Hello!!!!

[Gerard-Blaize]

Hello!!! This is my v.first thread!!! YAY! Anywho, i'm fifteen [human years] and i've been playing oddworld since i was five [human years]. i've been playing for 2/3's of my life. i am a fanatic. my question today is:
What are the difrences between oddworld in europe & the u.s and oddworld in Japan?? i know the whole four finger thing, but they also changed the picture of a mudokon head on a pike for mudokon pops; due to "undisclosed events". what were these events?? and what other diffrences are there with the Japanese oddworld??

love the site, abe lives in our hearts!!!
mutch..... not so alive to me

[Jordan]

Welcome to the forum, and this needs to be placed in the Welcome and birthday forum. I don't know much about the Japanese Oddworld, all I know is that the speech is in Japanese, and the Mudokon Pops look different because it didn't appeal much to children. I think.

[skillya_glowi]

Welcome to the forum, and this needs to be placed in the Welcome and birthday forum.

Not necessarily; he did ask an Oddworld-related question.

Welcome to the forums, and I'd have to echo Jordan about the Mudokon Pops thing. I guess OWI thought European and American kids would have a tougher stomach.

[Xavier]

The difference is not much about countries I think...
There are at least 2 versions of AO, with differ by the number of fingers and the look of the mudokon pops.

There might be some other differences as the colors of some bombs and stuff like that.

[Wil]

Obviously, the title of the games are different. In Japan, AO is Abe‐a‐Gogo and AE is Abe 99. I haven’t yet found out why the Mudokon Pop graphic was changed, but frankly it makes a lot more sense to have it bright and cartoony. Covering up their dark secrets is what makes the industrial races who they are.

[Zerox]

I read in the OWI Art book that the reason for the Mudokon Pop change was "another long story we don't have time to tell" in reference to the problem with Abe having 4-fingers in Japan (they had to change it to 3 to prevent offending Japanese people and to prevent being fined). It does say that it looks much a tastier treat, so I assume that's why they kept it different (as well as Japanese problems still) in AE when Abe sees it.

[Jordan]

Did someone mention something about Japanese people chopping fingers off in a meat factory, and it kinda insulted them?

[Wil]

That story explains the fingers, but not the heads. I worry it’s some contemporary or historical instance of decapitation in Japan, but let’s not go bandying accusations unnecessarily.

[Gerard-Blaize]

well the fingers thing was cus the lowest class in Japan at one point worked in meat factories and lost fingers. so showing sum1 four fingers basicly says "i'm above you". and i'm pretty sure Japanese kids have tough stomachs, wat wit d manga, ainme & sushi

[Minch]

My names ia Alex, but, please call me Minch.
It's great to be here, I have been an Oddworld fan since I was eight years old. Oddworld is perhaps the greatest work I have seen in video games, the stories are terrific, I have stories of my own too.
I had alot of time to come to sites like this but I was a bit to tied up in the games and personal affairs.
My favorite character is Munch, he is so cool, no, more than cool!
Abe is a fovorite too, but not as much as Munch.
Anyways, it's good to meet you all.

[skillya_glowi]

Hi there, nice to see you
Butttt...just for future reference, to introduce yourself it makes more sense to use the Welcomes & Birthdays forum.

[Alex2405]

I want to know, the Japan version is the one with 3 or 4 fingers?

[skillya_glowi]

I believe the one in Japan has Abe with 3 fingers. After all, they're the ones that were stirring shit up with that meatpacking thing.

[Bullet Magnet]

Which is the most ironic thing I've ever heard. They were concerned that four fingers insinuates the lower meat packing class, despite the fact that that is exactly what mudokons are, and then actually subjected them to the same fate by having one of their fingers removed, thereby actually enforcing the discrimination that they... I don't know, actually attempt to maintain?

But there is that Yakuza thing, but I'd have thought that it were the stump of the missing finger that indicates that, not the presence of four fingers. That is why the sligs were allowed to keep their four fingers, something I had previously assumed to be gross negligence and inconsistency on this special interest group's part.