LostWinds

An okay adventure-platformer -- on seemingly the Wii. Atrocious PC controls make this basically unplayable. If you stick with it you'll eventually manage, but be sure to use a well-tracking and preferably fast, wired mouse. The constant droning Chinese restaurant muzak didn't help appreciation either. If anyone gets as stuck on the final bossfight as I was: it's [i]spacebar[/i] while on the shard to grab on to it...

Fun platformer, nice short diversion

Movement feels smooth and intuitive, with wind based abilities serving as both a traversal tool and a core gameplay mechanic. Each new area introduces fresh opportunities to interact with the environment, creating a steady sense of discovery and progression. World design encourages curiosity through interconnected locations, hidden paths, and environmental challenges. Exploration remains rewarding as new abilities expand navigation options and reveal previously inaccessible areas. Puzzle design integrates naturally with movement mechanics, ensuring that progression feels tied to learning and mastery rather than complexity alone. Storytelling follows a simple but effective approach, blending memorable characters, light narrative themes, and a consistent sense of adventure. The atmosphere supports the journey well, creating a peaceful setting that complements exploration and puzzle solving. Pacing remains accessible throughout, making progression feel natural and easy to follow. The overall experience delivers a satisfying balance of exploration, platforming, and environmental interaction. Strong level design, creative mechanics, and a welcoming atmosphere come together to create a…

This game is one of the most perfect games you could get a young child as a gift (FOR THE WII OR A TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE). The wind mechanics are inspired and feel quite intuitive to control, the puzzles are well-crafted and just the right level of difficulty for a child at around preschool age, and the atmosphere is beautiful and serene. As a child, I spent hours upon hours playing this game on my mom's iPad, exploring this world, playing around with its mechanics, and trying to find every collectable. However, there are a few issues in this pc port of the game, most of them being the game crashing in inopportune moments and forcing you to restart from a save point, which, to be granted, aren't that far from each other. Unfortunately this breaks the immersion of the game a bit and demotivated me to continue with my playthrough for a bit. Thankfully, this isn't an extremely long game, so it wasn't that big of an issue, all things considered. In addition, one small issue of the control scheme not working that well for keyboard and mouse comes up, but it's not that serious, the controls still feel fluid and responsive enough to not notice most of the time. TLDR~ This game is an amazi…

I own this game both on my Wii and my iPad a long time ago, but never got around to finishing it until now. Pretty short, but charming game relying using wind to platform and solve simple puzzles. I’ll give it a recommendation to anyone interested in getting all achievements to boost your gamer scores!

entire game runs in 4x speed because everything is tied to the framerate, but there are no graphical settings whatsoever. Crashes when alt-tabbing and at random moments