For ori and the will of the wisps on the xbox one a gamefaqs message board topic titled what hollow knight should have been.
Ori and the will of the wisps hollow knight. Seems they taken some ideas from hollow knight. Ori and the will of the wisps wasn t inspired by hollow knight. But it s as you said shocking how much they lifted right out of hollow knight for ori 2. Ori 2 is ditching the leveling up tree in favor of hollow knight s charms.
So there you have it ori and the will of the wisps didn t get its sword from hollow knight but from the cutting floor of blind forest. It was a love letter to those. And now that ori has a sword he s a viable character for a variety of crossover appearances. It s great to see ori taking things from hollow knight to make itself an even better.
Also combat has been greatly improved it seems as well as actual boss fights now. Despite what some people may say ori already had a sword of his own it was just cut from the first game due to budget constraints. For instance moon studios told us that if nintendo is up for it it would love to see ori in smash. Ori and the will of the wisps.