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I haven't seen much talk about this game recently and figured why not make a thread about it. What is it? Ori and The Blind forest is a platformer soon to be released on March 11th for Xbox One and PC. It's being developed by Moon Studios and it's supposedly heavily influenced by Super Metroid and Legend of Zelda: A link to the past. Moon has said that although it can be considered a metroidvania it's more heavily focused on platforming with light rpg mechanics. Who is Moon Studios? More or less they're an indie dev group that have only released one previous game called Warsoup. Dunno how that game was so not much I can give on that or the devs themselves. So what's it about then? Sporting a hand painted design with beautiful artwork, Ori and The Blind Forest has you playing as a forest spirit who is tasked with figuring out why this forest is suddenly dying. There's other things in the story about finding the courage that dwells in all of us and that kind of stuff. Point is the forest is dying and you gotta figure out what's up. Trailers  Despite the end of this trailer it is not bone exclusive. It's coming out on steam as well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EexSqzA5mXY Gameplay trailer from IGN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLk8pUFUFw Again the game releases March 11th on Bone and Steam. It's priced at a very reasonable 20 bucks. Bumper Stickup fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 5, 2015 |
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You should mention in the title that it's coming to PC as well as Bone. I was not even slightly excited about this since I thought it was a Bone exclusive.
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Mar 5, 2015 19:54
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Made a note of that above the first trailer. Also pointed out that it's being released at a moderate 20 bucks.
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Mar 5, 2015 20:31
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Fibby Boy posted:
It's been out since about midday today. Playing on the PC. It's loving amazing and I'm goddamned shocked there's only 2 posts.
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Mar 11, 2015 07:14
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Jesus loving Christ. Playing this with the lights out and my headset on and the prologue actually made me teary-eyed. This game is beautiful.
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Mar 11, 2015 07:36
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This game is really fun, controls really well and looks great. Definitely for experienced platformer players, too. It really goes balls out on the wall jumps and double jumps.
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Mar 11, 2015 08:34
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Looks pretty good. I love that Vanillaware-style, hand-painted, idyllic, slightly surreal aesthetic. Too bad I can't play it since I'm Mac-only at the moment  . Wishlisted for now.Feenix posted:It's been out since about midday today. Playing on the PC. It's loving amazing and I'm goddamned shocked there's only 2 posts. Yeah, I never heard of it until now. It seems like it got no pre-release promotion or coverage whatsoever.
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Mar 11, 2015 09:34
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Man, I feel like I can't recommend this game highly enough. I just bought it on a whim because I'm a sucker for a good art style, but I've been blown away by how good it looks. The aesthetic is just incredible, but the graphical quality is surprisingly good too for an indie game especially, in my opinion. The music is fantastic too; the entire atmosphere is incredibly well done. I wasn't even going in expecting too much out of the gameplay, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how much fun it is, and I'm not even all that into platforming. The whole system where you can unlock abilities throughout the game is really cool so far (I've unlocked about half as I write this) and the upgrade tree is definitely a cool feature too. The whole metroidvania system is definitely going to keep me playing until the end, and I might even go for 100% or something just because I enjoy it so much. All in all, especially for $20, I'm definitely happy I stumbled across this. Maybe it's just that I havn't seen anything about it personally prior to today but I feel like it deserves way more attention than it's getting.
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Mar 12, 2015 02:55
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Ceyton posted:
Hence why I made the thread. I wanted the game to get some kind of exposure.
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Mar 12, 2015 02:56
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The game is definitely outrageously good looking. The platforming isn't bad either, though enemies break the pace too much early on thanks to their high HP. Don't bother putting points anywhere but Red for awhile. Also, the difficulty in general is pretty inconsistent. You'll go from 4/10 difficulty to 8/10 or 9/10 in literally one screen. I think this means I should go a different direction, but it's still very weird to go up against.
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Mar 12, 2015 03:00
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Game is awesome so far. Bit stuck about an hour in. Above the entrance to the swamp -- don't think I can get in there yet, just to the health shrine or whatever -- there are some rocks that glow green that look like they're meant to be opened. There are some greenish enemies nearby that roll after you and blow up on contact; I assume I'm supposed to use those to blow open the green rocks, but I can't find a way to get the enemies to the rocks. Possible roadblocks:
Advice appreciated. So far I haven't found anything too hard platforming-wise, when does this become super difficult?
