Ori and the Blind Forest is a high quality, one time go open world 2D action adventure platformer, set in a fantasy world where the forest of 'Nibel' is dying, and it's up to you, a furry light creature that's part of the forest, to save it.

Starting off with the most obvious, the game's graphics and art style is simply one of the most beautiful visuals I have ever seen, with amazing looking vistas, visual effects, and smooth animations, there wasn't any part of the game that didn't look amazing.

Another pillar that carries a lot of weight is the game's original sound track, going from the main menu music, to exploring and hearing the different tracks for each area, and the intense levels and battles have their own awesome track, the OST is of high block buster level of greatness.

The story and story telling is simply fantastic and impactful, the journey from start to end was entertaining and great, to the point of where one can assume it was made by the talent of Studio Ghibli. Throughout my playthrough of that story and adventure, I shed tears in a few events in the game because of how impactful it was, and that was the first time I ever had tears fall for a game.

The gameplay is smooth as butter, with nice solid controls which combined with solid and challenging platforming, brings amazingly great gameplay in finely designed levels for you to play and progress through. The game is challenging, and it gets more so the more you play through it, with more abilities and perks you will unlock to help but to also preform more of the complex platforming that's required in some areas, so the game is kept fresh throughout til the end.

The problems with the game is that wall jumping isn't as solid as the rest of the platforming goodness, but sufficient enough that you won't notice its issues down the line when it's covered in more gameplay experience and future perks. You can't select what part in time you want to re-play after finishing the game, so if you finish the campaign, and you want to reply some section or restart from the begging with all your progression, you can't, you will have to replay the whole game again and so on.

Ori and the Blind Forest is a work of legends, its innovation is its greatness. It is a combination from the works of recent Rayman games with its fluidity, in fact greater, combined with Studio Ghibli and Disney productions that are of the highest quality. It's as if all the combined powers and talents of those amazing studios were put into the creation of a game, and you get Ori and the Blind Forest, and I'd say the people behind this game are one of the most talented and imaginative minds of this generation, they have created a game worthy of being in a history book of awesome game legends, if there ever was a book like that. We now have a new studio that can compete with those top tier studios, in a form of producing amazing games, and this one is the first game of hopefully many others to come.

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