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Summary

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee made its way onto the Game Boy Advance in 2003 as a top‑down 2D platformer, the last handheld Oddworld title to date. The handheld version strips away the original’s gore and profanity, presenting a more family‑friendly experience and trimming the story down to its essentials.

Both Abe and Munch are fully playable, each bringing a distinct toolkit to the puzzle‑filled levels. Abe can call on his fellow Mudokons for combat help or to solve riddles, while Munch can command swarms of tiny critters called Fuzzles to overwhelm foes. Switching between the two lets you exploit Abe’s strength in crowd control and Munch’s ability to swim and use sonar, creating a layered approach to navigating the game’s challenges.

Storyline

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee follows Munch, the last surviving Gabbit, a frog‑like creature nearly driven to extinction by the Glukkons’ harvest of their eggs and lungs for a caviar delicacy called Gabbiar. He is captured by the Vykkers, a ruthless research faction, and fitted with a head‑mounted device that unexpectedly grants him the power to free captured Fuzzles, aggressive puffball‑like animals used in Vykkers experiments.

Meanwhile, Mudokon hero Abe is sent by the ancient "Almighty Raisin" to rescue Munch, and the two quickly discover they must work together to retrieve the final Gabbiar can and the unborn Mudokon eggs hidden in the floating Vykkers Labs. They manipulate a greedy Glukkon named Lulu into financing an auction, using the chaos to infiltrate the lab, rescue Fuzzles, Mudokon scrubs, and the precious eggs, and ultimately blow up the facility.

The game’s ending varies with the player’s Quarma score: low Quarma leads to both protagonists’ deaths, while achieving 50% or more allows them to escape as Vykkers Labs is destroyed, and Angelic Quarma (90%) reveals a shattered industrial economy and Lulu’s downfall.