#Oddworld: soulstorm

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toby from Oddworld Soulstorm

Toby from Oddworld: Soulstorm is Autistic!

[bowlerhatwearer]

I really hope we will get more Oddworld games after Soulstorm.

[ohfugecannada]

I was watching some gameplay of Toby’s Escape and noticed Alf and Toby use Mud like how some people use Man in certain sentences. (I.e. aw mud…)

And yes, I remember that the glukkons in Abe’s Exoddus did something similar. With Aslik referring to Dripik and Phleg as “Gentleglukks”.

What’s funny is that we actually have heard “Man” used in other Oddworld games like Strangers Wrath. I’m not pointing that out in a “this is a plot hole” kind of way, just that maybe it’s some kind of regional thing between eastern mudos and western mudos. Maybe some societies in Oddworld (glukkons and Mudokons) use their species name as slag while others (outlaws, Grubbs, Klakkers etc) use their gender as one(?)

Either way, people who write/draw Stranger interacting with Abe and the other mudokons should take this into account because the results would be comedy gold.

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Josh Gabriel - Oddworld: Soulstorm | Black Screen Records | 2022 | Orange Translucent with Black Swirl

[mable-stitchpunk]

Fanfiction Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13892650/23/Within-Reach

Hiding out after their close call escaping Vykker's Labs, the little group of mismatched miscreants attempt to get to know each other a little better. Though these efforts go downhill when Abe makes a startling realization about what he saw back at the labs.

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[hamstermastersamster]

I finished Oddworld: Soulstorm without 5 of the very last mudokons saved because of what I will very generously call a game design dick move.

Probably the best way I can describe how I feel about this game is what I said to my dad, who watched me play/helped solved puzzles/provided emotional breakdown support: "I really want to like this game, but it's trying VERY hard to convince me not to"

We both loved the original Abe games on the PS1, and I love Abe and the mudokons and the general aesthetic of Oddworld and the IDEAS in this game, but Soulstorm is a mess of glitches and bad, incredibly tedious game design that has no respect for a player's time or patience.

I'm . . . glad I played it. I guess. For the story, which I enjoyed despite a damp squib of an ending, and those rare parts of the game where the difficulty was pure clever puzzle and solving it was fun and interesting. But the end game level select can go screw itself because there's no way I'm ever playing it again :')

Some of its cardinal sins include:

Constantly mistaking bad game design and the tedium of redoing shit for 'difficult' and 'challenge'

Bad checkpoint placement and mechanics/no manual save, forcing you to repeat tedious shit like crafting and looting over and over again when you die. Would have been easily solved by putting checkpoints AFTER loot containers and before a challenge, or allowing us to manually reactivate a checkpoint ourselves, but noooo. Some areas have checkpoints every 2 seconds, some have 1 either end of 10 potential causes of death. There's no consistency and it sucks

No saves means that if you fuck up a level (or the game fucks it up for you with glitches, which I experienced multiple times on the PS4), you have to restart it from scratch. What fun.

"but the levels are designed to be replayed-" SHUT UP SHUT UP, nobody wants to play cheap, cruel, tedious sections of gameplay over and over again

Sluggish, unresponsive controls paired with challenges that require very rapid, precise actions

Slow, janky animation lock-ins that make everything take soooo long to do. Looting a locker, healing a mudokon, the pauses and delays you have to acccount for when you get up from a ledge or jump onto a ladder or turn a wheel or get up from a crouch because you can't just jump straight from a crouch or URGHHHHHHH everything just takes SO FUCKING LONG. Even all the quirky characters in the cutscenes, while charming in that Oddworld way, talk SO SLOWLY arghhhh

Erratic enemy and mudokon AI. This entire game is an escort mission, and you gave the escorts bad AI. That says it all! At least the Lemmings were predictable. They'd do what I told them to do. Half the time, I’m not sure the mudokons even WANT to live, quite frankly.

Prolific use of bad faith game design dick moves that all but force you to replay the entire level if you want to get 100% - like:  - making secret areas invisible until you've already gone past them and can't go back!  - Hiding sick mudokons behind foreground scenery but the only way to find them is to stand still for a few seconds on the right spot waiting for the 'heal' command to pop up!  - Teaching the player how to play the game through consistent patterns of behaviour and level scenarios, and then breaking those patterns when you feel like being a game dev dick! For example, NOT putting a directional indicator on an elevator to show it can go backwards as well as forwards, when every other elevator before has done this! Or requiring the player to save resources to open a door on the very last section of the very last level to save the last 5 secret mudokons, when this has NEVER BEEN REQUIRED BEFORE IN THE ENTIRETY OF THE GAME - fuck you fuck you fuck you I ALMOST had 100%!

You're telling me that "final battle" was actually playtested by real human beings, and nobody who tested it said "this is really fucking boring"? Seriously?

Who am I kidding lol, nobody playtested this game. It’s just not possible.

