Ah but apparently that was the old line, and the one that you're all familiar with is the newest version. :P

Confused yet?

What I wanted to say yesterday is that I'm glad OWI are digging through their old material. It'd be nice if they showed more stuff like that.

I want to see the Japanese advert for Abe a Go Go in full HD, 720p

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Oh god.

Do it.

Yes!

Wow, just wow.

Yes, this is definately something we need.

Why does it say "It's time to confess"? It doesn't make much sense, I love that aggressiveness in the voice at the end though, and all the way through the video it sounds more sinister.

Because it's a shrink, you tend to tell things to shrinks.

In fact, How about JAW remake the Abe A gogo ad for the release of Abe HD? All the team has to dance whilst Stewart is dressed as Abe.

If it means we get to see Wil dancing then I'm in.

Oh wow......that would be pretty amazing.
How about an Oddworld themed Dance Central game for Kinect? A game in which Stewart Gilray comes into your living room and dances with you.

I don't know what you guys are struggling with, he clearly says "confess".

I am afraid that a trailer like that would be a total waste as the only ones to 'get' that video are already die hard fans and will probably buy the game anyway. Newcomers on the other hand will just have a huge wtf moment and walk away.

I've got a strange feeling he wasn't be serious in the slightest..

I presume because it's trying to get Abe to confess to what he's done in the course of the game.

COUNT ME IN!

I don't know if you were joking or not, but I can tell you right now that the Japanese commercial would only expand the fanbase, not diminish it.

I'm all for any excuse to dress up as a Japanese school girl.

As if you need an excuse. We've seen you, Glitch. We've seen you.

For some reason I'm getting flashbacks to a MO Windows Media Player visualization.

I actually prefeer the original one, I don't like the dialogue change!

This is brilliant! :D

Do you guys think this might've been a test for Abe HD? You know, perhaps they was testing making the cutscenes HD with this?

Wil's post above implies that it was a file they found in the archives rather than something they produced new.

Ah.

It makes sense that the Shrink would say something like that, but the fresh faced new Oddworld fans (and probably a lot of older fans) aren't going to KNOW what a Shrink is, because Shrinks were never actually featured in the game's gameplay or in the game's cinematics, so to them, the line is going to sound out of place. Or, rather, they'll be asking themselves, "what is that thing, and what does it want Abe to confess to?"

In fact, the original line doesn't make much sense, either, since the Shrink's lines "doesn't mean there's no hope" and "You need to look within if you wanna be free" sounds like he's giving Abe advice or encourage him. Except, the Shrink is supposed to be an antagonist.

Sure, they both SOUND cool and menacing and fit the tone of the commercial, but... yeah.

Aside from the Guardian Angel FMV, could someone explain this to me please?...
In he opening of abe's oddysee he says 'i just had to escape, i just had to be free, and i didnt know i had a destiny, so get me outta here!" - i always thought that in the Demo of this game there was an extra line which was "and help me rescue the others". I dont know if its my imagination running wild or if they cut it out from the official full release of the game back in '97.

You're right. Well I don't know if it was in the demo or whereever it was but I'm also sure that in some it said that.

You're absolutely correct. Except it's possible it wasn't removed from the final game, but added to the demo to make the gameplay more explicit for players.

I've been looking at the demo movie recently. And yes, it's an abridged version of the full FMV that was done differently, both to save filesize space and give the player a small taster of the full game without giving too much away. Watch it here (click).

The "It's time to confess" makes me feel Abe failed to save the mudokons and his fellow brothers are actually in control of the shrink.
Actually are shrink's suppose to have a mind of its own or is suppose to be controlled by someone?

They have their own AI.