This is one of the few games that gave me goosbumps for the whole duration of it. The game draws you in the second you launch it. You get to see a shortcut where ‘Ori’ lives together with it’s friend. Who reminds me of Totoro from Studio Ghibli. The game breathes such an amazing atmosphere that it is difficult to explain how it feels. I played for about six hours and unlocked ninty percent of all power-ups. A decent length for a game in this price-range. My best description for the game is a beautiful and challenging fairytale that drags you in and let’s you experience a lot of different emotions.

The game can be classified into a mix and match of an RPG with skilltree and a platformer. The dynamics of both genres are very well developped. I find this game challenging enough (and sometimes even frustratring). It brings me joy that there can be such a thin line between skill, luck and memory training.

The game develops itself in a period of 4 hours. You start with a simple jump and a basic fighting skill. While playing the game you find trees that harnass a forgotten power from the spirit tree (more of the story to come). You learn to double jump, pound, and much much more. You also get XP for killing enemies and finding hidden rooms. You can choose to divide this between three different skill lines each having a specific use.

I really liked the saving mechanic in the game. You find blue cristals in the game wich u use to save your game with. You start of with 4 containters meaning you can save your progress 4 times. These are rare and not easy to find. It’s important that you remember to save, you have no idea how many times I forgot and had to backtrack and replay a whole scene.

The game alternates between slow and easy jumping puzzles and fast playing jumping sequences that you have to do over and over till you get it just right! This is really fun and makes your hart beat ten times as fast. I died about 500 times in this game where half of them were from just trying to get trough a fast jumping sequence. It brings fun with it because you feel so good after you complete it, you get motivation to continue the game without stopping.

After the first cutscene you see that the spirit tree is no longer. It’s light has been stolen by the ‘enemy’ who you will encouter many times during the game. You have to make sure the tree get’s his light back or the forest will die. That’s all i’m going to tell you concerning the story! I wouldn’t want to ruin it for you.

The only thing that bothered me was the constant backtracking to get to different locations on the map. I see that this could frustrate many people, but it gives you the opportunity to explore the whole map with the new skills you just learned to get more health and light stones.

The game cost’s 19.99€ on steam and I recommend this game to everybody reading this. I give this game a 9/10. Must get!

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