The two Ori games - Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps - have performed a trick that only a certain red-dungareed plumber can usually manage - achieve AAA status as 2D platformers. Ori and the Blind Forest was undoubtedly one of 2015's critical darlings and its follow-up emerged from a sea of resultant hype a square half decade later. Now, both games have been packaged together into one handy bundle on the Switch. Where the Mario games are about tight platforming, however, the Ori games offer a deeper, more mysterious world for you to get to grips with in classic Metroidvania style. That said, the games do feature some high-precision platforming! In keeping with the Metroidvania style, as you progress you unlock new abilities and that includes a whole raft of types of movement, which in turn leads to come very creative and finely-tuned leaping. Likewise, things like your combat abilities will level up, and as you get stronger you'll be able to explore more and more parts of the world. It's that world that's the real star of the show, however. Both Ori games are endlessly charming, and despite the fact that a great shadow has fallen over the forest, the inhabitants are pretty wonderful, too. The games are masterpieces in atmosphere and world building, with elements of Disney, Studio Ghibli and the Moomins all swirling together into something strange and beautiful.
