Ori and the Blind Forest review : Videogame

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Published on March 18, 2015 8:43:35 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJevo-h1fQ

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Ori and the Blind Forest (2015)

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Ori and the Blind Forest review, Videogame
Ori and the Blind Forest is brilliant, beautiful and strangely bewildering. Don’t let your eyes deceive you: it really isn’t what it seems. Its luminous, hand drawn-style of 2D art pitches it as a platform adventure in the Rayman Legends vein, yet it’s actually closer to an old-school Metroidvania. It looks like it should be a nice, cheerful family-friendly game, but beneath the cartoon surface it’s as hardcore as Super Meat Boy or N+. We love Ori and the Blind Forest lots. We also hate it just a little.
Moon Studio’s debut game begins as a stream of interactive cut-scenes with a distinctly Studio Ghibli vibe, following the arrival of the titular glowing sprite in the forest, the destruction of a magical tree and Ori’s adoption by a gentle bear-like creature. All is good for a while, until the forest and its fruits wither and die, followed shortly by Ori’s foster mum, leaving Ori and his spirit guide, Sein, to go out into the forest and do battle with a hostile world.

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