Joshua007 Reviews Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil Review by Joshua007
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I am not used to do reviews for games btw.
Beyond Good and Evil is a great adventure game with a few mistakes!
The game was a commercial failure while being sold on:
-PC
-Gamecube
-PS2
-Xbox
The game is Remastered on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
The game got it's own little group of fans:)
The game starts with telling what the story is about.
The world Hillys a small peacefull planet in war with the violent Aliens named the Domz who abduct the citizens from Hillys and the camera switches to the main protagonist Jade, Jade is a human reporter and works for a living and takes care of a orphanage with her Uncle who is a talking pig XD.
Jade and her talking pig uncle Pey'J go on a simple and easy to follow adventure that got me hooked until the very end of the game with some nice twists.
The gameplay is split between three parts: Action combat, stealth and puzzles.
For the first half of the game which is in my expierence 5 hours there is a lot of strategic combat involved with your companions like Pey'J and that will continue through the hole game but the other half of the game stealth is the priority.
When the game feels repetitive the game switches from strategic action to brain working stealth and puzzles at the right times.
Jades martial art combat flows amazingly well after it's release in 2003 and the enemy AI does it part really well but your companions could use a little bit more help sometimes.
The graphics and art style are cartoony and with or without the HD remaster still looks great today and the facial animations look good even after more than 10 years after it's release.
Through out the hole game you have to earn money and pearls to get all the stuff you need and want, this is made clear in the beginning of the game in the first 15 minutes and I wish you could just do want you want at times.
There is a lot to explore in the open world of Hillys but most of these things are in caves and houses but still give you a nice challenge and finding the way reminds me of Resident Evil 2.
Why RE? Beyond Good and Evil wants you to look around and learn the way. There are no way points only a compass, a map to look at and your companions sometimes telling you where you need to go without pointing out most of the time.
You have to learn how to get in and get out and there but sometimes I just had to go to youtube because it was to difficult sometimes and really difficult if you have memory issues like me.
There are side missions like following robbers and races to hold which are a fun challenge and you get pearls and money out of it to.
Your camera is the most important weapon because it reveals the conspiracy this game has... And you can make pictures of your surrounding and animals and get money.
The soundtrack is amazing and in your first battle in the game you get this amazing soundtrack called
First encounter!
JADES THEME IS ALSO BEATIFUL
BUT THE OPEN WORLD SOUNDTRACK IS BETTER IN MY HONEST OPINION
The voice acting is excellent done and makes the game more immersive.
ONE THING I MISS IN GAMES TODAY ARE BOSS BATLLES AND THEY ARE HERE AND FUN AND INTERESTINGLY DESIGNED!
Well done platforming.
Now the negative:
The camera of the game is bad in closed corners and sometimes in stealth, worst part about it is that the later part of the game after 5 hours like I mentioned is more stealth IN CORNERS! I got killed a few times because of this and it was frustratingly bad! You learn also the game became linear at choiceing your way at stealth and you have to do one way or two or you die!
Companions hardly play different from each other.
Something important happens in the story but there isn't enough development later with the characters you are surrounded with.
Had to go to youtube a few times because it's very hard to find the way. Second time will be better
The race annoucers voice gets annoying
Some obvious plot holes that could save you 5 minutes in every level it's called deus ex machina after you play the ending
I can't describe the plot without sounding like a retard which btw I'm gonna make a parody post soon.
Rushed ending but beatiful
Item menu is confusing a few times
END BOSS BATTLE DESIGN, warn me next time for such a awfull design please so I can prepare myself with health I WARN YOU PEOPLE A HEAD SAVE THE GAME! GET AS MUCH HEALTH AS POSSIBLE
Jade should ask things more
THE END BOSS BATLLE
-Cliffhanger SEQUEL IS COMING SO THANK YOU
I see where they were going with the ending because it was going to be a big revelation and it was in a way and it makes me want a sequel. It explains a few things and make you look different at the world and characters. They obvious planned the hole story from beginning to the end but it feels like they run out of time.
The surrounding is so pretty and goes in my book for best final looking stages. Ever. I'm not kidding you.
The games positives over shadows the bad things really good and the game came close to perfection and it bothers me that people think that those negatives are big because they aren't YOU ARE PESSIMISTIC!
But why was this game a commercial failure I mean in the beginning Jade gets caught by a hentai monster at her legs and mind fucked by a japanese monster and a big fat pig saves her. Throws a gigantic stick out of his pants to her HOW DOES THIS SELL BAD? I think I might have the awnser so we might all move on from that question.
IT IS DOCTOR JOSHUA007 TIME
From someone who pays attention to game trailers, preview marketing I did my research on the trailers for the game this are my thoughts:
Ubisoft department had no idea how to marked this game:
The game is really dark in core. I think. I am confused what the core was at moments but the game looks so nice from the outside. They had to show spoilery action parts in the trailers or else it would like really boring people.
Even the PEGI rating department doesn't know what to give this game. In america it has a T rating for 13 year and older and in my country it has a PEGI 7. I don't know where this game belongs personally in the two and this game is really hard for a 7 year old.
The cover of the game gave me a bad interest in the game. I thought ''it looks like a random girl with a camera surrounded by green light and a pig on the background with stealth, than I started the game and it starts with a really different opening I expected and goes to a nice kids friendly department the moment later.
The only people I can say that probably like this game are Rayman fans, Kingdom Hearts fans, Disney fans, Final Fantasy fans and Zelda fans.
GAME IS 5 EUROS ON STEAM BUY IT NOW AND IT'S FREE ON UPLAY THIS MONTH!
Director of the game: Michel ancel (Creator of Rayman)
Release date: 2003 November