On Ori and the Blind Forest - if you generally enjoy platformers, I would encourage you to give the sequel a shot, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I played BF years ago and like you, I bounced off it. Then a couple of years back I tried WotW and loved it.

I subsequently went back and retried BF, and I realized that every issue I had with the gameplay had been fixed in the sequel.

The story of the first game only factors into the second game in minor ways, so you’ll be fine if you skip it.