Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

This is Oddworld Abe's Oddysee with a fresh coat of paint more or less The original Abe's Oddysee had 2D sprites with pre-rendered backgrounds, whereas New N Tasty is obviously all 3D modelled. New N Tasty also has continuous screen scrolling as opposed to Oddysee's square segmented level layouts. There's now continuous movement as opposed to the almost grid limited positions of movement of the original game(Not to imply the original movement mechanics for the original are bad) If you know the original like the back of your hand, then you know what to expect with the level layouts and can breeze through it The OST for New N Tasty is entirely redone and expanded from the original Abe's Oddysee OST. It is still dynamic, changing based on statuses like controlling an enemy via possession or being pursued by sligs/scrabs/paramites. The darker grittiness and color palette of the original has been brightened, most especially for Rupture Farms. Other areas of the game are much closer to the original color and look more or less. The art style is largely in-tact otherwise including perhaps one of the most important things: the sense of scale.

You know how it goes - you remember a game from your childhood, and in your memory it always looks several times more beautiful and cooler than it actually was. That’s exactly what happened here. The game looks exactly the way I remember it from playing it on the PS1. I looked at what the original actually looked like, and really felt that contrast for myself. This game looks the way I imagined it in my head back when I played it on the PS1. The game is great, and I had a lot of fun playing through it. But if you’re making a full remake, for ♥♥♥♥’s sake, give us some decent controls! And that’s my main complaint about this game - the controls are extremely unresponsive and clunky. Disarming mines is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nightmare, and you really have to struggle just to make a jump properly. The controls are incredibly clunky and, in most situations, just unpleasant to use. But still, I have to give this game a like. The developers did something amazing: they managed to recreate a childhood game that originally looked absolutely terrible and ugly, but they recreated it the way a player who played it 20 years ago remembers it. You don’t see stuff like that being made anymore!

It's new and tasty. Not much else to say. Okay, seriously though, as someone who's never played the classic, I really liked it. It was actually a pretty damn fun way to get a taste of a hardcore '90s platformer without having to deal with the crusty old graphics.

10 years later i finally come back to play this game to continue where i left off in my Oddworld 100% marathon, and coming back i do not remember the remake being like this I feel like the aura of the original has been lost with a piss filter and bloom attached to it and it is incredibly bright for a game that's in a very dark setting, Abe's animations looks sluggish when he runs in the first cutscene to the delivery of his lines not being as good Controlling Abe in this is like a snails pace, there is no crazy movement tech in this one and you are very slow why in the original you were zooming if you knew your way around, and i hate the camera angles, why on gods name did they do this, just keep it a still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera, we don't need this weird cinematic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ because half the time i miss jumps and get timing incredibly wrong because the angle is screwed. And i will say again i do not remember this game being like this, it's like it suddenly changed also controller for steam is ♥♥♥♥♥♥, you have to bind everything which is annoying because half the buttons don't work My only gripe with this game is i get they want a 1 to 1 remake but i would've loved extended cutscenes l…

Diced and canned abraham lincoln meat is every radioactive sligs sludge dream

I give this game a 8.5 out of 10. It loses 1 point for that HORRENDOUS DOUBLE MEAT GRINDER section in one of the secret mudokon areas with the three paramites. After rescuing all of the mudokons in that room and dealing with the paramites, I have never died so many times in a single area in all of the game than this one because of those grinders. I'm also docking it another .3 points for the slight damper in control, though it did get better once I enabled "Button to Run" and "Sideway Hop" so I had more control over Abe's movements instead of him sliding into a mine and dying. Another .2 points for some graphical bugs. Nothing detrimental that would prevent me from beating it, but noticeable.