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And with all of that out of the way, here’s why it not being around for you to play should matter for reasons outside of, “it is nice to have access to all of gaming’s past.” So it goes with Klonoa, though, which Namco certainly respects in the sense that they put little Easter Eggs for the series in their other works, but as of yet haven’t done anything with since it faltered on the Wii nearly 14 years ago now. Absolutely absurd that this is the best way to play it, outside of just pirating it and playing on your computer or a modded Playstation Classic or what have you.Ī screenshot from the Wii remake of Door to Phantomile, featuring Klonoa (left) and Huepow. If you want it for your Playstation Portable, you need a PS3 to make the purchase and download the install file, and then a USB 2.0 cable to make the transfer to your PSP, where you can finally install and then play it. The problem there is that you have to play it on the PS3, which not everyone necessarily has hooked up or even boxed up anymore, and if you were to buy it from that system, you need to load money to your Playstation wallet from your PS4 or PS5, or from the Playstation Network website, in order to make a purchase. It is still available on the Playstation 3 digital storefront, and for all of $5.99. Klonoa is not impossible to find, at least, but it does require a very specific setup for you to both play and acquire. So of course the few copies that are out there are selling for significantly more than they originally did, though, for nowhere near as much as the older edition, which also didn’t exactly set the world on fire despite critical acclaim. Just like with the Playstation version of the game it’s based on, however, it just didn’t sell particularly well - it performed so poorly, in fact, that Namco canceled the remake of its Playstation 2 sequel. Things are better, monetarily speaking, for the Wii remake of the game, as those copies are generally priced around $100 for a copy with the original case and cover art: that’s still more than three times its original, budget sale price on the system - Klonoa was all of $30 on the Wii when it released back in 2008.
