I REALLY wanted to like this game, I love the oddworld universe and Abe is a really likeable character, and while the setting of this game is much less interesting to me than of the first game, I would have loved to have seen a Glukkon/Slig residential area. The main problem is that the gameplay is incrediably frustrating and unfufilling, I guess it's a puzzle game but I never felt like I was actually solving anything, it just felt like I was either doing exactly what the game obviously wanted me to do. Or I was randomly trying everything untill something worked. The controls are clunky and annoying, theres too much searching containers and crafting, which slows down the pace to a halt. The game is not difficult if you don't care about saving your followers and dont mind getting a shit ending, but if you actually try and save 80% of your followers, which you need to do to get decent ending, then the game is incredibly difficult in the most annoying way possible. I loved the cutscenes, but 80% of them are just Abe running away from Mullok and then Mullok chasing after Abe. Also my go to way of seeing how bad a game is, achievement statistics, only 5% of players found the train, which happens less than halfway through the game. I tried so hard to like this game, to add insult to injury I looked up the endings, and it ends on a cliffhanger, so I dont feel too bad about giving up.

Reviewed on Oct 01, 2021


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