Beyond Good & Evil -- 20th Anniversary Edition is a great re-release of a cult classic that holds an excellent new feature.
Beyond Good & Evil is back, thanks to a new 20th Anniversary Edition from Ubisoft and Virtuos. It upgrades the classic game’s visuals for modern platforms, implements achievements and a speedrun mode, and even adds a new questline that tightens the original’s connection to the still-in-development Beyond Good & Evil 2.
Recommended Videos One of my favorite current video game remaster trends is when developers share assets or insights from the game’s creation. This can come from simple asset museums like the one in Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked or the developer commentary and lost levels of The Last of Us Part II Remastered. Currently, the king of the remaster is Digital Eclipse, which trailblazed a new timeline-based, playable documentary approach through games like Atari 50 and its Gold Master series.
Did you know that Jade was originally named Sally or that the DomZ weren’t originally the main antagonists of Beyond Good & Evil? Interesting tidbits like that make the Anniversary Gallery enthralling for both diehard fans of this game and anyone interested in game development. It’s the kind of transparency into the game creation process that I think the industry could use much more of, even if it’s doing all this for a game released over 20 years ago.
On the content front, I’d also like to see it pay more attention to the human stories behind these games. The Anniversary Gallery provides a captivating look into the development of Beyond Good & Evil, but it’s solely focused on the software. Unlike games such as Atari 50, it never really engages with the human element of development outside of one anecdote about Ubisoft Montpellier’s studio flooding mid-development.
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