As BG&E was cheap in a recent sale, and remembering how amazing I felt the game was at the time, I downloaded this. And, well, it's OK.
It doesn't help that the controls are all wrong; you can either have the up-down camera correct, or the left-right camera correct. It's such an amazingly simple thing that I just can't understand how they didn't think to add more customisation options. It's made all the worse since the Xbox 360 contains a default setting which they could have picked up.
But other than that complaint - which is a pretty big one, since it means I'm constantly looking at the floor or the sky - this is still the charming game with the lovely world I remember. It feels a bit more like a collectathon now than when I first played it, and some of the animation on the characters is rather off-putting, but Jade remains one of the best videogame characters ever and her story - of taking photos to expose conspiracies - is still pretty unique.
But will I play this through to completion again? Achievements give me an incentive to do so, but the controls are just a major obstacle.
It doesn't help that the controls are all wrong; you can either have the up-down camera correct, or the left-right camera correct. It's such an amazingly simple thing that I just can't understand how they didn't think to add more customisation options. It's made all the worse since the Xbox 360 contains a default setting which they could have picked up.
But other than that complaint - which is a pretty big one, since it means I'm constantly looking at the floor or the sky - this is still the charming game with the lovely world I remember. It feels a bit more like a collectathon now than when I first played it, and some of the animation on the characters is rather off-putting, but Jade remains one of the best videogame characters ever and her story - of taking photos to expose conspiracies - is still pretty unique.
But will I play this through to completion again? Achievements give me an incentive to do so, but the controls are just a major obstacle.
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