I agree with Abe Babe in that I'd like to see OWI get back to the skinny, scrawny, no-chance-at-all protagonists. First of all, it just makes their peril seem more epic when the odds are stacked against them due to some physical weakness. And secondly, scrawny guys like me need someone to look up to [hah].
That's not to say I don't like Stranger. Stranger's Wrath is tied with Abe's Oddysee as my favorite game [not just out of Oddworld]. It's just that you can find games with big, buff anti-heroes with battlescares and submachine guns out the yin-yang everywhere, whereas a story like Abe's with a character like Abe is a little more rare. And I'd just hate to see Oddworld go for something more appealing rather than Lorne's original vision and ideas. But, who knows, maybe Fangus [if this all turns out to be real] has been part of Lorne's plan all along.
Either way, I'm just going to wait to buy the game before I make any real judgements against it.
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