At only a minute long the cue expertly builds tone and atmosphere, and flows seamlessly into subsequent track Naru, Embracing The Light.Ī light, playful piano takes centre stage here with percussion and strings swirling in the background, and upbeat woodwinds then arrive in the second half to boost up the track’s lively, cheerful nature. Light percussive instruments and piano notes also flow gently in the background, and together all these different elements then gracefully introduce the score’s main theme a calming, delicate and rather wistful motif that does a simply incredible job of not only representing Ori as a character but also the gentle, dream-like (at first, anyway) forest where the game is set.
Ori, Lost In The Storm begins softly, with warm strings starting things off followed closely by wonder-filled vocals. Let’s start with those opening minutes then – the moments that proved to me once and for all that not only could videogame music stand together with film and television – it could surpass it, by quite some degree. To this day, Ori remains one of my favourite scores of all time. Right as the game began I was suddenly immersed in this warm, gentle, and breathtakingly wondrous orchestral world, and I knew within just a few minutes that I had not only been wrong about game music, but completely, utterly and catastrophically incorrect. This I believed however, until I began playing Ori And The Blind Forest. Back then I had listened to a wide variety of film and television score and had dabbled in only a select few game ones, and from them had come to the conclusion that game music was usually far inferior (compositionally-speaking), disorganised and overly lengthy album-wise and generally – not worth my time. Here’s another a long time ago, at a time before I had ever laid ears on Gareth Coker’s orchestral wonder that is Ori, I must admit that I held a bit of a…prejudice against videogame music. There you go, that’s a good introductory sentence. When I first heard it I was amazed – beyond that even, I was absolutely spellbound. How do I even begin to talk about this score. Gareth Coker’s astoundingly beautiful score for Ori And The Blind Forest is nothing short of a musical masterpiece.
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