They gave you a warm towel and a soft pillow to rest your face after that slap. But then it would give you a musical and visual turnaround-the little white flower, growing into a carpet that spreads all the way to the Spirit Tree which lifts you up in a triumphant swell of light and sound! And Ori is revived. Blind Forest would regularly slap you across the face with an emotional and sad moment-think about when Naru has died and Ori collapses, starving, on the ground. Your number six point actually brings up an important thing that I felt was very lacking in this game: catharsis. But then going back and making tree-Ori the end of the second game kind of takes the wind out of the sails of the first, especially given the complication of this new location. That would've been perfectly acceptable had Moon chosen to do that, but they went a different way and in my opinion that elevated the first game above just a typical fantasy story. Especially the part about this being the original ending for Blind Forest. It's nice to see other people's takes on this, and I agree with pretty much all of what you said. It's very touching to me, personally, to see that one of my favorite characters of all time has grown so much. He accepted his fate willingly, and even gave Ku her wing.
Ori has a new home in Niwen as the father of all its light spirits, and he is well-suited to that task. The renewal of Spirit Trees and their Light is a cycle that is renewed time and time again, and we got to learn exactly how it happens.
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I thought it was masterfully done, and it seemed fitting to me that this is how this series might end. I feel just as attached to these characters as you do, no joke! I sobbed like a child when Ku first got taken out by Shriek! But I don't think I'm disappointed with the ending. The first trailer way back in 2017 made it seem like that was what the story was going to touch upon, is Ku's and Kuro's ancestral origins, but not one word went over why there's an owl graveyard or why Shriek looks the way she does, or how Kii has connections to her. But one thing in particular that I'm especially disappointed about is the owl graveyard that turned out to be the Silent Woods. I was expecting the NPCs to have more interaction in the story, but the only one that showed up in a custcene is Opher and Kwolok (save for the ending obviously when they're watching Ori become one with Seir's light), which is a bummer. I'm sad Ori and Ku didn't get the reunion now, like you mentioned, or that the Moki father with his family that turned to stone didn't get a second chance at life. I see where you're coming from when you say you're dissatisfied. And the summary of the game says "Ori must unravel his true destiny," so I put two and two together I expected that to be the ending with all these subtle hints, but I suppose it would hit much harder if you weren't looking for them.
My premonition only rose when the Voice of the Forest hinted that the Spirit Willow's life had run out during the Windtorn Ruins segment, and that's why Seir broke into five parts, is because the Spirit Willow died and she couldn't be brought back like Nibel's Spirit Tree could (Kuro stole Sein which weakened the Spirit Tree, while Seir's tie to the Spirit Willow broke from it because it flat out died. That's when I came to the conclusion that that might be how the game ends. Why would the narrator say "our" if he's not Ori? It sounded crazy to me at first to think that, but I couldn't help but feel that it was a subtle hint that made me realize Ori might be the narrator, that he would become the new Spirit Tree of Niwen.
The narrator says before the end of the prologue that, "Our story began." Our. I feel like they very subtly hinted at the ending very early on, in the prologue, but it was there.
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