I think the concept of Molluck’s Vault, along with Molluck himself surviving the destruction of Rupturefarms and fleeing, plus the cut plans to include Molluck’s trial in Munch’s Oddysee, certainly raises questions about how important Molluck is meant to be in the larger story of Oddworld. Every game bar SW includes Molluck or his influence in some way, or was planned to do so; even now there’s speculation on his possible appearance in Soulstorm.
Using the contents of the vault to fund Lulu would certainly have been more welcome than spending half the game traipsing around smalltime Magog businesses to scrape together the moolah. Perhaps when the larger planned story had to be cut, the vault was replaced in order to pad out the remaining gameplay?
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