When I first played the game, I thought sligs were robots. This was due in part to the mechanical legs, but largely to their complete lack of depth and humanity(sliganity?).
I think greater characterization is possible without diminishing the threat the sligs present. I understand what Nate is saying. Giving sligs more personality could potentially dampen that raw danger they made you feel. A soulless enemy is far scarier than one with a personality. This is why it's such a popular design choice to remove the eyes when creating a fearsome creature.
On that note, the early slig masks with the visor made the sligs far more intimidating than when they were given eyes. Perhaps to split the difference, add the personality but keep the visor.
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If you have the possebility please don't change the style of the first two Abe ingame soundtrack. Maybe it's the most time only 3 or 4 notes which changes in a litte synthesiszer and some birds are tweeting but this minimalism fits perfectly to the ambiance of this great environments.
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HUGE THIS^
Ellen Meijers' music has been a huge influence on the music I compose to this day. The minimalist charm and focus on percussion and world instruments is so incredibly iconic of Oddworld. I'd almost say you should re-use the old soundtracks, as they're so unique, but I know their quality isn't quite up to snuff with today's standards for game scores. If you remake it, don't do what they did with Tommy Tallarico's score for Earthworm Jim HD. Take the opportunity to recreate those bizarre nuances that made the original soundtrack so utterly amazing.
I've been working on some Oddworld-related music things for some time, including carefully constructed remakes of some of the pieces from AO and AE using world instruments. I feel like offering my services as a composer to JAW pro bono. That's not very professional though
