History VideoGame / OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:Shriek was ostracized by all other races for her [[AnimalisticAbomination strange appearance]], leading her to grow up alone without a concept of love and warping her into the merciless force of destruction she is in the game.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Howl - the first chase sequence and boss fight you encounter, flees after being reduced to half health. Soon after, you explore his lair, but he's nowhere to be found for a rematch. [[spoiler: Averted: If you look closely, you'll find him petrified in the Silent Woods...]]

* ChainOfDeals: The "Hand to Hand" sidequest, which sees Ori trading items with friendly NPCs across the course of most of the game.

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Subverted, after WordOfGod confirms Shriek perished following her defeat by Ori and succumbed to the Decay.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Shriek was last of her kind, and forsaken by all others, to the point she literally has no idea what love and kindness are. After losing against Ori, she is last seen cuddling up with the corpses of her parents.]]

** [[spoiler: When Shriek was hatched, she struggled to learn to walk as she wandered from her dead parents. Upon her defeat, Shriek flies back to the Silent Forest whilst on the verge of death, [[WhereItAllBegan straggling back to the corpse of her parents]].]]

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Destructive and terrifying though she might be in the present, Shriek was born the last of her kind and was ostracized for her [[AnimalisticAbomination strange and sinister appearance]], leaving her bitter and alone with no conception of love. After being defeated by Ori, she is last seen cuddling up with the corpses of her parents.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Shriek's final fate is left completely unknown. The last time she's seen, she's cuddling up with the corpses of her parents after Ori defeats her, but it's never specified if the injuries she received were fatal.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Slightly more bitter this time around. [[spoiler: The only way to save Ku and all of Niwen is for Ori to sacrifice their existence as a leaf spirit and become a new spirit tree. Gumo, Ku and Naru mourn that the Ori they knew is gone, but they lovingly care for the tree he's reborn as, continuing to live and grow as a family. Many, many, ''many'' years later, Ori has fully grown into a new tree, and a silver leaf is blown away by the wind, implied to be their offspring.]]

** [[spoiler: At the end of the story, long after Ori becomes a tree, the shot focuses on a single silver leaf that is blown away from the branch and into the wind, mirroring the beginning of ''Videogame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' where Ori is torn away from the Spirit Tree by the storm.]]

** [[spoiler: Both games begin with a GoodTimesMontage, this game ends likewise with Naru, Gumo and Ku taking care of the spirit tree.]]
*** Additionally, [[spoiler: The prologue has a montage of Ku, Ori, Gumo and Naru growing up together as a family. The epilogue

* BittersweetEnding: Slightly more bitter this time around. [[spoiler: The only way to save Ku and all of Niwen is for Ori to sacrifice their existence as a leaf spirit and become a new spirit tree. Gumo, Ku and Naru mourn that the Ori they knew is gone, but they lovingly care for the tree he's reborn as, continuing to live and grow as a family.
Many, many, ''many'' years later, Ori has fully grown into a new tree, and a silver leaf is blown away by the wind, implied to be their offspring.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Much more bitter this time around. [[spoiler: The only way to save Ku and all of Niwen is for Ori to sacrifice their existence as a leaf spirit and become a new spirit tree. Many, many, ''many'' years later, Ori has fully grown into a new tree, and a silver leaf is blown away by the wind, implied to be their offspring.]]

* SelfDisposingVillain: [[The giant sandworm in the Windtorn Ruins is never fought unlike many enemies in this game but at the end of the chase sequence, its emergence from the ground causes several large stones to get knocked loose and come down on top of it, presumably crushing it to death.]]

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Kuro went evil as part of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, but she realized that the way she was going about things would have destroyed what she was trying to protect, and thus made a final sacrifice to save the egg that would hatch into Ku. Shriek went evil because [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer she was rejected by the other owls for her massive wing-growths]], has absolutely nothing to protect, and [[RedemptionRejection spurns Ori's kindness out of fear]], shortly before becoming the game's final boss.

* GoldColoredSuperiority: [[spoiler:Seir becomes golden when she is restored, and in the end, Ori bears the same golden light when they become a Spirit Tree]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Howl - the first chase sequence and boss fight you encounter, he flees after being reduced to half health. Soon after, you explore his lair, but he's nowhere to be found for a rematch. [[spoiler: Averted: If you look closely, you'll find him petrified in the Silent Woods...]]

* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler: All of Niwen's problems started with the Spirit Willow aging to the point of dying to old age.]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Ori again, of course, but now also Ku too. The Moki also count too, given how much they resemble Ori.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Ori again, of course, but now also Ku too.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Kuro went evil as part of a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, but she realized that the way she was going about things would have destroyed what she was trying to protect, and thus made a final sacrifice to save the egg that would hatch into Ku. Shriek went evil because [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer he was rejected by the other owls for his massive wing-growths]], has absolutely nothing to protect, and [[RedemptionRejection spurns Ori's kindness out of fear]], shortly before becoming the game's final boss.