Eurogamer review is out: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...l-metroidvania-hampered-by-technical-problems
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps | Review Thread
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Dude, what an amazing game. Congratulations.
Funko Pops of all the characters and I'll buy them all!
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Is it recommended to play the first one before jumping into this one? Both are on GamePass for PC so it's as easy as downloading, just wondering what I should do.
Its not needed for the story. Quick recap would do. But if you have the option to play it easy like you say on gamepass you should do it.
Because its a great game. And shows how big of a leap Ori 2 is also.
How long would you say Ori 1 is? From just the file size alone, there's quite a big difference from 3GB to 15GB.
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8ish hrs (roughly half of Wisps) but likely significantly less than that if you're playing on lower difficulty and not exploring
Oh my, was thinking more along the lines of Journey. I'm completely blind on this series, looks like I'll be kept busy if I enjoy it until AC unlocks.
Thanks again for the replies, my Ori 1 download finished and I'm jumping into it now.
Nice! I was starting to worry we were never gonna see it back at 90back to 90 on opencritic too.
Really enjoyed it, ran into a few bugs but nothing too bad. Not going to try and 100% this because that dreaded "Don't die" achievement is back.
Seeing that OpenCritic image further above just makes me happy - I think 2020 will be a great year for gamers :)
"My problem is that they shifted gears to hard in the other direction. They didn't have confidence in their own game or design. Ori came out and all anyone ended up talking about was Hollow Knight (rightfully so, it's a better game). But Ori 2 shifts hard in the direction of Hollow Knight and tbh, the design just isn't up to snuff."
I definitely prefer Ori to HK. But honestly they're different types of games.
I keep hearing the opposite. Kirk stressed it on Splitscreen as well. I'm just posting it because of all the static I was getting for saying it in the thread.
Ori2 is a lot of HK. I played an ungodly amount of HK. Ori2 has the best feature ever (which I found by mistake) - you can TP to a TP point from anywhere. I had spent my playtime running to them, but nope, just go to the map and you're off.
Nice, that seems to have gotten it above Dreams on Opencritic :D
I noticed something strange: The PC user score on Metacritic has gone from 9.1 to 8.4 in the matter of 2 days or so, or maybe even shorter than that. Seems fishy to me. Almost like a raid of some sorts...
Any updates on this? Normally I don't patch beg (did I just invent that phrase?) but I cannot recently recall an instance where a game's amazing potential being consistently dragged down for A/V and stability issues :(
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eh, review bombing happens to most games these days, specially exclusives. you should ignore user scores.I noticed something strange: The PC user score on Metacritic has gone from 9.1 to 8.4 in the matter of 2 days or so, or maybe even shorter than that. Seems fishy to me. Almost like a raid of some sorts...
I'm 41. An English teacher.
3 hours ago I finished this game. Well, game isn't correct. GAME sounds better.
I found myself in tears at the end..I can't understand what it means to spend 4 years of your life building such an amazing work of art like that.
Huge, huge and, again, huge congratulations to thomasmahler and all the team at Moon Studios.
Thank you for giving us this Story.
3 hours ago I finished this game. Well, game isn't correct. GAME sounds better.
I found myself in tears at the end..I can't understand what it means to spend 4 years of your life building such an amazing work of art like that.
Huge, huge and, again, huge congratulations to thomasmahler and all the team at Moon Studios.
Thank you for giving us this Story.
Finished the game this afternoon at about 90% completion on normal. Great game, just like the first. Difficult but fair platforming. Never liked boss fights where you had to fight, much preferred escape sequences. Only negative was the surprisingly bad performance on Xbox One X. Frame rate was all over the place, stuttering, very often the game would simply just hang for a few seconds when an area was loading. Opening the menu/map could take 3-5s.
Besides the technical issues, this is truly a perfect game IMO. MetroidVanias are everywhere, but this really sticks out despite that. Finished it last night and know i have to comb the map and collect everything I missed
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Accolades trailer. Must be awesome to see as a dev - congrats again to the team at Moon! The game is incredible.
The nagging technical problems are a bummer, because I suspect this game would have been universally hailed as a masterpiece otherwise, and probably bumped their overall opencritic/metacritic at least another 3-4 points.