Literally zero accessibility options on the controls. You can't even remap them, let alone do basic things like set a sustained action to toggle instead of a button hold. That should be a frickin' crime in this day and age. It left me feeling extra grumpy thanks to the hand pain after some sections of the game where I had to hold stealth down for a long period of time

I can see there are meant to be more games. Nooot honestly sure if I would touch them with a ten-foot bargepole, though. Sorry, Abe :(

[gen-toon]

[dinoridergirl]

Weird birds

[wiredalienvampire]

holy shit guys it's Abraham The Oddysee himself

[ask-alf-oddworld]

Abe tired after working. It wouldn’t make sense for him not to have the uniform so I drew him in it!

[c0smic-v0mit]

I think we should let them have a tea/ drink break!! :D

[glenglam324]

Which Oddworld game is your favourite out of the series?: Strangers Wrath

Who’s your favourite Mudokon?: Abe!!!

Who’s your favourite slig?: Newscaster

Who’s your favourite glukkon?: Brewmaster🤤🤤🤤🥴

Who’s your favourite Oddworld character in general?: Alf

Which sapient species is your favourite?: Wolvarks

Which non-sapient species is your favourite?: Fuzzles

Which is your favourite level/cutscene?: Cutscene number 3 from strangers wrath

Which location in Mudos is your favourite?: Rupture farms

What’s your favourite quote/line from the games?: ‘Yuyuyuyuyuyuyuyuyuyuy’

Which is your least favourite game out of the series?: Munch’s oddysee

Who is your least favourite Oddworld character?: Toby (I don’t hate him, he’s just not my favorite)

Natives or industrialists?: Industrialist

Abe, Munch, or Stranger?: Stranger 😍😍😍

When did you first get into Oddworld?: Super horror bro Mike: top 5 horror side scrollers 😭😭😭

Has there ever been a moment in the games that terrified you?: nah not really

What moment from the games made you laugh?: every time the outlaws are just being so out of pocket

How many times have you played the games?: I’ve played half way through both new and tasty and strangers wrath

What’s your fondest Oddworld-related memory?: seeing that one pin filled Fuzzle as it was becoming a meme

Do you have an OC?: have you seen my art????

Do you have any headcanons?: a lot is on my friends discord

Do you have any AU ideas?: @oddtheaterau has a couple, but I’m currently adding a swap au

Do you own/collect any merch?: no

Do you have any unpopular opinions?: Soulstorm Abe model is kinda ugly

Who’s your favourite person: @sei-the-zordokon !!!

What are your thoughts on Lorne Lanning, Sherry McKenna and/or Oddworld Inhabitants?: I think he’s cool

What piece of lore do you hope makes it into the games?: We get stranger in Soulstorm

Which character from the lore do you hope shows up in the games?: Lady Margret

What hopes do you have for the franchise?: more cool mechanics (like strangers wrath)

How has Oddworld impacted/influenced you?: met some cool people and it helped me open up to creating things even if it’s odd

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Which Oddworld game is your favourite out of the series?

Who’s your favourite Mudokon?

Who’s your favourite slig?

Who’s your favourite glukkon?

Who’s your favourite Oddworld character in general?

Which sapient species is your favourite? (I.e. Muds, sligs, Gluks, vykkers etc)

Which non-sapient species is your favourite? (I.e. paramites, scrabs, slogs etc)

Which is your favourite level/cutscene?

Which location in Mudos is your favourite?

What’s your favourite quote/line from the games?

Which is your least favourite game out of the series?

Who is your least favourite Oddworld character?

Natives or industrialists?

Abe, Munch, or Stranger?

When did you first get into Oddworld?

Has there ever been a moment in the games that terrified you?

What moment from the games made you laugh?

How many times have you played the games?

What’s your fondest Oddworld-related memory?

Do you have an OC?

Do you have any headcanons?

Do you have any AU ideas?

Do you own/collect any merch?

Do you have any unpopular opinions?

Who’s your favourite person (or people) on Oddtumblr?

What are your thoughts on Lorne Lanning, Sherry McKenna and/or Oddworld Inhabitants?

What piece of lore do you hope makes it into the games?

Which character from the lore do you hope shows up in the games?

What hopes do you have for the franchise?

How has Oddworld impacted/influenced you?

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[glenglam324]

(@bosskie )

Baby Molluck needed to be in my life more then anything

[mable-stitchpunk]

Is there any chance that Chiromors are being experimented on in Vykker’s Labs…?

Chiromors hadn't been experimented on, but their complacency into a relatively 'safe' species content to buy, trade, and settle into their cocoon of luxury has been encouraged and profited off of by the Vykkers. Though it is clear from that relationship currently that things weren't always like this. Something led to this over hundreds of years, but what that is? Someday we might uncover.

For now, Chiromors are only test subjects when Vykker's Labs mistakenly send subpar goods. And I say mistakenly because one bad run of shampoo can lead to a stock drop nobody's prepared for.