Talk:Ori and the Blind Forest

A fact from Ori and the Blind Forest appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 July 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that some employees of Moon Studios, developers of Ori and the Blind Forest, had never met face to face until the game was unveiled at the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ori and the Blind Forest.

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Screenshot questions[edit]

I added a screenshot I found on the game's official site, in its "Media" section. I've tagged it for its fair-use criteria appropriately, but I'm wondering if the resolution is still maybe too high. It was 1920x1080, and I took it down significantly below that. However, if an editor decides it's necessary to reduce it further still for best fair-use protection, please do so. --McDoob AU93 15:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's not an adventure game, and it wasn't inspired by adventure games[edit]

The last sentence in the first paragraph in the section "Development" feels a bit off.

It says David Clark describes the game as an adventure game LIKE Rayman and Metroid, while he never states any such thing (and those two aren't adventure games). He says the game is essentially an amalgam of Castlevania and Metroid, meaning that it is a platformer (akin to Super Meat Boy and Mario, according to Clark) with adventure elements. With ART like Rayman.

Adventure games is a specific genre. It is not to be confused with platform games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.90.61.252 (talk) 01:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ori's gender[edit]

All of the articles in the lead-up to the launch of Ori have said that Ori is male, most likely by assumption and by Moon Studios not correcting them for whatever reason. The game itself, however, refers to Ori as female. Since the game itself can be a source for certain content, and since the game—in both voice-over and in-game text—uses feminine pronouns when referring to Ori, that meets the "straightforward, descriptive statements" qualification for using a primary source over a published, third-party source. --McDoob AU93 13:15, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence "Somber they found me, dormant and still. We told Ori the tale of her misguided will." was referring to Kuro, not Ori. I found a Reddit page where the developers of Ori answered a question about Ori's gender - http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/2yxclb/hi_everyone_its_moon_studios_creators_of_ori_and/cpdto5e -- Aura24 (talk) 18:00, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That would make an interesting addition, but Reddit is not a terrific source. Wish we had better, but it may be all we have to go with. --McDoob AU93 18:40, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Kuro's fate[edit]

The latest version is that Kuro falls into a coma, but according to the game depiction, Kuro seems to be destroyed by the light of the Spirit Tree, especially considering that three of Kuro's children were actually killed by the similar light. So, can anyone provide data source regarding that Kuro did not die? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.186.157.114 (talk) 01:34, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously that IP user who did that edit doesn't know the difference between going into a coma and seeing a character actually die on-screen. -- Aura24 (talk) 08:13, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction[edit]

I think it's a bit far to call the game 'the best ever made' in the opening sentence - maybe a filter that was bypassed by a rogue editor?

Video game articles should just be neutral with the exception of the reception section (it is about the reviews by critics after all) and the points critics and players praise and criticise in the intro. If one of the reviewers said that, it might be worth mentioning, but if it was just added by a random editor and none of the reviewers say that, it shouldn’t be there. UGM9 (talk) 21:09, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

How is a metacritic score of 90 "universal acclaim" but a score of 88 isn't? The switch version isn't magically different to the other DE's available. Can someone without a huge hardon for Nintendo edit this article, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.147.219 (talk) 10:42, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is very simple: a metascore of 90+ for video games (this is different for the other types of things that are reviewed on Metacritic) is regarded as receiving “universal acclaim”. A metascore of 88 (which the others DE’s and original versions received) doesn’t classify as a game that has received such a status due to the metascore being lower than 90 and instead is referred to as receiving “generally favourable reviews”. Hope that cleared up your confusion (also, actually put your stuff on talk pages in a category next time instead of randomly at the top of the page). UGM9 (talk) 06:18, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]