Klonoa was the results of a “character design contest” and was regarded as “a brand new mascot character”

Klonoa collection director Tsuyoshi Kobayashi has lately spoken in regards to the character design of Klonoa in a brand new interview with digital design journal, Misplaced in Cult. Klonoa’s design happened as the corporate was engaged on a sport based mostly round a well-known platforming IP, which he refused to call. It will definitely turned out that the group couldn’t use the actual IP, so Kobayashi and the group wanted their very own character to suit into the world that they had designed. Namco ran an inside character design competitors and Yoshihiko Arai’s design was chosen and have become the Klonoa we all know and love. Mr. Kobayashi additionally revealed that there was additionally an significance of getting an organization mascot on the time with SEGA’s Sonic and Nintendo’s Mario dominating the scene. The group felt as if that they had managed to hit that transient with the lovely Klonoa.

“There’s a story about how Klonoa’s idea happened. I can’t say which IP however we [were working on] a sport round a sure IP. Because it turned out, we couldn’t use this specific IP, so we had an inside design competitors to create a brand new character for this new sport that we had created, however wanted to switch the characters. [Yoshihiko] Arai’s character design received that contest and that was the delivery of the Klonoa collection. However, on the time, [we weren’t thinking about] Mario or Sonic, a lot much less creating Klonoa to be the mascot of the PlayStation system. If something, we have been [just trying to create] a brand new mascot character for Namco.”

Klonoa collection director Tsuyoshi Kobayashi 

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