[Eibu]

There was still spiritual stuff in AE
Instead of BigFace this time we got the Wierdos, Abe's spiritual ancestors who've asked him to redeem the honor of their race and another tattoo which gave Abe the power of Healing and introduced the first makeshift Shamans...

And that will return in MO...one of the first updates on the launch countdown was the cool looking Mudokon Shaman who gives advice (the "help" command of MO) and I don't know if that stuff is still there but the rainmaking and stuff was there.

I don't think it lost it's spirituality, and I think we have to realize even though Abe still plays a large role this is Munch's Oddysee. I think it would be a good idea instead of controlling THREE characters next time (like some people think, me excluded) you can have Abe be the HUB character of Oddworld always returning to help the new main character since Mudokons are a big part of the story of oddworld and the most humanoid so we can relate.

That's my Two Moolah