 Three months from release, the team realised that development was not going to be complete in time, so "four or five" new programmers were brought in and replaced most of the development team, who re-wrote the entire game in nine months.As for the increase in humor and its "cartoony" style, Lanning explained that Microsoft thought of the Oddworld franchise as its "Super Mario Bros.".Gilray revealed the failure of Munch left the team heartbroken.