Beyond Good & Evil is way beyond good

By Sherban July 31, 2008 1 Comments

Always wanted to play it.  Just picked it up on the Xbox for 99 cents at the local shop.  Fuck yes.  I'll write more later, but here's a quick list of what it (and a lot of other games) get right within the first hour:

• Semi-serious narative with semi-silly world and characters (Psychonauts is another good example of this, as are Jak II and Jak 3)
  
• Colourful world... dude, too much shit is gray these days
  

• Collecting mission (you have to take pictures of animals around the world with your camera) is given right at the start... and it's optional... and makes your study the beautiful world more
• Combat is secondary to puzzle solving
• No guns!
  
• Slow jog is default movement, running requires holding down a button (I personally feel Ubisoft perfected this scheme in Assassin's Creed)

Anyway, more later, as I progress further through the game.  I'm already in love though.  Just, wow.  I can't believe I missed this gem.  Definitely recommend picking it up (no backwards compatability with 360, though it's also on PC and PS2).

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