In LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias you play as Toku and his friend Enril the Wind Spirit as you traverse through a beautiful world of puzzles. While Toku is only able to walk side-to-side and up small hills, he’s able to maneuver through the world with the help of Enril’s wind. The power of wind allows you to ascend cliffs, hurl objects, make snowballs, battle denizens of the world and even turn pools of water into movable clouds.

While the original LostWinds had some control issues and spent too much time in bland indoor areas, Winter of the Melodias spends almost all it’s time in vibrant landscapes and the Wii-mote controls are much more responsive and accurate.

The graphics use vibrant colors akin to that of Mario Galaxy, while keeping a sidescrolling PoV. Game sounds blend in nicely and the background music is soothing and relaxing for your enjoyable puzzle experience.

The game’s difficulty is pretty low, I found myself briefly stuck only a handful of times, even when a puzzle wasn’t difficult, however, it was usually still fun to solve. The length of the entire adventure is a little on the short side, even for a 10 dollar game. I beat the game in under 4 hours, with most of the idols found. With that in mind the game still felt worth the 10 bux, I really enjoyed the cutesy story, pretty graphics and soothing puzzling which used some pretty unique and fun mechanics.

In the end I enjoyed the game and I would recommend it to anyone with 10 dollars to spare. It’s not a blockbuster, but if it was I wouldn’t be talking about it here.

The Plaguechill blog has existed for quite some time, with varying degrees of blog update frequency. As we move into ICC I wanted to do something to make the site worth visiting as well as get my hands dirty up in this here blog.

My solution? The Plaguechill Diaries.

The first two categories will be Game Spotlight and WoW Hightlights.

Game Spotlight this will be a semi-weekly topic discussing games you may not have heard of already. This weeks topic will be LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, a Wiiware game that surpasses it’s predecessor. This topic will only cover games I’ve personally played so most games will be for the PC, while some are for the Wii or older systems, frankly you already know how awesome Modern Warfare 2 is, I don’t need to talk about it anyway.

WoW Highlights will be weekly, possibly more frequently depending on options. In this segment I’ll be discussing interesting things from guildchat, Khadgar or WoW in general. This will beyound “Patch 3.x came out today” and should include something you can’t find elsewhere. If you have any interesting personal adventures you’d like to share and have show up on the blog, you can always email me at hymn@plaguechill.com

Expect the first Game Spotlight later today, as well as WoW Highlights throughout this week!

After several weeks of trying and one horrible under 100,000hp wipe PC has cleared ToGC without wiping. With the 50 attempt counter still intact we achieved realm first Tribute to Insanity, as well as a fancy cloak. Big ‘grats to everyone involved!