A glowing forest where every jump feels like a dance.

On gut feel, Ori sits ahead of 80% of games. Already high. But this time there's no tension, everything pulls the same way and toward the top. The art style is first, literally ahead of all the others. The soundtrack follows by a hair, ahead of 98% of titles. Feel with a controller in hand beats more than nine games in ten, the desert island isn't far. Even the lowest lines, connection and rediscovery, stay above average. It's a rare profile: beautiful, playable, memorable, with no visible flaw.

Among Metroidvanias, few games bring together the eye, the ear and the hand this fully. Most excel on one axis and give way elsewhere. Ori holds all three at once.

So, who's it for? For you if you love a platforming and exploration game that's also a show, where precise movement meets the beauty of the whole. Much less if long-haul emotion and attachment matter most to you: it's very good there too, but that's the ground where it keeps a little in reserve.