Ori. These 15 games need to become movies!

Marek Jura

Ori

Ori and Will of the Wisps, Mon Studios, Xbox Game Studios/Microsoft Studios, 2020 - Games That NEED Filming - Documentary - 2023-02-24
Ori and Will of the Wisps, Mon Studios, Xbox Game Studios/Microsoft Studios, 2020
  1. Game genre: metroidvania/arcade
  2. Movie/TV series genre: full-length adventure anime
  3. Potential creators: Hayao Miyazaki
  4. Is a movie actually being made? No
  5. How long it's been waiting: 8 years

The two parts – Ori and Blind Forest and Ori and Will of the Wispsare one of the most beautiful fairy tales in the history of electronic gaming. Although the core is the metroidvania mechanism (i.e. an arcade game with elements of character development), you can treat the Ori series as interactive movies if you play it on a low difficulty level.

So, why the big screen? Well, mainly to give more exposure to the relationship between Ori and his adoptive parents and the inhabitants of the forest. I can't imagine anyone better suited for it than Hayao Miyazaki. The author of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away should feel great in the world of forest spirits facing the defense of ancient trees and fighting to the death with giant birds.

Unfortunately, a potential film adaptation is probably the only way we will ever see Ori again. Moon Studios, responsible for the games, is dependent on a large publisher, who prefers something more accessible to a wider audience – instead of a niche metroidvania.

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Marek Jura

Author: Marek Jura

In 2016, he graduated in philology at UAM. Since then, he has been reviewing prose, poetry, movies, series, and video games for GRYOnline.pl. He took his first steps in the journalism industry as a newsman in a local tabloid. He ran his own company - he designed, created, tested, and sold board games. He published several short stories and is also preparing his debut volume of poetry. Trains martial arts. A feminist, vegan, fan of pineapple on pizza, cat lover, dislikes Bethesda and Amazon, likes Lovecraft, Agents of SHIELD, P:T, Beksiński, Hollow Knight, performance, abstract art, game mods and dumplings.