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chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:

Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps

They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.

It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to reply again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.

It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.

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caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I suppose it may depend on what circles you’re talking about them in, because that series is one of the top recommendations for metroidvanias. They’ve sold over 15 million copies.

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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d argue that this is akin to new anime fans calling the old great series like Full Metal Alchemist “obscure”. They were huge when they came out, but new fans largely haven’t watched the old greats. That doesn’t mean they were unpopular. It just means the new generation hasn’t found them yet, because the current stuff is enough to keep them occupied.

Ori was huge among metroidvania fans when it landed. But nowadays, players have largely moved on. That doesn’t diminish the old games, it just means new players haven’t bothered digging through old games.

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