These encounters are well crafted both aesthetically and from a gameplay perspective. The inclusion of boss fights is rooted in the game’s narrative as they are usually creatures corrupted by Decay, and the resolution of these fights is more satisfying than Blind Forest’s levels which ended in challenging platforming segments. However, the moment to moment story beats distance themselves from their predecessor by using NPCs and boss fights to help drive the story and create emotional moments. Players must recover items, in this case Will of the Wisps, in order to restore light to the area and purge the evil that is threatening the land. Ori’s journey on a macro level isn’t much different from that in Blind Forest. The mission is no longer about Ori and his friends, but rather helping defenseless creatures who are barely able to survive. The new environment is host to a variety of new creatures and NPCs, a first for the series, making the stakes of stopping Decay even higher. Where Blind Forest was very much about Ori and his journey to fix his own environment, Will of the Wisps focuses more on Ori’s role in helping others survive and overcome the problems that plague their land. At the center of this conflict is Shriek, a monstrous bird who thrives in the world the Decay has created and is looking to stop anyone from bringing light back to the tree.
Decay has spread throughout the land, corrupting the environment and its inhabitants, possessing them and making them incredibly hostile.
Stricken by a threat similar to the Darkness from the first game, the forest has fallen to Decay brought about by the death of the Willow tree that contained the area’s light. Starting immediately after the events of Blind Forest, Will of the Wisps sees Ori and new friend Ku stranded in a forest outside of Nibel. Moon Studio’s Ori and the Will of the Wisps explores these ideas and Ori’s role in the world around him in a heart wrenching story that continues the legacy of 2015’s Ori and the Blind Forest. There’s an entire ecosystem that has been in place for thousands of years, with each creature serving its purpose and continuing the cycle that came before it. Animals fight, hunt, and support one another, unseen by the human eye except in the rarest of circumstances. All around us, nature grows and adapts to the world, creating beauty and mystery in unlikely places.
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