Double post, but unrelated to previous update.
The very first areas I made for the game (Though currently unimplemented) were an underground cave segment filled with ruins and creeping industrial influence, along with a matching preserved version, with Mudokon inhabitants. This gave me ideas to have the player go backwards in time somehow. Though I didn't want it to be a key element of the game, and also make sense somehow within the lore of Oddworld, soo...
Just like every good oddworld game the hero needs some kind of spiritual guide, whether Big Face or Raisin. Upon achieving certain requirementa you must visit the elder of your tribe in order to learn new techniques. Ofcourse just looking at him you can see he's much too old and frail to teach you anything with any great degree of effectiveness. The only reasonable course is to possess him and search his memories ofcourse!
In order to learn new techniques, or learn more of the past you must play as the Village Elder in the past.
Here he is displaying the Spooce Shield ability, this allows you to block incoming projectiles.
