This game was by far my favorite to play as a kid. The sound design in this is a absolute masterpiece. But so was the game play at the time too. I still can hear the Slig's footsteps, gun fire and laugh in my head to this day.
My mum used to buy me PSX games and surprise me when I got home from school. I'll never forget playing Abes Oddysee with her. We had so much fun, this game was hillarious! I was never able to finish it as a kid. edit: also I'm half way through, not sure if you know this but you can fart on the mudokens until they die LOL.
Thanks GFrom, I finally saw the entirety of this game from start to finish and it was a banger :D The poem at the end was really sweet - from time to time I like to go through PS1 library with my brother in the room to check out if the pink glasses of nostalgia still hold true or not and it's great to live through the feelings of good old times
31:40 - There is a trick you can use here. If you start to chant at the exact moment when the monster is about to jump over a pit after you, it will start yelling instead of jumping and will fall down. Your timing has to be perfect, but it's totally worth it.
I remember seeing this game's box art as a kid and being terrified of it so I never bothered looking into it lol But eventually I did come around to remembering the game's name when Oddworld Stranger's Wrath came out because I thought the Stranger had a cool designl lol Never got around to playing the game but saw some reviews of it in the early 2010s and I could see that the game was actually an underrated classic of the Playstation 1's library. I may give it a try one day but for now, awesome review and nice poem at the end!
I remember having this game as well. Could never finish it as a kid. So difficult and scary. With the meat grinder and chasing. Puh! Btw. German? Your beard looks so nice as well 😊
You can save your progress for secret areas or in general by going back to a previous checkpoint, it will reactivate and your progress be properly saved, although you would respawn a few screens back, but you can always get back to your last checkpoint to reactivate it as well. Basically, if you really need to save, backtrack then come back.
Amazing review of this game! I didn't get a chance to play it when it was new since my family couldn't afford game systems until the 00s (I had a genesis that was given to us by a friend that didn't want it anymore and a PC that we had only because my dads work gave it to him). When I did get to play this some years ago I really enjoyed it and the world really sucked me in. I can absolutely see why this is a fave with a lot of people that grew up with PS1. That said, I only ever really found 1 thing truly wrong with the game and that's the bad endings. I think someone really took the idea of a bad ending and really went with it cus the bad ending in the first one is pretty bad, having his own kind just abandon him, even if he saved 49 of them. It's even WORSE in the second one where they flat out stop your mission from succeeding in its tracks and give you to the villain of the game. Like what? That to me really killed my drive to want to play more of the games like the one on the Xbox, at least not right away. I know its not a cannon ending but it really paints this picture of his own kind only caring about the literal savior of their race if he satisfied them enough. Was that the intention? I don't know. I just didn't like it, but I did love the second game too despite them having to rush to make it (and yes it shows). Your jumping issue may be because of PAL things or the fact you were playing on a PS3. The combination of the 2 may have made a really bad delay or the stuff happening on screen + PAL + PS3 may have tanked the input lag hard for the certain parts. Whatever the case, awesome you 100%ed it! Looking forward to your next video :)
I played the demo of the first level over and over back in the day, but never purchased the full game. I only recently got New N' Tasty for my Switch and while I really enjoyed it, I missed the grungy, grimey asthetics of the original game. And Soulstorm? Well I got past the train at least before dropping it like a third bollock. Still, I hope Lorne Lanning gets to complete his saga.
Ah, Abe's Oddysee, one of the greatest games ever crafted in terms of gameplay, visuals and story telling, but I can't excuse that bs checkpoint system, it is unnecessarily punishing which is why they fixed it in the sequel Abe's Exoddus with the Quicksave system, still one of my favorite games of all time, but Exoddus is just a better Oddysee with more content and better mechanics so unless you care about the lore, which can be circumvented by watching the gorgeous cutscenes online, then you should just play Exoddus
Boah, das Spiel kam raus da war ich 11 und habe das mit nem ehemaligen Klassenkamerad angezockt aber wir fanden die Geräusche die man machen konnte viel lustiger als das Spiel zu spielen. Habe dann iiiiiirgendwann paar Jahre später versucht das durchzuspielen und habe es immerhin nach Monaten zurück in die Fabrik geschafft aber habe es nie durchgespielt. Es wird Zeit....Wird ein Projekt von mir in der Zukunft :) ! Danke für die Motivation und wieder Mal ein starkes Video. Kleine Randnotiz : Die Szene mit dem Mond sieht man auch so ähnlich in dem unfassbar tollen Musikvideo von Music Instructor - Get Freaky : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fOtJYdjoDF0.html
Hi! Came across your videos recently and hit some heavy nostalgia feels with the Tomb Raider series!! Replaying them while my sons and daughters are watching is amazing! These games are next! Thank you for your Time and Energy!
this game wasn't my first game on the console (that would be TR 1) but i played the demo on the included Demo Disc all the time. I was so glad when i finally got the game as.... "security copy" since of course i had the original *cough* and boy i loved it :D Especially the "sound test"in the main menue were you could "test" how you made Abe talk was hilarious. Also the german voice acting was great. ALso Abe did get his own techno track for the second game xD
Man I only discovered you last month but I love your vids! All about the era! Think you’re only a few years older than me so the childhood parallels are high😜 but nahh your tone n humour are great😁😁 I have a total love affair with Germany as well eh so despite you taking me back to my childhood you also take me back to my travelling days! Chill calming voice, great for bedtime! Keep on keeping man😃😃😃
33:14 you can buffer inputs in this game, in other words you can just hold run and jump before even landing from that ledge and consistently make that jump every time, my guess is that that's what you did accidentally on your last try therefore making it across
Thanks for this Gfrom as a youth i didnt have the patience or brain cells to progress much in this game so its great to see a playthrough. Looking forward to the next one! Loved the poem. Will we get to vote on upcoming games again ? 😂
I honestly love this game, probably one of the first PS1 games i ever played. I've never been able to rescue all 99 mudokons, but managed to save all 300 in exoddus
Thank you for the Review GFrom loved the poem at the end. While I enjoy Oddysee, Exoddus is my favourite game of all time. But its great to see some love for the game, the atmosphere, the music are great and in my opinion those cutscenes are timeless and its amazing to see them hold up all these years later. You're definitely right about the jumping being off in this entry, it feels like holding the jump button down is the best way to get some consistency out of it (I always dread doing the first Scrab secret in Stockyards), luckily that issue is resolved in Exoddus and jumping is pretty snappy.
I was a fan of this game, this is the best game I have ever played since 2000. full of skills, intelligence, and challenge. watching in 2024 I played this game in 1999 if I remember the date correctly when I was 8 then in 2002. was my favorite of mine till now, I can't believe that in 2024 I still remember Abe, my friend. game structured my mindset and childhood, and I still remember these days. now my son is 7 and he should start playing it. I was tucked in the last level I want to return back
