Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest is a 2D platform game. The player controls Ori, a white guardian spirit of indeterminate gender, and Sein, who is the light and eyes of the Spirit Tree. Ori can jump, climb, and use other abilities to navigate. Sein can shoot Spirit Flames to combat enemies or break obstacles. Ori is required to interact with their environment as they jump from platforms and solve puzzles. Ori is faced with enemies while making their way to restoring the forest. The player helps Ori collect health shards, energy shards, new abilities, and upgrades. The game world unfolds to the player in the fashion of a Metroidvania, with new abilities allowing the player to access previously inaccessible areas.
Upon release, the game received critical acclaim, with players praising the game’s gameplay, art style, story, action sequences, musical score, and environmental design. Moon Studios co-founder Gennadiy Korol said the game was profitable for the company within a few weeks after its initial launch. A Definitive Edition was released in 2016. A sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, was announced during Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017.
Ori and the Blind Forest Review
With a seemingly never-ending flock of “retro” platformers hitting the Steam store these days, Ori and the Blind Forest takes the opposite route: a story-driven adventure with stunning visuals, a bewitching atmosphere and some pretty mad feels.
The first thing that will captivate you is the sheer beauty of the game. The art, the characters and their animations, the lighting and the splendid instrumental music score will instantaneously create a deep feeling of immersion. The storytelling, most of which occurs in-game, will also be supported by small doses of narration and beautiful cutscenes, just enough to give you a sense of purpose and accomplishment.
The gameplay is everything you could possibly wish for: tight and responsive, with top-notch level design and an increasing number of mechanisms to master as you progress, in pure Metroidvania fashion. The overall difficulty achieves a fine balance, making Ori both accessible to players who just want to enjoy the story and atmosphere, and challenging enough at times to keep veteran players on their toes.
A casual playthrough will last you a good 10 hours, and that alone would be well worth themoney. But Ori also nudges the more hardcore players into giving it another go with an online speed run leaderboard and some pretty tight achievements like completing the game without dying. All in all, a very fair amount of content for its price tag with refined quality on top of that. The standard for an up-to-date adventure platformer and a definite recommendation for me.
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