Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Yeah this game has not held up. I played this as a kid, although I don't think I ever beat it. I remember feeling really lost at how to progress. Nostalgia is powerful though and I wanted to revisit the game to see how well it's aged. I'll list some positives and negatives below:

Positives:

I love how ugly the main characters are.
I love the goofy voice acting, especially the taunts you can do when controlling enemies.
I love the cutscenes, especially how dark the bad ending is.
I like that levels are beat by doing different tasks as Abe and Munch.
Controlling enemies is an interesting mechanic, although a bit over used.
I love the design of the creatures.
It's fun getting a big group of allies as Abe and having them attack enemies.
I like the themes of slavery and industrialization. The oppressed beating the oppressors.

Negatives:

There are not enough gameplay mechanics to keep the game fresh, the ones that exist are exhausted.
Some voicelines are way lower quality than others.
It gets annoying having to carry and drag around multiple allies since they can't jump.
There are certain parts of the game where you have to run back and forth while carrying allies, not fun.
Munch feels very limiting compared to Abe.
Level design is all over the place. I don't like how they make you do super precise jumps, especially since you bounce off of walls when hitting them.
Audio balancing is all over the place.
The scratching sound gets super annoying. You will hear that sh*t constantly, even when not anywhere near an ally.

CONCLUSION:

If you played this as a kid it might be worth trying it again. I can't imagine anyone that didn't play this before picking it up and liking it. Nostalgia helps. I'm not sure the game benefited going from 2D to 3D. I just love the Oddworld universe in general.

I LOVE ODDWORLD THIS GAME IS SO GOATED!!!!!
(thou the game glitches sometimes)

Game is great on Xbox, no bugs at all on Xbox. But by god I don't know what they did it to it when transferring it to pc but jesus christ the amount of bugs in this game you could call it a god damn cockroach infestation. I am seriously wondering how they managed to screw this game so hard it made it basically impossible to play not from the controls which are horrible on pc by the way but the visual bugs because the half the time your character is invisible or a hodge podge of level assets stuck together or just a white blinding light and I don't know why. The first levels were amazing and they worked well but then boom the bomb of bugs nuked me and now my game is more buggy then cyberunk 2077 on launch. Overall buy the xbox version not this one.

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The story is funny and original, Oddworld is incredibly unique and a fun world to adventure in. I wish more games had this charm. The gameplay holds up to this day, being a mix of puzzle solving, platforming, and some basic combat. Nothing is too difficult in this game, but 100% it is tricky. You can solve most puzzles in more than one way, sometimes being clever, sometimes using brute force.

Sound mixing is weird (some very loud and very quiet sounds) and running controls are a tiny bit janky.

Very few glitches and no crashes while playing. I'd highly recommend this game for an edgy 10 or 11 year old, or one at heart.

8.5/10. This is closer to a port from the OG Xbox than a great remaster like Strangers Wrath, but it's well worth playing. If you had to choose, Strangers Wrath is better and of better quality.

Only thing I didn't like was the tedious egg levels at the end.

The game is really mid.


It still gives a sense of Oddworld at its prime, though to a lesser degree. It still carried a fine balance of realism with the mix of Cartoony. Only at times teetering too far to one another. I am not a believer that Mudokons should have teeth.

The Cutscenes, voice acting, original sound/music, creature designs are amazing. Even with its poor state at release of being a shallow form of its developing fetus. It still had stylistic choices, which stood out, but were even lost in the remaster.

Music is broken, no longer properly becoming more upbeat. As you would gain companions throughout the level, or kick up during chase.

Cartoony sound effects were tossed. In favour of more realistic sound effects. I prefer the old Munch hopping sound.

The visual aspect of characters have once more, gone for a realistic approach in the remaster. Which I feel makes Oddworld less unique, ruining its fine balance. The limitation of the time helped thrive the creative visual appearance at an attempt for realism that could never be. Or styled as compensation.
These new textures of rust and metal ache my brain at how unfitting, and ugly they look. Abe's new model is really bad. The older models had a low poly count, but represented the characters far better. Subtly in it all.
Abe and Munch had distinct corresponding colors that glow in the dark. Their eyes staying lit when in full darkness. Which were once again lost in favour of realistic shading.


