The purple branch is about exploration and the orbs you pick up, which will allow you to absorb health, energy and experience orbs faster and to find power-ups in the map easier. The red one is all about power, which improves the strength and speed of your attacks in it. Every enemy gives you some amount of experience points that help you to level up in the Ability Tree, a system that has three branches. They enhance life, energy and sometimes give you extra experience points.Īpart from them, you can learn abilities by defeating enemies.
There are also power-ups that you can find in secret areas. Those are the abilities that make you reach new areas and explore secret rooms of areas you found before. The most useful ones for exploration are gained like this, like Climbing, Double Jump and Charge Jump. As you progress in the story, you’ll find spirits that grant Ori new abilities. The game, like any other Metroidvania, allows you to learn abilities during the game.
Ori is fast and agile, so, as you learn new abilities like the traditional Double Jump, he’ll turn into a zap of light jumping through the screen. It works as a nice complement to the aesthetics of the game, creating the perfect atmosphere when it’s needed. The music really sets the right tone to an emotional story, ranging from epic to intimate in moments. Some characters are really good-looking, though, like Naru and the mighty Kuro. Based in the developer’s quotes about taking inspiration from Rayman, that’s expected. Ori is kind of weird (he seems like a glowing white monkey) and most of the enemies are not very characteristic or creative, too. The character design is somewhat less inspired. Even if they are mostly forests, every screen looks unique. The game is just utterly gorgeous, both in stills and in motion, that emulates a painting in motion.The environments are not too varied in its types of setting, consisting mostly of forests and caves (unless you count the temples, which are pretty distinguishable one from each other), but every area has a distinct feel nevertheless. It’s almost unnecessary to say that the visuals of Ori and the Blind Forest are stunning. In his mission, he meets a spider-like being called Gummo and a giant bird called Kuro, both working against him in his mission to restore the elements and save the forest.
The Tree explains to Ori that the forest is withering because the three elements supporting the balance, Waters, Winds and Warmth, are not working properly, so it is Ori’s mission to visit the three elemental temples and fix the problem. Naru, protecting Ori, eventually died of hunger and Ori was left all alone again.Īlone, he almost dies, but is saved by Sein, a spirit that guides Ori to the Spirit Tree in the middle of the Nibel Forest. They passed years living together, but an imbalance in the elements started to destroy Nibel and the food began to be scarce. Naru, an inhabitant of the woods, found Ori and started to take care of him. After a storm, Ori ended stranded and lost from the Spirit Tree, where he used to belong. The game tells the story of Ori, a white guardian spirit of the Nibel Forest and his journey to restore the balance in the woods. Hard, but still very approachable, the game is a journey to the beautiful but deadly Nibel Forest.
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Ori and the Blind Forest, the first game developed by Moon Studios, an Austriac third-party developer of Microsoft, asks the question: “What would a game be like if you mixed the freedom and design of a Metroidvania with the art style of the modern Rayman games?” In fact, those two series were the main inspirations of the developers in the process of making this beautiful hand-drawn platformer.
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