Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

One of the best games from my childhood <3 Camera movements aside, I think it's still a good game even after all this years.

Nostalgia hits !

Funny wheelchair fish game good.

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I have sympathy for this underdog of the classic range. The first ever Oddworld game in 3D. Now, i'm not nostalgia-blinded. I know the environments are recycled. I know the story has problems. I know it's more for kids and things aren't as gritty, but it's still classic Oddworld. Abe seemns older and more battle-hardened. Much is competent, even if the sounds they gave him aren't perfect. Speaking of sound. Yes, there are some sound bugs in this. A creator named Dee Dyne did make a fix. I believe he's still on Discord. It's been a while since I got that patch. (sorty if this is useless, I just know he's proud of it and that it did help with my recent playthroughs). The visuals, i've seen people get mad at. Guys, it was 2001, and they had never done RealTime. They were designing for X-BOX. A whole different system to the PS1. It was gonna look rough, especially in the modern day. My biggest issue with it, is that the story is so seperate from the prior two games., Yes, it was technichally meant to be Game 2, with Exoddus being an expansion to Oddysee, but it feels a bit too seperate. Abe and the Sligs are just sort of there, with the Vykkers being more of a presence. At least, as characters. There are plenty of Sligs to gun down with their brand new laser guns. Oh, yes. Sligs have got lasers now, as do the Mudokons. The Muds even have their own Zapper defenses. On that point, why in the name of Mudos did they remove the ability to take out chant supressors? They have zero collision. That was a major point in the first two games. Take out an orb or drone, then possess a Slig to complete a puzzle, or clear the path. Sure, levels like Stockyard Escape didn't allow it, but it meant you had to get crafty. It shifted the gameplay from Rupture 1, where you could use grenades on them and tear your way through. Here, it just feels like they exist. The Zappers aren't much better. The first lot just reset Sligs back to their spawn points, while the next lot only do something if you lure Sligs in. Not too bad, if you didn't already clear your path througth most of them to activate them. Great idea in concept, not so good in execution. Also, I love the regrowing land mines. Weird choice with no context, but it's so odd that I can't hate it. I think that sums up this game. The end goal is amicable and very strong, but the tasks to get there paint our heroes as kinda evil. Needs must, i suppose. I won't lie to you though, the Golden Quarma ending still tears me up. It feels like you really did the absolute best thing, and are rewarded aptly. The bad ending...uhhh, well, let's just say it's the direct inverse of that. Look, some hate the dumbed down story of this game, and I can see its shortcomings, but once you've played the GBA version, you'll get a new appreciation for this version. That's a promise. I do still recommend it, guys. Yeah, the achievements are broken, but that's not the game's fault. Take the game as a time capsule, back to an experiment that walked, so that Stranger could run.

Rman Studio approves of this but issue is that they wont make sequal to it!