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I love that this episode required the creation of a Pavarotti asset.

honestly as kid Abe's Oddysey scared me half to hell with how "realistic" it was.

I remember my dad got me the first(?) One because he wanted to steer me away from all the violent games like Blood and Quake etc, and then we played a bit together and I remember many nightmares about this horrific cannibalistic people-meat factory game my dad bought. 😐

"Children's bone cancer ward's production of Othello: The Moor of Venice" I put this video on to escape my senior year Shakespeare assignments on Othello

Any game that has crafting bolted onto it for no reason just screams "We ran out of ideas"

Climbing down a ledge was absolutely the hardest part of the game

No fart jokes? In the original Abe's Exoddus, you could drink a soulstorm brew, then fart a cloud of explosive gas. You could even chant and then possess it, make it fly towards an enemy and have it explode on command, all the while making a "ffffffttttttttt" noise as it moved. Don't tell me they removed this!

The powerful, oppressive tone of the first two oddworld games seems forever untouchable by the series own makers. A real shame, Oddworlds greatest strengths were the strong visual and sound design components that made me feel weak and timid.

Bean of Arabia - someone call Rowan Atkinson's manager right now.

If there's one thing i'll never forget Oddworld for (at least the first one) it would be it's characters sound effects and voice lines. "Freeze!" "Get 'em!" "Look out!" or "Heddo. Heddo. Follow me. Okay" and of course the humming meditation noise of "Yoyoyoyoyoyoyo" and the list goes on.

Its a shame cause the game world is pretty interesting and the cutscenes are beautifully animated.

You'll have to do Balan Wonderworld *sometime* , Yahtz.

Am I the only one who'd actually watch Mr. Bean cast as Lawrence of Arabia? That sounds hilarious

3:16 "Our enemies hide in _Metal Boxes,_ the cowards, the FOOLS-" -Oh. Wrong Soulstorm.

Oddworld the game that wants to tick of all the boxes as far as genres goes but somewhere along the way it lost its roots. And what made the original so good. I can still hear and see the playstation logo before me when i think of Oddworld.

What I really want is a sequel to Stranger's Wrath. Monkey visual brain like chicken person western aesthetic!

2:23 Oh my goodness, Mr. Bean recast as Lawrence of Arabia would be hilarious.

Ironic that the crafting element made Abe feel like he’s become the janitor to Yahtzee cuz that’s precisely what Abe’s job was before being his people’s Messiah. He cleaned floors with a floor buffer.

The other thing that went wrong in announcing the series as a 5 part epic right from the get go: The first game was a surprise hit, and when it was a surprise hit, the studio wanted a sequel fast. The original Abe's Exoddus was not even *meant* to be part of their original plan, but they knew they couldn't really fight it and knew they didn't have time for a new engine so they made Exoddus as a "bonus" game even though they were already working on what they intended as the second game, Munch's Oddysee.

Never thought I'd see a Three Tenors reference, but that's why we love Yahtzee. Your only opera singing fan appreciates it.

They should do oddworld movies. No famous voices, just focus on abe's story. I want to know why his hand matches the moon shape!

Today I learned there was a sequel to Abe's Odyssey. Odd that.

The action set pieces especially confuse me, because they seem to conflict with Lorne Lanning's original vision of the game and Abe's character.

"[...] we seem to have taken over the factories fucking janitorial services" to be fair, Abe *did* start out as but a humble cleaner and only started his adventure after stumbling across a board meeting where the Glukkons were planning to use Mudokons as the primary ingredient in their new line of snacks

The sour taste this review left is probably how isaac hayes felt when south park did the episode on scientology

You know, the Oddworld franchise has been around for as long as I have been a gamer, but I have never heard anyone recall it fondly the way people do for Spyro, Crash, Klonoa, Ape Escape etc.

I'd totally watch Mr.Bean casted as Lawrence of Arabia.

Something tells me that oddworld soulstorm's problem is that its trying too hard to keep up with today's game culture and simultaneously to trying too little to be like the first game.

Love how this episode came out the day of another update further correcting half the issues yahtzee faced.

One of the biggest problems in this game compared to the originals is the almost complete lack of music. The odd, atmospheric droning noises were one of the series defining features, which Soulstorm sorely lacks. Sorry to say but as a fan of the originals I am very disappointed.

