LostWinds 2 is on its way to the land of the rising sun!

The LostWinds WiiWare games from Frontier have gotten loads of praise around the gaming industry and are two of the strongest selling titles on WiiWare. Noteworthy for containing boatloads of character, great design and compelling play mechanics which take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Wii remote, we cannot recommend them enough.

Square Enix published the first Lost Winds title last December, and they seem to be sufficiently impressed to publish the second part next week. Congratulations to Frontier with their success as the flag-bearer for quality platforming on WiiWare!

Here's the full press-release from Frontier for your reading enjoyment:

Square Enix to Publish LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias in Japan Partnership brings the Season Switching “Best WiiWare Game of 2009” to Asia. 18th December 2009.

Frontier Developments, one of the games industry’s leading independent developers, is delighted to announce a further partnership with Square Enix to publish ’the best WiiWare game of 2009’ (IGN) LostWinds®: Winter of the Melodias in Japan and Asia.

The game will be released in Japan on 22nd December 2009.“We’re very pleased to be joining forces again with Square Enix to bring the sequel to gamers in Japan and Asia.” said David Braben, Frontier’s Chairman and founder “We’re excited to see gamers’ reaction to the incredible new gameplay mechanics such as Season Switching, the all-new, expansive, beautiful settings and the story of Toku and Enril the Wind Spirit’s and adventure to save Toku’s mother.”

Illustrating the widespread acknowledgement of the game as one of the better Wii titles - disc or download - LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias was rated as No.8 in the Metacritic* chart of Wii titles for the year and is the onlyWiiWare game to feature in the Top 10 alongside established franchises like Tiger Woods, Guitar Hero and Metroid Prime. Influential IGN.com also voted LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias as the the best WiiWare game of 2009 for the Nintendo Wii, describing the game’s use of the Wii Remote as ‘masterful’.