Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Well put (if a little harsh) - I've played it for an hour or so and fully agree that there's little compelling me to go back to it thus far. I just hope you're right about it picking up later on.

this is the second time i have read something to the effect that the character stranger is not intimidating. people seem confused by what he is. i quote from your review:

"It's a sort of humanoid puma cowboy, a supposedly menacing bounty hunter creature. He's not really menacing because he's kind of furry and cat-like."

surely he cannot be both not menacing for his cat-like furryness and be refered to as a puma which is a menacing predator.

the only non-menacing connotation i get when seeing him is that he has the trademark proportions of mega-man. basically, from the elbow down to the hand and from the knee down to the foot his proportions are skewed. the ol' giant hands and feet routing (see gunstar heroes too).