This week Digital Gamer is highlighting the next generation of Wii games that really start to show off what Nintendo's little box can do.
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Dewy's Adventure is quite an original title. It's about a water droplet trying to restore his land to how it was before it got polluted. Story aside, the real charm is in the gameplay. Anyone who has played Super Monkey Ball should feel right at home. Instead of directly controlling Dewy himself, players tilt the entire world. Move the stage to make him slide around and tilting up quickly will make him hop.
Also because he's made of water, what the temperature is factors into what form he takes. Pushing (+) or (-) on the Remote increases or decreases the temperature. Other forces of nature at your command are:
- Causing earthquakes by quickly shaking the remote left and right thus changing the landscape and
- Blowing the wind around by waving the remote up and down.
Keeping the Temperature at a medium level will cause dewy to be in liquid form. Naturally this allows him to get in tighter places with ease. He's easy to control in this form but also weak against enemy attacks. Cannon type plants can suck him up and then shoot him to higher spots.
Solid form
Changing the environment to a cold climate turns dewy to ice, making him hard and heavy. He'll slide more quickly across the ground and can shape himself into a sharp spinning top that makes for a deadly weapon against baddies. And now that the world is colder, lakes that would have swallowed dewy previously can now be simply slid across.
Mist Form
Turning the heat up will evaporate dewy into a misty cloud that will only move with the wind. Thankfully the wind is fully under your control. But dewy is not completely helpless in this form. Since Dewy is now a cloud he can drop lighting bolts on any thing he wants, powering switches or shocking foes.
Anyone looking for something completely different from anything they've ever seen before should check out this soon to be classic.
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