Posted on: November 22, 2011

ChristopherAmes

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For casual gamers only.

Beyond Good & Evil plays as a mix of genres, seamlessly woven together in a surprisingly self-serious and endearing world. There are stealth sections, boss fights, races, collectables, escape sequences, environmental puzzles, mini-games and more, all accessible and good fun. The difficulty is low enough to avoid any frustration regardless of your preferences. The graphics are expressive and the sound all up to scratch. Unfortunately, the result of this design is that all of game elements lack depth. BG&E comes with nice packaging, but there's nothing in it that the average gamer won't have seen done before and done better elsewhere. The short length of the game (~12 hours for 100% completion) isn't especially satisfying. The PC port was particularly lazy - keyboard/mouse controls are awkwardly patched over the gamepad design yet a gamepad is not supported, and the partially-automatic camera tends to spaz out in the middle of combat or stealth. For new gamers, BG&E provides a wide range of 'tasters' in a well designed environment. For old gamers, it's a nice break from heavier gamers but the very definition of skippable.

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Posted on: April 10, 2022

Louard_le_Barbare

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Early 2000s gaming magic!

Beyond Good and Evil deserves its status as a cult favorite. First off, while everything is made of chunky polygons and big pixels, it’s still a good-looking and atmospheric game. The color palette is vibrant, the character and world designs are fantastic, it has a lot of solid animations, and the soundtrack (which is included for free in this release!) is as varied as it is excellent. I would describe it as a playable cartoon with a lot of charm, humor, emotion... and even iconic characters and interesting themes! BGnE is very Zelda-like in its presentation and includes multiple gameplay styles: despite this “jack of all trades” approach, everything works as intended and it’s a fun game throughout. While I think the camera is weird at times and the stealth mechanics are not very well introduced, I never felt I was struggling against the controls, and had a blast for the entirety of my 10-12 hours playthroughs. A common criticism is that the gameplay is simplistic, but I don’t see it as an issue: it’s simply not a game you play for the challenge, and the intuitive controls and rather easy difficulty makes it a good pick for younger and inexperienced players. My only big problem with BGnE is the quality of its PC version: it’s a playable but low-effort port without noticeable improvements, controls you can’t rebind, and unfixed performance issues that already existed on release and have only gotten worse on modern systems. You may need to tinker with graphical options and install some fan-made patches for it to run well, and some framerate issues and bugs are likely to subsist anyway. In short, while I would recommend avoiding this particular version if you own a console to play it on, you should definitely give this game a try. Those were the times when developers put a lot of love and effort into making their games unique and memorable, and BGnE is a great example of that: to me, it just oozes childhood memories, even if I never got to experience it as a child!

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Posted on: November 14, 2009

skarai

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Hammertime

Beyond good & evil had some great things about it. Jade and her uncle are wonderful characters. The soundtrack is really good, the graphics are marvelous at times. Despite being an older game. The hud goes away sometimes and felt much more like a movie. But the more I played the worst it got. Same fights, same enemies, same buttons... Get object to continue.. Look at map for place to 'investigate'. You didn't explore anything! You looked at a map, then you had exact locations where you needed to go. So all that was to waste. Mostly you have to stealth, because otherwise you'll die by lasers. Which will shoot you instantly if you get spotted. Then you have to do it all over again. But I played through all that. I thought the ending would be good. Something. You know? But the boss fight is atrocious. The ending, the same. I wouldn't recommend this game.

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Posted on: June 22, 2017

vefi

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Great game. Bad port.

This really is an incredible game, or rather, it was on the XBOX. This PC port was bad upon release, and has gotten unplayable over the years. The controls cannot be mapped to play with the controllers it were designed for, the game is buggy and arbitrarily crashes, and the graphical glitches are like a bad joke (Eyeballs popping up far away from the characters, tearing when moving about, colors all over the place) on all three computers I tried it on.

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Posted on: July 14, 2020

LATESTACORONATA

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Iconic glory from the 2000'

Beyond good & evil is a third person platform-adventure from the early 2000' that always intrigued me with its story and gameplay, and after finally finished it I can say : ''oh boy, it's good!''. Although its genre was typical for its time , the game stands out without effort and sits on the same level with the most iconic console games while giving the player something a little bit different. In fact, the whole gameplay is actually a mix of combat and stealth action, little bit of driving here and there and the ability to photograph alien flora and fauna that manages to keep the player experimenting different things while delivering a seldom kind of story (at least for tis time) with some nice thoughts behind it like preserving the environment. However, this port is not without flaw : if played with a higher framerate will break cutscenes and you need to install external software if you plan to play it with a controller. Beyond the good and evil ( YAY, managed to insert this joke) side of this game : it is still a masterpiece, both for its time and beyond ( ...Yuck) that must be tried at least once in your life.

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