Ori and the Blind Forest has a few hiccups here and there but these are minor in comparison to everything good about it.
This is a very fun game and it is absolutely stunning to look at. I loved the music and the story is well done and touching at parts. The style of the game is that of metroidvanias (exploration and item/power-up collection).
I bought the game on steam and played it entirely on a game-pad. The platforming feels completely solid and the rest of the game controls mostly okay. I did however have some small issues with the controls in certain parts of the game. Multiple special abilities end up getting tied to the RT/R2 button and so circumstances would arise where I would mean to do a certain ability and I would do a different ability instead. This very rarely happened except in areas of the game where there were items that had to be carried. The carry item button is also RT/R2, which could prove frustrating at times. This wasn't a constant occurrence, but it did happen enough times that I felt I should mention it.
Here's a few things I ran into while playing the game:
In one of the areas I ran into what I would consider a game breaking bug. There is an item in this area that you have to carry in order to jump onto certain platforms without taking damage. There was one of these platforms that I would fall through whenever I jumped on it whether I was holding the item or not. I tried to get by without the platform for about 10 minutes, but there was no other way to progress forward. I exited out of the game and relaunched it and then it worked perfectly. I jumped on the platform and was able to progress forward. This was the only time something like this happened and also the only time I had to relaunch the game.
During the final part of the game I had some frame rate issues, but other than that the game ran completely smooth for me.
As far as the length of the game it took me 7 and a half hours to beat it with 95% of the collectables found. After beating the game I was unable to load my completed data to go back and collect the rest of the items, so keep that in mind if you want to collect absolutely everything that there is to collect.
Despite some of the shortcomings and small annoyances that I ran into I would have no problem recommending this game.
