Beyond Good & Evil’s remaster is worth buying for this one new feature

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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. Beyond Good & Evil was ahead of its time in many ways when it originally launched in 2003, and I’m glad this re-release for its anniversary will make the game much more easily accessible for a whole new generation.

All of those features will probably be what most players pay attention to Beyond Good & Evil — 20th Anniversary Edition for. But for those like myself who like to learn more about the development of games and see how they will evolve over time, the Anniversary Gallery hidden in the remaster’s bonus menu is by far the most exciting feature.

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. When I clicked the “Bonus” option on Beyond Good & Evil — 20th Anniversary Edition’s main menu and saw that there was an Anniversary Gallery, I expected something similar to what was in Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked. That’s why I was shocked to see it was more like Digital Eclipse’s work.

Once I entered the Anniversary Gallery, I saw it split into several parts covering everything from Beyond Good & Evil’s conception phase to its launch. Picking any of those options then brings players to a variety of different galleries about that part of Beyond Good & Evil’s development. Going through all these galleries chronologically, I