Now this is how you do a remake. Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! [$7.99] is a rebuild of the original Oddworld game, Abe's Oddysee, and it doesn't do any of it by half-measures. The graphical improvements are obvious, but there's also a ton of new content and even some expanded mechanics in the game. While it's always a risky move to change things in a classic, you can tell the developers had a good sense of what worked and what didn't in the 1997 original. New 'n' Tasty! has almost all of the strengths of Abe's Oddysee and very few of its weaknesses, and its theme is (sadly) just as relevant today as it was two decades ago.
This remake originally debuted on PlayStation 4 in 2014. It made its way to a variety of platforms over the following couple of years, and with all of the other recent Oddworld projects on mobile, it was only a matter of time before this one followed. I suspect the toughest nut to crack was with the controls. New 'n' Tasty! is a PlayStation 4 remake of a PlayStation 1 game, and both the new and the old make extensive use of the many buttons on the PlayStation controller. Controls were a sticking point for many players with the other Oddworld mobile ports, and given the added precision required by a game played from a 2D perspective, it was probably even more important to get them right here.
Personally, I think they did as good a job as they could have. Abe moves left and right by swiping on the left-hand side of the screen. Swiping up makes up jump straight ...