After defeating Kuro, the first game’s winged villain, and discovering the uncomfortable reason behind her wrath, her last egg is taken to the protagonist’s house, where it soon hatches. ![]() ![]() Ori and the Will of the Wisps starts exactly where its prequel left off. However, five years after the game’s release, the pull of fate proved to be so strong that the gaming universe got weird enough for Nintendo and Microsoft to sign a deal that would bring some of the latter’s games to the Switch, a package that included Ori and the Blind Forest and that, one year later, would also cause its sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, to make the same unlikely jump, albeit much more quickly. After all, the quest carries a charm and a family-friendly nature that make it seem like an ideal fit for the platforms and audience of the company a match made in heaven that appeared impossible thanks to an exclusivity deal. Meanwhile, in the middle of scenarios of such organic and vivid splendor, which ooze so intensely one can pretty much smell the grass, the main character not only explored an alluring world that unfolded at a gentle pace, but also navigated through it with an acrobatic smoothness that birthed lean clever platforming as well as frantic action detours.įrom the get go, Nintendo fans – at least those who did not have the means to play Ori and the Blind Forest – had to look at the game in awe and envy. Drawing heavy inspiration from nature and centering around the restoration of corrupted land, Ori and the Blind Forest excels at being beautiful, thereby firmly distancing itself from the genre’s most well-known examples, which tend to thrive in darkness and decay. And from within a large group with individual members that approached the style in a myriad of ways, the adventure put together by Moon Studios and exclusively held by Microsoft succeeded in catching both the eyes and heart of the world quite quickly.Īnyone who goes through that first journey will not have a hard time realizing why it garnered so much praise back when it first emerged. Originally released in 2015, Ori and the Blind Forest was one among a number of indie titles that ventured into Metroidvania gameplay with the goal of rescuing a genre that was mostly forgotten by the big companies of the market. Extreme familiarity ends up slightly clouding its advances, and even if the game is still firmly in the upper echelon of its genre due to its beauty, heart, cleverness, and smoothness, its force is somewhat diminished
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