{"id":660,"date":"2017-09-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/video_check_out_wefly_-_factor_5s_long_lost_pilotwings_game_for_wii"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:00:00","slug":"video-check-out-wefly-factor-5s-long-lost-pilotwings-game-for-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/24\/video-check-out-wefly-factor-5s-long-lost-pilotwings-game-for-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Check Out WeFly &#8211; Factor 5&#8217;s Long Lost Pilotwings Game for Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Factor 5 enjoyed quite a unique relationship with Nintendo. Due to some bad fortune, we already know that the company had a complete <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/2009\/12\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_retro\">Rogue Squadron<\/a><\/strong> game on the Wii that sadly never saw the light of day, and we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/02\/video_the_truth_behind_factor_5s_pilotwings_game_for_gamecube\">previously reported on their plans<\/a> for a new <strong>Pilotwings<\/strong> game on the same hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Now former Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson &#8211; with his latest video through <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=12&amp;v=WFVM5NVqQpM\">DidYouKnowGaming<\/a> &#8211; has shown actual gameplay from the project that was called <strong>WeFly<\/strong>. It got quite far in development and seems like it could have been pretty much every <strong>Pilotwings<\/strong> fan&#8217;s dream game turned into reality.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>From cockpit view head tracking AR, to using the Wii&#8217;s clock and Weather Channel to change the game in real time, it remains quite clear the abundance of talent that was available to Factor 5 back in those days. Just the prospect of prancing around on the Moon immediately gave us a silly smile.<\/p>\n<p>The series has not been heard of since the 3DS debut title <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/2011\/03\/pilotwings_resort_3ds\">Pilotwings Resort<\/a><\/strong>. Maybe it&#8217;s time for Nintendo to finally let us spread our wings again, perhaps on Switch? Time will tell; in the meantime share some of your favourite Pilotwings memories in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factor 5 enjoyed quite a unique relationship with Nintendo. Due to some bad fortune, we already know that the company had a complete Rogue Squadron game on the Wii that sadly never saw the light of day, and we previously reported on their plans for a new Pilotwings game on the same hardware. Now former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}