Well, Ori didn’t die. She’s reborn as Niwen’s Spirit Tree. She even narrated her whole story throughout the game, meaning that Ori is still alive. But you are right, she embraced the light to save Niwen and its inhabitants. (Yes, I think Ori is a female)
Rejected by pretty much everyone, including her own kind, Shriek has only known loneliness and her mind became so corrupted to the point where she wouldn't believe in Ori's attempt to be her friend. After falling from battle with Ori, she used the remaining strength to fly back to her home so she could die in the embrace of her parents' corpse. In the end, she was just a child, still small enough to fit snug in her parent's wings, who only wanted warmth of kindness and love from others. Shirek's story breaks my heart T_T
Game: "Congratulations, you won" Me: "Cool. What do I get?" Game: "I'm gonna give you an emotional gut-punch" Me: "Wait-" Game: "And then I'm going to rip your heart out"
The moment at 6:22 when the narrator says "I embraced the light" really hits hard when you realize that the one who has been narrating the player through the Blind Forest and the Will of the Wisps was actually Ori himself.
Only Will of the wisos is narrated by Ori, the first game was narrated by the Spirit Tree. They have the same voice because Ori becomes another Spirit Tree/Spirit Willow.
@@thesnatcher3616 well no its not. Thats spirit tree of Nibel. its light is blue and right after you start the game you see Ori resting and watching the spirit tree.
@@Chappie432 To be fair, Shriek lived her whole life being rejected and alone. I doubt one act of kindness will make her want to change. That is what makes her death so tragic. She was born alone, she died alone. What an amazing game!
@@Chappie432 I don't disagree. However, just because Shriek killed so many creatures doesn't entirely mean she "doesn't deserve better". Shriek has lived her life being an enforcer for Silent Woods and doing so for years... alone. I agree her backstory doesn't justify her killing; but it does justify on what she IS and how it affects her VIEWS on life. Being a creature of darkness, being alone, and rejected has cause Shriek so much pain and sadness that she later turned to hatred. I think she deserved a better ending because at the last moments of her life she curled up to her parents and dies without knowing what love and "warmth" really means. No offense. I don't disagree with your argument.
Finished this today. EDIT: Once he revealed that "this game" is being told by him my jaw dropped. This is phenomenal story telling. Moon Studios deserves all the praise.
Zerebrat Eightyseven Theh said they don’t have any plans in making a sequel anytime soon, they’re already working on another project. But it was a good way to leave the game, so that it’s not a cliff hanger but they can still come back to the franchise.
Let’s talk about the fact that they created their own problem when EVERYONE rejected her as a child(presumably because she was different). But openly accepted Ori and Ku.
I wanted to help her so bad... thats the only thing I didn't like about the ending. The fact that she couldn't be redeemed no matter how much I wanted her to be.
Im Wispy That’s the sad truth of the ending. Ori wanted to accept Shriek. Honestly this is probably one of the best video game endings I’ve ever seen. Nothing hit me as hard as this game ended.
2.8 million people have played it, that’s not bad for an “indie” title, although this series is easily AAA quality. I agree though, anyone who considers themself a gamer should experience this one.
All I wanted for the ending was to see Naru living her life in a comfortable, air-conditioned, retirement home, eating all the oranges. Instead, she spends her whole life climbing through the wilderness to see her tree baby. My heart just can't.
She refused Ori's help and the light, her mind was so corrupted that saving her was impossible :( i think death was her salvation. There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, Shriek's tomb with flowers
I was always curious if it was only spirits that could hear the spirit tree's voice or if other creatures could too. But at 6:50 I think it kind shows they can still talk with him. So even though Ori was reborn again the family was still able to be with each other until the end.
I dont even know how to explain how I feel, except emotional. The one thing that really hit me was the fact that it seems like ori is gone, but watching over his family until they eventually fade away. Take the ending and soundtrack, and it's the most emotional moment I have ever had with a story.
Side note: If you look closely, you can see the faces of Naru, Gumo and Ku etched into the bark on the spirit tree that was Ori. They weren't separated from him, they just became part of him once they died. They're always together now.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps did a fantastic job giving each character a more fleshed out story-- some through cutscenes, and some through just conversing with. The game did not disappoint me and the ending left me even more amazed than The Blind Forest did.
She refused Ori's help and the light, her mind was so corrupted that saving her was impossible :( i think death was her salvation. There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, Shriek's tomb with flowers
A little of a not so fun fact: The original script of the game is to make Ku die, as in Ku never appearing again after the encounter with Shriek instead of critically injured like in the current game. Eventually it was changed because it was too much to the point the playtesters dropped the controller and don't feel like playing anymore due to the extremely heart wrenching gut punch from having seen a child die.
@@eduardodelapena7075 I hope they don't do it too soon tho, I wish they come back to this world in something like 10 years then the hype will be insane
@@JamesDawnshineI would not be opposed to a spinoff, though I'd hope it would be following Ku after the events of this game since they kinda got fridged for most of the game.
@@eduardodelapena7075 Imagine if in the next game the protagonist (Ku, maybe?) ended up meeting an industrialized civilization whose polution was the origin of the illness that killed Shriek's parents.
No :'( almost everyone cried in that moment, every single youtuber.. i think Death was her salvation There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, its Shriek's tomb with flowers
I played the end whilst my newly 2 year old daughter looked on while playing with her toys. I thought she wouldn’t really take in what was going on but as Ori faded away she ran over for a cuddle with tears in her eyes saying “poor rabbit”.
