Ori and the Blind Forest will even log into your Microsoft account – the same one used on the Xbox, and it can be strange seeing your Xbox icon on the title screen.

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Finding seeds from each of the regions gives you the opportunity to grow new plants, vines, and trees in the village. To be able to purchase content for Wii U or Nintendo 3DS family systems, your funds usable through the Nintendo Account must be merged with the funds tied to your Nintendo Network ID. Again, this isn’t just cosmetic or fun story fluff; each new improvement adds ways to move through the village, opening up previously unreachable portions of it to explore, new NPCs to speak to, and hovels to repeatedly loot for currency. There is already so much negativity in the world around me I look for games to lift me up, and dark broodiness doesn't do that for me. But when it comes to something like a depressing video game, one play-through is enough for me and I usually just can't bring myself to revisit it, because I know it means many hours over multiple days of actively residing in a dark place.

Fortunately, the game was a success and in our review, we found that it was "easily one of the highlights for the Nintendo Switch library.

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His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.sj33 My scoring is a bit different than most peoples, since I rate certain aspects of a game separately.

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Ori and the Blind Forest runs on the Unity engine, which has a history of performance issues on Nintendo’s device. This would be for nought if the gameplay wasn’t up to snuff, but Ori And The Blind Forest certainly isn’t all style, no substance – the game is also a joy to play. For example, the frigid mountainous peaks Ori must breeze past on gusts of wind are littered with crisscrossing splintered alpine timber and pointed icicles that reach out to jab and poke from frozen overhangs.Aid the young owl Ku and take on new terrifying foes across this game widely considered a masterpiece. You'll need to explore all of the rooms, find items and abilities to progress, and overcome tough foes who put your skills to the test. This game is absolutely beautiful so naturally I really want to play it over and over, but when I try to, it doesn’t take long for me to feel utterly depressed by it.