Developer Frontier has announced that its latest WiiWare title, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, has hit the top spot on Nintendo’s WiiWare service in both Europe and North America.

David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and Founder, said: “The hugely positive response there has been to Winter of the Melodias is really heart warming, and the team really appreciate this as it justifies all the effort and care they put into it.”

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Frontier has announced that LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will be available today on the North American WiiWare service for 1000 Wii Points.

LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias sees players setting out to save Toku’s mother, lift an ancient Curse and foil the plans of the evil Balasar. To do so, players will once again enlist the powers of Enril the Wind Spirit to control the wind using the Wii Remote. Toku will use the wind to power his jumps and glides, suspend and smash new enemies and explore new areas of the magical land of Mistralis.

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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.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias.

Developer Frontier has released a charming launch trailer for LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias.

If you haven’t yet experienced the wonder that is LostWinds, make sure you don’t miss this opportunity to explore the magical land of Mistralis as Toku.

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Developer Frontier has announced that LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias will be available on WiiWare tomorrow, the 9th of October, in Europe for 1000 Wii Points. The sequel to the popular WiiWare launch title will be the 100th game released by Nintendo of Europe on WiiWare. A release date for other regions has yet to be announced.

LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias sees players setting out to save Toku’s mother, lift an ancient Curse and foil the plans of the evil Balasar. To do so, players will once again enlist the powers of Enril the Wind Spirit to control the wind using the Wii Remote. Toku will use the wind to power his jumps and glides, suspend and smash new enemies and explore new areas of the magical land of Mistralis.

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Yesterday we brought you news that developer Frontier had begun work on LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, a sequel to last year’s popular WiiWare launch title, LostWinds.

Today Frontier revealed details of the game along with a few charming screenshots and a trailer that show the game is following in the same art style of its predecessor.

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Developer Frontier are working on a sequel to last year’s popular WiiWare launch title, LostWinds.

The latest issue of Edge magazine features a preview of the new sequel, titled LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias. According to early reports, players will solve puzzles in the game thanks to a new game mechanic that allows the returning hero Toku to switch the seasons of the world between summer and winter.

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