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Sweet, thank you!
>but I don't know too much
Ooh, haven't you played his games? I only found about Klonoa like two or three years ago, but I ended up loving the franchise. I don't want to oversell it, I admit there were many people on /vr/ who didn't see the appeal, but if you get into the story you'll probably end up loving Klonoa too. Plus, if you're used to play platform games it should be easy, you can probably complete it in, I don't know, like 4 hours, so I definitely think it's worth playing.
If you want to give it a try, there are three different versions of the first game: the original for PSX (Klonoa: Door to Phantomile), the remake for Wii (Klonoa), and the "remaster" that was released for all platforms (Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series).
The original for PSX might look a bit outdated, it even uses sprites instead of 3d models, but it's the first one I played and I think it was fantastic anyway.
The remake for Wii has completely revamped graphics and looks gorgeous, although sadly it loses the beautiful FMVs from the original game. For some reason Klonoa has a different style too, although I think he still looks pretty good. It's a tiny bit easier, some lines were changed, and it was dubbed in English even though part of what made the original game feel so magic was the made-up language, fortunately you can change the audio back to Phantomilian.
Finally, the remaster is built on top of the remake, although reverting some of its changes, namely Klonoa gets his original style back, the English dub is removed, and the lines are (mostly) from the original game.
I'd probably recommend the original game for the sake of respecting legacy, but I think both the remake and the remaster are good too if you prefer to go with any of them. The PSX version can be emulated with DuckStation, the Wii version can be emulated with Dolphin, and the remaster has a native PC version (although I tried and you can emulate the Switch version with Ryujinx, in case you prefer it for whatever reason).
The second game has two versions, the original for PS2 (Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil) and a remaster (included in Phantasy Reverie Series too). They're pretty much identical. The remaster has worse lighting(?), but better textures and 4k and whatnot, so there isn't a clear winner. Anyway, for what it's worth, the PS2 version can be emulated with PCSX2.
From what I've seen, this sequel seems to be a bit... divisive. Some people think it was just okay, some people think it was great, I'm personally one of the later, not only did I enjoy the new mechanics, but also the ending was probably my favorite ending of a sequel of all time.
There are a few side games, one for WonderSwan, three for GBA, and also this weird volleyball shovelware thing for PSX. Two of them were only released in Japanese, but they have fan translations on CDRomance or whatever. I only played the WonderSwan game and the first two GBA games, they were fun, but they're definitely secondary material, the two main games are the important part of the franchise.
...I remember when I said literally yesterday that I was too lazy to write about the game. Good times.
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