Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Credit: Ubisoft I have very distinct memories of acquiring the original Beyond Good & Evil on PS2 back in late 2003. For me personally, it was a notably strange time, at least in terms of what I was playing, of what I was staying interested in. We were exiting the fifth generation of gaming (PS1, N64, Dreamcast), an era I still nostalgically romanticize for its creativity and innovation, and I was having some trouble relating to and or getting excited about anything poised to release on the newer consoles.
I owned all the heavy hitters, of course: Xbox, GameCube and PS2. The games were..
. fine . But nothing was particularly invigorating for me, to be completely honest.
Except, well, a weird little adventure Ubisoft had cooked up. In an industry that was moving more toward a muted realism I totally loathed, Beyond Good & Evil stood out like a technicolor sore thumb. The art style was playful, the world map lush, the cast of alien characters wonderfully bizarre.
There were strange creatures to photograph, taking a page straight out of Pokémon Snap’s handbook, as well as an interesting story to move through. From the moment I first booted it up, I was hooked. This is what had been missing from my sad, waning gaming buffet.
Fast forward two-ish decades and we’re getting the remastered Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition for every platform under the sun, including PS4, PS.
