10 Video Game "Remakes" That Changed EVERYTHING
4. Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is a prime example of a remake that looks simple from the outside and yet shows that one alteration to a game’s formula can have ripples throughout the whole title.
In the original Abe’s Odyssey, the world was a series of connected screens which, if nothing else, was a sign of the limitations of the hardware. Notoriously hard, players could take solace in their ability to duck out and go back into rooms to reset puzzles back to their original state to try again. In New ‘n’ Tasty, transitioning from one screen to another is replaced by a seamlessly scrolling camera.
Naturally, this has a huge impact on how each puzzle is approached. Previous methods for solving are now nonviable, enemies chasing Abe from one end of a corridor to the next is much more dramatic and the game demands more careful consideration everywhere the player goes.
The weighty controls from the original - whether it was jumping, running or rolling - have been swapped out for something more instantaneous.
From a surface level, New ‘n’ Tasty seems just like a HD remaster, and on the lead up to release many fans wrongly assumed so, but the change to perspective and controls turns the title into a game that plays completely different from its forebearer.