The Blind Forest

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Ori and The Blind Forest Devolved by Moon Studios Ori and the Blind Forest, is a beautiful story about family, loss, and growing up, and it manages to tell this tale without dialogue or cut scenes. Ori begins with a powerful storm shakes the ancient, life sustaining Spirit Tree, and a single, magical leaf is blown away, only to land in the forest down below. The leaf, turns out to be a cat-like creature named Ori. Ori is found and adopted by the kind Naru, who takes Ori under her wing and raises her as her own. The duo lives a happy life until one, fateful night, when the Spirit Tree is corrupted, causing the forest to become "blind" and dying. With everything that he cares about at stake, Ori find the spirit called Sein and sets off to restore the Spirit Tree and save the forest The story begins as a storm buffets the ancient, life-sustaining Spirit Tree, and a single, magical leaf is blown away to land in the forest below. The leaf, it turns out, is a cat-like creature named Ori. Ori is found and adopted by the kind Naru, who raises Ori as her own. The pair live …show more content…

Ori and The Blind Forest is, at is core, structured like many 2D platformers before it. It draws inspiration from the Metroid and Castlevania tradition of restricting your progress behind doors that can only be opened once you have received a particular skill. When you are playing as Ori there is a nimble like characteristic to him as you leap and bound with fantastic grace and as Ori’s ability’s improve, so does the amazing feeling of being able to jump half way across a room. It is an absolute delight to have such a fine amount of control over a character this agile. The progression from being a powerless child to a nimble powerhouse is elegantly smooth, and with so many opportunities to use each skill that, by the time you’ve discovered the next one, using the previous ability will have become second