As Wil pointed out, the direction OWI went after Abe's Exoddus was the result of scrounging together what they could from the doomed production that was MO. I applaud them for managing to pull together and make a decent game in lieu of the production hell Munch endured. They could have just given up completely.
Stranger's Wrath deviated even further from the original formula, which was a big risk, but I think it was one well worth taking. Stranger's Wrath wasn't perfect, but it acted as a good band-aid for MO, and expanded the universe significantly. I'm especially happy that they did that. I'd rather it keep expanding than for Lorne to go all George Lucas and continually do damage control on the old stories. This is also part of why I originally had disdain for remaking the originals, but those concerns have been (mostly) assuaged and I know that Oddworld is in capable new hands.
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