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Mar 12, 2015 14:38
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Oh poo poo. I completely forgot this was coming out.
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Mar 12, 2015 14:47
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The Steam page says that it highly recommends using a controller for this. Has anyone played it with normal keyboard + mouse?
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Mar 12, 2015 16:00
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Slaan posted:The Steam page says that it highly recommends using a controller for this. Has anyone played it with normal keyboard + mouse? I've been playing it with KB+M and it seems fine. I'm not very far yet so maybe it'll stop being feasible eventually but I haven't had any issues with the platforming thus far.
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Mar 12, 2015 16:03
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Having finished it with a controller and played around for a few minutes with a KB+M there's no way there'd be any major issues with KB+M. It's secretly a pretty drat demanding game, but if you've played hard platformers with a keyboard before you'll do fine.
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Mar 12, 2015 16:09
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guppy posted:So far I haven't found anything too hard platforming-wise, when does this become super difficult? There are some enemies that can be tough to deal with. This this fire/rock elemental thing that shoots a loving fire lazer that's pretty like "holy poo poo" and you basically have to run past him. The game is loving beautiful jesus. It's easily one of the prettiest games I've ever seen. It's not the easiest game, but if you've played any of the DKC: Returns or Tropical Freeze it feels like that where the difficulty is tough but fair. The only thing is it has the They Bleed Pixels thing with save points where you create your own save point (beyond the life wells) so you have to be strategic with your placement of them. It's a platformer which is my favorite genre so gameplay wise I'm having a blast with it but holy hell I can't write enough words about how absolutely gorgeous this game is. Slaan posted:The Steam page says that it highly recommends using a controller for this. Has anyone played it with normal keyboard + mouse? It works as well as Trine does with a Mouse + Keyboard, in that, it works perfectly fine. I feel like the precision jumps would be easier if I had a controller but beyond that it's fine.
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Mar 12, 2015 16:13
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What's the rough estimate on length on this one? Any special extra stuff like Hard Mode or fun extras to do afterwards? I'm pretty much solid on it already I'm just debating if I should pick it up sooner, or later.
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Mar 12, 2015 17:14
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Jesus, the part where you have to escape the tree while it's being flooded is absolutely kicking my rear end. The least they could do is let me put down a check point midway through  edit: Beat it. Holy poo poo that was hard Macaluso fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mar 12, 2015 17:42
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Anyone else had weird resolution/crash issues? If I set it to 1440 it will go black (I still hear music but can't do anything in the background... or quit, I have to task manager.) I set it to the max resolution (I have a screen that can handle 2160) and it runs fine and is no problem, but it sometimes does a little mini crash and resets to 1440 windowed mode. Then I have to go back in and set it to full screen, etc... just super annoying.
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Mar 12, 2015 18:09
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This game is drop-dead gorgeous, is beautifully animated, has an amazing soundtrack and atmosphere out the wazoo, but I'm afraid it'll completely break me the more I play it.  I'm fine with hard (sometimes), I just hope it never becomes frustrating. Macaluso posted:The only thing is it has the They Bleed Pixels thing with save points where you create your own save point (beyond the life wells) so you have to be strategic with your placement of them.
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Mar 12, 2015 18:10
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Macaluso posted:Jesus, the part where you have to escape the tree while it's being flooded is absolutely kicking my rear end. The least they could do is let me put down a check point midway through I'm at the part right after that and yeah, it was pretty intense. It took me about 10 or so tries due to stupid mistakes, but I think they did it just right. To add to the spectacular graphics, soundtrack, and controls, you can throw level design on there too. If you are having trouble advancing in an area you don't think you should be in yet, then you aren't supposed to be in there. Also, there's plenty of walls in the Spider's Hideout that are just high enough that you can't reach until you finally get the Double Jump ability. That's right out of Metroid's playbook and well thought out.
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Mar 12, 2015 19:13
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This game is way harder than I had expected, I'm loving it so far. Managed to beat the aforementioned area on my first try, though. Although I was cutting it pretty drat close near the end.
