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10-14-2006, 08:35 AM
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No, that's the strength of good fantasy. If you'd ever read Tolkien's famous speech On Fairy Stories (or just skimmed it, as it is hard reading), you'd see him discussing this very topic. He hits back at people who criticise fantasy because 'anything is possible' and points out that the best fairy tales have strict rules within their universes that cannot be broken. They may be different to the rules in our universe but they are rules nonetheless.

My point being that much of the technology in Oddworld is based on ours, taken to the extreme. Not everything is possible and if you say that it is, you're demeaning the world that OWI have created.
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