Behind The Masterpiece | Ori and the Blind Forest

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Күн бұрын

Alright guys and welcome to the first-ever Behind the Masterpiece Episode! Today we take a look at Ori And The Blind Forest and the game development techniques used to create the immense sense of flow this game reaches.
If there are any games you would like to see me cover on this channel please comment them below so we can talk about them together :)
Timestamps:
Introduction - 00:00
Overview - 00:30
Motion, Color & Trolling - 01:30
Purpose & Progression - 04:50
Bewildering Bosses - 06:40
Beauty And The Bash - 09:50
Final Thoughts - 11:00
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@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

If you enjoy these videos and want to communicate with me directly / be involved with future streams and behind the scenes filming come and join the discord : discord.gg/B9t7YCF

@GameDesignerPlays 3 жыл бұрын

It is rare to find someone who combines entertainment and information so well as you do. I am loving your content!

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Yo this means a lot to me thank you

@pilet1172 3 жыл бұрын

Ori has so much eye candy it put me in a visual sugar coma. I played through both games not too long ago, 'Will of the wisps' was everything I wanted from a sequel to 'The blind forest' and fixed a lot of the issues I had with the first game. Something I didn't expect was a few weeks back 'Will of the wisps' got a upscale update which made the game look even more visually stunning than it did when I first played it. Edit: I'll make sure to stay tuned for the vid on Will of the wisps.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait to cover the sequel especially after you mentioned the upscale! Look forward to hearing your opinions on that video and I hope you enjoyed this one boss :)

@RainyBoyLV 3 жыл бұрын

I knew Ori had good visuals but holy shit I didn't expect it to be this beautiful. Really considering buying the game now

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

It’s probably on sale right now :) it’s amazing to play also and the sequel is amazinggggggggggggg! If you pick it up I’d love to hear your thoughts on it :)

@lito-vostia 3 жыл бұрын

Dewit

@willofthemaker 3 жыл бұрын

buy it. I eventually did and it blew me away. Will of the wisps was already out and bought that after completing blind forest. Honestly, some of may favorite games of all times. Nothing but fond memories. Been awhile since I played them and I still think about them

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree with Will here 👌

@robzom9236 Жыл бұрын

So did you buy them?

@AdmireTheMoustache 3 жыл бұрын

We will watch your career with great interest.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

👀

@jonathangould189 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! It's crazy to think that you only have ~500 subscribers, your videos are really high quality.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate this boss :) hopefully you can stick around and watch as the channel grows

@Trone2 3 жыл бұрын

I'm actually keen on seeing your thoughts on Will of the wisps now.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Already have a video on it my guy :D the anatomy of will of the wisps. I’m keen to hear your thoughts on that video!

@shadowofcat 11 ай бұрын

2 years and its still one of the best videos about game design ive ever seen

@Wesmosis 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks!

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome boss I’m glad you enjoyed it :)

@chandraturaga5584 3 жыл бұрын

Good job mate. You also did a great job on getting game design info out.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers boss 👌 glad you enjoyed it

@simarjitsinghbains9964 3 жыл бұрын

Aww man, i am planning on playing Ori so gonna watch your vid after doing so.. I am sure this one is as good as your other work

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

No rush bud the video will be waiting for you :) can’t wait to talk about what you thought of it in the comments!

@thelifesampler 3 жыл бұрын

I see Ori I send my like , I'm a simple man. lol

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

I play ori, I make a video. I am a simple man xD hope you enjoyed it boss :)

@Lakso229 3 жыл бұрын

Possibly my favourite episode and one of my favourite games. It so beautiful in every way, apart from the combat which you have pointed out haha. I can relate to the part where you were talking about moving through the game without saving and then dying, there have been multiple times where this has happened to me. Great episode and I'm excited to see how you feel about the sequel :D

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

You’re one of the reasons I made this episode 👀 love ya broski

@thecatmangaming5503 3 жыл бұрын

I saw this from your reddit post and it's an excellent commentary! Your narration and editing is on point too - nice stuff :)

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you boss I hope you’re enjoyed it :D this comment means a lot to me

@MaryMatosoa 3 жыл бұрын

Bash is the most amazing ability of the game, it just makes you feel amazing by using and it's super satisfying.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree Mary :) what do you think of the second game?