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Mar 12, 2015 19:16
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:What's the rough estimate on length on this one? Any special extra stuff like Hard Mode or fun extras to do afterwards? 10 hours seems about right for a first playthrough. Some people do a bit less, some people a bit more... depends on how good you are and how much optional stuff you feel like doing. There's no hard mode, but there are some very hard achievements. The two that stand out are beat the game without dying, and beat the game in less than 3 hours. If you really want to go for it, there are also leaderboards for speed running and low death counts. I think it's a lot of fun to discover various movement tricks, shortcuts, etc. We tried to make it so a lot of the puzzles/challenges have some kind of quicker, alternate solution that isn't obvious at first. It won't unlock any extra hidden content or anything, but IMO it's a very different game when you're trying to play it at a "high level".
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Mar 12, 2015 21:45
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I finished the sequence where I escaped from the flooding tree and got the Stomp ability right after it. I decided to try it on one of the tougher enemies, when this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8zV0AoqFxU It's interesting how certain enemies are tethered to stay in certain areas, because sometimes they bug out when you get them outside of their zone.
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Mar 12, 2015 21:56
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I'm only about 36% done according to my save file, but I can already say this game easily surpasses Aquaria as my favorite Metroidvania-style game. It scratches the same itch of whimsical and beautiful yet still slightly unsettling, and I'm just super digging it.
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Mar 12, 2015 22:18
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Syndlig posted:I'm only about 36% done according to my save file, but I can already say this game easily surpasses Aquaria as my favorite Metroidvania-style game. It scratches the same itch of whimsical and beautiful yet still slightly unsettling, and I'm just super digging it. Funny you should say that. My tablet wallpaper has been Aquaria for years, I changed it to Ori today.
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Mar 12, 2015 23:08
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There's a certian point later on when you get all the abilities, it does feel like the game kind of expects you to have more fingers than you actually have. I wish the moveset was a bit simpler.
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Mar 12, 2015 23:10
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Played up through the Ginso Tree. Looks great, sounds great, and the platforming feels really solid. I'm 50/50 on the actual combat mechanics so far against the normal enemies, but the way the ginso tree upgrade interacts with enemies and projectiles seems like this is only going to improve. I'd played a tiny bit of it at some preview event a while back, and it didn't click with me then, but I'm really liking the final game so far.
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Mar 13, 2015 07:45
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I 100%'ed this yesterday and it was as amazing as I hoped it would be. I ended up with like a gajillion deaths. I bought it immediately after it came out and more or less never put it down. What an amazing game that came totally out of nowhere for me. Also Jesus Christ this is also the saddest game for quite a long while. The prologue is pretty heartwrenching already and then it just kinda adds more sadness on top of that. Thankfully it's not just 100% sad and tears all the way through  The one thing I really wish this game had, especially at the end when I went for the 100% collection rate, is the ability to teleport between areas. Maybe make the life wells teleporter stations on top of being a save station or something? All the movement abilities and the changes in the environment you unlock throughout the game make travel pretty quick and bearable but the respawning enemies and realizing "oh poo poo, I forgot a powerup on the other end of the map!" can get you in some pretty annoying situations. A lot of the times I also felt the weird completionist need to go and see if I could pick up some more powerups right after I got a new ability. This meant traversing the map back and forth multiple times (which is admittedly my own "fault" for being such a completionist idiot) and without a teleporter function that was kind of grating after a while and made me go "Ah, screw this XP Shard thing" instead of wanting to collect it really badly  Edit: Also missable collectables in areas you can't revisit 
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Mar 13, 2015 11:02
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I just beat the game. Amazing game, although the ending of the story felt bit... I dunno. It didn't feel as good as it should have because they made the big bad evil villain into probably the most sympathetic character in the game?? I kind of felt bad helping the tree that MURDERED HER CHILDREN. Like everything that happened to the forest is because of the tree killing mama bird's babies. And in the end the mama dies because of the tree! The game's final shot is her last egg hatching so it's meant to end on an uplifting note but it felt kind of like a bummer! Like the ending of the story doesn't feel unsatisfying (like Wolftenstein) but it did make me feel like I was kind of on the side of the actual bad guy. Amazing, genuinely challenging, GORGEOUS game though. I hope people remember this game when people do their end of the year lists and awards, cause I'm still salty literally everyone forgot about Tropical Freeze I'll say the final part may be a bit TOO hard (and I know the point of the game is to be hard but), and could've been dialed down just a tiny bit. Near the end of it I had to look up a walkthrough on how to get through the end, and you basically have to do everything perfectly or RIP But yeah. I want more companies to make games that look like this game.
