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

Klonoa collection director Tsuyoshi Kobayashi has just 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 staff couldn’t use the actual IP, so Kobayashi and the staff wanted their very own character to suit into the world they’d designed. Namco ran an inner 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 staff felt as if they’d managed to hit that temporary 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 explicit IP, so we had an inner design competitors to create a brand new character for this new sport that we had created, however wanted to exchange the characters. [Yoshihiko] Arai’s character design received that contest and that was the beginning of the Klonoa collection. However, on the time, [we weren’t thinking about] Mario or Sonic, a lot much less growing 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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