As we all know, NnT is a complete different game than AO.
I fell in love from the first moment when I played NnT. The gameplay itself is awesome. The controls are much more sensitive and may feel unfamiliar compared to the original, but you’re getting into it quickly. It’s not like pushing the arrow to the right or left and Abe is making one single calculable step. You need to be more carefully (I play it on PS4 and have no idea what the PC, Wii or whatever version is like).
But: Am I the only one who thinks that the most needless thing is the health indication? I never use it and have no idea why I should.
I agree that NnT could have been more darker and gloomy. But the movements and overall speed of the game are so fast anyway that you really can’t enjoy the in-game graphics and stunning settings. You just run through the screen. It feels more hectic and stressful to me. But most people play it more than only one single time so you will discover the details anyway.
The cutscenes... well I felt like I wanted to scratch my eyes out (or Abe’s). The characters look exaggerated and way too cartoonish (except the Sligs, they always look cool, but they don’t really have face to ruin, at least I have no worries about their look in the future). It just doesn’t „feel“ like the old ones, which were just EPIC! Everything is so „round“, colorful and shiny in NnT. Really unusual for Oddworld and especially for the old fans. Plus the extra cutscenes in Paramonia and Scrabania are redundant and made me discover the skip option.
Overall I’m missing the „Oddworld-Magic“ that AO and AE had.
Compared to the HD remakes of MO and Stranger they had no base to work with. Always keeping in mind that they started at almost zero when they made NnT and for that OWI & JAW did a really really great job.
And publishing it to as many platforms as possible is absolutely the right way to reach new fans and catching back the old ones.
I’m hoping that they will get back to the old glance someday. I can’t wait to play TzF.
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