@MaryMatosoa 3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve commented on the your amazing second vídeo

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Ooooo going to go check now :D thank you! 💕

@e.maleki9927 2 жыл бұрын

This video is sooooo polished how does it only have 3k views? Well done man you got a sub!

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh m8 thank you so much 😁 if you wanna help the channel out share it with some friends who enjoy terraria 💕 you legend!

@zaadworks 3 жыл бұрын

Woow what a nice video, good editing, script and narrative! In the await for the next one!

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Really glad you enjoyed it boss :) next one is coming soon stay tuned!

@jasasul8164 3 жыл бұрын

JM8: "The combat is trash" Ori and the Will of the Wisps: "Allow me to introduce myself"

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

I cover that in my episode on will of the wisps 🕺 hope you enjoy!

@seththeblue3321 12 күн бұрын

Ori is the best game (I count both as one as you can't have one without the other) and this is the best breakdown of BF.

@deebzscrub 2 жыл бұрын

Hope you don't mind me potentially dropping comments on all of the old videos I missed, but I'm really enjoying them. I skipped the Ori games for no real reason that I can determine but hearing about these "platforming boss fights" has me extremely interested, I'm going to have to check this game out! Great work as always!

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Oh DeebZ I love your comments m8💕 never apologise! Please check these games out they slap!

@sttm1283 3 ай бұрын

best game ive played in my 50yr old life. design, gameplay, story. working at the momen on completing will of the wisps. well i have completed it already , but i need to nail all spirit trials to get to 100%. wish there will be a 3rd one.

@clutchathan1476 2 жыл бұрын

This video is a straight banger!! I’m going to watch the will of the wisps one ASAP

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

My hero 💕

@lukas4705 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing how you managed to keep this so compact, simple, yet very informative and well thought out. Great video!

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Lukas 😁 I would love to hear your thoughts on my other episode too!

@lukas4705 2 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve I have not yet played Will of the Wisps so it might be a while, but I would be glad to do so, I bet that video is just as good or even better than this!

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s muchhhh better quality wise 😁

@Willie_Shakes 3 жыл бұрын

m8 My name is Johnny Blind (forest edition) and I think this video has done a phenominal job at selling one on this game that is Ori and the crackalackin' forest of chavs, i especially think the combat looks really fun and i love how ori can jump! this game also has a phantasmal art style that really shows that the world is made of green and blue and red and sometimes blue but mostly green. I'd really love to see a sequil to it called "ori and the presidential election" where Ori becomes the next president of the united states of americah of USA (the U stands for united). But yeah I think this game would be better as an JRPG but only if you're playing it on a thursday at half 11 and I don't think you quite caught on to the deep reason as to why Ori is a magic leaf, its because only a leaf and stop the lich king. but yeah overall i this video has really sold me on playing this game so much I'm going to play the new WoW expansion right away! Blond Voyage my friend!

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Genuinely think your comments are better than my videos...

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Truth 👌

@lito-vostia 3 жыл бұрын

first m8, i loved this episode, this is amazing please keep doing everything that you do, you make magic appear on screen ♥️

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

M8.. jM8 magic episode when? Thanks for the kind words girllllll 🥳

@salazarmageddon 2 жыл бұрын

What a great video. I was just replaying the game and wanted to see what interesting content there might be for it on KZfaq. I'm very glad to have discovered your channel, fantastic stuff!

