ori and the will of the wisps interactive map

#Ori and the will of the wisps interactive map Pc#

'The continuity issue we had and then the desire to make combat different ultimately ended up helping each other,' Smith says. Combat now drives it as much as anything else, and is as intricate and involved as in similar exploration games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, a game Smith cites as a touchstone for both Ori games. This change is nothing short of seismic for the series. The development team at Moon Studios didn't want to go down the path of simply undoing their ending, Smith explains, so instead the combat system was reconsidered from the ground up. It's an interesting wrinkle considering Ori's primary method of attack is removed from the picture at the end of the game. Where the first game was predominantly a puzzle, platforming and exploration driven game with combat featured as almost a small bonus, in Will of the Wisps combat is more integral. That brings us, of course, to the significant change I previously mentioned - and that's in the game's combat. In a four-hour hands-on, it barely felt as though I was even getting started. None of this has changed much save for the fact that the game is bigger - the entirety of Blind Forest's map could be laid over just one section of Will of the Wisps'. The award-winning elements of the original game are smartly intact gorgeous music by Gareth Coker and a striking and gorgeous visual style that uses light in intriguing and beautiful ways to great effect. The story is still told in the same charming, restrained manner, for instance, with little text and no discernible voice work - just unintelligible animalistic babbling and ancient languages.

'Part of the design challenge was to take many of the moments and features that people really loved about Blind Forest while creating many new things and having those new things feel polished enough that they're very cohesive with the things that we're bringing forward,' Smith continues.Ī lot has been carried forward, by the way. Will of the Wisps is back to only being on the two platforms where Xbox is most at home, but it's also ambitious in a way which makes the return to a more traditional 'exclusive' platform release make sense.

#Ori and the will of the wisps interactive map Pc#

Ori already did the 'version 1.5' thing with a Definitive Edition of the first game that expanded, tweaked and improved the experience for Xbox One and PC players before offering that improved experience to players on the Nintendo Switch. We're not really trying to make like a version 1.5 or whatever - we're trying to make this big, true sequel.' 'With Will of the Wisps we're we're really trying to go big,' explains Daniel Smith the senior producer on Ori and the Will of the Wisps at Xbox Game Studios.