Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD Switch Review | A bounty still worth bagging

Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Switch Review | A bounty still worth bagging

By Michael Leri

Not every game gets its due. Like Beyond Good and Evil before it, ODDWORLD: STRANGER’S WRATH is one of those games from the early 2000s that’s heralded as a misunderstood classic that didn’t quite sell respective to its quality and ingenuity. And that’s where HD remasters, or in this case, Switch ports come in to show people what they’ve missed or an…

  • Unique world and premise.
  • Light yet engaging narrative that gradually unfolds as you play.
  • Dialogue balances its juvenile quips and jokes well.
  • Inventive take on the first-person shooter genre.
  • Inaccurate Switch thumbsticks make aiming more difficult.
  • Very infrequent frame rate drops and pop-in…
  • ...But it mostly runs well and loads very quickly.
  • Interesting second half is poorly paced.

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Michael Leri
Michael Leri

Michael Leri is Evolve's senior gaming editor. He prides himself on playing and finishing as many video games as he can in all sorts of genres from shooters to platformers to weird indie experiments. There's always something to learn from rolling credits and that thirst for experience and knowledge is mostly what drives him. You can find him on Twitter, Backloggd, Bluesky, and Letterboxd as @OrangeFlavored.

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