Agreed the Hill Billy Chickens (or 'Hickens') don't look like something out of Oddworld (they're Mudokon similarities aside), but I'm pretty sure they're real creatures. I'd figured they were native, like Mudokons, but much more easily influenced by the Industrial types of this new Western world we'll be exploring in Oddworld 4.
Someone (Sal and Faz spring to mind, but I honestly can't remember) came up with the idea in the Steef topic that eventually Abe would find he was also the saviour to these people, but that they didn't actually believe in the saviour and were completely unwilling to co-operate. Nice twist, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Oddguy, that may be, but I'm thinking they're going to be the comic relief in Oddworld 4. Frankly, if that's what they are, it means Mudokons and Sligs can stop using such dreadful terms as "Hey, what's happenin'?" and "Hey, butt-wipe," which was appauling to hear coming from them in Munch's Oddysee.
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