Let's start with the good: the background art is stunningly beautiful in this game. That takes care of all the good points. Bad: - Voice acting: incredibly bad. I ended up turning off the speakers so I wouldn't have to listen to it. I don't think human voice actors were used for the English version - I think they simply bought some voice packs for a speech engine and generated the voices. It's really that bad. - Animation: the cutscenes use a comic-book style animation with static images being shifted around. It looks like amateur Flash animation. - Story: terribly preacy and pushy. While the ecological message of the story could be important and useful, the way it's done would be over-simplified even for a newborn. It's just primitive. The time-travel element of the story has no relevance to the game - there are a few forced puzzles related to it but that's it. - Characters: I cannot recall any other adventure (or other) game with characters so completely one-dimensional, annoying and antipathetic as the ones in this game. You can read this review for more details: www.destructoid.com/review-a-new-beginning-final-cut-241798.phtml This is a waste of money and time in my opinion - there are much better games to play.
