5/3/2023 0 Comments Hltb oddworld strangers wrathDespite many, many flaws, I can't say Stranger's Wrath, for the length of its first half, has aged poorly. The original game is 14 years old now and shows its age every time you walk empty spaces, deal with floaty platforming and hear some questionable voice acting. Because of this, I was gladly immersed in these new frontiers of the Oddworld, at least until all good game design got suddenly washed away. In this case, visible progression and a wit-demanding routine are essential in order to send feedback that engages the player for long intervals. As you earn more and more moolah, you build better, tougher weapons and equipment to stop the increasingly difficult swarms of colourful criminals. Also, each boss has their own personality, and a battlefield to match too, which require different approaches and add variety to the whole mix. Bagging one outlaw at a time, and trying not to kill them by making the best out of your unique collection of tools, is very gratifying. I would really love another Oddworld game like this one.ĥ0% PCAfter being let down and enraged by Munch's Oddysee's cruel, obsolete level design and rigid controls, it was quite easy to find Stranger's Wrath's bounty hunting so much charming and entertaining. Those Spider like enemies are also very terribly designed and I strongly disliked fighting them. You will be rolling in money by just sucking up enemies, all though this becomes kind of gimmicky after the twist. And taking enemies in alive is more of a weird complicated puzzle than something you actually want to do. Stealth in that you aren't given enough awareness to avoid enemies. ![]() My only big gripes with the game is that the stealth and bounty systems feel tacked on. ![]() The story is also pretty interesting here even though I am not super familar with the Oddworld mythos. The health system is quite unique too and I wish was replicated in more games since I prefer this over regen health and finite health, this feels like an interesting combination of the two. How you use live critters as ammo, and how you will be killing enemies as well as defeating them non lethally as well having lots of third person moments mixed in with the first person shooting. The Oddworld series is very much worth a revisit and Stranger’s Wrath may be the most interesting of the bunch.80% PlayStation 5It's a pretty good game. PlayStation 4 is missing Munch’s Oddysee, unfortunately. ![]() In fact, with the recent release of Stranger’s Wrath, the entire Oddworld series is now available on the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. Which makes it that much more interesting to play in 2022 because most gamers probably haven’t played it! Despite it having been released on so many platforms, this is the first time the game has been made available on such a popular console since the PlayStation 3, a little over 10 years ago. With such an interesting premise and gameplay, it’s a shame that it bombed so badly when it was first released. Just like the other Oddworld titles, the story has a strong anti-corporate message that uses its western backdrop to make a statement analogous to the death of the wild west and its following industrialization as the player progresses through the game, as well as connect Stranger’s Wrath to the rest of the world and titles in the series. ![]() The plot deals with a lot of hidden identities and double lives revealed. The towns are also suffering from a drought due to a dam that’s been built by some unknown figure named Sekto.
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