Beyond Good and Evil

[A Black Falcon]

I don't know what you're talking about. Beyond Good and Evil is a great game and a platformer that does not rely overly on fetch-quests to progress the story. Well, unless you consider fighting or sneaking your way past enemy guards in well-crafted and diverse levels to get pictures of evil deeds. And for the most part getting pearls is fairly easy.

Playing to get money, or pearls, or whatever, is called "collecting"... this game doesn't have it as bad as Star Fox adventures, sure, but that isn't really a game you want to be comparing yourself to... thinking to myself 'this combat is more fun than combat in SFA' isn't really a good thing.

Why was I dissapointed? Okay, again...

-Too easy (virtually no penalty for death (actually, quite the opposite. In some circumstances, the only way to win IS to die... such as a hard battle. Since when you die you start with one full health thing, sometimes if your health is really low the best way to progess is to get killed and try again with more health... yeah, not exactly the best gameplay design there. There's also the usually not particularly difficult combat, etc...)
-Simple combat (not awful, but simplistic)
-Linear, puzzle-room level design (NOT stealth, but puzzles like Blackthorne or something... stealth is Theif. This is nothing like that. "If you mess up you just run around the corner, hide in the pipe, wait ten seconds, go back, and start the puzzle over" isn't stealth. )
-Console adventure feel in a game that had potential to be more (if I want a linear 3d console platfomer, I'll play Rayman 2... this doesn't go as far beyond that as I would have liked, so say the least.)
-the bad controls and poor porting job of the PC version (doesn't run as well as it should either...)
-the setting -- it just isn't believable! I know if you play RPGs you get used to the "the world is small" or "the world is made up of tiny villages" thing, because full-size towns would be impossible to navigate or do anything in, but this goes beyond just scale... I find the concept of this rebellion hard to believe (they have a direct link to the planet governor's office? The rebels, despite their weak security, haven't been infiltrated (they said something about "seperate cells" and all, but if you're tied to the Governor's office... yeah.)? The supposedly oppressive, propagandistic government does nothing to stop protesters when people start to realize how bad their rule is (I know some people said that the increasing numbers of people protesting as you did better was a good feature, but I thought it was yet another symptom of the game being a console game before it was anything approaching realistic, or even believable within its own rules...)? Etc.), and the actions of the government (the evil one run by the aliens) hard to believe, etc...

Oh, and that newsreel clip that plays whenever you're in the lighthouse gets really annoying, really fast. :)

And it got such great press too... I was expecting a really good game. It's just a good one, with significant flaws. So I was fairly dissapointed.

Which version would you say is the best?

Anything that isn't the PC version.