Dear Reader:
Oddworld's creator has always hated the 'cheap humor' of Abe's farts
The entire Oddworld series is pretty melancholy, and features some really heavy themes. Thinking about what's going on in Abe's world can be a bit depressing...but then you can hit a button and have Abe squeeze out a fart, which makes everything better! Well, it makes things better for everyone but Lorne Lanning, creator of the Oddworld series.
In an interview with Indie by Design, Lanning brings up the topic of Abe's farts, and wants everyone to know that it wasn't his idea, and he has never enjoyed it.
“I always hated the fart. I never liked it because I didn’t like the cheap humour of it but the team really liked it, and then the press loved it and so I went with it. Still, I felt it took a little bit away from the integrity of what I was trying to achieve with Abe.”