Whatever way you slice it, though, this is apparently a five part story. If Lorne decides to produce graphic novels that's great! I'm all for seeing the end of the story. But since OWI are focused on video games right now I don't see why Lorne shouldn't strive to make Squeek's Oddysee and move onto 4 and 5 if they get the ball rolling. If he has the ideas why not use them? If we're going the vidweo game route, then, I don't see why ending the series with a Squeek's Oddysee is going to be better - like vlam suggested. We're just going to end up with a rushed, skin deep storyline that never really got interesting.
We're not getting the fleshed out stories anyway - if I remember correctly he'd hoped to release each quintology as a game then as a movie.
And I don't think Oddworld would work as a novel series. The characters seem to be developed for a film medium. So far they're pretty simple allegorical tales but I don't think 300+ pages exploring the mind and internal struggle of Abe is really going to be interesting.
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