This is the first time I heard him explicitly tell us not to buy a game.

As an Oddworld fan, I am... apprehensive of this review, particularly as the latest one has shoehorned crafting in 😬 Edit: As always, scathing but fair.

A new Oddworld game AND a new Zero Punctuation video? Honestly never thought I'd see the 2 back together again.

2:23 I think a movie with Mr Bean as Lawrence of Arabia might be kinda awesome

Mr Bean as Lawrence of Arabia is BRILLIANT! Lean just a little towards Blackladder with the non-Bean characters and I'm 100% buying tickets.

Another one for the Bottom 5!

0:43 truer words are rarely spoken. Also I love Yahtzee's never-ending hatred of the Sonic franchise and its fans

I’m guessing that Yahtzee has never heard of Strangers Wrath.

This really saddens me, because I loved Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus. It expanded on everything in the original in the right ways: improving the speech options, adding emotions (maybe mental state is better with the "insanity" and "blind" emotions?) to the mudokons to add more to the puzzle elements, added a quick save feature so you weren't locked into set auto save points, and added more options for Abe to possess. It did all this, while still keeping to the same general mood (admittedly a tad lighter than Oddysee). When I got my hands on New N' Tasty (admittedly after the controversy with that game had passed and patched up), I was eagerly waiting for the possibility of a remake of Exoddus, and was overjoyed on hearing about Soulstorm. Now though, every review keeps saying the same things... Littered with game breaking glitches, unnecessary added features, removed features... It's disheartening.

I'm surprised there was no mention of Munch's Oddysee or Stranger's Wrath

An interesting point about the game trying to 'mimic' the old feel of the original in its design is that those design decisions he mentions as hurting the game weren't present in the original. The original was a puzzle-platformer with tight and consistent rules. The screens played out the same because they were designed to present you very specific puzzles, and while they could be tough or obtuse they were rarely unfair (in the sense that you did everything right and the game just decided not to cooperate).

Interesting. I am once again faced with critic telling me not to buy an Oddworld game when previously this is how I got started playing this franchise.

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Jeez I forgot about how big Memory Cards used to be. And to think most modern games have file sizes that eclipse Memory Card sizes these days. You gotta get a whole 2nd hard drive just to install the most recent COD balance patches.

I've actually been enjoying the heck out of Soulstorm. Good review as always though.

The end of year list is going to be a stiff competition this year

LOLed at the bulgy-eyed ZP Abe and getting his friends killed by imps! LOLed at some funny bits too! :D

I'm sensing a pattern this year of yahtzee reviewing new additions to old franchises that turn out either not great or absolute garbage

I would've gotten it if it was 3D like Munchies Oddessy. That was a very fun game.

Zero Punctuation indie rock track of the week: *Drive Me To The Weirdo Convention* by the *Laser Hat Bishops*

Soulstorm, you say? Spess Mahrens! Todeh the enemeh is at oua doar! We know oua duteh and we will do eet. We fight for our honor as Blod Rehvens, as SPESS MAHRENS, and we fight in the nehme of the Emprah!

Yahtzee’s been harsh before but he seemed particularly spiteful about this which is odd. What a world we live in, aye?

My dad was friends with the guy who initially created Abe Odyssey and specifically got me the game to see how cool it was... i was slightly underwhelmed.

I remember rumble packs. Heavy awful buggers that initially turned be off vibration. I also remember that mercifully Goldeneye was genre-defining and not awful and forgotten because someone nyxed reloading by popping the rumble pak out and back in.

That 'dinner while sitting on spikes' comment sounded like a reference to the second Blackadder series

The Games almost did get to five, stopping at 4 (Stranger's Wrath). As far as Revisions go, this is not bad. It had it's signature flaws sure.. but The Overall world building is still awesome.

1:06 caddy wants to know your location

Loved this one, it went everywhere and nowhere all at once.

I think I remember Strangers Wrath being one I was really excited for back in the day

Really sad Yahtzee didn't like the game, the originals were an integral part of my childhood and the setting was truly unique and I was happy with the fact that they're returning to the IP.

Welp, enjoy Caddicarus breaking all you windows.

