Seeing the hub grow and react to my actions felt rewarding in its own right.
#Ori and the will of the wisps background upgrade
These will often revolve around simply delivering or collecting items to upgrade the hub, but they are well worth doing, further encouraging exploration. You have your standard array of merchants who will give you new skills and upgrades, but also characters who will give you side quests. We also now have a sort of central hub where different characters you will meet throughout your journeys will return to.
The new hub area feels huge and reactive. Eventually your skills will grow enough that you can complete entire battles without even touching the ground. This combination of platforming and combat is intuitive and doesn’t require too much effort to be worthwhile. Using the grappling hook to dodge out of the way of an attack only to throw a spear at a distance and then ground pound only to finish them off with a sword combo was incredibly satisfying. Ori’s combat is at its very best when you are stringing abilities together in fun and creative ways.
The game pauses while you’re doing that, so you don’t need to worry about accessing the menu while in the middle of a fight. You can effortlessly swap these out in game by holding the Left Trigger to bring up a radial menu and assigning your abilities to the face buttons (X, Y, B). As you progress through the world, you will gain access to more weapons and gadgets for Ori’s arsenal: hammers, bows, spears, among some more, all have their own unique purpose in gameplay. Replacing the spirit orbs as your primary weapon, Ori’s first weapon will be a Spirit Sword, an incredibly fun melee weapon that changes behaviour depending on where you are looking. However it doesn’t just retread old ground and some huge changes have been made to the gameplay.Ĭombat is where the biggest changes lies. Platforming is a breeze thanks to the excellent level design and controls. Ori is still as nimble as ever and you will of course be battling, jumping and exploring through the vast interconnected open world, with new movement abilities that allow Ori to grapple to certain ledges and burrow under sand. Will of the Wisps stays very true to the formula of its predecessor but it’s much larger and more ambitious. Not only that, but the world of Niwel is also host to a vast array of colourful and friendly characters who will share their insight of the world as well as assist Ori on his journey. The new villain Shriek is just more terrifying than Kuro, with an even more interesting backstory that gets uncovered throughout the game. It hits just as hard as the original with some truly dramatic scenes and great world building.Īll of this is helped along by a much bigger cast of interesting characters.
#Ori and the will of the wisps background full
Once again, Moon Studios delivered a powerful and emotional story full of hope whilst also delving into a surprisingly rich history of the Ori universe. After a awe-inspiring opening sequence, we are dropped into a new dangerous world of Niwel in a desperate search for Ku. After setting out on an adventure together Ku and Ori are separated by a devastating storm in a new unexplored land. Ori and friends have adopted Kuro’s son named Ku. Set immediately after the events of the first game, with the sympathetic villain Kuro sacrificing herself to restore light to the world of Nibel. Ku and Ori are just wonderfully designed.
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