The designers of the Wii launch title Elebits are back for a second swing at the concept, using their original title as a learning experience. Elebits: Adventures of Kai & Zero for the DS is an entirely new approach to the intellectual property that "started almost from scratch with a more compelling story and thought about what worked well in the first game."

The first Elebits focused heavily on the urge to "create something that took the capabilities of the Wii, the Wii remote and nunchuck, and integrate that in a game." Talking with Siliconera, Product Manager for the series Greg Nolan claimed that the overall experience for the second game is much more focused on a story-driven presentation.

As an Elebits title, Adventures of Kai & Zero will be incorporating the titular creatures as well as including brand new ones, all involved in completing the game's puzzles. The mischievous critters found in the first title are the standard Elebits in this title and still function as a source of energy for the player. But now, there are 50 different kinds of new Omega Elebits in the game and each has a unique power. After obtaining the Omega Elebit, it "becomes part of your menu system and you can call on him at any point in time to use his abilities." In essence, the Omega Elebits become your special powers in the latest title.

All 50 Omega Elebits will be obtainable by the end of the title without any being hidden particularly well. This would imply that all Omega Elebits are required at some point in the game to solve at least one puzzle. That is not to say that the game won't have secrets. According to Nolan, "there are some secrets, and I’ll leave it at that."

Gregg Nolan also admitted that there was some concern within Konami over the players' reactions to the DS game's new approach, but that ultimately most gamers found the first game "repetitive … and they stopped playing it halfway through." He argues that the second game isn't "the same thing over and over again, just [in] a different environment,"but instead described the upcoming title as "kind of Zelda-esque" and pushing the player "through different maps to different locations."

It was also revealed that though this is the second game in the Elebits franchise, it could be the start of something that "will be the next direction for the next DS experience." Referring to internal discussions he'd had with Shingo Mukaitoge, the Producer of the first Elebits game, Nolan related that "the first Wii game will be the story and the starting point for the next Wii game." In fact, the DS and Wii stories are planned to "overlap with characters, environments, and things like that," with the "two stories that happen in tandem." However, Nolan also pointed out that "each platform will have its own experience."

Nolan ended the interview with some comforting words for Dewy's Adventure fans, stating that "there have been talks about a second Dewy" and that fans "should keep [their] eyes open."