Great Ideas Meet Poor Execution
Pro
LostWinds will provide you with excitement as you venture into an interesting world that has beautiful artistic direction as well as technical merit. The world created for your adventure is filled with cute inhabitants who seem interesting but have nothing really to offer. The platforming is intuitive but remains fairly stale throughout the game while new abilities are unlocked but don't manage to dazzle. The only real reason why the game merits an average score is because there is tons of promise hidden away in the game.
Con
If the NPCs would come to life and offer you side missions to complement the main adventure, you could have such a dandy time. Even if they could just point you in the direction you're looking to go, saying "Hey, you're on your way to the Falls I see", the game would be so much more structure. If each new platforming move could be fleshed out and revisited with more varying puzzles then the experience would be much more gratifying. Not too mention the cliffhanging ending promising a sequel, LostWinds really feels more like a fraction of a real game.
LostWinds will provide you with excitement as you venture into an interesting world that has beautiful artistic direction as well as technical merit. The world created for your adventure is filled with cute inhabitants who seem interesting but have nothing really to offer. The platforming is intuitive but remains fairly stale throughout the game while new abilities are unlocked but don't manage to dazzle. The only real reason why the game merits an average score is because there is tons of promise hidden away in the game.
Con
If the NPCs would come to life and offer you side missions to complement the main adventure, you could have such a dandy time. Even if they could just point you in the direction you're looking to go, saying "Hey, you're on your way to the Falls I see", the game would be so much more structure. If each new platforming move could be fleshed out and revisited with more varying puzzles then the experience would be much more gratifying. Not too mention the cliffhanging ending promising a sequel, LostWinds really feels more like a fraction of a real game.
