Ori and the Blind Forest is a Metroidvania platformer, and it's utterly gorgeous.
The prologue broke my heart a little bit. I don't know quite what else to say about this. The sound design is also wonderful, immediately drawing me into Ori's world.
It seems that Ori's goal is to restore life to the forest, but I haven't played enough of the game yet.
However, I wanted to keep playing, which is a significant change since the start of the year.
One of the odd things about playing so many platform games over the past few months is that, in something that has genuinely surprised me, I do seem to have improved at my platforming skills.
It's still a struggle, and I'm not going to be playing anything on hard mode (or probably even normal), but on easy mode I find that platformers go from something that just provides me with endless frustration, to a challenge that feels rewarding.
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