The Creepy Bad Endings of the Oddworld Games 

It's worth noting that the bad ending of Soulstorm can't really be counted as a success like you said, as the destruction of the brewery and its pipelines simply means that the supply of brew being pumped out to other factories is now cut off, meaning that all of the slaves in those factories are doomed to die from brew withdrawal with Abe's cure never being introduced into the mix.

You forget to mention that Munch is the last known Gabbit so after he dies slow and painfully his species goes extinct since you didn’t save the eggs! Making it even darker!

I found it the most depressing that, in the SoulStorm ending, you get to actually see that Abe is remorseful for his lack of action. Not only that, but he also has a pair of friends that, instead of persecuting him like in the other three games (Counting New N' Tasty and excluding Munch's Oddysee), actually try to sympathize with him. Not quite so disturbing to me as it is depressing.

I've said on stream, Munchs Oddysee's bad ending traumatized me as a child and as bleak as Soulstorms bad ending was, it doesnt even come close. Perhaps only surpased by guardian angel in creepiness.

The oddworld games have always been so creepy and eerie, and these sad endings really hammered it home.

I got the bad ending when I finished "New 'n' Tasty" for the first time. It wasn't even intentional, since I didn't know that when you leave the factory building, every remaining Mudokon gets automatically killed, suddenly drastically increasing my death count, and there were several Mudokons well-hidden enough to not notice them. That bad ending however was an incentive to to get every single Mudokon. "Oddworld Adventures 2" for the Game Boy Color also has somewhat of a "bad" ending that you get when you finish the game on easy mode (which just consists of skipping a whole bunch of levels, including the final level where you destroy the brewery), whether you rescue all the Mudokons in the "remaining" levels or not. There, one of the Mudokon shamans talks to Abe and ends his speech with: "You have accomplished your mission of saving your ancestors. Or have you...." (The ending cutscene is available via the password 24BR8. I just played through this game again to get the correct quotation, and yes, the ending cutscene has its own password.)

I don't know what Oddworld Inhabitants did to not get the ending where Soulstorm was a good, successful game that paved a bright future for the franchise but the ending they got was pretty goddamn depressing.

you knwo what oddworld can do to make the game even darker? change abe's immortality into a generation, basically whenever abe die, his reincarnation continue and not himself, so whenever you die for missed the funny space key and fell to death, the mudokons continue to suffer for the next few decades until abe get reincarnate

The munch odyssey bad ending was going to be even more creepier in an early concept art for the game bad ending munch would be literally fused to lady Margret

I feel like Soulstorm & Munch's Oddysee's endings are more darker than the original two

The zoom out to the fire extinguisher during the Soulstorm ending is legitimately one of the funniest pieces of visual comedy I've ever seen because i legitimately can't tell if they did it as a taunting visual gag or as a legitimate "a bridge too far" moment. Like, even if he got to the fire extinguisher, then what? There's no putting out a fire that large. Not to mention all three of them were actively on fire, even if they survived the fire completely unharmed, they can't reach the controls and are literally moments away from crashing into the factory and exploding.

Also Abe's Odyssey's bad ending with the orange glow coming from the pit kind of makes it look like Abe is about to be dropped into the pits of hell

The bad endings in the good old days were a lot more grim & tense, they really made you feel bad, soulstorm’s bad ending is a bit tame in comparison

This dude is simultaneously 15 & 35 years old

I have to say that it's actually super easy to get the bad end in Abe's Oysee without going out of your way to not help Mudokens. There is a point in the game where you can accidentally leave the factory. That means every Mudokens you hadn't saved up to that point is now dead. Most of the time that equals up to 30. The game is pretty hard and it's easy to accidentally get some killed.

This shit was traumatising back when I was a kid and failed at getting the good endings

There is something ominous about heart rate monitors especially in darker subtexts. It's a weird fixation I have with this ending. I guess, for me it's because it adds an extra layer of vulnerability, Munch can't hide his terror even if he wanted to. It is often seen as symbolism of death or dying as it is for medicine and saving lives. And it is nice, more PG-13 way to get the notion across that the character is dead, rather than showing the corpse.

4:50 actually he turned into a flock of unknown birds & they just flew away, it's unknown if he's flown away to another place in existence to never show himself again or he's actually dead after the unknown birds were hunted by unknown mudockans offscreen... Oh wait. Never mind

You wanna know my thoughts on these bad endings described in four words? Cut the cameras… Deadass.

Actually bad endings were very common especially going back to the days of adventures games. Many games in the 1990s had bad endings or some terrifying game overs.

What I’m wondering is, in soulstorm’s bad ending, had the fire extinguisher been used, would it have been enough? Don’t get me wrong I’m no firefighter, but i feel like it would have taken way too long for Abe to put out the fire before the train hit the factory.

I was an odd world fan myself back when I got the ps1 classics 20 games in 1 mini console

Munch's oddysee's bad ending traumatised me as a child. It took me a long time to get over it XD

I really love playing the Oddworld games. However i didn't know there were Bad Endings when I react to the videos on RU-vid

A perfect fit for halloween

Your intro is fantastic, wonderful work!

Jeez, that last one is just brutal. I felt that

I remmeber when i first watched the games sins on oddworld new n tasty my jaw dropped when I first saw the bad ending.

I will comment Even if you capture all the bounties dead it wouldn't even mattered anyway Cause you would still get ambushed by raider and get the secret expose regardless So I am glad strangers wrath has no bad ending

Oddworld's bad endings are a punishment towards the player if they fucked up during their playthroughs. Either it be failing to save all Mudokons, use a dark power constantly so it corrupts the amulet's spirit, or having less than 50% Quarma. So moral of the story is: Don't ignore a bit of small-fries on the lower levels. Rescue all of them so Abe would be claimed as a hero, and they'd make it out alive, and everything will return to the way it is before their enslavement. I'm not a masochist for bad endings, but Oddworld, Persona 3, 4, & 5, Sonic 2(Game Gear), and Banjo-Kazooie's bad endings are just so dark and distressing that they encourage the player to try again, whereas the latter was intentional if they save and quit the game or lose all lives.

I don't think any resident evil game has had multiple endings. You must've meant Silent Hill.

Moral: don't do bad.

how are you my Rob?

Stranger never had a bad ending!

Odd.

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