Gorgeous visuals. Just rich, really rich environments where everything jiggles as you run past. Neat trick - 2D elements for a 2D platformer in a 3D environment means that the 'sprites' can have delicious levels of detail and movement without demanding a lot from your PC.

Delightful music. I would deliberately fail some of the timed segments just to keep listening to the track. I've never heard of Gareth Coker before, but his work in this will sell whatever he works on next. Already paid for the sountrack - downloading it now.

Loveable characters. Especially like the way the voices were rendered. Story is there, but doesn't dominate gameplay. Also, feels. Lots of feels.

Solid gameplay. Movement and abilities are organic and smooth, this is exactly how a platformer should play.

In hindsight, certain story developments feel a little cheap and the story's ending doesn't do its beginning justice. Still very enjoyable, though.

Update:The “Villain Most In Need of a Hug” Award

Not going to lie, I originally had Undertale slated to win this one, but it’s far more deserving of the Maximum Feels award and this is a fairly weak category by comparison. Actually, by and large it’s difficult for me to think of many games that qualify for this one at all, so it’s a shame to have to nominate Ori and the Blind Forest because the game itself is actually very well crafted. I couldn’t say at what point in development the writers decided that Kuro’s motivation should be having chicks that were fatally allergic to Spirit Tree light, but it sure would have been nice if they could have thought of something that didn’t make Ori’s guardian ancestor a child murderer.