Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Could Be On The Way
French gamemaker Michel Ancel doesn’t work for Ubisoft anymore, but he was once considered their most valuable employee, having created the Rayman series and its first few releases. His “magnum opus,” though, was Beyond Good And Evil, an action adventure title that got a lot of praise from critics, but was ignored by gamers. Y’see, the game market of twenty years ago was driven by image-obsessed, edgelord bros who demanded GTA and GTA clones from their consoles and bristled at any product that could even remotely be considered family-friendly, calling it “kiddy.” BG&E was a very good game, but it had a talking pig, so it was for babies or something. For the record I bought the game on PS2 and enjoyed it, but I was an outcast freak, so I don’t count. In the years since, people came to realize they had tossed aside a great game and Beyond Good And Evil started getting the attention it had lacked when sales mattered. That was enough to get Ubi interested