New ‘n’ Tasty is a fairly pure puzzle platformer, and a slow-paced one at that. Abe’s journey brings him through the origin areas of many of the game’s creatures, with the way they act and react during gameplay being all that’s needed to understand what they are. Abe does have internal monologue that helps define specific characters and events, but the world itself is defined mostly visually. New ‘n’ Tasty does a great job of introducing its world without relying too much on exposition. I do have to say, an odd touch for an Oddworld (…sorry). The prose is interesting, with most of the voiced lines, as well as on-screen text, completely made up of rhyming couplets. The story here is relatively straightforward, mostly told through cutscenes that occur every few levels. Abe escapes from the factory and, while on the run, he discovers the history of the Mudokons and other races of Oddworld, finding the power to help his fellow slaves escape the Glukkon factory before they’re turned into delicious treats. It’s here that he accidentally stumbles upon news of the Glukkons’ next delicious food idea: one made out of Mudokons. The world currently finds itself in the grip of the Glukkons, a species that seeks nothing but money and power, who have enslaved other races and started turning some of them into food.Ībe, a creature known as a Mudokon, works as a slave in a Glukkon factory. The titular Oddworld is a very…well…odd world, made up of varying kinds of weird and occasionally grotesque creatures. Of course, in the on-going rush to bring everything to Switch, six years after its original release, this remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is finding its way to the ever-popular console/handheld hybrid.ĭeveloped by Just Add Water and published by Oddworld Inhabitants, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! is set for release on Switch on October 27th, 2020. Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! released as an early PS4 title, eventually finding its way to nearly every console of the last six years…even being back-ported to PS3. …until 2014, when a remake of the original Oddworld title brought the franchise back into everyone’s minds. After nearly a decade of regular releases, Oddword dropped off the face of the earth. I remember the release of that game being a bit contentious a franchise mostly known for its puzzle platformers making the shift to a first-person shooter.Īs it turns out, Stranger’s Wrath marked the last release of the game before the series went dormant. Until now, the only entry in the franchise I’d played was Stranger’s Wrath, originally released on the Xbox back in 2005. A franchise that I’d never really had any experience with, but seemed to have some decent popularity in the gaming sphere. Oddworld – a relatively popular franchise that was pumping out relatively well-received games in the late 90s and early 00s.
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