Finished this game and my heart hurts. It’s so bittersweet! And I have a lot to say about it. I actually wish I was slower on completing this. Took me 5 days, and I reached 15 hours on my save. I never expected that ending as well. I thought Ori was going to pass away because of how weak she was crawling to Seir.(The orange light)When Seir said “It is time, Ori.”, I realized what that meant. It was time for Ori to carry on with the next generation and become a Spirit Tree. So, it happened. I actually wished it was like this: Ori is physically there as her Light Spirit form with Seir inside of her and her life is connected to the forest. But hey, I still loved the ending. As Ori grew strong, her family became old as well. That hurt me as well. But what got me thinking, is that a white leaf came off of Ori’s branch. It might be hinting another game in my opinion. When I realized that Ori was telling her story in this game, I was shocked. If a new game is rumored or confirmed, she’ll most likely narrate it. But dang, seeing Ori grow up from a white leaf, to a Light Spirit, to a Spirit Tree made me smile and cry. If Ori didn’t fuse with Seir, Ku wouldn’t have been revived and life would die. I will miss seeing Ori in her Light Spirit form. Also, I actually feel bad for Shriek. As soon as she was born, she looked at the skeletons of her dead parents. She knew that her parents died RIGHT AFTER her birth. As she tried getting along with other baby owls, their mothers got protective and angrily casted Shriek out. Because of that, Shriek became one with the dark and was blinded by her past. After getting defeated by Ori, she flew back to her dead parents and sat there, closing her eyes. It’s sad learning about her past and why she’s highly aggressive. She’s a pretty intimidating antagonist to me, but this is the end of my thoughts. I loved the ending, I’ll miss playing as Ori if a new game is rumored with a new character, and it is a overall masterpiece of a game. Moon Studios did amazing! Time to play this on hard mode! (Yes, I think Ori is female.) Another edit: About the gender. I say Ori’s Light Spirit form is female and Ori’s Spirit Tree form is male. But hey, I do call Ori they/them at times as well. I won’t bash you if you think Ori is male, female, or no gender. As long as you respect opinions.
Craig Adams Same! I still cry over Shriek killing Ku and the ending because of how strong it hit me! I hope more Ori games come out or something related. Moon Studios puts beauty in their games!
This game reaches the cold, stone, and even the most heartless of humanity. As we are the only living beings that are able to feel empathy, sorrow, and pain like nothing else can. I, being a nonviolent blackheart-like person, am touched.
Just gonna point out that Ori himself was "born" from a glowing leaf that popped out of the spirit tree. So that leaf that popped out at the end? Yeah, that's another spirit(or maybe Ori again, who knows?).
It was another Spirit Guardian, as that's how they're born. At the end of the last game when the Tree is restored it too shed more leafs to create more children
At 4:48 the foreground (what seems ignore-able because of how blurred out it is) is actually the various beings that inhabit the Wellspring Glades. Tokk (the bird) is most recognizable to the left, where his jaw actually drops and he loses the little twig he nibbles at. Beside him is Grom (the Gorlek builder) who's short with a wide mane of white fur, then Tuley (the gardener/mole) holding his recognizable staff. Then Kii (from the Silent Woods) in the middle with the odd loop on the top of his mask. Lupo (the mapmaker) is the small figure that's a bit hard to see, then Motay (chameleon statistician) almost hovering over Lupo. It's a bit unclear but I think the rightmost figure is Orpher (the combat expert) who's rather tall. I just thought it made that moment of seeing Ori's light spreading all the more striking, knowing their friends are watching.
I wans't happy with this ending. Nor was I disappointed. It left me just... empty. All of them, Naru, Gumo and little Ku, never seeing Ori again is just cruel... I thought there would be a reunion... That Ori would return in physical form after obtaining the light... But he didn't. I thought they would reunite... That Ori would come back to them, after his family cared for the tree... But he didn't... Stll... I thought - and wished - for a reunion... and then they got older. Older and older.... Until they were gone... All of them... Forever. And then... after many years... a leaf fell from the tree. And with it uncertainty. Would it be a new ghost? Like Ori? Or would it be Ori himself? And if it was Ori how would he return? Did he forget everything about his former life? About his family? Is he born anew... into a foreign land, without someone caring for him and without a clear purpose? Or would he remember? Remember everything he experienced. Remember his family, Naru, Gumo and his little sister Ku... just to return into a world with no trace of them left. They're nothing but a memory. A memory of one little creature not knowing how long it has been and how much this land changed with the time... This uncertainty was it that made me cry. The fact that there wouldn't be a sequel. And if there was... it wouldn't be the same anymore... It's over. And I can't think like: They're gone. They all faded. Because they propably didn't. The thought of Ori returning and remembering all that was is stuck inside my head and heart, which is why I can't decide what to think about the ending. If Shriek, who just wanted to be accepted - nothing more, managed to defeat the darkness within her, throw away her armor and turn into a white phoenix of light, into a protector of all Niwen, to take and protect the light herself. If Ori and his family could have grown old together... And eventually faded together... If this happened it wouldn't hurt so much... For one we could be certain of whether Shriek died in her parents arms or if she just went there to feel a little bit of comfort after all this time of suffering... And on the other hand... I could think: Yes. They're gone. It's over. All of them lived happily. Just like all of us could say that they were happy together after Ori and the Blind Forest we could have said all of them had a happy life... And now they're at a better place... But not like this... This is what hurts me... The fear of Ori returning... Remembering... But being alone. Again. Without his family...
There was a lot of uncertainty, but then again look at how uncertain Ori started out and where it led. Naru taught Ori how to build a home and a family, and Ori went on to build one for all the wanderers and broken families in the glades. I like to imagine that Ku grew up sleeping in Ori's branches and that even though they don't speak much anymore (not that there was much of that before), they still obviously spent years/decades together while Ori built a world that made thousands of other families like theirs possible. For all we know the leaf/spirit drifted into the glades where it was raised by the whole community, and Ori 1 and 2 were narrated to all the baby Moki and spirits by grandpa Ori.
I think in the cutscenes it’s implied that the ones who protect the light (oris kind) came back with the leaves. The way he narrates the story makes me think he communicates with his family in some type of way. The one thing that felt sad was shrieks ending for me personally.
I feel you. It stung me bad that Naru and Gumo didn’t see Ori physically throughout the whole game except the ending. Ori became a Spirit Tree to keep the life cycle going. Ku did reunite with Ori, but it lasted short because of Shriek killing her. That was the last time Ku saw Ori in their Light Spirit form... About what you said about the white leaf coming off Ori’s branch, I don’t think it’s Ori. I say that because Ori’s the narrator of the game and is looking back at their memory of the Will Of The Wisps. I think they’re still a Spirit Tree. But hey, I wish the white leaf could be Ori and have their memories. But I have a strong sense that Ori’s story ended with Will Of The Wisps... I don’t know. The ending did hurt, but at the same time I liked it. I hope a third game comes out and Ori narrates it again. I mostly worry about Ori dying...
