Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Very beutifill game with great music and gameplay like metroidvania style

Beautiful game, lots of fun, great soundtrack.

Great visuals and mechanics and music

Combat is simple and platforming is engaging.

*sigh* I really, really wanted to like this game. The graphics and art design are stunning, the story is compelling without being too overwrought, and the gameplay, at least for the first third, was terrific. The problem is, the difficulty ramps up *hard* about a third of the way in. It goes from 'challenging but fun' to 'requires long strings of absolutely pixel-perfect timing' over the course of twenty minutes or so. Pretty soon, I'd had enough. The game stopped being fun, and turned into an incredibly frustrating grind. Note that most of the games' challenges are maneuver-based, so cranking the difficulty setting down doesn't have any real effect. Two stars is harsh, but fair. Ori and the Blind Forest really failed the most important test - is it fun to play? If you're a hardcore platformer enthusiast with hummingbird-like reflexes, you'll probably dig it a lot more than I did.