"Ori and the Will of the Wisps" is a platform-adventure Metroidvania video game by Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox Game Studios and Iam8bit (Switch), developed by Moon Studios GmbH, Xbox Game Studios and Ori.
Here are "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game trailer, gameplay, features, release date, download and everything we know so far.
Trailer
Is there a trailer for Ori and the Will of the Wisps?
Xbox on Thursday, December 12, 2019 released the trailer for "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" you can watch here:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - TGA 2019 - Gameplay Trailer.
Gameplay
What are Ori and the Will of the Wisps gameplay features?
Here is a short review of "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game gameplay features.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a 2D Metroidvania; a platform game with an emphasis on exploration, collecting items and upgrades, and backtracking to previously inaccessible areas. The player controls the titular Ori, a white guardian spirit. As Ori, players must jump, climb, glide, and swim between various platforms to solve intricate puzzles. Gameplay unfolds in the form of a Metroidvania, with new abilities and upgrades allowing players to unlock previously inaccessible areas of the map. Some of the foundational gameplay elements were inspired by the Rayman and Metroid franchises.
Unlike its predecessor Blind Forest, Will of the Wisps relies on autosaving rather than manually placed "soul links". The sequential upgrade system of the first title has been abandoned for a system of "shards" (inspired by the Final Fantasy series's "materia" system), which can be purchased or found throughout the game to upgrade or modify Ori's stats and attacks. Ori's attacks can be managed via a convenient radial menu, and orbs to increase Ori's health and energy can be found throughout the map.
A new mode called Spirit Trials was revealed at Gamescom 2018. The mode challenges players to race to a goal in the fastest time possible. To enhance competition and strategy, players can see the best times and the routes taken by other players. Will of the Wisps also introduces side quests from NPCs to earn collectible items such as Gorlek Ores, which are used to expand the game's hub area.
The story takes place immediately after the events of Ori and the Blind Forest and is narrated by the Spirit Tree in the forest of Niwen. Kuro's last egg hatches, giving birth to a baby owl whom Ori, Naru, and Gumo name Ku and raise as part of their family. Being born with a damaged wing, Ku is unable to fly until Gumo affixes Kuro's feather to it. Ku and Ori go on a flight that ends up taking them out of Nibel and into Niwen, where a storm separates them.
Ori's search for Ku eventually leads them to Kwolok, a toad looking over the Inkwater Marsh and some of the inhabitants of Niwen, the Moki. He tells Ori that Ku is in the Silent Woods, the Moki's former home now turned into a desolate graveyard of owls, but with the waters of Niwen unclean, Ori must set the wheels of The Wellspring back into motion to enter them. Kwolok also gives Ori a wisp, the Voice of the Forest, to guide them on their journey. Meanwhile, Naru and Gumo head off to Niwen via a raft to find Ori and Ku. Upon setting The Wellspring's wheels back into motion, clearing Niwen's water, Ori proceeds to enter the Silent Woods. There they reunite with Ku, but the pair encounters Shriek, a deformed, vicious owl who was an orphan at birth and rejected by the rest of her kind, ruling over the Silent Woods and terrorizing Niwen. Shriek attacks Ori and kills Ku.
After Ori mourns Ku's death, Kwolok explains that the Voice of the Forest is not at full power and is unable to bring Ku back in its current state. Due to the Spirit Willow's prior passing, the light that it carried was shattered into five wisps that scattered across Niwen, leaving the forest vulnerable to corruption and decay that killed the Willow's guardian spirits and Shriek's parents before her birth. Kwolok tasks Ori with seeking the other wisps of the Spirit Willow's light: the Memory, Eyes, Strength, and Heart of the Forest, and merge the four with the Voice to reform the tree's light. Kwolok leaves his marsh to help Ori with locating one of the other wisps, but his body is forcibly taken over by the Stink Spirit, a creature born from out of the forest's decay whose body jamming the wheels of The Wellspring had been the cause of its non-functionality. Ori breaks the creature's control over Kwolok, allowing for him to kill it, but their fight leaves him mortally wounded. Before dying, Kwolok pleads to Ori to restore and protect Niwen in his place.
Release date
When is Ori and the Will of the Wisps game release date?
"Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game release date was scheduled to be on March 10, 2020, on March 11, 2020 (worldwide), on September 17, 2020 (worldwide) and on November 10, 2020 published by Xbox Game Studios, Iam8bit (Switch) and Microsoft Game Studios.
Specifications
What are Ori and the Will of the Wisps game specifications?
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a single-player video game.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps uses Unity engine.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is available for the following platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series XS.
"Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game is rated "E", according to the ESRB video game rating system.
Buy and Download
Where to buy and download Ori and the Will of the Wisps video game?
More information on where to buy and download "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game, also reviews of gameplay features and game requirements you can get on the following websites.
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- "Ori and the Will of the Wisps" video game for Steam
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