ori and the will of the wisps characters

But alongside these many enemies, friendly woodland critters and massive animal guardians hide and thrive in each area, ready to make your acquaintance. There’s a healthy bestiary to test your mettle. Crawling With LifeOri and the Will of the Wisps reinforces that theme of a wider, living world with a menagerie of creatures to fight, big and small: dive-bombing mosquitos, slugs that spit caustic goo, dangling spiders, piranhas, spiky slimes, leaping elemental mantis-things, and hulking decay-touched bruisers with massive clubs kept me on my toes in every new place I visited. Whether you’re burrowing through the sand in the blazing red light of the desert or nimbly swimming through chomping clams and bouncing between air bubbles, there’s always something surprising in store. There’s an incredible beauty and attention to these unique flourishes that serve the overarching theme of every region, from the closest foreground objects all the way back through the half-dozen layers of background art that slowly shift in parallax scrolling as you move.

The claustrophobic, pitch-black tunnels of the Mouldwood Depths writhe with the bodies of thousands of insects whose chittering wings radiate a constant chorus of uncomfortable buzzing, and their sharps barbs sting if touched while Ori fumbles in the darkness. For example, the frigid mountainous peaks Ori must breeze past on gusts of wind are littered with crisscrossing splintered alpine timber and pointed icicles that reach out to jab and poke from frozen overhangs.

Ori and the will of the wisps characters