I LOVED the Oddworld games when I was growing up.

0:52 as someone named Douglas and is ace this is so much funnier than it should be

It’s insanely stupid once you realise you have to rescue working Mudokens after Rupturefarms was burned down!

Glad to see oddworld is keeping the cinematic platformer alive.

Escorting in the original Dead Rising is actually great fun

Fun fact about new and tasty, David hayter played all the modokens (voice actor of solid snake)

I didn't see advertising for this anywhere. Didn't even know it was out until a couple of days.

Yes Yahtzee I too remember Rumble Packs. I remember never having one for my N64 and missing out on the Stone of Agony gimmick from Ocarina of Time. And to this day I still have no idea how to access the data on a N64 memory card; I did it once on accident.

What about combining escort missions and the search for crafting elements so you want to keep multiple escorts alive because they will bring you the components?

0:24 That's Mercury if you were wondering.

Its interesting how oddworld stayed around being a 2D game on the play station which focused on 3D but was loved to get a 3D game and still is around

I think this episode has my favorite ending gag

Rumble packs, GameGenie/Shark, still finding memory cards over a decade since I last saw a machine that uses them.

4:57 - is that... is that an original Space Crusade dreadnaught I see?!

Stranger's Wrath was straight gold

Abe's Exodus lacked the atmosphere of Abe's Odyssey, but it had quick save! ...Also you could fart toxic clouds and then posess the toxic cloud to scout ahead, and make it explode when it was close to ennemies.

Our enemies hide in METAL BOX- Oh, wrong Soulstorm.

I personally would love to see a Mr. Bean Laurence of Arabia crossover.

Look, I've got the pitchforks if someone else brings the torches.

I loved Strangers wrath

Aw man that sucks to hear. I have fond memories of this game with my family as a child. Well, the original Oddysee, that is.

Mr Bean as Lawrence of Arabia is actually a really good description!

has it been a year already?!

Exodus always had quicksaves.

Lorne Lanning (Oddworld co-founder) did an interview as part of War Stories, in it he explains that because the publishers GT Interactive gave them a deadline of one year to complete part two of their franchise, Exoddus was never the game they wanted to make. Ultimately it screwed up their development of the Oddworld Cinematic Universe and at least this game Soulstorm (albeit twenty years late) is the part two they had wanted to make. Good luck to them I say. (My instinct reaction to it being free on launch for PS5 players did stink a bit of lack of trust in the product though)

You know, I never really remember running out of memory on those old 1 Meg memory cards. Certainly never did on the 8 meg PS2 memory cards either. Now I’m lucky if a single saved game is twice that size on a game that takes up 40 sodding gigs of data. 🤣

Joke's on you, Yahtz, the first word that came to mind was reamin'!

A few weeks ago, my parents told me they had found my old ps1, and would I like to take it home with me. I did, and I tried some of my old games... the silly thing worked flawlessly. There were games I saved 20 years ago on the memory card that were still there.

I mean, Avatar 2 and 3 have apparently been filmed (pre-production completed? I forget) but since their original timeline was to have 2 out by 2015... they might be a bit behind.

I'm just saying I want a movie with mr bean as Laurence of Arabia

I remember playing the demo of the first game at toys r us way back in the day - it definitely was a weird one as a kid, not understanding the control scheme didn't help either lol

I’ve heard nothing but good things about the older Oddworld games and even the last remake worked out pretty well. It’s unfortunate therefore to see the sequel’s remake handily so poorly considering the original was praised as the superior game to the Original In every single way, including that stuff about save features

Knowing that ZP Mr. Bean exists and is archived with tons of other assets is strangely humourous.

I'm old enough to remember the Oddworld games when they came out. There was enough buzz about them that I vaguely felt like I should play them, but I never got around to doing so. Now I gather I should be glad.

Strangers Wraith is great, hoping that blows up now that it's on the switch and we get more of that

Note for future developers/publishers. If you wanna take a classic, awesome game and run it into the ground as fast and harshly as possible, add crafting elements.

Rumble packs, hell, who remembers the expanded memory unit for the N64? Or the memory cards with tiny screens on them for the Dreamcast

i really liked Abe's Oddyssey back in the day, but I doubt I could put up with it now. I am so much fussier and crankier now.