LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias is a wonderfully crafted and beautifully imagined game that you will thoroughly enjoy escaping to for a few hours, and probably want to return to again after the last puzzles have been solved.

The story sees Toku, the small unassuming hero that we were introduced to in LostWinds, setting out on a dangerous quest to save his mother, Magdi, helped along the way again by the elemental powers afforded to him by the Wind Spirit Enril. The journey starts out with the giant boulder-like creature Magmok giving Toku a boost to the Summerfalls Mountains, but soon becomes a race against time as you discover Summerfalls Village has been plagued by an eternal winter and that the fate of the ancient Melodia people is entwined with Magdi’s.

The game features the same stunningly vibrant graphics and tranquil music that many of us enjoyed in the first LostWinds. However, somewhat impossibly Frontier has managed to make the sequel even more beautiful and the gameplay more varied by introducing the change between summer and winter to the game as well as giving Toku a couple of new skills to master.

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