

Movement and camera are controlled by simulated thumbsticks on the left and right of the screen, with jumping and attacked relegated to simulated buttons, all with moveable positions. The controls are fairly standard for both 3D platforming and shooting. Selecting different ammo types is done via touch, which is exactly what you’d want. It’s a harmless little gimmick that works pretty well, given how the new control matches the Stranger’s animation. On mobile, players actually shake their device to heal. In the original, a button press would make the Stranger “shake off” damage, draining his stamina to fill his health.

This new version preserves all the gameplay, with only the slightest changes made for touch devices. With an uncommon mix of third-person platforming and first-person shooting, players take the Stranger from town to town, capturing outlaws in a quest to cure his mysterious illness. Set as a spinoff to the Oddworld series of platformers, Stranger’s Wrath follows a lone bounty hunter (the Stranger), out on the frontiers of Oddworld. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, originally released for the Xbox in 2005, is widely regarded as an underrated gem, caught in the unmarketable space between cartoony and gritty. This trend brings core games to a wide audience that might otherwise pass them by, but does that really matter if the games’ design simply doesn’t fit on a touch screen? While we occasionally end up with an unexpected bit of brilliance, they can’t all be XCOM.

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The growing trend of bringing console and PC games to mobile is both a blessing and a curse.