4:10 I can't help but feel like this moment is not only a moment where they think of Ku and their rest of their family, but of Kuro as well. It was Kuro's sacrifice that allowed Nibel and her last child to live, and Ori once again must make the same sacrifice. It also feels like a silent apology to Kuro for them not being able to protect Ku up until this point, but now, they are going to do the same that she did so that life can continue to prosper.
What I find interesting is that the owls of Niwen were clearly shown to all be dead, turned to stone by the decay. Shriek survived this, but was horribly deformed with stone wings. Yet at the exact same time, maybe a few months prior to this game, we have Kuro, the only grown owl shown to be living in Nibel, and her clutch of eggs. No other owls are shown to live in Nibel. I'd find it entirely likely that Kuro fled Niwen to protect her eggs she was soon to lay. Perhaps she even knew about Shriek and depending on their ages, it's possible that Kuro may even have been chased out by the grown Shriek enacting vengeance for her treatment as a chick. Given this and the state of the owls in Niwen, it's entirely possible that with the deaths of Kuro and Shriek, Ku was the last living owl in both Nibel and Niwen.
So... I just got to the part where Ku is dying and the Moki family were frozen, and hope seemed lost, but I'm tired, and I wanted to know they'd be ok, so I came here to watch the ending and I am FUCKING DEPRESSED.
I love how well this makes the series come full circle at the end. One of the best endings to a video game. That being said, I hope they make a 3rd game eventually.
I finished the game earlier on and I'm telling you I never cried so much. No other game or movie has had this sort of emotional impact on me at all, not even close. Even now it's hard to describe the feelings going through me, they're all over the place. I guess this is what happens when you become so emotionally attached and have such a strong adoration for a character. The thought of not seeing Ori again has genuinely left me feeling heartbroken, almost to the point where I'm grieving the loss of someone, crazy I know. Ori came out when my dad died and I guess my love for the character came from that as I looked or turned to the character for comfort during my time of grief. I'm sorry I don't mean to be morbid. I hope we see more of Ori's World at some point.
Man fuck this 😞 i was so hype to finish the game and you know how excited you get to finish on hard mode. Only to realise the real battle, starts after finishing the game
I don't think this ending is as sad as people make it out to be. At 6:45, it looks like Ori can still somehow communicate with them. Like he's gone, but not exactly.
Precisely. Ori didn't die. It was more like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. I also don't understand people theorizing that the spirit detaching at the end is Ori. Ori is the tree.
It's really nice to see that I wasn't the only one that got hit hard by the ending of this game...I finished it days ago and I'm still thinking about it honestly. The one small comfort I guess is that Ori got to keep their memories even after they became a spirit willow, so they can remember their family. I hope that the faces etched into the tree mean that their spirits actually joined with the tree once they died so they can always be together TuT...
I like the way ending song is similar to The Blinded Forest ost, ori lost in the storm. The cycle will never end ans we will remember names of every little heroes
Shriek's ending makes me sob like a child. And the fact that, still, she's noticeably much smaller than her parents, I guess to reinforce she's still their baby. Found it so sad.
"The credits roll" Me: GODDAMIT, I need to install the first one again! I need to see Ori again! I need to see him with his family! Until new game, no ending again!
Heather Spaeder The game developers have said that Ori is supposed to be gender less.. although the deep male voice at the end seems to imply otherwise
I think that's only indicating the amount of power they hold, look at Seir for example. Their voice got deeper the stronger the more wisps you collect/the more power they got
Best game of all time in my opinion. No other game has given me so much emotion as this game with barely any words spoken. Graphics and gameplay are top notch. This is up there with the best games out there. Give it a shot it’s only $30 and I got the art book cause this game is so fantastic. Words can’t express how much I love this game.
I love (and hate) that they didn't give Shriek a redemption. Her backstory made me believe that she would have a change of heart and save the whole forest, but no, they had her die as she lived. Alone and afraid. This was the only time I ever teared up playing this game lol
She couldn't change she had no family, friends or anyone for that matter. She was rejected all her life so she couldn't change. It's not easy to change if you had nobody.
Call me a pessimist, but the moment Shriek crawls under her parents' wings, I like to believe she is dying and that she knew this, so she wanted to die in the ''arms'' of her parents.
Thanks my heart is on the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces. Edit: now that I'm over my soul crushing sadness, I feel like this is one of the rare cases where the sequel was just as good, if not better than the original.
moon studios really said "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE". can't describe how beautiful this game is, i love it. the sequence when shriek crawled to her parents made me cry a bit, but when ori's memories with his family started playing while he's walking to seir, i just broke into tears for the rest of the ending. then i get emotional again hearing the music from blind forest at the credits. thank you moon studios for creating such an amazing game
actually, i dont feel sad for Ori, at least he got true friends in his lifetime. My heart broke when looking Shriek die that way, it was cold and lonely. He was born abandoned and alone in his own homeland, he set out to find the warmth in his heart but unfortunately, he seems to be destined to live and die in loneliness, sorrow. He could have been a good boy.
I think it was a "she", i played it in spanish and its a girl. But yes :/ .. she refused Ori's help and the light, she was so corrupted in mind that saving her was almost impossible :'( I think Death was her salvation.. There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, its Shriek's tomb with flowers
This is the best ending ever. Every win comes with a sacrifice and if Ori didn't sacrifice, I wouldn't feel rewarded. Although, there were a lot of good foreshadowing about Ori's sacrifice but it was a masterpiece of an ending. WotF is the best I've ever played. The story is so good. 😭
Am I missing something? I can't be the only one who feels like this ending is kinda odd. Ori spent the entire game collecting all these things and defeating all these giant bosses to save the willow tree only for it to just suddenly up and die like "Sorry I'm actually too weak to revive, you're going to have to become the new spirit willow." Its like the end of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith where Padme was doing fine and then suddenly dies because "she lost the will to live." Like, it is a really good ending, I do like it, but it doesn't feel like it should have happened, or is really earned. Naru's resurrection in the first game was set up with Sein saying the tree's light is why things are alive, and the Gumon having the technology to store it into a physical ball. The Spirit Willow dying was just pulled out of nowhere. Did he tell Ori at some point that there would be a chance it wouldn't work? I just do not understand how the Spirit Willow could be doing fine.
Just like a person, it's possible for a living being to be alive, but mortally wounded and nothing can be done to save them. The spirit willow knew that she was wounded beyond saving. Part of the reason that Niwen had become such a disaster is simply that the spirit willow had gotten old. That's why she knew a new spirit tree needed to replace her. You thought the whole game was doing things to save the spirit willow, but it wasn't until the end that you find out everything you had done was actually prepping Ori to become the new spirit tree.
I've been playing games for 28 years. This is and Dominics death (Gears 3) were the ones that really, really felt like something so, so damaging that I though I was gonna die from sadness...
Just finished today this game, never thought a game could make me cry so much, I know in the end it's supossed to be happy since the cycle of life is starting again but honestly everything else makes me feel sad: Naru lived the rest of her life going to the tree and spending her last moments there, Ku and Ori were able only once to fly together, Shriek dying alone in the dark among the corpses or her parents, this game destroyed me emotionally, but it is still a beautiful game.
It really hit me hard when he said “I embraced the light, when my name was Ori. It was the will of the wisps...”
Same!
I finished the game earlier and that part hit me like a ton of bricks. I know it's going to take a while for these feelings to go away if at all.
DarkAnomaly I replayed the game again and I played the first one. Finishing the game felt like I lost my breath
"That life begin anew"
@@DPowered2 theory that leaf could be ori but who knows
Ori died so others can live. He's little but he have a great heart.
more like he gave up his freedom and the ability to interact with his family so that all might ‘live long and prosper’ as the Vulcans say
I’m pretty sure that he still can communicate. We know the spirit trees can talk given the first game and earlier in the cutscene.
He Just have to stay in this form until he grows and create a new body for himself
@Bartek Konieczny i strongly think that leaf is ori .
Maybe he would ressurrect using this form
Well, Ori didn’t die. She’s reborn as Niwen’s Spirit Tree. She even narrated her whole story throughout the game, meaning that Ori is still alive. But you are right, she embraced the light to save Niwen and its inhabitants.
(Yes, I think Ori is a female)
Rejected by pretty much everyone, including her own kind, Shriek has only known loneliness and her mind became so corrupted to the point where she wouldn't believe in Ori's attempt to be her friend. After falling from battle with Ori, she used the remaining strength to fly back to her home so she could die in the embrace of her parents' corpse. In the end, she was just a child, still small enough to fit snug in her parent's wings, who only wanted warmth of kindness and love from others.
Shirek's story breaks my heart T_T
So sad
That scene destroyed my heart not gonna lie
THAT IS SO SAD that thing was born alone and disabled then was bullied cuz hes ugl omg why is the story so destroying😭😭
truth to be told, thats how serial killers were made.
That's true, every bad guy has a reason to be bad.
Game: "Congratulations, you won"
Me: "Cool. What do I get?"
Game: "I'm gonna give you an emotional gut-punch"
Me: "Wait-"
Game: "And then I'm going to rip your heart out"
I felt this
Same, I don’t know if I really like the ending though, I perfered Blind Forest personally
Exactly 😭
This was the best ending to a game that I have ever played and seen
Those are the best kinds of games XD
The moment at 6:22 when the narrator says "I embraced the light" really hits hard when you realize that the one who has been narrating the player through the Blind Forest and the Will of the Wisps was actually Ori himself.
Only Will of the wisos is narrated by Ori, the first game was narrated by the Spirit Tree. They have the same voice because Ori becomes another Spirit Tree/Spirit Willow.
w i l l o f t h e w i s o s
Then that could mean that Ori is giving a narration of this event to another spirit guardian.
You know what's crazier? That tree you see at the intro screen when you boot up Will of the Wisps is Ori.
@@thesnatcher3616 well no its not. Thats spirit tree of Nibel. its light is blue and right after you start the game you see Ori resting and watching the spirit tree.
Game devs be like “Yeah homie you beat the final boss but good gOD IF YOU AIN’T GONNA FEEL LIKE GARBAGE ABOUT IT”
@@Chappie432 To be fair, Shriek lived her whole life being rejected and alone. I doubt one act of kindness will make her want to change. That is what makes her death so tragic. She was born alone, she died alone. What an amazing game!
@@Chappie432 I don't disagree. However, just because Shriek killed so many creatures doesn't entirely mean she "doesn't deserve better". Shriek has lived her life being an enforcer for Silent Woods and doing so for years... alone. I agree her backstory doesn't justify her killing; but it does justify on what she IS and how it affects her VIEWS on life. Being a creature of darkness, being alone, and rejected has cause Shriek so much pain and sadness that she later turned to hatred. I think she deserved a better ending because at the last moments of her life she curled up to her parents and dies without knowing what love and "warmth" really means. No offense. I don't disagree with your argument.
@@Chappie432 Glad to help! :)
@@StapleG_IO Wait does she actually die?? I thought she was just wounded
@@Sam82397 It's unknown if she died. It's heavily implied she did.
Finished this today. EDIT: Once he revealed that "this game" is being told by him my jaw dropped. This is phenomenal story telling. Moon Studios deserves all the praise.
This is what happens when you put soul to what you love to create.
I was shook when I fount out ori was the narrator
Zerebrat Eightyseven Theh said they don’t have any plans in making a sequel anytime soon, they’re already working on another project.
But it was a good way to leave the game, so that it’s not a cliff hanger but they can still come back to the franchise.
@@EggEnjoyer "anytime soon"
still gives me hope.
Totally agree with ya, mate. That was, like, a finishing crit to my emotional state. Hardly there's an ending with such emotional impact on player.
I didn't beat this game the game emotionally beat me
“They had us in the first half not gonna lie”
Underrated comment
Omg YES
The last thing Shriek saw was a family she never knew...
Ow, my heart...
Let’s talk about the fact that they created their own problem when EVERYONE rejected her as a child(presumably because she was different). But openly accepted Ori and Ku.
I wanted to help her so bad... thats the only thing I didn't like about the ending. The fact that she couldn't be redeemed no matter how much I wanted her to be.
@@1wispyy because she did not want redemption
Im Wispy That’s the sad truth of the ending. Ori wanted to accept Shriek. Honestly this is probably one of the best video game endings I’ve ever seen. Nothing hit me as hard as this game ended.
And the death of ori
*CRIES PREORDERING ORI PLUSHIES*
I want the Shriek ones
@@CanalEnConstruccionAT they would be so cool
I want ku and naru gurmo and ori plushies PLS MOON STUDIOS
How dare you moon studios. Such a phenomenal game. I only wish that more people played it.
Has anyone seen how few fanart drawings there are of Ori? Let alone, ANYONE in the cast?
If only it made it to another console recently so others can play it
2.8 million people have played it, that’s not bad for an “indie” title, although this series is easily AAA quality. I agree though, anyone who considers themself a gamer should experience this one.
Glad I picked it up on the switch. Great investment
Just finished it. Masterpiece.
All I wanted for the ending was to see Naru living her life in a comfortable, air-conditioned, retirement home, eating all the oranges. Instead, she spends her whole life climbing through the wilderness to see her tree baby. My heart just can't.
sad, but at least she can be with her family, til the end
Aren't they peaches? Has my life been a lie
In ori wiki
Naru satuts : deceased ( old age )
Mohammed Mekdam You can see her actually gettinng affected by the old age, you can see gumo helping her walk towards the tree
Noone said she is dead
The soundtrack for this game is just incomprehensibly good.
Fantastic
Fully agree- Gareth Coker really does know what he's doing!
A single day Haven't past that i Haven't played this music ever since i Heard it first
It’s very crandrey shrandru ya know??
Somehow the soundtrack is almost better than the game itself
Shrieks ending broke me
Oris not the only one
She refused Ori's help and the light, her mind was so corrupted that saving her was impossible :( i think death was her salvation.
There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, Shriek's tomb with flowers
So basically Naru and Gumu never see little Ori ever again after the beginning of the game. That's just wrooong!
But didnt Ori get sent back at the end in the leaf?
ppp ppp No, that is just another spirit being born.
@@poorlybus417 ahh, well im going to imagine it is lmao
@@ppppppppp-fz4nh same
I was always curious if it was only spirits that could hear the spirit tree's voice or if other creatures could too. But at 6:50 I think it kind shows they can still talk with him.
So even though Ori was reborn again the family was still able to be with each other until the end.
I dont even know how to explain how I feel, except emotional. The one thing that really hit me was the fact that it seems like ori is gone, but watching over his family until they eventually fade away. Take the ending and soundtrack, and it's the most emotional moment I have ever had with a story.
"When my name was Ori"
I'm dead...
Side note: If you look closely, you can see the faces of Naru, Gumo and Ku etched into the bark on the spirit tree that was Ori. They weren't separated from him, they just became part of him once they died. They're always together now.
Bruh ouch
Bruh ouch
I saw it too..!!
Bruh ouch
So they now spirit fertilizers?
Ori and the Will of the Wisps did a fantastic job giving each character a more fleshed out story-- some through cutscenes, and some through just conversing with. The game did not disappoint me and the ending left me even more amazed than The Blind Forest did.
And I was sat there crying
6:34 I can't describe what i felt at this moment
I FELT IT
Your Humanity
Honestly I hops there’s another game with the other baby light spirit
My reaction: WAIT...
@@hope1365 Oh god yes, PLEASE
Now I feel bad throwing that spike...
This game pretty much ended like the blind forest, with a sacrifice.
Blind Forest too ended with a sacrifice of Kuro.
Yep Kuro would be proud
Both have giant bird antagonist too.
Ori's sacrifice was actually supposed to be the ending to The Blind Forest. It was originally going to be a single game.
40 year old man and I teared up hardcore, what an absolutely phenomenal masterpiece. Truly a work of art.
It’s brilliant
This ending hurts more then any death in gears of war series
i cant watch it again, i am gonna cry.
The villains have the saddest parts in this game. Omg shriek cuddling up to his dead parents made me cry so much
She refused Ori's help and the light, her mind was so corrupted that saving her was impossible :( i think death was her salvation.
There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, Shriek's tomb with flowers
"I embraced the light, when my name was Ori"😢😭
two things, one I’m first, and two just beat that game last night and that ending is a tear jerker
I just finished now, this game is a masterpiece.
You aren't first
A little of a not so fun fact: The original script of the game is to make Ku die, as in Ku never appearing again after the encounter with Shriek instead of critically injured like in the current game. Eventually it was changed because it was too much to the point the playtesters dropped the controller and don't feel like playing anymore due to the extremely heart wrenching gut punch from having seen a child die.
Yeah I wouldn't have continued.
The whole reason I was playing through the story was to try and save Ku. Nothing else.
The entire game I was thinking "Oh I hope there's another Ori game, this is so good!" But this ending changed my mind, it's so perfect!
Yeah... but the developers said that Ori's story has ended but still they didn't closed the door to making a new game in that world.
@@eduardodelapena7075 Yeah, there may be a story for the spirit that separated from Ori's tree, or just a spinoff.
@@eduardodelapena7075 I hope they don't do it too soon tho, I wish they come back to this world in something like 10 years then the hype will be insane
@@JamesDawnshineI would not be opposed to a spinoff, though I'd hope it would be following Ku after the events of this game since they kinda got fridged for most of the game.
@@eduardodelapena7075
Imagine if in the next game the protagonist (Ku, maybe?) ended up meeting an industrialized civilization whose polution was the origin of the illness that killed Shriek's parents.
Everything ends, and it's always sad. But, everything begins again too, and that's always happy. Be happy.
Yeah thanks, now I'm crying.
@@bubbles-1020 me too
We’re all stories in the end. Make it a good one.
Its so cute how even though he was a tree they still loved him and cared for him
Yeah but its not like its like just a tree that we know, man can probably still communicate
Imagine someone trimming the grass accidently killed Ori when he was still a sprout
@@TacticalPhoenixYT lmaooooooo wtf😂
Fuck man, where does the resource of all the tears are coming from..
Am I the only one who started crying when shriek went back to were she was born
No :'( almost everyone cried in that moment, every single youtuber.. i think Death was her salvation
There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, its Shriek's tomb with flowers
If you look closely. The tree has everyone's faces on it. Kwolok. Ku/Kuro. Gumo. Everyone is there.
The saddest part is that ori gotta stay alive and watch his whole family die around him.
yeah but he had a good life and now he is a higher being that cares for everyone in Niwen.
I played the end whilst my newly 2 year old daughter looked on while playing with her toys. I thought she wouldn’t really take in what was going on but as Ori faded away she ran over for a cuddle with tears in her eyes saying “poor rabbit”.
Wholesome as heck.
poor rabbit lmao
My 6 year old son had the same reaction… tears
Finished this game and my heart hurts. It’s so bittersweet! And I have a lot to say about it.
I actually wish I was slower on completing this. Took me 5 days, and I reached 15 hours on my save. I never expected that ending as well. I thought Ori was going to pass away because of how weak she was crawling to Seir.(The orange light)When Seir said “It is time, Ori.”, I realized what that meant.
It was time for Ori to carry on with the next generation and become a Spirit Tree. So, it happened. I actually wished it was like this:
Ori is physically there as her Light Spirit form with Seir inside of her and her life is connected to the forest. But hey, I still loved the ending.
As Ori grew strong, her family became old as well. That hurt me as well. But what got me thinking, is that a white leaf came off of Ori’s branch. It might be hinting another game in my opinion. When I realized that Ori was telling her story in this game, I was shocked. If a new game is rumored or confirmed, she’ll most likely narrate it.
But dang, seeing Ori grow up from a white leaf, to a Light Spirit, to a Spirit Tree made me smile and cry. If Ori didn’t fuse with Seir, Ku wouldn’t have been revived and life would die. I will miss seeing Ori in her Light Spirit form.
Also, I actually feel bad for Shriek. As soon as she was born, she looked at the skeletons of her dead parents. She knew that her parents died RIGHT AFTER her birth.
As she tried getting along with other baby owls, their mothers got protective and angrily casted Shriek out. Because of that, Shriek became one with the dark and was blinded by her past. After getting defeated by Ori, she flew back to her dead parents and sat there, closing her eyes.
It’s sad learning about her past and why she’s highly aggressive. She’s a pretty intimidating antagonist to me, but this is the end of my thoughts.
I loved the ending, I’ll miss playing as Ori if a new game is rumored with a new character, and it is a overall masterpiece of a game. Moon Studios did amazing! Time to play this on hard mode!
(Yes, I think Ori is female.)
Another edit: About the gender. I say Ori’s Light Spirit form is female and Ori’s Spirit Tree form is male. But hey, I do call Ori they/them at times as well. I won’t bash you if you think Ori is male, female, or no gender. As long as you respect opinions.
Foxley The Ori Lover I’m also about to play it on hard mode, But this time I’m going to attempt to 100% it
Gabe R I wish you luck on that! I know that Mora the Spider will definitely be difficult. She’s one of the only bosses I actually had trouble with.
Craig Adams Same! I still cry over Shriek killing Ku and the ending because of how strong it hit me! I hope more Ori games come out or something related. Moon Studios puts beauty in their games!
Why do you think ori is a girl?
As a Spirit tree, oris voice is pretty male ya know
lost_erik Well, here’s how I see it
Ori’s Spirit Form: Female
Ori Tree: Male
It’s just me
both games are the state of the art and should be treated as a national treasure.
world treasure!
This game reaches the cold, stone, and even the most heartless of humanity. As we are the only living beings that are able to feel empathy, sorrow, and pain like nothing else can. I, being a nonviolent blackheart-like person, am touched.
No other game in history has ever (figuratively) reached out to me. Not even Undertale could touch me.
Is it wrong I couldn’t cry at all?
Just gonna point out that Ori himself was "born" from a glowing leaf that popped out of the spirit tree. So that leaf that popped out at the end? Yeah, that's another spirit(or maybe Ori again, who knows?).
It was another Spirit Guardian, as that's how they're born. At the end of the last game when the Tree is restored it too shed more leafs to create more children
@@mai1545 So are we to assume the next game wont feature Ori? And if it does you wont be playing as hi. That's if there was another game.
@@lucapachee9863 who knows if we will get another game since will of the wisps is giving a end to ori story
Within the game they describe how it is a cycle, the guardians are born during times of need to bring light. Basically it's like the circle of life.
Also Ori is actually Female
What a masterpiece man... what a masterpiece...
First Game: Depressed because of Kuro
Second Game: Hold my Spirit light
At 4:48 the foreground (what seems ignore-able because of how blurred out it is) is actually the various beings that inhabit the Wellspring Glades. Tokk (the bird) is most recognizable to the left, where his jaw actually drops and he loses the little twig he nibbles at. Beside him is Grom (the Gorlek builder) who's short with a wide mane of white fur, then Tuley (the gardener/mole) holding his recognizable staff. Then Kii (from the Silent Woods) in the middle with the odd loop on the top of his mask. Lupo (the mapmaker) is the small figure that's a bit hard to see, then Motay (chameleon statistician) almost hovering over Lupo. It's a bit unclear but I think the rightmost figure is Orpher (the combat expert) who's rather tall.
I just thought it made that moment of seeing Ori's light spreading all the more striking, knowing their friends are watching.
damn, thanks for pointing that out honestly
I’m surprised I didn’t notice until now
4:43 God damn, just noticed how his little physical body bursts into black pieces when he touches Seir : '''(
i think its the ground is reacting to oris movement and not bursting.
Ground ruptures? Idk
It kind of looks like Ori did burst, but at the same time, it looks like the the ground reacted, so idk if he did burst.
Who took The Lion King's Circle of Life and made it a tearjerker one? The ending got me from sad tears to happy tears...
To this day this games ending still fucks me up, truly one of the best games I've ever played.
I wans't happy with this ending. Nor was I disappointed.
It left me just... empty.
All of them, Naru, Gumo and little Ku, never seeing Ori again is just cruel...
I thought there would be a reunion... That Ori would return in physical form after obtaining the light... But he didn't.
I thought they would reunite... That Ori would come back to them, after his family cared for the tree... But he didn't...
Stll... I thought - and wished - for a reunion... and then they got older. Older and older.... Until they were gone... All of them... Forever.
And then... after many years... a leaf fell from the tree. And with it uncertainty. Would it be a new ghost? Like Ori? Or would it be Ori himself? And if it was Ori how would he return?
Did he forget everything about his former life? About his family? Is he born anew... into a foreign land, without someone caring for him and without a clear purpose? Or would he remember? Remember everything he experienced. Remember his family, Naru, Gumo and his little sister Ku... just to return into a world with no trace of them left. They're nothing but a memory. A memory of one little creature not knowing how long it has been and how much this land changed with the time...
This uncertainty was it that made me cry. The fact that there wouldn't be a sequel. And if there was... it wouldn't be the same anymore... It's over. And I can't think like: They're gone. They all faded. Because they propably didn't. The thought of Ori returning and remembering all that was is stuck inside my head and heart, which is why I can't decide what to think about the ending.
If Shriek, who just wanted to be accepted - nothing more, managed to defeat the darkness within her, throw away her armor and turn into a white phoenix of light, into a protector of all Niwen, to take and protect the light herself. If Ori and his family could have grown old together... And eventually faded together...
If this happened it wouldn't hurt so much...
For one we could be certain of whether Shriek died in her parents arms or if she just went there to feel a little bit of comfort after all this time of suffering...
And on the other hand... I could think: Yes. They're gone. It's over. All of them lived happily. Just like all of us could say that they were happy together after Ori and the Blind Forest we could have said all of them had a happy life... And now they're at a better place...
But not like this... This is what hurts me... The fear of Ori returning... Remembering... But being alone. Again. Without his family...
There was a lot of uncertainty, but then again look at how uncertain Ori started out and where it led. Naru taught Ori how to build a home and a family, and Ori went on to build one for all the wanderers and broken families in the glades. I like to imagine that Ku grew up sleeping in Ori's branches and that even though they don't speak much anymore (not that there was much of that before), they still obviously spent years/decades together while Ori built a world that made thousands of other families like theirs possible. For all we know the leaf/spirit drifted into the glades where it was raised by the whole community, and Ori 1 and 2 were narrated to all the baby Moki and spirits by grandpa Ori.
I think in the cutscenes it’s implied that the ones who protect the light (oris kind) came back with the leaves. The way he narrates the story makes me think he communicates with his family in some type of way. The one thing that felt sad was shrieks ending for me personally.
I feel you.
It stung me bad that Naru and Gumo didn’t see Ori physically throughout the whole game except the ending. Ori became a Spirit Tree to keep the life cycle going. Ku did reunite with Ori, but it lasted short because of Shriek killing her. That was the last time Ku saw Ori in their Light Spirit form...
About what you said about the white leaf coming off Ori’s branch, I don’t think it’s Ori. I say that because Ori’s the narrator of the game and is looking back at their memory of the Will Of The Wisps. I think they’re still a Spirit Tree. But hey, I wish the white leaf could be Ori and have their memories. But I have a strong sense that Ori’s story ended with Will Of The Wisps...
I don’t know. The ending did hurt, but at the same time I liked it. I hope a third game comes out and Ori narrates it again. I mostly worry about Ori dying...
I think it's stuck in a endless timeloop
You've voiced my exact thoughts. I'm so devastated.
4:10 I can't help but feel like this moment is not only a moment where they think of Ku and their rest of their family, but of Kuro as well. It was Kuro's sacrifice that allowed Nibel and her last child to live, and Ori once again must make the same sacrifice. It also feels like a silent apology to Kuro for them not being able to protect Ku up until this point, but now, they are going to do the same that she did so that life can continue to prosper.
finally a comment for kuro , she deserves more love.
I never knew a platformer could make me feel this way
What I find interesting is that the owls of Niwen were clearly shown to all be dead, turned to stone by the decay. Shriek survived this, but was horribly deformed with stone wings. Yet at the exact same time, maybe a few months prior to this game, we have Kuro, the only grown owl shown to be living in Nibel, and her clutch of eggs. No other owls are shown to live in Nibel. I'd find it entirely likely that Kuro fled Niwen to protect her eggs she was soon to lay. Perhaps she even knew about Shriek and depending on their ages, it's possible that Kuro may even have been chased out by the grown Shriek enacting vengeance for her treatment as a chick. Given this and the state of the owls in Niwen, it's entirely possible that with the deaths of Kuro and Shriek, Ku was the last living owl in both Nibel and Niwen.
So... I just got to the part where Ku is dying and the Moki family were frozen, and hope seemed lost, but I'm tired, and I wanted to know they'd be ok, so I came here to watch the ending and I am FUCKING DEPRESSED.
I love how well this makes the series come full circle at the end. One of the best endings to a video game. That being said, I hope they make a 3rd game eventually.
one of the few games that made me cry
I finished the game earlier on and I'm telling you I never cried so much. No other game or movie has had this sort of emotional impact on me at all, not even close. Even now it's hard to describe the feelings going through me, they're all over the place. I guess this is what happens when you become so emotionally attached and have such a strong adoration for a character. The thought of not seeing Ori again has genuinely left me feeling heartbroken, almost to the point where I'm grieving the loss of someone, crazy I know. Ori came out when my dad died and I guess my love for the character came from that as I looked or turned to the character for comfort during my time of grief. I'm sorry I don't mean to be morbid.
I hope we see more of Ori's World at some point.
7:53 Naru, Gumo and Ku's faces are carved on Ori's tree trunk.
And kuros too
Next to ku
@@cyoshi0408 oh you're right.
I wanna cry, and yes Kuro's face too. She was part of the family
I just knowdest that
Man fuck this 😞 i was so hype to finish the game and you know how excited you get to finish on hard mode. Only to realise the real battle, starts after finishing the game
I never expected that ending.
As soon as I realised that Ori was going to be gone, I just cried.
A 42 year man like myself should not be this sad from a game. Time to man up. Where's my copy of Doom.
I don't think this ending is as sad as people make it out to be. At 6:45, it looks like Ori can still somehow communicate with them. Like he's gone, but not exactly.
Precisely. Ori didn't die. It was more like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. I also don't understand people theorizing that the spirit detaching at the end is Ori. Ori is the tree.
Here’s the thing the spirt tree in the first game can communicate still also it’s leaf became ori suggesting it’s a part of there life cycle
Shriek dying was still sad though
It's really nice to see that I wasn't the only one that got hit hard by the ending of this game...I finished it days ago and I'm still thinking about it honestly. The one small comfort I guess is that Ori got to keep their memories even after they became a spirit willow, so they can remember their family. I hope that the faces etched into the tree mean that their spirits actually joined with the tree once they died so they can always be together TuT...
I like the way ending song is similar to The Blinded Forest ost, ori lost in the storm. The cycle will never end ans we will remember names of every little heroes
Even the shape of the tree looks like Ori.
I just beat the game, and I promised myself not to cry..... but..
But I cried like a baby
F
The ending of this game...broke me. My heart bled and I genuinely cried myself to sleep that night.
This game is a straight up paradox and i love it
God bless the third part game
Shriek's ending makes me sob like a child. And the fact that, still, she's noticeably much smaller than her parents, I guess to reinforce she's still their baby. Found it so sad.
Later somebody : Who r u?
Ori : I am groot
That’s a meme
"The credits roll"
Me: GODDAMIT, I need to install the first one again! I need to see Ori again! I need to see him with his family! Until new game, no ending again!
Ori wished them to have life. And sadly, that required her sacrifice. It was not just the will of the wisps. *But it was also the will of Ori.*
Ori is a her
Heather Spaeder
The game developers have said that Ori is supposed to be gender less.. although the deep male voice at the end seems to imply otherwise
I think that's only indicating the amount of power they hold, look at Seir for example. Their voice got deeper the stronger the more wisps you collect/the more power they got
*TREE POWERS! ACTIVATE!*
This has got to be the saddest ending in a game, ever. It almost made me cry.
It's too sad even for a Ori game
Best game of all time in my opinion. No other game has given me so much emotion as this game with barely any words spoken. Graphics and gameplay are top notch. This is up there with the best games out there. Give it a shot it’s only $30 and I got the art book cause this game is so fantastic. Words can’t express how much I love this game.
I love (and hate) that they didn't give Shriek a redemption. Her backstory made me believe that she would have a change of heart and save the whole forest, but no, they had her die as she lived. Alone and afraid. This was the only time I ever teared up playing this game lol
She couldn't change she had no family, friends or anyone for that matter. She was rejected all her life so she couldn't change. It's not easy to change if you had nobody.
Creatures: Ori, you must save the forest.
Ori: I AM the forest!!!
Call me a pessimist, but the moment Shriek crawls under her parents' wings, I like to believe she is dying and that she knew this, so she wanted to die in the ''arms'' of her parents.
Thanks my heart is on the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces.
Edit: now that I'm over my soul crushing sadness, I feel like this is one of the rare cases where the sequel was just as good, if not better than the original.
I just noticed, 7:53 - All of Ori's Family is engraved into the bark of the tree.
Dude I cried for 10 minutes and my friends heard me while I was playing in my xbox forgot to mute myself.
Great ending. Would like to see an anime/movie adaptation
the game itself is a movie!
That would be great though
moon studios really said "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE". can't describe how beautiful this game is, i love it. the sequence when shriek crawled to her parents made me cry a bit, but when ori's memories with his family started playing while he's walking to seir, i just broke into tears for the rest of the ending. then i get emotional again hearing the music from blind forest at the credits. thank you moon studios for creating such an amazing game
Finished the game today, heart broken and emotional wreckage
I sought out this video to seek therapy in the comment section., after that ending.
actually, i dont feel sad for Ori, at least he got true friends in his lifetime. My heart broke when looking Shriek die that way, it was cold and lonely. He was born abandoned and alone in his own homeland, he set out to find the warmth in his heart but unfortunately, he seems to be destined to live and die in loneliness, sorrow. He could have been a good boy.
I think it was a "she", i played it in spanish and its a girl.
But yes :/ .. she refused Ori's help and the light, she was so corrupted in mind that saving her was almost impossible :'( I think Death was her salvation..
There is a FanArt that Ori's official FB page posted, its Shriek's tomb with flowers
I wonder what the newborn spirit is gonna be called
Ri maybe? Ku is the daughter of (ku)ru so it makes sense
@@heatherspaeder1628 Kuro*
I was legit wondering about the narrator at certain points, even thinking it was Baur at a certain point.
Well played, Moon studios, well played.
This is the best ending ever.
Every win comes with a sacrifice and if Ori didn't sacrifice, I wouldn't feel rewarded. Although, there were a lot of good foreshadowing about Ori's sacrifice but it was a masterpiece of an ending. WotF is the best I've ever played. The story is so good. 😭
I'm sitting here crying my eyes out. Finished this game just a few hours ago.
Am I missing something? I can't be the only one who feels like this ending is kinda odd. Ori spent the entire game collecting all these things and defeating all these giant bosses to save the willow tree only for it to just suddenly up and die like "Sorry I'm actually too weak to revive, you're going to have to become the new spirit willow." Its like the end of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith where Padme was doing fine and then suddenly dies because "she lost the will to live." Like, it is a really good ending, I do like it, but it doesn't feel like it should have happened, or is really earned.
Naru's resurrection in the first game was set up with Sein saying the tree's light is why things are alive, and the Gumon having the technology to store it into a physical ball. The Spirit Willow dying was just pulled out of nowhere. Did he tell Ori at some point that there would be a chance it wouldn't work? I just do not understand how the Spirit Willow could be doing fine.
Just like a person, it's possible for a living being to be alive, but mortally wounded and nothing can be done to save them. The spirit willow knew that she was wounded beyond saving. Part of the reason that Niwen had become such a disaster is simply that the spirit willow had gotten old. That's why she knew a new spirit tree needed to replace her. You thought the whole game was doing things to save the spirit willow, but it wasn't until the end that you find out everything you had done was actually prepping Ori to become the new spirit tree.
i love everyone who played this game! :)
I've just finished the game...I wasn't ready for this.
I've been playing games for 28 years. This is and Dominics death (Gears 3) were the ones that really, really felt like something so, so damaging that I though I was gonna die from sadness...
the ending is just sad. Watching naru grow old hurts the most..
I know we won't be able to play as Ori after this game, but I can't wait to see what Moon Studios comes up for their next game.
Gumo, the last of his kind, just sad
The new Ori be lost in great storm once more. Love the surprising way the game gets me back the the beginning of the series
I can't believe it, they made a leaf falling from a tree into something emotional. Bunch of madlads.
This part makes me cry😭😭😄
We'll remember you forever Ori 🙋😭
Just finished today this game, never thought a game could make me cry so much, I know in the end it's supossed to be happy since the cycle of life is starting again but honestly everything else makes me feel sad: Naru lived the rest of her life going to the tree and spending her last moments there, Ku and Ori were able only once to fly together, Shriek dying alone in the dark among the corpses or her parents, this game destroyed me emotionally, but it is still a beautiful game.