This goes along with some of the other well-designed and hilarious characters, such as the plucky chicken-like villagers you’ll encounter along the way.Ī bounty hunter in urgent need of some strange treatment, Stranger will stop at nothing to bag his bad guy and get paid. Stranger himself, your Clint Eastwood-inspired protagonist, still looks absolutely brilliant, his enigmatic backstory still intriguing, and his quips still funny. Luckily, the charm of the Oddworld universe and the wild west aesthetic manages to pull it through, and once you get drawn in by the attention to detail and humour, it’s easy to overlook the rough edges. The classic Wild-West motif seen through an Oddworld lens, Stranger’s Wrath puts you in control of a serious bounty hunter with a point to prove – and money to earn.Ī now 15-year-old title, Stranger’s Wrath shows its age from the get-go, with dated low-res cutscenes and some dodgy audio. The game has been highly praised in the past for its innovative and creative subversions of the FPS genre, but does it hold up some 15 years later? I think we Nintendo fans will quite happily settle for a fully-fledged Switch version, published by Microids, instead. The first of three classic Oddworld titles to come to the Switch, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD has come a long way since its original Xbox exclusivity back in 2005, and it was even announced as coming to the Wii U a few years back.