 In the Japanese release, the image of the Mudokon Pops was changed to resemble a cartoonlike Popsicle with eyes and a mouth, considered a "happier" image by Oddworld Inhabitants.It was not until 2011 that Lanning revealed just why the image was changed for Japanese audiences.A week before press was to begin in Japan to market the game, a Japanese middle-school student murdered a peer, severed his head, and hung it on the fence of a school.