LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias – Announced - 503th Edition
Edge magazine has a big announcement concerning a LostWinds sequel. If you do not remember, LostWinds is a WiiWare game, and received very high reviews by both critics and gamers.
- new game mechanic: switch seasons from Summer to Winter to solve puzzles
- Toku can now swim
- create cyclones that can drill through rocks and lift up water
- new map system
- new in-game hint system
- perhaps a winter release??
- devs have heard the complaints of the first game being too short
- NPCs are now more interactive, and have more to say
- takes place directly after the first game
- Toku’s mother has disappeared while exploring the ruins of a city created by the Melodia
- Toku and Enril follow clues left in a journal to save Toku’s mother
- Summerfalls Village is experiencing a never-ending Winter
- people in the village are afraid of monsters that lurk in the snow
- Sonte (a spirit) allows Toku to control the seasons
- expect old and new gameplay elements
- Glorbs return from the first game, and have new forms
- create a cyclone by pressing buttons/shaking the Wiimote
- sales of LostWind were spot-on with what Frontier expected
- sequel development nearly complete