Still an incredible game that got mostly glowing reviews anyhow of course, but just odd to launch with so many technical issues after already being delayed a few times.
I noticed something strange: The PC user score on Metacritic has gone from 9.1 to 8.4 in the matter of 2 days or so, or maybe even shorter than that. Seems fishy to me. Almost like a raid of some sorts...
IDK about PC version but the original Xbox version runs very badly. Full game stutters, art is really blury sadly, and worst of all even pushing through allof the technical mess I cant get past a boss
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Art Examples from screenshots while playing:
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Holy shit finally got to a part where I started to regret doing my first playthrough on Hard. It was the damn
. It took me like 3 solid hours but once I got into the zone I barely even got touched by him on the final successful attempt. Such a dope feeling to kick his ass! And on a side note, it's insane how much better this game is than the first one, it's truly remarkable. Well done to all involved!!
big ass spider boss
Absolutely. Played through main game on pc in 4k 60fps running sounding and playing like a dream. Loved it. Used cloud save to go on Xbox and mop up collectibles and the performance on original is awful. I go too fast and the levels can't be drawn in fast enough so I've got stuck in scenery before ! Also lots of achievements not popping even though ive done all the requirements
Yah I am baffled how that version was released. I don't have a PC that can play it like you can, but if they released the PC version and delayed the X1 version from the start I would of been totally fine with that. I would rather play a game I can enjoy it for what it was designed to be versus what we have on OG Xbox currently which is just bad. Now I will always remember the bad even if they patch into a fantastic state.
State of Decay 2 fell into a similar boat. I played it at launch. I did like what was there but the game was so badly optimized that I dropped it after a week. I hear now it is a great game to play but I am burnt from the launch verison to even try again.
I believe it was this thread but I didn't create an account yet; there were some reviewers being bullied I think into having to change the scores because they mentioned technical difficulties which were supposedly fixed by a day one patch.
I just saw a digital foundry video confirming that even after the patch, there are still technical difficulties and frame drops even on Xbox One X.
Would it be fair that reviewers deduct some points? I mean, if you have to give it a higher score because technical problems were supposedly fixed, then sure; you can deduct points if that turns out to be fake? I would love to get the publishers' perspective on this.
I just saw a digital foundry video confirming that even after the patch, there are still technical difficulties and frame drops even on Xbox One X.
Would it be fair that reviewers deduct some points? I mean, if you have to give it a higher score because technical problems were supposedly fixed, then sure; you can deduct points if that turns out to be fake? I would love to get the publishers' perspective on this.
Do you have anything to report regarding the game's numerous technical issues? Clearly that patch wasn't enough.
If you're not at liberty to say, I understand.
I'm looking forward to playing WotW once I hear that the game has been fixed completely. đź‘Ť
It's just weird: basically developers are saying:
"don't take into account performance issues for our game when you need to give a score, they are fixed in the day one patch"
-which are then not fixed. The developer especially will know 100% what will, and what will not be fixed in the day one patch as they are the one who created the patch and the game.
so the scores that everybody is so happy about, are based on the assumption that the game does not have technical errors. Which is why the scores as they stand now, are false :-)
Don't get me wrong, the game is amazing and all but how it was reviewed is a trend which should end better sooner than later.
Either revisit the score later, or score it based on reality, not promise
"don't take into account performance issues for our game when you need to give a score, they are fixed in the day one patch"
-which are then not fixed. The developer especially will know 100% what will, and what will not be fixed in the day one patch as they are the one who created the patch and the game.
so the scores that everybody is so happy about, are based on the assumption that the game does not have technical errors. Which is why the scores as they stand now, are false :-)
Don't get me wrong, the game is amazing and all but how it was reviewed is a trend which should end better sooner than later.
Either revisit the score later, or score it based on reality, not promise
The game was re-reviewed on Gamespot with the Series S|X update, giving the game a 9/10. The original release scored 8/10 on the site.
Which was also the 4th review needed to get the game a Metascore for the Series X:
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Which was also the 4th review needed to get the game a Metascore for the Series X:
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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