This game is not normally my style, however, my wife and I were running out of co-op games to play a while back and decided to give this one a go. After attempting Original Sin 1 together and giving up pretty early on because we kept dying, we went into this game with a little bit of knowledge on what to expect and built some classes accordingly. A long and arduous time later, we managed to complete the game and I can now say... Damn, this game is stressful but fun as hell.

I can't count the numerous hours we've lost due to forgetting to save before continuing a mission or starting a battle and, honestly, I kinda wish the game would auto-save after every battle, but I digress. You're never quite sure how challenging a quest or battle is going to be before undertaking it, and that's part of D:OS2's charm.

I found that the combat was quite time consuming, and that's to be expected, however it would have been nice to be able to speed up my opponents turns at my leisure. The final battle took us 3 hours to do, before eventually having to turn it off to pick up our daughter from school.

The story is interesting and engaging and the myriad of spells and skills allows the player to come up with all sorts of strategies during combat - Here's a few we came up with (I'm 100% sure they've been done before but we discovered them on our own):

- Stay down: Using Beast, the Dwarf, I pooled most of his points into Warfare, giving him skills like 'Battering Ram' and 'Battle Stomp', which knock down an opponent if they have no physical armour, this would require them to spend their entire combat turn getting back up again, at which point I would just knock them down again and continue to beat the ever-loving-divine out of them with my other melee attacks. Knock-Down grenades and arrows helped a lot as well.

- Anti-Heal: After playing the first game and getting destroyed, I made sure I had a character who had a lot of healing spells - This proved useful in more ways than I could have hoped for. While my opponents armour was down, I would use 'Decaying Touch' on them, which cause them to be... Well... 'Decayed', meaning that all healing spells and potions would damage that character, instead of healing them... You see where this is going, don't you... I would then use my healing spells to heal my opponent, thus dealing them massive damage.

- Chicken Tendons: My personal favourite, this one is both effective and hilarious. There is a Skill called 'Rupture Tendons', which will cause the target to take damage when they walk. Pair this skill with another called 'Chicken Claw', you can turn your opponent into a chicken which will cause them to, on their turn, run in a random direction and take damage with every step. As they literally run themselves to death, you can sit back, relax and belly-laugh all the while.

So although this wasn't mine, or my wife's type of game, we had a really good time with it and I'm glad we decided to give it a go. Onto the next game!

After playing and loving the first Ori, I was excited to get stuck into the Will of the Wisps and I have to say that it improves on its predecessor in every way. I enjoyed being able to equip different abilities and the skills you learn as you progress felt great, leading to more interesting puzzles and fun mobility.

When I finished the first game, I was unsure how I felt about the story, the ending left me with questions and felt unnecessary in parts, however, the ending to WotW felt right and left me satisfied and a little bit emotional.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps looked great on the Switch (even if I did feel a bit of stutter once or twice), the game is beautiful and the characters are well designed and engaging.

I had a great time playing through this challenging but engrossing experience and look forward to seeing what Moon Studios produces in the future.