For the release in Japan , the title of '' Abe 's Oddysee '' was changed to '' Abe a GoGo '' by the publisher SoftBank . Other changes included the art for the " Mudokon Pops ! " packaging , which originally consisted of a severed Mudokon head speared on a stick . Due to undisclosed current events in Japan , the design was changed to a more ambiguous , " happier " image of a Mukudon popsicle . The design for the protagonist Abe and other Mudokons was also significantly altered . Certain Japanese pressure groups were offended by the Mudokons having four fingers and most of them working in a meat-packing factory , due to a historic Japanese subclass of meat packers who were looked down upon in society . Four fingers , or showing four fingers to another person , came to insinuate the other was a member of the subclass , because it suggested the meat packers who lost fingers at work . Oddworld Inhabitants had to alter the design of Mudokons to three fingers , or else face legal battles and large fines
undisclosed current events
Kobe child murders
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee