Eeeeek, no! OHOO is not the fifth game. It irritates me to see this, but I can't even imagine how or why this misbelief arose. Hand of Odd has no designated number; it was merely the first planned game of the indefinitely postponed Habitales series.
I don't know about ME not having Abe or Fuzzles. The whole ethos (or one ethos, at least, because the original concept was so amazingly fantastic it was able to support many) of MO was that it involved teamwork: teamwork between Abe and Munch, primarily. Over the course of the story, the relationship between the two characters would grow from detest to dependence, and further. These two states were never seen, but the ordering of NPCs through GameSpeak is one of the few great features that survived in the gameplay, and that includes the ability to nurture the characters into something greater (though this part was reduced to mere upgrades). Removing these elements... I think that would detract from Lorne's vision.
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