Let's get to it!
Yeah, of course :)
Quite a lot :D
So here's the thing: We all liked the Soul Link System we had in Blind Forest, apart from one thing: When players forgot to create a save, sometimes they had to re-play 10-15 minutes of stuff they already did... So we're still kinda looking into that one. Another thing that makes the return of Soul Link a bit more difficult is that this time we're allowing you to customize your buttons and it's tough to give up a button for this system...
There's things that are similar to that, but Sein is with the Spirit Tree.
Not sure if I can say at this point - We love for people to have physical versions of Ori, so we'll see :)
Nothing's set in stone yet - We honestly don't really know at this point since we're just heads-down on making something great, but we'll do our best to make all the communities happy.
We just (finally) released the Naru and Ori plushies a couple of months ago - I'd LOVE for more plushies and action figures and so on to happen, highly depends on Microsoft, but they also love the Ori IP, so I'll definitely try to see what we can do :)
Well, like with everything we had in Blind Forest, we're trying to up the ante even more - Wait and see what we have in store this time :D
So far so good! It was helpful that we started developing WotW with a good, strong base and we have some crazy talent in the team now - We've got Chris, who worked on Rayman, we've got Milton who single-handedly made AM2R, we hired animators from Pixar, Blue Sky Studios, Riot, etc. - It's pretty crazy to see where we are now compared to when we shipped Blind Forest.
Haha, no worries, I'm happy to answer whatever questions might come up here :) And thanks for being an Ori fan, we're really trying to create something special, something that'll stand the test of time. I'm also super interested in hearing feedback on what we've shown this E3!
Yes! We have more characters in the game, so there'll be more themes and Gareth is hard at work, but I figure he should just answer this question. Pretty sure he has a ResetEra account, I'll send him a link to this thread! :)