If MO was everything it was meant to be... Lorne envisioned him to become as iconic as E.T. A tad too ambitious if you ask me.
He was supposed to have had adrenal steroid experimentation, so as Abe you could smack him around, and he would transform into a Gabbit-Hulk. The whole game was supposed to be one world, where you could travel all over, instead of the strict level divisions. Your Quarma would not just be based on rescuing scrubs and lab-animals, but keeping the environment in good condition. If you cause a toxic spill, the trees would die and the wildlife and natives would leave, useful if there was a large population of scrabs in the vicinity, but they would rampage and stampede on their way out, destroying villages that you have helped to establish.
Munch would have led fuzzles and other creatures to hidden places where he would heal them and raise them into a formidable force. Abe would gather Mudokon forces and they would prepare for revolution. You wouldn't just persuade your friends to help you at the end by having good quarma, you would have gathered them yourself in prep for attack.
Food resources and all other parameters would be tracked by the game, dictating the population of different species and their reaction to you. You would ride airships, arrange storm-circle assaults on industrialist facilities and possess sligs to warn the natives of impending attack.
The game would have been completely genre-busting and amazing, as you cut your own path in the storyline, all the while actually completing the story, as you wait for Munch's broken leg to heal so he can become more independant.
Abe and Munch's relationship would quickly deteriorate during the game, as Munch's attempts to make Abe believe his abduction story fail, and Abe's attempts to rescue Sam and the eggs are befouled by Munch's dejected uncooperation.
If MO had been half the game it was supposed to be, then the whole electronic entertainment world would know the name "Oddworld". Unfortunately, even the power of the Xbox could not contain Lorne's vision, and the code was crippled.
And don't say that Munch is badly designed. He is one of the most original characters ever concieved.
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