Time Extend - Beyond Good and Evil

Edge Online is running a feature from the print version of Edge (in my opinion one of the finest gaming publications available) entitled Time Extend. This monthly feature rewinds the clock to look at a fantastic game from yesteryear. The Christmas Time Extend covers the well reviewed but underselling Beyond Good and Evil. Topical, as Michel Ancel also headed up the well reviewed console game based on Peter Jackson's King Kong. From the article: "So what was it about the adventures of an elfin lighthouse-keeper that made Jackson think Ancel could tame a two-ton gorilla? On the surface it seems a peculiar choice, but while Jade and Kong could hardly be more different, it was exactly because of what Ancel had accomplished with his heroine that Jackson was interested in the first place."

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You make it sound...

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as though the game only caters to casual gamers.

This is a short but very good game, period.

And... if I recall correctly, it was launched rahter cheaply at around $20.

Re:And here I was

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Zelda has it's stealth moments. Ocarina, sneaking up to the castle past the guards, Link to the Past has a similar sequence, in Wind Waker, it's stealthing through the fortress, etc. etc. You see a move towards some stealth starting at the SNES, and the there's pretty much at least one heavy stealth sequence per major console release after that.

BG&E was probably the best non-zelda game in the zelda genre of this console generation. It had a story less convuluted than your typical japanese RPG translation of the past, it had a ton of quirky characters, and it had an interesting setting/theme. It also had it's not quite so great characteristics, you could tell it wasn't finished for example. But all in all, it was a damn great game.