Klonoa Heroes - The Legendary Star Medal ROM

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Klonoa Heroes – Legendary Star Medal (Klonoa Heroes: Densetsu no Star Medal) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Namco for the Game Boy Advance and released exclusively in Japan in 2002. It is the first game in the Klonoa series to combine both standard action-gaming elements with role-playing features. Klonoa Heroes is set in an alternate universe from the other games in the series.

Here, Klonoa lives in his hometown of Breezegale and is setting his sights on becoming a true hero. Klonoa’s dream is to obtain a Hero Medal, a mystical medal that serves as the “sign of a hero”. The Hero Medals themselves have different ranks depending on how heroic its holder is, and legend has it that there is a special variant of the Hero Medal that no one has seen yet.

The game begins with him and his friend, Chipple, trying to pluck a special flower, the Hikari Sakura (literally the Light Sakura or Light Cherry-blossom) from a tree branch. The flower is said to only bloom under special circumstances, and the person who possesses it will be granted good luck. Taking a unique twist on the normal gameplay of the Klonoa handheld games.

Klonoa Heroes instead relies on the player moving Klonoa, Guntz, or Pango across the screen from a top-down perspective, having them defeat enemies and earn experience points in the form of Dream Shards (small, crystal-like objects) and gold, which is used for currency, along the way. Klonoa once again utilizes his familiar weapon, the Wind Ring, but this time the “wind bullet” he can fire from it can be either blue or red.

Guntz’s handguns and Pango’s bombs work the same way. Characters can acquire different weapons throughout the game. Likewise, each enemy in the game is given a color affinity of either blue or red, and Klonoa (or the other characters) can deal more damage to them by attacking with the same color.