Beyond Good & Evil™

Galaxy bugging me to rate a game. Hope you're happy!

Not because it's bad. It's *amazing.* It's the best game Ubisoft has ever and likely will ever release. Sorta 'Zelda but you'e a photo journalist and you aren't looking for items in the dungeons, but evidence' kinda thing. Why not buy it then? Because Ubisoft management are a bunch of rapists and rapist enablers who bury abuse allegations and repeatedly promote the offenders to higher positions.

I'm going to concentrate on the world/characterisation as the gameplay is nothing to write about. Click one or two buttons and everything is done for you. If you're into manga, talking animals and 'cute' gameplay then I am sure you will enjoy this. Personally, as a mature gamer, I felt more than awkward playing this game. I wouldn't watch manga when I was a kid, I have no desire to play it as an adult. This game feels wrong in every way to me: I'm simply not a twelve year-old girl and I feel grossly under-stimulated when playing it. I am astounded that people declare themselves overwhelmed by the setting/environment/world and that it is so highly rated. I suspect the audience of this game has not experienced much in life to be amazed by such cookie-cutter characterisation and world-view. Some of the stereotypes in the game are so overblown as to be offensive and borderline racist. With half my family Italian I was particularly upset by the gay Italian PA who can't even speak or pronounce Italian and who uses words completely out of context. I emphasise gay as the performance could only offend any deep-thinking gay person. I am sure any Jamaican would be equally offended by the Rhinos. In fact, the whole game is full of lowest-denominator characters that are shaped to fit a perfect (and usually ignorant) stereotype. Anyone finding deep and meaningful characters here needs a reality check and possibly a deeper respect for differing peoples and/or cultures. However, I am sure it is a glowing example of what it is. It is fast, infantile and shallow like children's entertainment usually is.

Haven't played it but I wouldn't even cosider it because you have to play as a female character and Im not a female so it lost any appeal to me, would have been nice if they added a gender selection.