#lost winds

[lostwindsau]

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Slight change of style for the comic, hope y'all don't mind.

But yeah, a small glimpse of Vaati's thoughts here before the knighting ceremony :3c

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LostWinds

aka the best WiiWare game ever

I want to go on and on about this game but I don't think anyone I know (outside of my siblings) has actually played it. So I'm telling you lot instead.

The story goes that Steve Burgess from Frontier developments was watching the wind blowing leaves and thought to himself 'wouldn't it be cool if you had a Wii game where you could control the wind?'

And in fact he was right.

The game is very reminiscent of Avatar the Last Airbender (which was great because I was a huge fan of Avatar around that time): a young boy, Toku, discovers a shard of a stone which contains the wind spirit, Enril. Enril explains how she and the other elemental spirits who formed the world worked together to seal Balasar (a spirit who turned evil) in a spirit stone, but in the battle she got trapped with him too.

Balasar freed himself, breaking the stone, but she remained trapped. Thanks to Toku, she is now free too, but her power has been lost (get it? lost winds), locked away in shards of the stone which lie scattered across the land. She and Toku work together to find her lost powers and fight Balasar's darkness that threatens to corrupt and poison the world.

You control Toku with the nunchuk and Enril with the Wii remote: Toku is pretty weak and useless, but he can interact with physical objects (pulling switches, opening chests, planting seeds) while Enril can control the air, lifting Toku up to higher areas or using gusts of wind to fight enemies. It is an elegant set-up and while it can be a little frustrating at times (and what wii game isn't?), it is quite possibly the game that best uses the Wii remote (I'm talking about from an ingenuity perspective and am also excluding sports games). It also makes it rather difficult to replicate perfectly on any other console, but it was (temporarily) released on iOS and I think is currently available on PC. It's a platformer with lots of little puzzle-y things and some fighting. Most of the fights are pretty simple and you can often just as easily run past without fighting, or just blow the enemy away (without killing necessarily it).

The game had a sequel, where you have to save Toku's mother (who is an explorer and got cursed by some of Balasar's poison). This time you meet the spirit of the seasons, Sonté, and you get the power to change seasons from her. The game ends without any complete resolution though, because we still haven't faced Balasar, but the series ended there. The second game was a complete improvement over the first one, so it's such a shame it ended when they were hitting their stride. I partly blame the fact the Wii was approaching the end of its lifetime, but there was probably more to it than that.

One of the best things about the game was the art and the music. I mean, look at some of the locations:

(It's harder to find nice shots of the scenes I wanted online than I thought, so these'll do)

And the music... I reblogged the title theme, but the rest of the soundtrack is just so elegant too.

Oh yeah, and I forgot the art that shows during Enril's story of how she got trapped:

I'm also sad that there seemed to be a plan for all the spirits (fire, water, earth and seasons) to appear in a game (judging by how the first game ends), but we only meet Sonté and Enril. I wanted to meet the water spirit...

But yeah, I 100% would recommend this game. Its only fault is it can be a bit short, especially the first game. The sequel's final boss fight I also found a bit annoyingly tough, but I haven't fought it in a while though.

[crayonsfunkyartcorner]

Cringetober Day 9: Childhood Game

I don’t know who else played LostWinds, but I personally played it on both the family ipad and the wii!

[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[thetoyboxs]

Spell Tattoos, Tattoos for Spells. Wouldn't it be cool if this was the way Hyrule had to recieve and then immediately use his spells? Just get a sick Tattoo!

[thecmaly]

kittennapped

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more windbreaker comics

[htmlcoderexe]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

It's actually called "Subways Of Your Mind" and is by FEX and not only the original band members are alive and well but they're releasing the original recording, some live performances, and might end up doing a new recording together

[chloesimaginationthings]

Diavolo's 1987th death.. or 1983rd?

[katnissmellarkkk]

suzanne collins : “so in the epilogue of mockingjay, katniss only refers to her children as the girl and the boy-”

people who read with one eye shut : “BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LOVE HER KIDS AND WAS FORCED INTO HAVING THEM BY THE EVIL PEETA MELLARK?”

suzanne collins probably : “because i couldn’t decide on two names i liked.”

[legendary-cookies]

I've been working on this on and off for like a long time and honestly I kinda hate it now, but this is like a revamp of these but with the Beasts too lmao

This also has a headcanon I have of if the Legends had virtues like the Ancients and Beasts

Also yes I'm aware Fire and Moon might fit more if they switched but I have lore reasons leave me alone

[kimdokjas]

@animangacreators challenge ⟡ spring 2024

↳ WIND BREAKER

You haven't given up on others yet. And you don't need to give up. At the least I'm looking your way, Sakura. So why don't you look this way as well? If you do, I'm sure… you'll become what you want to be.

[lostwindsau]

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[clouvu]

Save me french yuri... Save me

[aucrowne]

11.11 🌸

Pocky Day! ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝

⬅ Windbreaker Silly little sketches ➡

[leemyon]

The Most Mysterious Song was found.

So this band, which was named FEX, are the ones who created the ‘like the wind’ lostwave, actually named Subways of your mind - FEX.

The final boss was defeated.

THIS IS INSANE.

Link to hear the full song:

Link of Reddit:

[darlingshane]

tummy tuesday. [requested by anon]