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Stranger’s Wrath is standalone and has very few ties to the other games, so it will very likely remain canon.
But for Munch’s Oddysee, that’s totally up in the air now. If Soulstorm differs significantly from Exoddus, then it might require an MO remake. But if it’s similar enough, they may just treat MO as canon and move on to a new game set after MO.
As much as I’d like to see MO redone properly, at this point I’d personally rather they just move to do a new game after Soulstorm. It’s been so long since we’ve really seen anything new in Oddworld, I’d like to get back to that.
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The story in MO is so thin and gutted that it might as well not exist in the first place. AE got a remake because fans asked for it. MO should get a remake because it can't possibly be used to build story on. Especially after the shift to the incredibly dark tone of Soulstorm vs the overly comical setting of MO.
What we're going through right now is a proper reboot of the entire Oddworld franchise. The old games should be forgotten in terms of canon. At this point everything that happened in the old timeline is being re imagined from scratch (with the exception of Abe's Oddysee). Things might start to overlap and we are already seeing small elements from MO in Soulstorm. The Mudokon resistance was never even mentioned in AE and was only suggested in MO. But in the new timeline the resistance plays a main role directly after the events at RuptureFarms. That's already a huge change.
My expectation is that Soulstorm is going to throw out an amazing amount of new lore to play around with. And I agree that we should be looking at this in an 'old timeline', 'new timeline' fashion instead of trying to mix and match old and new games together.
Edit: Stranger's Wrath was essentially a spin-off. It could honestly fit in both timelines at this point unless Vykers somehow get retconned.