gg

This is the most annoying game that i played. double jump works every other time. The gameplay itself evokes vary bad emotions because of annoying control. It's a shame i wasted the money

Listen, I wanted to love this game. I tried. Everyone told me, “It’s a masterpiece!” “It’ll make you cry!” “The art! The music! The feelings!” And yeah—Ori and the Blind Forest is stunning. It’s like playing a painting. The soundtrack? Straight-up soul massage. The intro? Crushed my heart in the first ten minutes like a Pixar movie with unresolved childhood trauma. But then... the actual game started. What followed was a gorgeous, emotional, and occasionally rage-inducing platforming gauntlet that slowly chipped away at my will to live. I knew it was a "challenging Metroidvania," but I didn't expect to spend so much time swearing at spikes, drowning in water, or watching Ori explode into glowing spirit dust because I missed a jump by a pixel.

The platforming is tight—too tight. Demanding. Sometimes punishing. You get one frame wrong and boom, start again. There are escape sequences that feel like trying to thread a needle during an earthquake while on fire. I could see the beauty, I just couldn’t enjoy it. Like watching a breathtaking sunset from behind a locked glass door while your eyebrows are on fire. And the save system? Manual. In a game where death happens constantly. You forget to drop a save point? That’s 15 minutes of your life gone. Again. And again. And again. It’s heartbreaking, because I respect this game. I see the love, the craftsmanship, the vision. But it feels like Ori didn’t want to hold my hand—it wanted to slap it away and yell “git gud” while I tumbled into a spike pit for the 47th time.

Final Verdict: 6/10 – A beautiful, emotional experience... that I wish I could recommend without caveats. I loved looking at it. I loved listening to it. I just didn’t love playing it. And I’m really sad about that.