A part of me is worried, since the place Klonoa has ended up looks distressingly like that future city from the Pac-Man cartoon >.>
It does seem like it could be Guntz though, since the four points on the shadow correspond to his ears and muzzle tufts.
I'm feeling though like the problem of going too fast has re-emerged. That dream energy tunnel or whatever it was vanished as soon as it appeared, and there isn't even a moment taken to show off the new environment before dropping in a new plot element.