Ori and the Will of the Wisps Is Too Good for Words

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  @neonmushroom1 · 2 years ago

  I remembered Ori and the Blind Forest as a 10/10 game. When I played Will of the Wisps and it was even better, I realized that sometimes, it's impossible to do a piece of art justice by trying to rank or describe it.

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• TW

  @twiddle10000 · 2 years ago

  I cannot express how badly I want to watch a live concert of the Ori soundtracks. I must experience this before I die.

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• TO

  @tokyosann0 · 1 year ago

  i genuinely would sell my soul to experience ori and the will of the wisps for the first time again, everything in this game is a beautifully crafted work of art, story, and emotion, i will never find anything else like it going forward 😭

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• DJ

  @djroscurro9859 · 1 year ago

  Idk how much water this holds but I always said that the Ori games almost feel like studio ghibli movies

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• LE

  @Ledonshard · 13 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2vsBO41ThU&amp;t=16">0:16</a> Oh I can explain what was good about it. EVERYTHING. Pacing, music, direction, controls, Transcendence of power, feeling of story, quality of characters, finality of ending.

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• BU

  @bulldogboy6412 · 1 year ago

  this game is perfect. the music, the gameplay, story, the visuals, everything. i just wis there were more bosses .

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• BA

  @barelyhere7200 · 2 years ago

  I know it’s a cliché but dramatic things happening during storms is a classic for a reason. Also I am definitely biased because rain is my favorite weather

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• BL

  @blurryface1984 · 1 year ago

  You know it’s a great game when you’re slightly depressed after you’ve finished it.

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• AR

  @ArchonZach · 2 years ago

  I never understand why I like things they simply vibe with me lol

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• SP

  @spectator6656 · 3 months ago

  I didn&apos;t know what castlevania games were until I played Ori, its cinematography drew me in

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• TR

  @Tropax1 · 1 year ago

  The bash is the best ability in any metroidvania! I wanted to see if anyone else shares that sentiment and to my surprise there are a lot of top 10 lists of the best metroidvania abilities where bash gets the crown. The Ori games were my first metroidvania games I ever played, I&apos;ve since played Hollow Knight, Ender Lilies, Prince of Persia the lost crown and Nine Sols and I love all of them but Ori and the will of the wisps is my favourite.

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• EC

  @echtschlau8510 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Ori and the Will of the Wisps completely and unexpectedly blew my mind at just how good it was when I first played it. I say unexpectedly because I too didn&apos;t find Blind Forest to be this great masterpiece when I was done with it. Oh sure, the gameplay and story presentation was pretty good, and I did enjoy myself going through it. But I always thought of it as a good game that I was glad to have played and finished. But Will of the Wisps completely hooked me in and never let go for the entirety of it. Somehow this game became one of my favorite games of all times even though on the surface it shares quite a bit of similarity with its predecessor, which I said before didn&apos;t grab me as much, except somehow they entirely made it better. <br><br><br>From the visual (which mind you, was already fantastic in the last game and now even better somehow?!?!) to the gameplay (i.e. Movements and platforming are great, Bash is back bashing to higher ground!, the combat is great combined with lots of new tools and ability which you can just change on the fly encouraging experimentation, level designs are some of the best in any Metroidvania like Baur&apos;s Reach, Luma Pools, Windswept Waste and probably my favorite Moulwood Depths; all of which are in addition to be visually stunning, make great use of their terrain to teach you how to use their areas&apos; respective new movement abilities.)<br><br><br>The story in my opinion is also very engaging and compelling. One thing Blind Forest lack were the various NPCs around the map so you get the sense that no one really live back in Nibel but here in Niwen, so many different characters and they pain you a picture of how their area has suffered through their interaction with you. Shriek was a great antagonist and served as kind of mirror of Kuro from the last game in addition to Ori&apos;s own relationship with their sister Ku who is Kuro&apos;s last surviving child is really gripping to my interest. The music, oh god the music is some of the best I have ever heard and the last game was no slouch either. <br><br><br>Overall, Moon Studios has seemed to do the impossible and create one of those &quot;perfect sequel&quot; that very few games ever manage to achieve. They managed to improve basically everything about what made the first game great and in addition add in a lot of new and interesting concepts that make the world fell bigger and more meaningful in the end. <br>I am glad to see that you feel the same way, and I look forward to seeing what other great games you can bring your wonderful analysis to.

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