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As Ori, players must jump, climb, glide, and swim between various platforms to solve intricate puzzles. The player controls the titular Ori, a white guardian spirit. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a 2D Metroidvania a platform game with an emphasis on exploration, collecting items and upgrades, and backtracking to previously inaccessible areas. However, criticism was aimed at technical issues such as frame rate issues and visual bugs, which were largely resolved with a day-one patch. With players and critics praising the game's story, characters, visuals, combat, elements of exploration, environments, chase sequences, and soundtrack. It is often called among video games that represented artistic values. Upon release, Ori and the Will of the Wisps received widespread universal acclaim. The game introduces new melee combat, and its visuals were given an overhaul from the two-dimensional artwork in Blind Forest, to the three-dimensional models played in multilayered backgrounds in Will of the Wisps. The game was developed by Moon Studios, a studio based in Vienna with contributors worldwide. The game maintains narrative continuity with Blind Forest, and follows the journey of series' main character Ori in a new region called Niwen.
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A Nintendo Switch version was released in September 2020 by Iam8bit, and a version optimized for Xbox Series X/S was released as its launch title in November 2020. Announced during E3 2017, the title is a direct sequel to 2015's Ori and the Blind Forest, and was released in March 2020 for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a 2020 platform-adventure Metroidvania video game developed by Moon Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios.