Thomas Mahler of Moon Studios has taken to social media today and announced that; Ori and the Blind Forest, combined with Ori and the Will of the Wisps, have sold over 15 million copies.
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Ori and the Blind Forest was released back on March 11th, 2015. It’s sequel, Will of the Wisps, came out on the same date in 2020. Both titles are available on Xbox One, Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC. In an announcement on twitter today the studio’s head Thomas Mahler stated:
In other amazing news: The Ori series has now sold more than 15 Million copies. Not too shabby for a Metroidvania and a genre we were told is dead when we started to work on it! So thank you to everyone who supported us so far – MUCH LOVE!
We reviewed Or and the Will of the Wisps back at launch:
Ori and the Blind Forest was a flawed masterpiece. A gorgeous living work of art that magnificently paired super tight, pixel perfect platforming with visuals in a class of their own as well as a musical score for the ages. The most common complaints being a lack of depth in the combat, the oftentimes brutal difficulty and the ability to be locked out of areas in the map (a cardinal sin for metroidvanias). Fortunately the latter was addressed in the Definitive Edition.
Ori and the Will of Wisps becomes that all-time classic, widely accepted superior sequel by addressing all the concerns of the original, while also improving on all of its strengths.
