'Kay. Yesterday I think I figured out why I didn't like Abe's Exoddus as much as Abe's Oddysee.
It's the feeling that the entire game was made especially for Abe. The odds are with him all the time. Glukkons are placed strategically where you can possess them. Ledges put conveniently right where Abe can reach them. There is no adventure-wanderlust feel to the game, it's too segregated, too divided up into rigid sections. The levels don't intertwine with one another in any creative way. But imagine it. Take for example the brewery. It had no atmosphere whatsoever. 1) There were wells. Sligs can't use wells, and if you think about it, Glukkons wouldn't be stupid enough to place them right there for Mudokon slaves to use; some of the wells led to levers that turn off vital machinery and such. 2) Doors are unlocked, no security. You can just walk in. 3) The Brewery, for example, was incredibly unimaginitive. There's a screen with doors. Go in a door, pull a lever inside (When you get through some obstacles), come out, go into another door, repeat procedure. When you've done all of them, the final door unlocks that leads to a screen with...more doors. Whee.
4) Unlike AO, you never felt like you were really going someplace. You feel like you're just walking around blowing up stuff, trying to find something. You just want to get past the level and that's it.
Now, before I had Abe's Exoddus, I wanted that game so desperately I gathered every mention I could of it. That includes but is not limited to movies, sounds, music, reviews, ads, interviews, plus about every single screenshot I could find on the official website. And when I look at those screenshots, I see a real experience (minus the ones from the brewery). I see a truly atmospheric adventure game. But when I play Abe's Exoddus, that feeling just...isn't there. No matter how much I want it to be there, it's just not. When I lok over the screenshots I see a comopletely different game than the one I get when I put the CD into my computer. I feel like it's something I've never played. But when I actually play the game I get the feeling that it's just that: a game. Nothing more.
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My Abe's Oddysee walkthrough
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