![]() The story is delivered through a few very basic lines of text which appear at set moments, but what is being said is emphasised indefinitely by the wonderful animation of the onscreen events and characters. Tugging at the heartstrings: Ori opens with perhaps the most touching and ultimately heartbreaking scene I’ve ever seen in a game, and it sets the tone for the tale of error, loss, forgiveness, redemption (and more) that follows across the next ten to twelve hours. This style of game is traditionally likened to Metroid and Castlevania, but due to its graphical leanings and wonderful musical score, Ori is perhaps most alike to Dust: an Elysian Tale among its peers.Īs a reviewer, I’m duty bound to tell you what genre a game belongs in, or how it looks and how long it is, but the truth is that Ori is one of those special kind of games that works hard to set itself apart (and boy does it succeed) because almost everything comes together perfectly to create a tight and eminently enjoyable experience which allows it to sit aside from similar games and perhaps even redefine the accepted norm. ![]() ![]() In fact, I’d have to say that Ori is one of the best games I’ve played in a long time and it may even be one of my favourite games ever, despite belonging to a subgenre of platform games of which typically I’m not a fan.Īlthough Ori is basically a platform game with RPG-lite elements, it features a system of advancement through the unlocking of new and different abilities – double jumping, air-dashing and so on which in turn allow access to previously unreachable areas. If I’m ever asked sum up Ori and the Blind Forest in just a few words, I’ll undoubtedly describe it as beautiful, sorrowful, thought-provoking and magical, but it’s also a game which offers a stiff challenge that stretches across a vast and diverse range of environments and offers a lot of replay value. Ori and the Blind Forest was developed by Moon Studios and published on Xbox One by Microsoft Studios.
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