La-Mulana is back!

[smallfry]

The Japanese wii version of La-Mulana has finally been released in English for Windows PCs! I just spent an hour playing it and it's pretty great so far. http://la-mulana.com/en/ (So far you can only buy it at playism-games.com).

I really enjoyed the old free version of the game although my biggest problem with it was it was pretty hard - some of the puzzles were fairly obtuse. Supposedly this new version makes things slightly less difficult. I'm having a lot of fun so far!

[dethtoll]

It's finally out! Now to find a spare $15...

[Kolya]

Looks like a classic 2D jump an run? Is there more to it? (Can't see the videos at work.)

[demagogue]

It is classic run & jump platforming. There are a lot of hidden things strewn around, messages to read, little puzzles to do, and you can have an inventory of objects to use on things, which gives it a bit of an RPG flavor like Cave Story.

[smallfry]

It's a "Metroidvania," so lots of items to collect in a big non-linear world. There are tons of puzzles and riddles which are actually a bit hard to solve.

I'm about 2 hours in and really liking it. It's mostly the same as the original but it controls a bit better and the inventory management stuff is way improved (not to mention the graphics, although I liked the retro style of the original game a lot too).

By the way, if you're running Windows 7 or Vista you have to run the game with Administrative privileges or else it will hang .

[N'Al]

Now on GOG.