Originally released in 2005, the fourth game from Oddworld Inhabitants, Stranger’s Wrath, tells the tale of a bounty hunter who, while catching criminals for bounties, attempts to conceal a secret that, if revealed, could endanger his life.

Stranger’s Wrath is a take on the classic Western motif with sci-fi and socially conscious elements. It stars Stranger, a mysterious bounty hunter who refuses to use guns. Our hero is in poor health that needs Moolah to buy the lifesaving surgery. Set in the wastelands of Western Mudos, Stranger helps the town folk capture outlaws and scoundrels before accepting the ultimate bounty.  Rather than traditional shooters with bullets and bombs, Stranger takes a more organic approach to ammunition, using various critters (Live Ammo) to launch at enemies from his crossbow.

To this day, Stranger’s Wrath’s gameplay remains unique as it offers an innovative mix of shooter, platformer and puzzle genres with a hybrid viewpoint that allows the player to switch between 1st person action with 3rd person exploration. 

"We've rounded up some great new graphical and performance upgrades for the Nintendo Switch version of Stranger's Wrath and we're heading into the bounty store to deliver the best version of this game for Nintendo fans,” said Lorne Lanning, co-founder of Oddworld Inhabitants. 

Taking full advantage of Nintendo Switch, Stranger’s Wrath HD has dramatically improved audio and full 1080 HD graphics at 60 fps, super tight gyro-aiming for fine adjustments, and blazing-fast load times.

“Whether you take it on-the-go or use at home via TableTop or TV Mode, the game’s 12 hours of story line and five hours of side missions plays best on Nintendo Switch,” said Lanning.  

Beginning today, fans can pre-purchase the game in the Nintendo eShop for 20% off $29.99 ($23.99). 

So what’s been updated in the HD version …

• Characters
  • All 84 character models have been updated with increased polygon counts and higher resolution textures.
  • Wolvark Sloghandlers now release Slogs instead of Slegs.
  • Professor Dimble now has glasses and an academic tome.
  • New female voices have been recorded for two characters.
  • Made Blisterz Booty unkillable
• Environments
  • All environments have been given higher resolution textures.
  • Most vegetation has been updated with increased polygon counts and/or higher resolution textures.
  • A lot of environment now reflects in water where it didn’t before.
  • Many, many pipes and barrels were rounded.
  • New Easter Eggs added to the game.
  • Added Blisterz Booty’s broken crud gun to the floor by his bola’d body.
  • Sekto’s Office has been changed to more closely resemble than seen in the FMV
• Audio
  • All game audio (voice, sound effects and music) have been upgraded to 16-bit 44KHz from 8-bit 11KHz or less!
  • Support for 5.1, Dolby Digitial and DTS.
• Display
  • Everything now runs at 720p, 60 FPS, and in widescreen.
  • All menus have been updated with a new design based on original unused concepts.
  • New posters now occupy the inventory menu when no bounty is accepted.
• Difficulty
  • All armor upgrades now actually increase Stranger’s health.
  • Added difficulty levels to the game: Easy, Medium and Hard.
  • In Easy mode:
    • Stranger has twice the health
    • Enemies have half the health and stamina
    • Enemies’ stamina recovers half as fast
  • In Normal Mode:
    • Stranger’s health and armour for later in the game have been re-balanced.
  • In Hard mode:
    • Stranger has a third less health.
    • Enemies stamina recovers a third quicker.

Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is coming to Nintendo Switch on January 23, 2020.