Love, Family, and Sacrifice in the Ori Games.
Ori and the Blind Forest is a game created by Moon Studios that takes place in a land called Niwen. The game is about a spirit called Ori, who falls from the spirit tree in the middle of the great storm. Ori is found by Naru, a bear-like creature who raises Ori. However, the forest soon turns blind, as sein, the light of the forest, was stolen from the spirit tree. The game follows Ori as he tracks down Sein and returns him to the spirit tree. 
The game starts out with Ori falling from the spirit tree. He soon meets Naru, and there Naru embraces the light, acting as Ori’s mother figure throughout the game. However, the light is soon lost from Niwen, and the decay starts. Once peaceful creatures turn violent, and food stops growing. Naru decides to give up her food for Ori, and while Ori tries to bring food to Naru, Naru dies. This moment is the first moment in the game where the love between Ori and Naru is seen, and the first of many moments of sacrifice throughout the game. Ori has to leave his home in swallows nest, in search of a way to save Naru. Weak and hungry, Ori staggers onward. As he draws his last breath, the spirit tree uses the last of its light to save Ori, in another moment of sacrifice. 
Later in the game, we are introduced to Kuro, the main villain of the story. However, we find that Kuro only took Sein because the light had incinerated her 3 baby owls, leaving only an egg left. This is another moment in the game where family and love is what drives the story forward. Later in the game, Ori meets Gumo, a member of the Gumon Race, a race of spider-like creatures who are very masterful builders. Gumo has fallen to hate and despair in the decay, but Ori shows him complete and unconditional love, saving Gumo from certain doom. Later, when Ori has to visit the Gumons lair to restore the element of the wind, Gumo follows. Seeing all his friends frozen, Gumo decides rather than save his people he will revive Naru. Here he decides to pass on the love that Ori showed him, and he becomes a part of the family. 
Finally, around the end of the game, Ori is tasked with restoring the element of warmth. To do so, however, he must escape Kuro in the final escape sequence of the game. Just when Kuro thinks she has Ori finished off for good, Ori comes back, just for Kuro to nearly kill Ori. However, when Kuro sees Naru, risking her life to see her child for the last time, Kuro has one of the greatest changes of heart in all of fiction. Kuro sees the forest burning around her, and remembers her own child. In the ultimate sacrifice for her family, Kuro leaves her child to Ori and Naru, and takes sein to the spirit tree. In order to save the forest, sein must release a blast of light even more powerful than the one that fried Kuro’s children. Kuro knows she will surely die, but she goes ahead anyways, and is disintegrated in the resulting blast of light. Kuro, in the ultimate sacrifice, sacrifices herself for her daughter, and the entirety of Niwen. 
Ori and the Blind Forest is a game about love, family, and sacrifice, all 3 of which our modern society could become a bit more accepting of. This game addresses these universal themes in a clever way, and I wish more works of fantasy could address these themes in this way. Rather than being incredibly blunt with it, let it seep into our minds as we go through the story. Too many stories address these issues straight up, and while they can still be fine stories, it can take away from the magic of their worlds.