young king of all cosmos in we love reroll vs Beautiful Katamari

Okay soo, I’ve pointed this out to one of my friends awhile back about how the blush on the king doesn’t really blends very well to his skin, this shade of pink should of been more deeper and less lighter since well, compared to most cousins, most of the cousins/cosmics have a lighter skin tone. And again, I can understand reusing assets as a base while working on your games but it shouldn’t be used for the final product. And before some people say it, No Im not trying to pull a whole “sonic has green eyes so this game suxs now” crowd, No. There’s a clear difference between criticizing how some colors of blush doesn’t work well for some skin tones vs just complaing about a minor detail in a character that doesn’t really matter. Like say what you will, but at least with modern sonic (sonic with green eyes) at least some of the games still care about details and stuff (not talking about the newer modern sonic games tho they do not look good. I was kinda thinking like sonic rush at least.. and maybe even sonic adventure)

but that’s not all of the issues about we love reroll. So yea there was audio issues left and right and there were bugs. And how I know about all of this, is because there was a stream testing out the game and well.. it made me depressed.. like no really. I wasn’t feeling too good mentally as it is but it seems like some of the devs who were working on it Just straight up have the codes hold up in spaghetti string. And it’s really concerning since I don’t want another Pokémon SV again.. like Glitches the eye can see and stuff. Pokémon SV Already depressed me a lot and I didn’t even want to play the game.

The trend of Quantity over Quality with most games is very much concerning and depressing. Im sure that the devs would fix these issues before release and actually make things a little bit better? But I’m just asking too much and a part of me has this feeling that they don’t really care and they’ll ship it anyways regardless by how people people talked about this issues.

Im sure it still be good but not as great or better than the original We love katamari. If anything.. let’s try to not get our hopes too high…

A demo is also available, as well.

A remake that's barely more than the bare minimum.