@mohamedghebache5819 3 жыл бұрын

I love the information the jokes (even the blind joke xD) the memes and the overall experience Great job

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mohamed you’re a legend :) hope you can stick around and watch more of my content in the future :)

@mohamedghebache5819 3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve YOU ARE the legend i am a viewer :)

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ 😉

@3yearsfromnow Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this video! You had a very astute observation about the game's combat and platform gameplay. I agree with you the one that was giving me more difficulties was the platform one, whereas with combat I just pressed the X button a lot of time and I was done lol. Love your video. I just finished the game after 30 hours in it haha

@imrockinout123 2 жыл бұрын

Love that block of text 😂 and love your videos! would love to see you make a video about Kenna: Bridge of spirits or Spirit Fairer!

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Gif you liked it bud! I think that would make a fantastic episode thank you for the suggestion 😁

@zee_guy4506 3 жыл бұрын

A beautiful game and a beautiful analysis. I can only hope the sequel improves on the combat without taking away from everything the original brought in terms of platforming and narrative

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

That episode is coming after my next episode so not long to wait 👌 glad you enjoyed the episode boss!

@chadjones1266 Жыл бұрын

Thanks again. Here from the escapist

@denj4s 2 жыл бұрын

damn what a good video, enjoyed every second, absolutely right: the bash ability is somehow the most used even in Will of Wisps It took me a bit more than 5 hours because I re-examined every part of the map slowly after getting a new ability, because after unlocking the bash ability you skip so much of the beauty at lightspeeds, it is just a pity when you can't enjoy the ambience of the game

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it bud 😁 why do you feel was the weakest part of Will of the Wisps?

@denj4s 2 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve Will of the Wisps is not weak but even more outstanding than the predecessor, with actually having a fighting system. But yet after some playtime every enemy is almost a onehit and not a challenge anymore. This game has even more enhanced visuals. And there is a term for it but it doesn't come to my mind. It describes the game's very detailed visuals which the player doesn't always witness cause of the fast paced gameplay. Especially when you have the sprint, when you visit a beautifully designed save spot, you won't last 10 seconds there ^^

@jixal 7 ай бұрын

Many years later how did you feel about the combat in the sequel, they really amped it up in a good way! Ori sword ftw.

@buusinhojr.9555 4 ай бұрын

Y’know I have a funny story with Ori. The first time I saw the cover of that game my 5-6 year old brain though “the big furry giant thing looks like Baymax!” (DON’T JUDGE YOU WOULD THOUGH THE SAME) I’ve never actually played the game until LITERALLY A FEW WEEKS AGO/REALLY CLOSE TO THE END OF 2023. I love the game and now I can say Hollow Knight, you have competition >:)

@Numbeaar-lu7wt 3 жыл бұрын

Can we have That Game Company's Journey's anatomy as well?

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Sure dude I’ll add it to the list 👀

@PhirePhlame 2 жыл бұрын

The teaching through trolling thing is itself nothing new. Metroid has multiple examples of this very same tactic. The one that most readily comes to my mind is at the beginning of the first game, on NES. Even by this point, platformers had already codified the rule of "go right to win" and even the majority of today's 2D platformers follow this rule to a T. In Metroid, however going right as soon as you first start will cause you to quickly hit a wall - literally. There's clearly a path through the bottom of the wall, but there's nothing you can do to enter it. So, you have no choice but to go to the left, and soon enough you'll encounter a set of stars which drop you into a room with an item...you've just obtained the Morph Ball! And, just to be sure you know what it does, the only way out is the same sort of narrow path you saw at the former dead end off to the right, which you can now traverse by morphing into a ball. You've now learned up to three things from this false start: you don't make progress by simply going right, items will give you new abilities, and you can use the first of these new powers to go through narrow passageways by pressing down.

@DesignDelve 2 жыл бұрын

Oh I know it’s not new, it’s a commonly used technique in game design I am just here to teach people who knew nothing beforehand :) but you seem to have your finger on the pulse 👌 especially with your vast knowledge on the Metroid series!

