Dear Diary,

Noooo I died!

One of these days I’ll beat it without dying. One of these days. You hear me? I will beat you!

Even though Ori is on the difficult side, still by far one of my favorite games. Every now and then I find myself going back and attempting to complete it without dying.

There’s always a few areas that give me trouble. Once in a while I mistime that giant laser beam in the Moonlight Groto which then proceeds to zaps me to oblivion. Then we have the Ginso Tree escape where I get greedy and go for the ability spheres on the side and drown. Then there’s that instant death laser beam in the forlorn ruins that separates me and the life orb in the back. I’ve definitely learned my lesson on that one. Then there’s all the silly deaths that happen when I accidentally fall or bash my way into a pit of spikes. The list goes on and on.

The game itself isn’t horrendously difficult once you get the hang of it.There’s a few tricks I found across many, many playthroughs that I find to be extremely helpful.

Stomp is so overpowered. Spam stomp when you can. High area of effect damage and reflects most projectiles that are coming your way. Just spam stomp and eventually everything will just die.

Put everything into the right-most skill tree. The half damage perk is amazing and lets you tank several hits in the second dungeon escape. Saving can be done twice as much, heal some damage every save, and who can forget the mighty triple jump.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to complete the game without dying, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun to play through the game, so I will keep trying.

If anyone can complete a 100% run without dying in one go, major respect. That’s a bit too far out of my league and I wouldn’t want to go insane now.

Keep calm and Ori on!

Yours Truly,
Tumalu