Klonoa Beach Volleyball
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| Klonoa Beach Volleyball | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Series | Klonoa |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Release date | 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ELSPA: 3+ |
| Media | CD-ROM |
Klonoa Beach Volleyball is a sports spin-off from the Klonoa video game series released as a budget title in the last few years of the Playstation's commercial lifespan. It's release was limited to Japan and Europe only, Namco deciding not to bother with an American release. It features characters from the PlayStation and Game Boy games in the series, and can most likely be considered non-canonical in this sense, as many of these characters would never meet in the main story.
This is also the first Klonoa title to feature a multiplayer mode, allowing up to four players to compete in pairs against the other team. The game also allows for controller sharing, should the players not be in possession of a multi-tap.
[edit] Characters
Player Type: Power
Super Attack: Tornado Attack
Main protagonist of the game series, Klonoa is the fabled dream-traveler, destined to travel between worlds to save them from evil.
Ending: After winning, Klonoa decides to keep on training for the next one. He becomes a little too enthusiastic in a friendly match with his friends and puts so much force into the ball that he destroys a windmill's blade. Klonoa is forced to use the prize money to pay for damages.
- Lolo
Player Type: Balance
Super Attack: Lovely Attack
A priestess in training who continues to fail due to her clumbsiness, but refuses to give up on her dreams.
Ending: Lolo takes Klonoa and Popka on a shopping trip with her prize money, but ends up breaking almost everything she touches.
- Popka
Player Type: Speed
Super Attack: Voice Cracker
Popka is Lolo's best friend, and despite being heavily sarcastic and mean, he obviously cares deeply about her.
Ending: Popka goes shopping for new clothes and jewelry with Klonoa and Lolo to show everyone his victory. However, he decides at the last minute to not buy anything after seeing his discarded red bandana, his first piece of clothing given to him by Lolo, and says he still looks cool in it.
- Leorina
Player Type: Technique
Super Attack: Dark Thunder
A former sky pirate who crossed swords with Klonoa many times throughout the course of in adventures in Lunatea.
Ending: Becoming the victor, Leorina immediately demands the prize money from Garlen. He refuses in his rage for losing, however, and pulls a gun on her, saying the money is hidden deep within his mansion. Leorina decides to merely steal Garlen's ENTIRE mansion and look for the money latter. Garlen becomes flabbergasted at the theft of his house.
- Tat
Player Type: Speed
Super Attack: Super Tat Robot Press
Leorina's devious side-kick and co-pilot.
Ending: After winning the tournament, Tat has Leorina to make a promise she made before the competition started. Later they break into a mansion where the King of Despair lives. He sees them and when he looks at Leorina, he can't help but giggle. When the pirates leave the house, the players find out that Leorina had to cover herself in blue and white body paint as the promise.
- Heart Moo
Player Type: Balance
Super Attack: Moo Moo March
A typical moo, the resident enemy of the Klonoa series.
Ending: Instead of accepting the prize money or the trophy, Heart Moo instead befriends THE BALL. This starts a trend among all the other Moos, all of whom begin to befriend volleyballs as well.
- Chipple
Player Type: Power
Super Attack: Spinning Punch
A young boxer who fights Klonoa in Empire of Dreams, before becoming friends with him.
Ending: Chipple refuses to accept that he beat Klonoa fair and square, and insists on challenging the hero until he wins.
- Joka
Player Type: Technique
Super Attack: Chaotic Dance
Former sidekick of the dark lord Ghadius, Joka is a trickster who likes to play dirty.
Ending: In an attempt to increase his prize money, he casts a spell to multiply it by 10 times. The spell backfires and simply makes the notes increase in size, but not value. He attempts to spend the money and gets arrested for forgery.
Player Type: Power
Super Attack: Shinigami Fire
A bounty hunter known as 'The Golden Death' and 'Shinigami Guntz', he is in the competition for money.
Ending: As he is leaving with the prize money, Garlen holds him at gunpoint and insists he return it. After asking him about 'the hunter with the poison claws', Guntz triggers a bomb in Nahatomb's palace, causing it to blow up and gives him a chance to escape. He rides off into the sunset, vowing revenge for his father.
- Garlen
Player Type: Balance
Super Attack: Garlen Bomber
The organiser of the tournament at his own Garlen resorts. He claims to be doing it to find the greatest volleyball player, but his motives seem questionable.
Ending: Garlen basks in the glory of his victory, but Huepow points out that he only won because of his mech suit. Garlen, arrogant of his abilities, allows all the other contenders to use similar mech suits as well to prove his superiority in a rematch. He suffers humiliating defeat.
- Super Garlen
Player Type:
Super Attack:
After he and Guntz are defeated, he powers up to Super Garlen and teams up with Nahatomb for the final round.
Ending: Super Garlen basks in the glory of his victory, but Huepow points out that he only won because of his super powers. Garlen, arrogant of his abilities, allows all the other contenders to have super powers as well to prove his superiority in a rematch. He suffers humiliating defeat.
- Nahatomb
Player Type: Power
Super Attack: Meteor Press
The Head of Conventions at Garlen Resorts, he is the embodiment of nightmare and will let nothing stand in his way.
Ending: After winning the tournament his flunky Garlen organizes, he takes over the business and creates a new mascot, which is basically himself in a cuter form. However, the mascot is the very reason the resort goes out of business within months due to it scaring away customers.
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