Is it really that frustratingly hard?

[Feared-HUN]

Based on videos it seems like a pretty good game, but I get frustrated easily at games, and I heard that Ori is more than hard.
Should I was for a 50% discount before buying it at full price and rage quit after an hour? :)
Isn't there any difficulty level?

[Zynryuk]

Let me tell you this: I am not used at this kind of games, I've never had one like this before.

But I managed to finish it all, several deaths later and all of my fingers broken. Still I had success and enjoyed a most wonderful story in a most wonderful setting with great soundtrack.

[Spirit]

its only 20$/€ ... cheap compared to other games
if you continue playing it your skills increase ...
some parts of it are hard like the ginso tree escape because it dont tolerate any mistakes ... one jump in the wrong direction -> death -> restart of the whole sequence
but it give you a feel of success when you beaten it

[Chipbeam]

Originally posted by Spirit:

its only 20$/€ ... cheap compared to other games
if you continue playing it your skills increase ...:ori:
some parts of it are hard like the ginso tree escape because it dont tolerate any mistakes ... one jump in the wrong direction -> death -> restart of the whole sequence
but it give you a feel of success when you beaten it

There ARE areas in the game where one mistake is death. A decent portion of Mount Horu, for instance.

The Ginso Tree is not one of them. If you are fast and can think on your feat, as long as you don't *lose* height from missing something, you should be fine. The biggest problem should be missing bashes because you wouldn't be used to it yet. Even actually touching the water is not necessarily death if you're quick enough.

But more importantly... as someone who has done a number of 1-death runs and 2 no death runs, and can consistently get 1-2 death runs, let me say this:

95% of this game's difficulty is when you don't know what's coming. Once you know how everything works, it becomes much much easier. If you did a second playthrough as a normal one rather then just hopping right into going for Elite like I did, I'd expect you to die 1/4th as much if not less. This game loses much of it's frustration in subsequent playthroughs.... as long as you don't go for the Immortal Achievement anyway.

[Gryffe]

Originally posted by Ori:

This game loses much of it's frustration in subsequent playthroughs.... as long as you don't go for the Immortal Achievement anyway.

Even then, you can just copy / paste a save file regulary in the next save slot. Working just fine for my elite-immortal-supersonic run. I'll try a "true" immortal later on, seems like a lot of fun.

[CerN]

The game is hard, but the difficulty is pretty perfect imo. One of the best games I have played in years.

[lullaby]

I think it's an easy enough game. As in even if you have very little to no experience in platformers, you'll still be able to complete it. It has some parts where you might get frustrated, but I don't think I've ever rage quit out of it.

[Dels]

It's difficult, but you can actually save anywhere you want, at any time, so you just make a save point before each tricky part. You'll die a few times, but that's intended, then once you've learned what to do, you get past it and don't have to do it again. It's quite fair.

[Die unsinkbar 2]

No you can not save everywhere!!!!! Its horrible difficult at least the ginso Tree final(after 1/3 of the Game) where i died over 900!!!! times and tried it for 4-8 Hours over 1 Week. The most annoying part is that you have to start the hole run over and over and over again wich is horrible as this part is very hard at the end and you have to do the 2 min run over and over just to die there again. Sadly this beatiful games is not playable any more for me and lot of other players have the same problem. And even if i would beat this Part one day i would hate absolutly hate to play it ever again. I dont get it why Games have to be very hard when you could implement difficulty levels so every one can enjoy the Game. Sadly this was 20 Bugs for the Window.

[Spirit]

you died 900 times in the ginso tree ? holy *beep* ... i beaten it in my 5th try

[Theolyn]

wow 900 deaths at that point? that's evil... and here I thought I was kicking it bad with 50 -70 deaths in the tree. But I assure you It is soo worth it. The feeling when you finally beat it

[JopiMan]

its not hard, i have no idea where those claims come from

[Chipbeam]

Originally posted by gryffondor95:

Originally posted by Ori:

This game loses much of it's frustration in subsequent playthroughs.... as long as you don't go for the Immortal Achievement anyway.

Even then, you can just copy / paste a save file regulary in the next save slot. Working just fine for my elite-immortal-supersonic run. I'll try a "true" immortal later on, seems like a lot of fun.

But that's cheating :P
Besides, Elite and Supersonic aren't difficult.
So, Immortal... It's fun and it isn't. Playing the game normally now is really relaxing as I just breeze past pretty much everything easily but going for immortal specifically... the pressure to be perfect is just overpowering and going back to the begining of the game for one silly mistake is frustrating.

...Listening to Light of Nibel at the end made it all worth it :P
And really since playing normally is just such a relaxing thing to do now, I don't regret it!

Anyway... 900 deaths to the Ginso Tree escape? ... Wow. Just wow.
The most I've seen before today is 200 .-.

Honestly though, the fact you didn't give up in those 900 attempts speaks scores about your determination at least.

[ุReshy]

I would call it challenging, it's not 'hard' in the sense of IWBTG but it offers a nice degree of challenge. However, it does seem to have a bit of trial-and-error gameplay and the occasional difficulty spike here and there that probably frustrate a lot of players. It frustrated me enough that I stopped playing the game for two weeks on the 'Water Temple'.

[Skirmish]

I get it that some people on here don't find the Ginso Tree scape that difficult, kudos to them. But there are some gamers like myself who experience it as a pretty ridiculous difficulty spike in an otherwise perfect game.

It certainly stopped me dead in my tracks as sure as any gamebreaker, for a long time. It surely couldn't have hurt to have put at least one checkpoint in there somewhere. After a long break from the game, I feel ready to tackle it again.

Yeah, the satisfaction of my beating this section is going to be immense, but the thought of replaying this game knowing the Ginso Tree is coming up again, is just too much to bear. I'm determined to beat this game, just to get the t-shirt, but then it'll probably get deleted as I'll certainly not want to face the chore again.

Whether people agree or not I don't know, but I know there will be gamers excluded from playing the whole game because of the spikes. The difficulty in such a small section of the game certainly took me by surprise. A pity as Ori is otherwise a great game.

But I will beat it......... :)

[Katana]

I felt it was hard, but I feel games like Super Meat Boy and Dark Souls *taunt* you with their difficulty unnecessarily. Ori always gives you the feeling you *can* do it with enough effort. It is not rewarding for the sort of person who frantically hits random buttons in a bad situation (ie, landing on spikes), going "Cmoncmongogogo!"