In December both the Collector's Edition and regular physical editions will be released :)
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps available on Nintendo Switch now. Physical Editions in December
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And the first game too? The collectors edition is very enticing but I have future items in that month I've allocated to spend on. But standard physicals of both could be in the cards for me.
Yup, both Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps will be released physically at the same time :)
wait, so both games will be released phisically on Switch, separately!?
Yes. There will be 3 physical SKUs: Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and the Ori Collectors Edition that contains both games, the soundtracks and a ton of other stuff :)
Long shot, but is there any chance of a 'regular' physical double pack for Switch, with Ori and the Blind Forest + Will of the Wisps on one cart?
Amazing! Looking forward to those!! 🙌
Thomas, is the the Collector's Edition a worldwide release ?
iam8bit is shipping it all around the world as far as I know, yes :)
Thanks, but isn't that going to be a pretty hefty shipping price if somebody lives in Europe for example? There's also increased chances of damage when shipping long distance (and I'm sure nobody wants dents in their Collector's Edition box). It's a pith that the sole distribution point is in the US.
Is the Collector's Edition exclusive to the IAm8-Bit Store or will it be available elsewhere?
I was told that emailing [email protected] might lead to good things :)
iam8bit is the publisher, the CE will be exclusively distributed by them, yes.
Played about 10 hours so far and the game has been pretty much flawless.. I guess I'm not that sensitive to small fps drops from 60 to 50. It looks spectacular too on the handheld
The game performs better than it was originally on XBox as far as I can remember.
Had another crash, this time without lag pre empting it. Warping from Luma pools to wellspring glades... Crashed and when I restarted I was still in Luma pools. Tried again and it worked this time.
Seems in general that most crashes involve the wellspring glade in some way.
Seems in general that most crashes involve the wellspring glade in some way.
Played for about an hour. Game's beautiful and performs wonderfully so far!
Did encounter an odd bug where I randomly fell into the ground and got stuck inside one of the black in-between areas on the map. Had to reload a backup save (talk about a life saving feature...).
Did encounter an odd bug where I randomly fell into the ground and got stuck inside one of the black in-between areas on the map. Had to reload a backup save (talk about a life saving feature...).
Some very nice scores on Metacritic for the Switch version:
Metascore: 93
User Score: 9.1
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which are a bit higher than the scores for the PC and Xbox One versions.
Haven't yet boiught it myself, waiting for the bugs to be ironed out first and for the release of the physical version in December.
Metascore: 93
User Score: 9.1
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
The little spirit Ori is no stranger to peril, but when a fateful flight puts the owlet Ku in harm’s way, it will take more than bravery to bring a family back together, heal a broken land, and discover Ori’s true destiny. From the creators of the acclaimed action-platformer Ori and the Blind...
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which are a bit higher than the scores for the PC and Xbox One versions.
Haven't yet boiught it myself, waiting for the bugs to be ironed out first and for the release of the physical version in December.
I remember telling someone not to get their hopes up about a Switch version. Being wrong feels good sometimes.
Thomas, you and the other devs might be interested in reading the following new thread on the Switch subreddit, hopefully it will help with the bug fixing:
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We're on top of all of that, no worries. A patch that should iron these things out will drop soon :)Thomas, you and the other devs might be interested in reading the following new thread on the Switch subreddit, hopefully it will help with the bug fixing:
Reddit - Dive into anything
That's great news, it might though be worth it if you or a colleague popped into that reddit thread and mentioned the upcoming patch just to reassure people. :)
Digital Foundry have done a really excellent job on their analysis of the game on the Switch, it's really impressive what went into getting the game to run so well on the Switch -
www.youtube.com
Ori And The Will of the Wisps Switch Analysis: Inside An 'Impossible' Port
This is simply a stunning conversion to Switch. One of the most beautiful games on Xbox One retains almost all of its visual features on the Nintendo hybrid ...
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thomasmahler will the regular physical edition of both games release in Europe? Will I be able to purchase it on, say, Amazon Spain? Or will I have to import it from the states? Thanks
Between Xbox One S struggling and Microsoft saying they wouldn't release more of their exclusives outside Xbox, I really thought so too, until some rumors about a Microsoft game coming to switch started around August Indie Showcase.
Will the patch be in both the standard and collector's retail releases on cart?
Standard Retail will be available all over Europe. Can't guarantee Amazon Spain, but it's likely :)
A friend of mine told me " there is no way Switch could run this game" when he saw the 1st or 2nd trailer of Ori 2 lol.
To be honest, even we thought the same thing for some time. After having a hell of a time to get perf issues ironed out on the Xbox, we all thought for a while that, on Switch, 30fps would probably be the best we'd ever get out of it and if that would've been the case, we most likely wouldn't have shipped the game on Switch.
But then our Tech Team went silent for a while and when we heard from them again, hitting the 16.6ms required suddenly become more and more of a possibility. Suddenly our Art Team also had to get involved and soon we had builds where parts of it ran at 60fps and it was a thing of beauty. Then both departments kept dabbling away and the result is what we shipped.
It's honestly quite unbelievable to me how this thing came to pass, I was already heads down on the next game we're making, so I was just as surprised as everyone else. Getting to work with these insanely talented folks at Moon is a joy, every day you see some amazing stuff happening and it just inspires yourself to roll up your sleeves to really hit the nail on the head.
The fact your team is so insistent on your games running at 60fps, including ports, is so refreshing as a Switch owner.
Wow, you people at Moon are such talented!
Thanks for your insight.
Physical editions are up on retail stores (at least in Europe) with a December 8th release date (~37€):
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Really looking forward to these!!
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Man I just assumed these would be an American/import type thing. Crossing my fingers for uk release 😱
Is this still the case?
iam8bit have tweeted that the recent patch will not be on the physical release, is this the case now?
See this post:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps available on Nintendo Switch now. Physical Editions in December
In December both the Collector's Edition and regular physical editions will be released :)
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Seems it applies to Europe. What about US?See this post:
Ori and the Will of the Wisps available on Nintendo Switch now. Physical Editions in December
In December both the Collector's Edition and regular physical editions will be released :)
How rare do we expect this standard physical release to become?
I'm wondering if I should pre-order it or pick it up later.