Klonoa: Door to Phantomile 1997

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Namco's 1997 platformer for the PlayStation, the first Klonoa game. Klonoa and his friend Huepow set out to save the dream world of Phantomile from an evil spirit. It has a 2.5D perspective: the environments are rendered in 3D, but you move along a 2D path. Klonoa can run left and right, jump and hover for a short time. The path often curves, overlaps itself or branches in different directions, and paths visible in the background can be traversed later in the stage. He grabs enemies with a large ring inhabited by Huepow, which inflates them like balloons, and you can throw them at other enemies or use them as springboards for a larger jump. Every fight still has a second use, with a grabbed enemy that is both weapon and springboard.