i watched the GDQx randomizer run of this game and it seemed super cool so i wanted to try to learn maybe any% or all skills no OOB%. how easy are these categories to learn? also i kinda want to know if this game is somewhat dead since there were 2 posts in the forum from the last 2 years (when writing this)

Hello

I would recommend you ask this question in the Ori discord here: https://discordapp.com/invite/aSz79M4

Yes the game is still active but everyone runs the DE version of the game not the vanilla version here: https://www.speedrun.com/ori_de

Personally I would like to say that the game is easy to learn but hard to master as well but that is different for everyone.

Hope that helps!