12 Fantastic Video Games You Must Play Over Summer 2015

4. Ori And The Blind Forest

It's truly a wonder Microsoft aren't pushing Ori more, as it is quite honestly the best exclusive they've got in their paltry arsenal right now. A sublime and thoroughly beautiful little platformer that takes an indie-style approach to narrative, its then bolstered with a production value that could only come from one of the richest companies in the world. That results in an absolutely astonishing game in a purely visual sense, its 2D platformer trappings belying a devilish difficulty level under the hood too. Thanks to a neat little feature where your energy pool is also your allowance to 'cash-in' on creating a save point, you can essentially form your own checkpointing system, meaning if an ominous-looking cavern ends up taking a life through a conveniently inconvenient spike pit, you've only yourself to blame. Chuck in a sense of progression that rolls out specific moves at certain milestones whilst letting you purchase others through combat experience, an emotionally-charged intro that sets everything off nicely and an open-world that hasn't felt as deliciously inviting since Shadow Complex, and you've hands-down one of the most underrated games of the current generation.