 The hero of the story, now encased in a cheap life-support system, sets out to reclaim the pieces of his re-possessed body and take down the organisation responsible for his own harvesting, crossing economic borders with the aid of unworldly powers fused to his mechanical body.Lanning said they wanted to go in a direction different from Disney's adult humor by combining animation with darker stories like "Apocalypse Now", "Blade Runner", and "The Lord of the Rings" It was also described as ""1984" (sic) for the 21st century".While this story was the first move away from the studio's creation of the fictional Oddworld planet, it would still feature the same attention to graphical detail, while its subject matter would retain the subtext that inspired Oddworld, "except more relative to what's going on today on the political landscape, geographically on the world scale and it's sort of a menacing view of a possible future."