Oh, but one glitch I forgot to mention prevented me from getting the achievements related to collecting everything. I 100% completed Ori, gathering every item, doing every side quest, and beating every encounter. The collect-a-thon continues, and I loved every minute of it. You can also collect Spirit Shards to upgrade Ori’s abilities. You can gather Gorlek Ore to build up your home base at Wellspring Glades. Will of the Wisps also gives Ori a few more items to collect aside from Life, Energy, and Spirit Light. These new options for moving Ori around feel absolutely natural to Ori’s familiar moveset, and it does not take long to get used to. Packed sand creates caverns where Ori must burrow through in order to reach objectives. Blue moss provides sections of the map where Ori can grapple between spaces, like Spider-Man. Ori’s traversal options are expanded, and not always in the way you think. It’s as pleasant as it ever was to collect everything and see the percentage of the game completed slowly climb up. Ori and the Will of the Wisps tickled my fancy as a video game completionist. If you loved the first game, Will of the Wisps gives a satisfying conclusion (or new beginning) to Ori’s story. Even with my frustration with those glitches, the ending reminded me of why I’m a fan of Ori and his/her world and the themes that were also in Ori and the Blind Forest. I do not want to spoil the conclusion, but I will say it hit me right in the feels. It’s up to you and Ku to bring life back to Niwen and somehow make your way back home. Sadly, Niwen’s Spirit Tree, a willow, has fallen to decay, and the denizens of this place are prey to the vicious creatures and corruption that come with it. They land in a place called Niwen, which once had a Spirit Tree just as Ori and Ku’s land of Nibel does. However, thanks to Ori holding onto one of Kuro’s feathers and Gumo’s ingenuity, they finagle a way to let Ku fly again.ĭuring a test flight, Ori and Ku travel far beyond their home and get caught up in a storm. Unfortunately, Ku’s wing has been damaged since she hatched, so no matter how much she wants to, she is unable to soar like she is meant to. Ori and Ku live with their family of Naru and Gumo, spending inordinate amounts of time playing with each other, eating, and teaching Ku how to fly. It picks up where the first game left off, with Ori having saved his/her forest and adopted Ku, the offspring of Kuro (antagonist of Blind Forest). Ori and the Will of the Wisps tells a touching tale very much in the same vein as its predecessor, Ori and the Blind Forest. Still, do not disregard this list as it very much impacted my enjoyment of the game. That said, the rest of this review will focus on the game minus the bugs (though I may gripe every now and then). Increased poor performance if play-time exceeded two hours.Triggered boss encounters causing black screen.Hiccups every time the game automatically saved.Glitching into walls and becoming unable to get out unless the game was restarted.Slowed frame rate when many enemies were on the screen.Do not assume they have been fixed by the time of this writing. So before I dive into the game, I’m going to list the bugs I encountered and stress that when I finished playing the game (about two weeks ago), a patch had not yet gone through to address them. I want to focus on the game itself for my review, but I also don’t want to ignore the bugs that plagued my playthrough. However, I will never review a game here that I have not completed, so I made sure to power through these issues before writing a review. The game actually made me cry with how broken it was. If you read one of my previous posts, you’ll know that Ori and the Will of the Wisps burned me with game-breaking glitches and bugs that permeated the entire experience. Ori and the Will of the Wisps straddles that divide. If I hate a game, my disgust and loathing would likewise fuel my writing. Normally, when I love a game, a burst of enthusiasm propels me forward when typing up how I feel about it. This was perhaps one of my most difficult reviews to write.
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