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It's good. Give me something more if you actually want to discuss it.
It's infuriating to 100%.
Abe's Exoddus from 1998 greatly improved it's formula.
A masterpiece, it transcends "game" and is instead "art"
>Abe's Exoddus from 1998 greatly improved it's formula.
True, but it's just so long. Each of the different sections are great but they're all a bit too long, it becomes a chore to play
Its not much different than Exoddus. While Exoddus has literal quicksaves, Oddysee had checkpoints you can go back and forth through to save all current progress before attempting a hard room. On PC you even get a diamond symbol floating above your head when you save it even more obvious.
Pure soul game, but I could never finish it.
It's fun, it's good and it's not that hard
t. rescued all 99 mudokons
Exoddus is arguably better though I think it drags on too long, also quiksave makes it too easy
One of my favourite games ever, easily top 5, possibly top 3. Could never finish it as a kid but completed it (and Exoddus) a bunch of times as an adult.
It's one of those games that is just the perfect marriage of all its parts, from sound design, to visuals, to story, all through a unique gameplay experience with novel mechanics that creates an overall work of art that's just beautiful and unique at every turn.
I played the remake and I didn't like it at all. It took away so much of what made the original fantastic. All the hand crafted backdrops, each one a painting, gone. The weighty, clunky movement that you eventually become accustomed to, gone, replaced with smoother more modern controls. It's one of those remakes that just didn't need to exist.
I cannot bear to play the remake. Gave it 10 minutes of my time and was left utterly disgusted.
An abortion. It shouldn't exist
I remember being quite excited at the time (before remakes became fully superfluous), when it came out it was way below expectations. They managed to get the very core mechanic of 'screens' and what that meant for each puzzle wrong by having the screen scroll with the action.
>when it came out it was way below expectations
They straight fricked up big time! When I listened about it at the end of this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7f0YtzWBG4 I also hoped that current team would know how to do it right...
There still hasn't been a single game with cutscenes as good as Oddworld.
>There still hasn't been a single game with cutscenes as good as Oddworld.
Agreed, the art direction generally is just top tier.
The backgrounds, the character and enemy designs, the soundtrack, the sfx, they all just fit together perfectly.
There's not a single asset in the game that looks like they took the easy way out on, and nothing seems stock or out of place
The FMVs still hold up even with their level of 90s CG.
>The FMVs still hold up even with their level of 90s CG.
Not to mention their sheer memorability
I played little bits of this game as a kid but I've never played it to completion. Is it worth saving all your fellow dudes on a first playthrough? I remember back then I always thought that escorting the guys to the portals to be a major pain in the ass.
On first playthrough you won't save them all due to missable secret areas, but it's advisable to not get worst ending.
Other than that play mainly to have fun and to relish in ensuing chaos.
>Other than that play mainly to have fun and to relish in ensuing chaos.
I remember one of my favorite things to do as a kid was possess the enemies and then gun down the slaves.
You don't really get a reward for 100% as far as I remember (I think a cutscene viewer), as long as you get 50 (which I think is fairly doable) you get the good ending. I guarantee you could run around the first stage for 5 hours and not find all the secrets.
There's a secret on the first screen (and it's a nasty one).
Yeah, I remember looking up a walkthrough as a kid and was in awe at how bullshit the secrets were to find, and how to actually do them. Even if you stumbled into one during your first playthrough you'd struggle to actually do it.
IIRC, secrets are indicated by:
>Foreground scenery disguising ledges/entrances
>The sound of Sligs but there are none on screen or nearby
>The sound of Mudokons but there are none on screen or nearby
My big problem with the secret areas is if you don't reach a checkpoint straight after, and you die before the next checkpoint, you have to redo those secret sections all over again (and they're usually the much harder puzzles).
>My big problem with the secret areas is if you don't reach a checkpoint straight after, and you die before the next checkpoint, you have to redo those secret sections all over again
That's exactly the infuriating part. Finishing stealth-heavy area and subsequently falling into random mine/pit or getting eaten/trampled/shot seriously made me question my life choices as a kid.
I love it. I love how it almost feels like a puzzle game in a weird way
Because it is a puzzle game, you suppose to figure out timing's of traps considering that every time you press a button he makes a single step left or right on the grid, like tomb raider games.
You suppose to figure out the order in which you interact with mudokons, enemies in order to save all.
Its all very schematic and that absolutely unsettling, bizarre setting.
Player it recently by connecting ps3 to my old crt and god damn the games are beautiful.
Also, wtf asiatic moot, wtf this new moronic captcha.
The captcha is better than the old one
the development behind this game is pretty cool and interesting
The last three times I've played Exoddus I've gotten to the last level feeling glad that I didn't miss any like last time only to finish with 296-298 mudokons saved. What makes it worse is I have no idea where I'm missing them, and the game is way too long to replay too often.
IIRC there might be drop below room.
Never got that far on it as a 10 year old kid, but it was great - pure nostalgia.
It's and it's sequel are both fantastic games that I recommend, but they've got a bit of an irritating juvenile streak though then. Exodus really leans into it more with the literal fart mechanics to solve several puzzles.
It's funny.
It's a testament to how great the game is that it doesn't bring it down. If I told you a game has a literal fart mechanic and a bunch of slapstick humor you'd assume the game devolves into childish slop but it never does. It still manages to be an intriguing puzzle game with intelligent adult themes
I killed them all and got invincible NG+ for it lel
Nothing used to make me more cross than seeing those couple you can't kill and thinking I wish I could kill you so bad
It's always been funny to me that if you get the bad ending in Exoddus for not rescuing enough Mudokuns, Abe complains "but guys it was hard...".
I kept thinking his shoulders were flippers, and he was originally some sort of sea creature that had evolved into a biped.
I'm literally unable to see it. Could you draw that for us?
Tough but fair
You lose your right to complain about Castlevania after buying this
I've only played the remake but thought it was great. Should probably try out the original sometime based on this thread's perception of it.
I'm going to give the remake another shot, I think after 10 years the shock and trauma I experienced has finally left me
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