TRAILER OF THE MONTH: AN EXTENDED LOOK AT INSANELY TWISTED SHADOW PLANET

Found, appropriately, via Phil Fish, who called out the original teaser trailer in his Indie Games Summit session as one of the best examples of hooking an audience with an unmissable video: a new, extended look at Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, the forthcoming game from artist Michel Gagne and FuelCell’s Joe Olson.

Based on the world Gagne created for the Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets animations shown on Nickelodeon in 2005, Fish is right: there isn’t a single second of this video that doesn’t make me want to play, though it’s still unclear when we might be able to. New posts at the game’s blog seem to all but ensure an eventual Xbox Live Arcade release alongside the previously planned PC version, which could put it months away.

But that’s a bit beside the point: the point is it’s trumped its own record and become one of the most bluntly wicked trailers I’ve laid eyes on since The Last Guardian, and re-rocketed the game back up my most-anticipated list.