“I was employee of the year.

Now, Im dead meat.”

Oh, how youll pray, for you have all the offensive capacity and resilience of a McDonalds salad.

Abe’s Oddysee, the lanky, loin-cloth-wearing factory worker star of the Oddworld games, standing against a backdrop of chimneys and rays of light

Death is frequent, and gruesomely funny.

Abe might be gamings ultimate fallguy.

Also funny: watching a crowd of Mudokons squeakily tip-toe past a sleeping sentry.

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The later Oddworld games are more of a mixture.

Oddworld: Munch’s Oddyssey is an imperfect departure into full 3D platforming.

If youd like to recommend an Oddworld spiritual successor, Im all ears.