LostWinds Sequel - Debut WiiWare Trailer

By Jorge Ba-oh 03.09.2009 11

LostWinds Sequel - Debut WiiWare Trailer on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Frontier Developments have posted the official site and debut trailer for WiiWare follow-up to LostWinds, Winter of the Melodias.

The innovative 2008 Wii platformer is making a come-back with an all new story, improved controls, new moves and the ability to change the blisteringly hot summer into chilling winter at the flick of the wrist. The ickle Toku returns to wield the power of wind as he and Enril continue to battle the evil Balasar.

Thanks to C3 reader wAyNe - sTaRT for the tip.

More information and screens at the official LostWinds site (UK).

Box art for LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias
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Frontier Developments

Publisher

Frontier

Genre

2D Platformer

Players

2

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Andrezao is offline. Andrezao 03.09.2009#1

So beautiful :3 Please, someone give them my monies!! First day buy for sure, hopefully it's as long as 10 hrs this time! Jeez, it looks better than most retail games... If only they made a retail version for this too.

 
jb is offline. jb 03.09.2009#2

Looks nice, liking that season switch mechanic - looks awesome!

I'm not the biggest LostWinds fan admittedly, it's a great looking WiiWare game with some awesome ideas/mechanics, but the pace and setting really didn't do it for me.

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Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 03.09.2009#3

yeah saw this a day or two ago cant not wait

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J Tangle is offline. J Tangle 04.09.2009#4

Smilie You can make snowballs now. I wonder how that's going to fit into a puzzle?

I'm still kinda confused about the season change mechanic though. Do you have to be near a save statue or can you do it at any time?Smilie

Andrezao said:
First day buy for sure, hopefully it's as long as 10 hrs this time!

10 hours is a long time, sounds like your asking for a retail game. Which I would love to have. I remember reading an interview around LostWinds release where someone from Frontier was talking about how LostWinds was going to be a retail title, but they chose to go the WiiWare route. I guess they thought it was a big risk back then, but now I can see it selling as a retail game since word has been spread on how great the game is.Smilie

 
Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 04.09.2009#5

The thing is this: people who have heard how awesome the game is, will also have heard you can download it for a much lower price than retail.

Unless they made a whole new and bigger game, which I don't think they have the people for.

 
J Tangle is offline. J Tangle 04.09.2009#6

Canyarion said:
Unless they made a whole new and bigger game, which I don't think they have the people for.

Yeah that's what I meant. After completing LostWinds and reading that interview(I think it's somewhere on Frontier's official site) it gave me an understanding why the game felt so empty after finishing. It was as if they already had a finished retail game and just sold a small portion of it to test the waters.

 
Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 05.09.2009#7

No way Id want a retail title.
Why not just have a series of WiiWare titles?
Not only do Frontier get more %% of the money then, but also it means more people will try the games as theres less money up-front.
If they like it, they will buy the next one etc.

If anything, a game like Lost Winds is more fitting for episodic distribution then, say, Monkey Island is.

I see little advantage in retail other then games that need massive explorable areas. (or games that otherwise cant be divided up neatly into sections)

It was as if they already had a finished retail game and just sold a small portion of it to test the waters.

umm...no.
It takes a lot of effort to make a game.
They probably had story ideas, and maybe a few puzzles...but they certainly didnt have a completed game sitting there waiting for release.

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J Tangle is offline. J Tangle 05.09.2009#8

Darkflame said:

"It was as if they already had a finished retail game and just sold a small portion of it to test the waters."

umm...no.
It takes a lot of effort to make a game.
They probably had story ideas, and maybe a few puzzles...but they certainly didnt have a completed game sitting there waiting for release.

Your misreading my post, that's why I said "it was as if". After completing the game you get this empty feeling like you only got to play a small portion of an even larger title. I never said they had a fully fledged-out game already done and waiting.

 
Captian is offline. Captian 05.09.2009#9

Darkflame said:

umm...no.
It takes a lot of effort to make a game.
They probably had story ideas, and maybe a few puzzles...but they certainly didnt have a completed game sitting there waiting for release.

it depends on the game with the effort put in to it I bet my ass they had story ideas and puzzles and J Tangle never said that
It was like they already had a finished retail game and just sold a small portion of it to test the waters.

but saying
It was as if they already had a finished retail game and just sold a small portion of it to test the waters.

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Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 06.09.2009#10

Ok I beat the game. The final boss was waaaaay too easy once you knew dodging his hands was easy. (As a true Nintendo veteran I tried to dodge his hands at the last second, assuming that he would aim for me. He didn't and it didn't work.)

 
Echoes221 is offline. Echoes221 08.09.2009#11

About time to be honest. I've been waiting for a sequel for a long time. I wonder if any of the concept art will come into play that's been roaming the net for the past few years.

I loved the last game, admittedly it was a bit too easy,but finding all the statues was fun and the mechanic and the visuals where top notch for a download wii game.

 

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