This game by developer Moon Studios was certainly one of the year’s surprises, and a great game in its own right. This is a “Metroidvania” genre game, combining the best elements of the old Metroid and Castlevania video game series. And while it’s hard not to be touched by the game’s opening moments, which show Ori’s relationship with his pal Naru before the forest falls into darkness, what follows is a hard and challenging platform game in the classic mold.
Ori, like Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog, is a cute character that is able to perform gravity defying leaps in order to traverse the game’s difficult levels, which boast a pretty art style making Ori and the Blind Forest undoubtedly one of the most gorgeous and best games of 2015.