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Counter says I'm 1/5 done, honestly surprised this thing is good. Prerelease stuff looked like this was going to be your typical great art/awful mechanics indie style game, but the mechanics are legitimately as good as the style. Really worth $20.
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Mar 13, 2015 18:09
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So I just got past the illusion section in the Misty Woods, was on my way to the next objective, and then I fell out of the map. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLr71uw0iXE The hole in the floor was still there, so I was able to keep replicating this over and over again. There was a bit where I kept falling and teleported into an area I've never been to before, but I didn't record it in time.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:39
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yo' this game has good music
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DialTheDude posted:So I just got past the illusion section in the Misty Woods, was on my way to the next objective, and then I fell out of the map. Something similar happened to me last night. I was able to straddle the border between two zones and was stuck loading between them over and over until i managed to jump out/fall through all the way. Game's got some technical issues it seems. I've got a dual monitor setup and the game crashed when alt tabbing a few times. Making it windowed helped but now when the game starts it puts it between the two monitor border. All of this is only a minor annoyance though, this is one of the best games I've played in a long time. Bash is a pretty amazing mechanic.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:02
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The further the game goes and the more intricate and complex it gets, the more brilliant it gets. I just lit Misty Woods and the systems in place just feel so good.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:42
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I've made it my mission to push this game to anyone who will listen. I am gifting it to at least two people. It is a CRIME that this is only a one page thread. This game is a work of art.
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Mar 14, 2015 05:58
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This game is something pretty special, sad to see it only one page in too. About a third of the way up the Ginso Tree so far and loving it - though I hope it remains keyboard-accessible.
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Mar 14, 2015 06:10
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Feenix posted:I've made it my mission to push this game to anyone who will listen. I am gifting it to at least two people. It is a CRIME that this is only a one page thread. Same here. I've run into a couple of weird, minor bugs, but this is still very strong GOTY 2015 material for me. In the Misty Woods right now.
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Mar 14, 2015 06:47
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I finished the game up earlier today and it's fantastic the whole way through. All 3 escape sequences were really well done, I loved the difficulty increases. The Ginso Tree escape was my favorite I think, but the final escape from the owl at the very end is a close second. Personally I never ran into any of the bugs. The one thing I'm kind of disappointed about is that it doesn't seem you can go back into your save file after you've beaten the game. It does warn you that won't be able to go back so I guess that's my own fault for not copying the save then. Just be sure to make a copy of your save when you're warned about not being able to go back if you want to look for secrets and such. That said I'm still recommending it to everyone I know, it's one of the best games I've played in a long time.
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Macaluso posted:I just beat the game. Amazing game, although the ending of the story felt bit... I dunno. It didn't feel as good as it should have because they made the big bad evil villain into probably the most sympathetic character in the game?? I kind of felt bad helping the tree that MURDERED HER CHILDREN. Like everything that happened to the forest is because of the tree killing mama bird's babies. And in the end the mama dies because of the tree! The game's final shot is her last egg hatching so it's meant to end on an uplifting note but it felt kind of like a bummer! Like the ending of the story doesn't feel unsatisfying (like Wolftenstein) but it did make me feel like I was kind of on the side of the actual bad guy. Yeah, Koru dies because of the tree's light, since she seems to be inherently a being of shadow (hence why the light straight up kills her babies). She willingly rekindles the light of the Spirit Tree in order to put out the forest fire that's about to kill her last child. Even so, I don't agree that we're on Team Badguy, because while the tree did accidentally kill her kids when he called out for Ori, Koru was waaay more destructive. In retaliation, she slaughters all his children, rips out his eye which renders him dormant or possibly kills him, destroys the balance of the elements and dooms the entire forest to a lingering death. Hell, even the forest fire is her fault. When you reignite the element of warmth, the volcano seems to temporarily calm down until Koru shows up and lands on the drat thing, causing it to erupt and start the forest fire that she has to sacrifice herself to stop. I don't think it was necessarily meant to be a completely happy ending, either way. Ori's family consists entirely of people who are the last of their kind (with the possible exception of Ori's adoptive father, since we only ever see one of him), which means when (if?) they eventually die there will probably never be another Gomun, mask bear thing or shadow owl again. The game begins after a depressing turn of events, and ends on a bittersweet but hopeful ending.
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