Ever since the PlayStation 5 was announced, Oddworld: Soulstorm has been billed as a tentpole title. The franchise has a long running relationship with Sony’s brand, of course, dating all the way back to Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee on the PS1, so it’s no real surprise to see the Japanese giant tap into that nostalgia.
As a result, PS5 owners will be able to enjoy the new title as part of their PS Plus subscription in April. If you’ve not got a next-gen console yet but fancy picking up the game for your PS4, there’ll be a free upgrade from PS4 to PS5. Unfortunately, only the PS5 version is available with Sony’s subscription; you’ll need to buy the last-gen version.
As an added bonus for PS5 owners, the game will support Game Help on the new system. For those of you who don’t know, this feature effectively enables you to look up solutions to puzzles and find collectibles, without ever needing to refer to YouTube or online guides. You’ll need to be a PS Plus subscriber to use this feature, but you’ll find the solutions in the Activity Cards.
[source gematsu.com]
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Nice, I wish jedi fallen order has this feature since sometimes I'm stuck on some of the game bigger level.
How long till this drops on gamepass.... Ok too soon ? Anyways looking forward to the Ps4 version.
@TrueAssassin86x I know it's a joke but it's not even announced for Xbox at this point
@Voltan its not made by sony or is it because truthfully i dont remember ?
@TrueAssassin86x Are you here only to talk about xbox? Purexbox is that way.
@TrueAssassin86x nah, it's indie made and published - currently announced for PlayStation and PC
It could be coming to Xbox later and I could see it launching on GamePass in that case but I don't think the PC version will until then.
@wiiware yep he came to troll over a indie game for some strange reason. I just block fanboys and move.
Game Help is a wonderful feature I’ve used many times in Sackboy or Bugsnax. Hopefully it will be implemented well, not as in case of Maquette unfortunately.
The game help would be cool, if I ever saw it on the UI or there was a way to look for it specifically. Sony’s UI is horrible when it comes to promoting this.
Oh yeah.
Game Help.
That's a....thing?
I wish Sony would implement picture in picture support for YouTube and Twitch, would be a massive help for games that don't have game help
@Max2574 Yeah, I think it's better to just block trolls and move on.
Pressing the ignore button makes me feel all fuzzy 😅
It's interesting how Oddworld has come back to PlayStation as it's new home. With Soulstorm being exclusive for now, and New N Tasty also launching first on the PS4.
Wasn't too long ago that it was Munch's Oddysey as an Xbox launch title and Strangers Wrath being exclusive to Xbox as well (that's the one worth playing of the two)
Can't wait till Tuesday to give this a go.
I had no idea this Game Help thing was even a thing. Where is it?
@nessisonett It's on the activity card for an objective
@theheadofabroom I don’t think any of the games I’ve played have supported it tbh
Great to hear, now if only New N Tasty also had game help support.
@nessisonett Astro's Playroom?
@Voltan
Lol seems like youre the only one that got the joke but thanks for the information
@theheadofabroom Oh, I don’t remember seeing that in the cards thingy. I only remember the warp points to each level.
@Max2574 @wiiware
Speaking of blocking i need to do the same thing
Am I the only one who is thoroughly disturbed by how this game looks
@nessisonett Do you have PS Plus? Because they're only available with PS Plus. Anyways, if there's a little light bulb on the activity card, it means you can use game help with that one.
@Voltan I do have PS Plus, I must just be an idiot 😂
@nessisonett I mean, I didn't ever feel the need to use it in Astro and I platinumed it without looking anything up, so maybe it's that
I did use it once in some other game and like how it was done. I don't remember what game it was though, tbh
Really looking forward to this, every other oddworld game has been brilliant
@TrueAssassin86x Good, bye troll.
@TrueAssassin86x @Voltan
I doubt it will launch on Xbox at all. Lorne Lanning has a dislike of Xbox and Microsoft since they messed him around years ago.
Back on the X360 Oddworld New n Tasty was announced to be coming to the platform along with PS3. It launched and Microsoft wanted it as an Xbox Live Arcade Title. But those titles must be 200MB or less.
The game was more than that so it was delayed and worked on until the size was reduced to 202MB. That still wasn't good enough for Microsoft so Lorne launched it on PlayStation and continued to work on reducing it. He eventually got it down to 199MB months later after a lot of hard work to which Microsoft said "we don't want it now you launched on PS3 first" I was fuming since I only had the X360 at the time and so was he apparently. He never worked with Microsoft since.
@GADG3Tx87 thanks, I didn't know that
I played for a few minutes (not including the surprisingly long intro) before sleep. Looks great and runs super smooth on PS5 and seems like a ton of fun. There's a sense of danger and I imagine it's there to stay.
These cards are great. I was sceptical at first on if they'd make things too easy, however after using them a few times on Astro, it didn't give too much away for my tastes.
@wiiware
says the troll who has a nintendo name nintendo life is over that way troll. Unlike u im not tied to one console.
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