La Mulana PC version available

La Mulana is an action-adventure game that originally featured graphics, music and an interface inspired by MSX games. It's a 2D side scrolling platformer for Microsoft Windows that was originally released in 2005 and only available in Japanese. The game became very successful amongst gamers and also saw a translation to English.

After the success of the original release, the creators started working on a port for the Nintendo Wii. The WiiWare version has a tuned difficulty level and up-to-date graphics and music when compared to the original version. This updated WiiWare version has only been released in Japan; the releases in Europe and the United States were cancelled due to lack of a publisher in those regions.

Fortunately this WiiWare version will also come to the PC! Playism, a group of people that wants to bring Japanese Indie games to the West, contacted the creators of La Mulana and the result of that is that La Mulana is available as a launch title for the English Playism website. The game is fully translated to English and is available now from their website for $14.99 (about €12.50).

Last but not least, La Mulana's creators noted on their blog they haven't given up on a WiiWare version after all. Whether or not it will be released is uncertain, but it has already been declared that a possible version for the Wii will not have any DLC available.

Relevant link: La Mulana