One of the more inventive platformers to appear on the Playstation, the original Klonoa seemed to only get the acclaim and love it deserved as a cult hit years later, now recongized as probably the first game to blur the lines of 2D and 3D platforming, or 2.5D platformer. While Klonoa himself is just a 2D sprite, the level design requires you to think in three dimensions, resulting in puzzle possibilities not possible in the 16-bit era. The game is short on levels but it's all quality. The world is very cute but has character. And the story is unusually involved for this simple genre. Add in a nice difficulty curve and you have what should be considered one of the best platformers of its' generation.