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[Miles Quaritch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkugwd78YE

Thought this looked spectacular. IGN is reporting it's coming to PC, 360 and X1. Not sure how reliable that is though.

Moon Studios has announced Ori and the Blind Forest, a gorgeous and atmospheric platformer headed to Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC this holiday.

Title: “Ori and the Blind Forest”

Publisher: Microsoft Studios

Developers: Moon Studios

Genre: Action-adventure platformer

Platform: Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC

Price: TBD

Age rating: Pending

Estimated launch: Xbox One and PC (Fall 2014); Xbox 360 (TBD)

Product overview: “Ori and the Blind Forest” is a masterfully-crafted action-adventure platformer that combines exploratory gameplay with a heart-wrenching emotional narrative. Powered by the Unity Engine, “Ori and the Blind Forest” combines beautiful visuals and a cinematic score for an unforgettable experience.

Join Ori, the last spirit guardian, as he discovers the mysteries of a dying forest while escaping the evil clutches of Kuro, the dark owl. Play through a beautifully created environment while combating Kuro and completing in-game puzzles to help Ori save the blind forest.

About Moon Studios
Moon Studios is an independent video game development studio, founded in 2010 by Thomas Mahler (former Cinematic Artist at Blizzard Entertainment) and Gennadiy Korol (former Senior Graphics Engineer at Animation Lab). The company mainly focuses on highly refined gameplay mechanics within its products and prides itself on an excessive ‘iterative polish’ process. Moon Studios is a distributed development house: All team members are spread throughout the world, allowing Moon to work with the best and most talented people in the games industry. In 2011, Moon Studios became a Microsoft First Party Developer and is now working on “Ori and the Blind Forest”, due to be released in the fall of 2014 for Xbox One and PC.

According to the fact sheet, it's coming to all three platforms, 360 included. However:

Estimated launch: Xbox One and PC (Fall 2014); Xbox 360 (TBD)

Looks amazing.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Loved the art style in this one

 

[RyoonZ]

Easily the best game on the conference, amazing music.

 

[Stumpokapow]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

 

[iceatcs]

Nice, PC.

Love the animation.

 

[Lijik]

 

[Dusky]

Loved the look of this!

 

[hohoXD123]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Yeah, I was under that impression initially too.

 

[kobashi100]

Looks amazing..

 

[ced]

Best thing at their conference.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

love the style. best game of the conference in my book.

 

[Kieli]

It hit me right in the feels. :'(

 

[Miles Quaritch]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Same here. Was very surprised to learn it wasn't.

I wonder what Noogy is up to right now...

 

[SkyOdin]

I really liked the look of it. It had a very evocative art style and cool creature designs. Hard to get a read on the gameplay other than platforming, though.

 

[Mass Effect]

Oh I really hope it's on PC. It looks great.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Thought it was somewhat related to child of light at one point.

 

[Vexxan]

Looks great, will definitely keep an eye on it in the future.

 

[ashecitism]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Same here.

 

[il Diavolo]

Out of the whole conference, this game is what stood out the most. Looks beautiful.

 

[Smellycat]

Absolutely stunning

 

[Elor_Nocudee]

This is a beautiful looking game, hoping it turns out good.

 

[Daria]

The art looks gorgeous and one of the best announcements so far. Really excited to try this out.

 

[DanteSparda504]

Child of Light 2.

 

[Kayant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkugwd78YE

Thought this looked spectacular. IGN is reporting it's coming to PC, 360 and X1. Not sure how reliable that is though.

Trailer says only on XB1... Maybe next-gen exclusive or MS exclusive?

OT - One of the most interesting games there and gorgeous art style.

Edit - Yay am full memebr now

 

[RazielCuts]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Ha, yeah, I thought that too. Especially that little white fox creature.

 

[KageZero]

Aw looks great will keep my eye on it if a pc version will be avalible

 

[Salsa]

awh yis, im there on PC

 

[Linkyn]

Good to know it wasn't just me.

 

[HoosTrax]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

The white critter does look a lot like Fidget, but I think this game seems to have substantially more layers of background parallax than Dust did.

 

[sublimit]

Definitely my favourite game from MS's conference.Love the art style.

 

[I2amza]

This game looks sooooo goooood. In my veins!

 

[ViewtifulJC]

oh gosh pls dont die giant black Ghibli creature thing

we were friends and the world is so dark and scary

 

[Cels]

The big black creature with the white face reminded me a little bit of the no-face dudes from Spirited Away

 

[Hockeymac18]

One of the highlights of the conference for me. Loved the music and atmosphere.

 

[RyudBoy]

Yes! This game looks fantastic!

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Trailer says only on XB1... Maybe next-gen exclusive or MS exclusive?

OT - One of the most interesting games there and gorgeous art style.

Confirmation from EG that it's at least coming to PC.

Due out this holiday exclusively on Xbox One (edit: and PC too), the game looks to be a side-scrolling 2D platformer with stylised visuals and some Studio Ghibli-style characters.

360 is probably a mistake on IGN's part.

 

[wapplew]

Thanks god for PC version, thank you MS.
I was so jealous when I saw xbone exclusive.
Game of the show for me so far.

 

[Incitemaybe]

Ooh, looks like my cup of tea

 

[SmackAttack]

Looks very interesting. Looking forward to this one.

 

[DecoyOctopus]

Easily the best game on the conference, amazing music.

Yeah, this and Inside were the highlights of the show for me.

 

[PhatSaqs]

Music is being done by a great composer too. I know youll knock it out the park Gareth!

 

[Niven]

I want it now

 

[KHlover]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Same here. I was pretty shocked when I found out this is by a different studio. Damn.

 

[Chaos17]

Prettier than child of light, i would've liked to try it on pc.

 

[Nabs]

I'm there.

 

[GarciaHotspur]

I thought it was Xbox One exclusive !

 

[ryan299]

Phil said on Spike that this game is made by a virtual studio. That's pretty amazing.

 

[HoosTrax]

The art style looked so much like Dust I assumed it was Noogy's next game, but that's not his team name.

Seems like you weren't the only one with that thought:

 

[Violet_0]

absolutely in love with this art style

 

[Nightengale]

PC version, yusss.