Beyond Good & Evil™

so many people seem to like this game and i admit i haven't put more than a few hours of gameplay into it so far but i can usually tell if a game is a gem or not in the first 15 minutes. thus far i am not really impressed, maybe i need to invest a few more hours? who knows? the games is OK, but so are a thousand other games so??? maybe you will love it? i don't.

A photographer with a questionable past who cares for orphans on an alien world that slowly uncovers military/government/criminal activity sounds like an amazing backdrop for an adventure. Then you play the game... Well, the camera is fun anyway.

Well, this game was for a long time on my list of games to get hands on as it was considered to be a insiders tip. To my disappointment this game did't catch me. The controls and interactivity with the world and during fighting are limited to actions that can be done with one or two buttons - you don't have really the freedom of doing much more than needed. My personal feeling is that you can't really explore the world - but rather follow a more or less a "given" patch through the game and just pressing some buttons here and there to perform "predetermined" actions as you advance. The photo shooting tast becomes dull after a while. The cartoon setting and the characters are modelled quite good - and the voice acting is pretty good too - some characters like the Reggae listening rhinos are quite memorable. But in a overall view the game is boring - during puzzle solving and also during fighting. Sorry, but this game is only average

Anita Sarkeesian liked it so its pretty good

I owned this on the PS2. I would play it for a little while, become bored, and then forget about it for weeks. I'd eventually remember it and what stellar reviews it got, and try it again. Still boring. None of the characters interested me, I found the art generic and uninteresting, the voice acting unremarkable, and (most of all) the gameplay boring. I can forgive much if the mechanics of gameplay are stimulating, but I could not have been more disappointed. I sold this back to Gamestop and never regretted it. I've gotten the sense from many of the people who liked this game that a rebuttal to my review might be, "but you didn't play long enough to get to the good stuff!" Perhaps that's the case; I didn't finish the game. But I agree with Zero Punctuation: why can't the game be fun NOW?