The Legendary Star Medal would be the last original Klonoa game to be made. Later in the year, two more very different titles were released that were being worked on by mostly separate teams: in August, it was Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament (GBA), which loosely followed Empire of Dreams, and then in September, it was Klonoa Heroes: The Legendary Star Medal (GBA): a quite highly produced story-heavy action RPG that took place in yet another alternate universe… and, like Moonlight Museum before it, never left the shores of Japan. The next year brought the odd sports spinoff Klonoa Beach Volleyball (PSX), which was tied to the GBA continuity and was never released in America despite being officially translated to English for the British market. That would be the last game with series creator Hideo Yoshizawa on a writing role. Moonlight Museum’s structure would later be built upon and expanded in Klonoa: Empire of Dreams (GBA, 2001), which took place in an alternate continuity from the mainline games. It was very gameplay-focused, with very little narrative, and translation guides were already available on the Internet in 2004. Almost four years later, it saw a direct sequel in Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil (PS2, 2001), which, despite following the act remarkably well, improving on almost every aspect of its predecessor and reviewing even higher, still underperformed on the market, especially in the West.īesides the two mainline games, there was also a puzzle platformer gaiden of sorts in Klonoa: Moonlight Museum, published in 1999 exclusively on the Bandai WonderSwan, a budget handheld console that never left Japan. Its inaugural game, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PSX, 1997), brought a poignant story full of symbolisms within a whimsical, seemingly innocuous 2.5D mascot platformer, rendered in a highly atmospherical mixture of polygonal graphics and billboarded sprites. Klonoa is one of those franchises that most people are either oblivious to or marginally aware of, never really being able to crack out of obscurity despite consistently good reviews and a persistent, passionate fanbase. There is a group of red crewmates on the screen and your job as detective is to find the imposter killer(s) and mark them pink/purple, before the timer runs out or they kill all the other crewmates. Graphics and text have been changed in this version to translate the minigame from Japanese, and reflect the 2018 PC game Among Us, by Innersloth, Marcus Bromander and Forest Willard. Some of these magazines are now being preserved by Gaming Alexandria, along with all that now-rare game code. The available graphics were borrowed from Mario Bros and the Donkey Kong series, among other sources.Ĭomputer hobbyist magazines at the time would publish code for this and other systems, that you could type in yourself to play these games. It included a full keyboard and the ability to program games in the BASIC programming language, within the limited RAM available. The code was scanned and preserved by ozidual for Gaming Alexandria, and ozidual advised on this hack.įamily Basic was a Japan-only add-on for the NES/Famicom from Nintendo and Hudson Soft. This is a hack of The Tragedy of Ryohyukan (Ryuuhyoukan no Sangeki), a 1993 NES/Famicom minigame programmed in Famicom Family BASIC V3 by Takashi Endo and published over three pages of the magazine “Micom BASIC (マイコン BASIC)” in early 1994. Stop them before they kill the entire crew of this spaceship. In this minigame, there are imposters among us! Find them. The crewmates of Among Us make an entertaining appearance on the NES, in the first Family Basic V3 hack to be featured at Romhacking.
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