Update of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. A quirky platformer puzzle game about an unlikely hero trying to escape and free his people from the elitist race and corporations that uses them as slaves while making the native animals into food. Good art and world design in the original and good improvements made with this update with some excellent backgrounds, while staying true to the original. Controls are so bad (if they even work for you at all at first with either the keyboard or a controller) and menus so poorly designed and counterintuitive that the developers pinned a thread to help people with control issues. When I first started the game both my controller and the keyboard just wouldn't do certain things, the menus to edit controls are terrible (basically the same as the 1997 menus but more confusing), you have to switch to what type of controller you are using for some reason and at the start of the game it might not update the tutorials with those controls if it even bothers to at all, and even with it needlessly requiring you to choose a controller type it won't tell you what button does what.

Reviewed on May 23, 2021


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