A young
girl, Jade, tries to protect her orphanage from an alien conspiracy.
It’s really
a shame that this game was such a commercial failure. Originally released in
2003 it bombed depriving us of the planned sequels, now it’s been remastered in
High Definition for the latest console generation.
The game
play clearly comes from a different era. It’s an action/adventure game where we
control our main character, Jade, from a third person prospective. We can
interact in various ways with the game world to solve puzzles and access different
areas. There are various sidekick controlled by the computer, who help in our
quest. Every now and then the exploring and puzzle solving is interrupted by fairly
easy fight sequences.
What really
impress me about this game is how the experience as a whole is organically
coherent. Before and after this we had others game world that were free to
explore but rarely they’ve been so interesting. Not only the anime inspired
artwork is really good, they are really interesting places per se. They not
only feel real, they are filled with a thousand tiny interesting details.
A segment
of the internet, the “Hardcore” crowd, tends to measure the depth of a game to
the amount of stuff that there is to do. They get really excited when a game
like “Daggerfall” boast sa game world the size of Great Britain. Now a thousand
of the procedurally generated dungeons of that game can’t hold a candle to the
five lovingly crafted main missions of “Beyond good and evil”.
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