I enjoy the premise of the story, even if it wasn't given its real glory.
I would have really liked to see the main cast slowly begin to flourish together. Not just the small amount we had in Cutscenes, but in-game too. They feel slapped together with no depth, outside of the few great sounding Voice lines this game has.


The levels have ideas that sound really good, but never had the chance to develop. Being very repetitive in visual, and Gameplay nature. Particularly the outdoor areas in terms of visuals. It feels like a constant echo in an near empty dome. It gets old.
Gathering of an army and fighting instead of running away is cool. It is a vibe this game is definitely going for at times and I favour it. But when you are also expected to save said army, it causes a tedious loop of save scumming. In the case they happen to take to much damage and feels very counter intuitive to a core Gameplay feature. Making exploration to more tedious methods. Which while safer, is less fun.

The designs for Vikkers and Industrial areas are always appealing. But still clearly suffer from reused areas and ideas.

I did like herding Meep. Not perfect, but one of the few interesting Gameplay outliers.
You can even possess Glukkon's in this game like Abe's Exoddus. But not to the same level of Gameplay, only really for like 8 seconds, unfortunately. Something I would have liked in SoulStorm.
The camera controls in this game are pretty bad. When it comes to more precise platforming it can become hard to judge, based on weird angles, and the camera fighting back. The re centring of the camera whenever you jump does not help.


The Cutscenes are amazing. Sounds, Visuals, Pacing, it all honestly feels right. The ending Cutscenes were done beautifully.
The only one I didn't really like is the one where they fall from great height. It is a bit too comical.

I do not think of it as a bad game. There are games that fit that category better.

It is only 5 Moolah

Ya evil, black-hearted bastich!

An older but still fun game. not very difficult

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Please add sex with Big Tiddy Goth Chicks

When did you become radicalized?

good game

İlk iki oyun benim çocukluğum, ancak bu ne olm

Best story of all time

Audio is ungodly, certain things are too quiet while others are too loud. Beyond that, game has not aged well. I found the lack of any sort of camera controls frustrating. I'm sure back when this came out, it was on par or acceptable, but there are so many good games out there now, why waste your time on something that would be considered unplayable by today's standards. If you're here for the nostalgia, I'd say that it looks nice despite the age and probably has the same game play as you remember from your childhood. But, for those who love this era of games and just wanted to give a classic a go, it does not hold up.

I can't realy recommend the game except for nostalgia.
I have positive memories of the game from my youth, but unfortunately it hasn't aged well.

The story is cool but the controls are wonky as hell u can move mouse to look arround when standing,but cant move mouse when walking leading to some frustrating moments of u pressing X to focus forward,also game has huge bug when u start playing Munch because it glithes and breaks

Really good puzzle games but really annoying enemies at the end of the game. This game brought nostalgia and I loved playing it.

Very nice dose of nostalgia, and worth it just for the game-speak feature Oddworld does.

Solid game from the Xbox days., Sound is crap 8/10

Aquatic mammal avenges genocide and child abduction with black magic eco-terrorism. 10/10

A sad remnant of the early 2000s gamedev, when throwing away a perfectly working and polished formula for the sake of going 3D was viewed as a sensible decision. There’s still some signature Oddworld charm here, but good luck digging it out of the generic, uninspired chore of a gameplay, dull environments that all look the same, or a tone-deaf narrative that can’t decide between being funny and being dark instead of seamlessly blending it together like the Abe’s games did.

I remember having a particularly pleasant dream once when I was a kid. In it, the 3rd part of the promised Oddworld Quintology got released, and it was everything an Exoddus lover like me could ever hope for: a new exciting Abe’s adventure that expanded upon the world and iteratively improved the mechanics while keeping the core gameplay exactly as the fans had come to like it. Alas, just like most of the dreams our brains show us, this one had very little to do with reality.

Terrible port takes more effort to get working than worth playing.
Honestly shoping on ebay right now for a classic xbox to play it on.

FUN

n64/xbox pikmin crazy frog platformer

i love u oddworld.. marry me??

not worth if the controls for the keyboard and mouse are this trash its barely playable idk why steam doesnt just fucking update the controls when they have 15-30 year old games on here

This is the best game ever made. It is utterly sublime.