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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.
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I think you might be right, and I’m really torn because on the one hand, I’d rather just see more stuff instead of retreading old ground, but on the other the prospect of a completely revamped Munch game does sound very promising as a follow-on from Soulstorm.
If the Munch remake was a completely different game and significantly advanced the story and the lore, then I might be OK with it.