Ori and the Blind Forest

Player-placed save points and fluid movement modernized the hand-painted metroidvania.

Released 2015 Developer Moon Studios Publisher Xbox Game Studios Platform Xbox One Genre Metroidvania Era Live service & the long tail Website orithegame.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Ori and the Blind Forest inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Checkpoint Respawn ~~1984~~Momentum-Based Platform Control ~~1985~~Ability-Gated Interlocked Map ~~1986~~Adaptive Dynamic Music ~~1991~~

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