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I think JAW did an ok job with the stuff they made. The biggest problems I ever had with Stranger was some achievements that don't work properly to this day.

I'm not entirely sure who made the original Munch PC port. If that was JAW then yeah, pretty terrible fucking job there. Square One Games actually made Munch playable on PC and it's pretty good now.

My biggest gripe with JAW was mostly that Stewart seemed to be a sourpuss most of the time with no sense of humor what so ever. I think he visited these forums a few times and was promptly insulted by everything he read, even if some of it was fair criticism.

The other thing is something I've voiced already, but JAW was very PlayStation focused. It was pretty much the only platform they had any experience with and overall they seemed extremely reluctant to let go of that. At one point we had a situation where Lorne Lanning was preaching his platform agnostic standpoint while JAW was giving under the table handjobs to Sony all day long. Every piece of promo art, every video, every media presentation before the release was all PlayStation sponsored. New n Tasty even had an E3 slot in Sony's presentation as an indie. Then during that same presentation, New 'n' Tasty was announced to be a 1 month exclusive for the PS4. And even that eventually turned into 7 months because, lo and behold, barely any work was done on ports for other systems because everything was being focused on the PlayStation release. And since Lorne is always going on about being independent and platform agnostic, I find it very hard to believe this massive push for PlayStation came from him initially. I find it much more likely that that was Stewart's influence and their inexperience with other systems kind of forced Lorne to accept the situation.

So yeah, JAW was far from the worst thing to happen to Oddworld, but you can bet that there was more to their ending partnership than just 'distance and timezones'. There was a fundamental disagreement about something, somewhere, between Stewart and Lorne. One day we'll probably hear that story in full.