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LostWinds
Publisher: Frontier Developments
Developer: Frontier Developments
Genre: Adventure
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Platform: Wii
Reviewer: Eric
 Developers don’t have a whole lot to work with when it comes to Wii Ware.
Certain developers so far haven’t shown too much with their games on Wii Ware,
but that is about to change. Frontier Developments have gone ahead and taken
this short task and have created something special.
LostWinds deals with you taking control with the wind. Toku must save the island
Mistrails from evil. Balasar threatens to plague the island with his power. It
is up to Toku, along with the wind spirit Enril, to stop him.
The games story is told through different pictures. Something very unique about
this game is it has dialog from the characters. Nintendo doesn’t even like to do
this with most of their games for whatever reason.
In general the story isn’t original. This game feels like an old school game
with enhancements. You do get to control the wind with the Wii Mote, which is
better than summoning a wind creator, like in most RPGs.
This entire game made the size limit for Wii Ware titles. I am not sure how the
developers got to add both 2-D and 3-D elements in this game, without screwing
it up. The game looks beautiful, most of the games graphics look much better
than half of the third party games the Wii has seen in the past year.
 Toku is controlled with the combination of the Wii Mote and Nunchuk. There
aren’t a whole lot of movies to do with Toku, most of the difficult moments in
the game will be done for you (jumping). You can control the wind without any
problem and the same thing goes for when you earn another gust.
Some of the games controls due cause some problems. Certain motions of the game
have you holding down one button and then you just have to press the button. To
be fair this isn’t a huge problem with the game, to me I think Nintendo should
be more to blame due to the lack of buttons on the Wii Mote.
Final Verdict
LostWinds is the best valued game on Wii Ware right now. For only $10 you can
buy this game, its incredible how Frontier added so much into this game with the
slim space that was provided from Nintendo. If you haven’t bought a Wii Ware
game yet, then you should pick up LostWinds up first.
Rating
8.50 out of 10
LostWinds Trailer
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