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Rick1331 on 14 June 2021

I've had Ori and the Will of the Wisps in my drawer since January but only decided to give it a go a few weeks ago - amazing. In fact it was so good I downloaded Blind Forest as soon as the credits finished rolling.

Blind Forest is also superb, but I really feel WotW refined the first game. I don't know about anyone else but I noticed a big difficulty spike with BF and preferred the slightly more forgiving sequel.

Would love a third but sadly doesn't appear to be on the cards at the moment.



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Baddman on 14 June 2021

My GOTY 2020 Played it on Series X and absolutely loved it



curl-6 on 14 June 2021
Mar1217 said:

Hey, good to see others joining the club :)

That game is still my #1 of the year so far considering I have not played Monster Hunter Rise though ...

I can't recommend Rise highly enough, it's one of the best games I've played in years. Have you played a Monster Hunter game before?

Kwaidd said:

I had just finished Blind Forest before Rise released.  Needless to say, I haven't played Wisps as of yet.  Blind Forest is perhaps one of the most beautiful and enjoyable games I've ever played.  It was definitely tough to a point of aggravation in a couple of the "escape from" encounters, yet once I made it through, the sense of accomplishment was immense.  If Wisps is as much of an improvement over the prior as you say, I might just have to put Rise down for a while.

I was in almost the exact same boat; played Blind Forest late last year, and Rise is the main reason it took until this month for me to sit down and play through Will of the Wisps. I found it a refreshing change of pace and now that I'm back on Rise, my brief break from it has only increased my enjoyment.



curl-6 on 15 June 2021
Mar1217 said:
curl-6 said:

I can't recommend Rise highly enough, it's one of the best games I've played in years. Have you played a Monster Hunter game before?

Yeah, I have experience with MH4 Ultimate and Generations on the N3DS. I know this entry is quite different from previous ones I played but that makes it all the more exciting imo.

Though, there's a good chance I'm gonna plunge into MH Stories 2 before I get my hands on Rise at this rate. Love my classical RPGs haha

Fair enough. Basically all the ways that Rise differs from the 3DS MH entries are ways in which it has been made more accessible, but it retains the core mechanics and challenge so I'd say if you enjoyed those you should get a lot out of Rise.



JackHandy on 15 June 2021
mZuzek said:
JackHandy said:

I loved the first game. Everything about it, really. So if this better than that, I'm in for a treat. I'll give you my impressions after digging into it four a few hours.

There are some people who don't like it as much as the first one but I'm with Curl in that I find it better in every way and I think most people feel that way too. And yeah Blind Forest was great already, Will of the Wisps is just amazing.

And yeah the autosave system is very lenient. It works on a checkpoint basis, actually it kinda works exactly like the saves in the first game, but instead of you having to manually make the saves, they're just invisible checkpoints littered everywhere. Obviously you still only get saves in stable ground, so water levels and certain platforming sections will require a bit more patience. And of course you still don't get autosaves in the escape sequences.

Well, I'm only a few hours in, but I can definitely see how good the save system is. It's almost as if the game is saving at a micro level so when you die, you almost always start where you think you should start--and that's saying something. For years, I've whined about certain games when they remove all my hard-earned progress thanks to an unseen pitfall etc. Yes, there are some games where it made sense (mostly during the NES and SNES era), but most modern games it just feels cheap and unnecessary to me. This game doesn't do that and it's wholly refreshing.

Another thing that seems spot on is the controls. I've found myself marveling how precise they are. Usually, with modern games, I find the controls to be laggy and or just off. But not this game. Every single micro-adjustment is accounted for on the screen and it really ratchets up the enjoyment gameplay wise.

Oh, and the story and music... my lord. So emotive. Whoever composed that score needs a grammy.