@aruretheincomprehensible20 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed Ori and the Will of the Wisps, but honestly I think the simplistic combat system was a really good fit for the game. Ori felt very hard to control due to his high top speed, low jump height, and his slow deceleration, and a combat system closer in design to what a lot of other metroidvanias had would probably be unusable in Ori because these features designed for platforming make combat extremely difficult. The combat system basically asks you to just focus on dodging, and that's the only way combat with Ori would be even remotely fun before getting the bash ability.

@mersenneprime1044 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. I too thought the Bash mechanic was something special. I wasn't really feeling the game up to that point.

@XKnight546 3 жыл бұрын

Have you played the second game yet Because seriously if you like the graphics The first one you will really like the second it also just got optimize for Xbox series x. It also in my opinion it’s got probably the best game play ever

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Not yet but I can super looking forward to covering it on the channel (very soon) what did you enjoy about will of the wisps the most? And how do you think it compares to the first Ori game I’d love to hear your opinions on it boss

@XKnight546 3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve Here is a few things 1It has Boss fights actual boss fights 2. If you have ever played the hollow knight you may notice that ori took a lot of things from Hollow knight But in my opinion that’s a good thing and more games should be taking inspiration from the game 3If you played Ori and blind forest and then immediately played will of the wisps ( I did ) You will notice a immediate change in quality You’ll be blown away by even the smallest things that have changed in quality for examples small things like keystones and spirit light 4 Most people will say story is not there but all you really need to do is imagine what the characters are actually thinking and it will make sense If you didn’t cry on the first one (I didn’t ) you may/will cry on the second Another thing you may want to know is that the games launch was really shaky Lots of bugs Even some so bad that in the final cut scene characters were upside down. All of them have been patched now btw The game also feel like a completely different game at first but the gameplay is probably the best game play I have ever seen in my life and that is really saying something since I absolutely hate metrovanias Feel free to use this in any video I’m typing this on my phone so it probably has a few typos

@XKnight546 3 жыл бұрын

I could put more but I am really getting tired of typing lol you seem to have lots of actually really good content I’ll sub like channels that go over stuff like this

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Great insight boss I can’t wait to play it especially after this... 👀 I’m mega hype now

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the sub boss I hope you’re enjoying the content! Ori and the will of the wisps video is coming soon I promise :) any other games you’d like to see me cover on the channel?

@thelifesampler 3 жыл бұрын

is it possible that i am a huge ori franchise fan and at the same time im a huge SIlent Hill fan? damn. I highly recommend you to analyse Silent hill 2 and if you havent played it go for the fan edition on pc which is fantastic.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

My will of the wisps video is coming out in a couple weeks 👀 keep your eyes peeled! And I will 1000% add silent hill 2 to my list of games to cover on the channel. Should I play the first too?

@thelifesampler 3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve original Silent hill is only connected to Silent Hill 3 , you could play SH2 alone of course but I recommend you to play the first and the third cause those are great too. Last advice, you should play Sh games alone and not streaming cause you will lose the experience and purpose specially for the 2nd game.

@thelifesampler 3 жыл бұрын

@@DesignDelve and of course ill wait for the Wisps video i gotta play it too cause i havent .. yet.

@DesignDelve 3 жыл бұрын

I will play them alone and then make videos on the game design of each game 👌 thanks for the advice boss you’re a legend.

@clappagemcphee 2 ай бұрын

Austin Powers appearing made me choke on my coffee. Bravo, sir!

@THE-NINTH-PLANET Ай бұрын

Bro I beat ori and the will of the wisps,but I didn’t even beat ori and the blind forest should I go beat it or it doesn’t matter?

@Alianger 3 жыл бұрын

Most of what you mention are well executed old school design concepts from the late 80s-early 90s. The save system was something new though (I think) and it was cool besides some glitches. Bash was also a cool spinoff of the throw mechanic from Guacamelee and really satisfying to use. The platforming challenges replacing standard bosses were the worst parts for me, being mostly trial & error-based and large difficulty spikes too.