History VideoGame / BeyondGoodAndEvil

* AchillesHeel - The Alpha Sections are vulnerable in their air tanks, and can be taken out if hit from behind. (One will fix another's tank, if there are two of them together.)

** ActionMom - ''Adoptive'' mother, but it still counts--especially given that Jade's need to provide for her kids is what catapaults her into the story in the first place.
* AdventureGame - A new twist on the genre, but it fits.
* {{Adorkable}} - Double H: Super soldier, rebel spy... unexpected fangirl bait due to his clumsy-but-earnest nature.

* AmbiguouslyBrown - Poor, poor Jade. The surest way to start FanWank regarding this game is to ask this simple question: "So what ethnicity is she anyway?" Depending on who you ask, she's black, Hispanic, Native American, olive-skinned European, Asian, Arab, Caucasian but with a tan, or any mixture of the above. Evidence seems to be that you see her as what you want to see, and some think that she was deliberately created to be ambiguous so more people could identify from her, with InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace as justification.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent - Pulled with sidekicks instead of the main character, but it still fits.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation - Yoa. The camera insists she's "Homo Sapiens," but most humans don't have bluish-white skin.
* AntiFrustrationFeature - While dying in most places makes you lose any items you used after the checkpoint, the Looter's Caverns and final boss return items to you after you're sent back to a checkpoint.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign - Several of the game's music tracks contain lyrics in nonsensical languages, with a few recognizable phrases sprinkled in. (The exception is "Fun and Mini-Games/Spanish Bar," which is, in fact, in Spanish.)

* AttackItsWeakPoint - The Alpha Sections have a brightly colored tank on the back of their armour that incapacitates them if hit with a disk, and sends them flying into the atmosphere if kicked.
* BadassCreed - The code of [[FictionalDocument Carlson & Peeters]], at least in ''theory.'' Double H seems to apply ''liberal'' amounts of MundaneMadeAwesome to his interpretation of it, though...
* BaldOfAwesome - Hahn.
* BashBrothers - How Jade and her teammates fight. When she's fighting alongside her sidekick, they can even use a combo "Super Attack" to send enemies flying.
* BatmanGambit - [[spoiler: The [=DomZ=] plan required Jade and the Hillyans to try to take out their lunar base]].
* BigBookOfWar - '''''CARLSOOOOOON AAAAND PEEEEETERSSSSSS!'''''
* BigFriendlyDog - Woof, who is, sitting up, at ''least'' as tall as Jade herself.
* BilingualBonus - At least one song in the game isn't ''all'' in ForeignSoundingGibberish--the mini-game/competition song has some lyrics in Spanish, about pretty much what you'd expect a mini-game-song to be about (specifically, racing).

* {{Bookends}} - The game begins and ends with a shot of Jade awakening from a meditative trance, accompanied by variants of the same song.
* BorderPatrol - At the borders of the main map, you'll get the warning "you are now leaving territorial waters". If you continue, you'll get picked up and carried back.
* BunnyEarsLawyer - Both Pey'j and Double H have abilities beyond what their [[PluckyComicRelief comical exteriors]] would suggest.
* ButtMonkey - Bad things happen to Jade and Pey'j because it moves the story along. Bad things happen to Double H because it's funny. Even a pre-teen goat boy gets away with picking on him...
* CallingYourAttacks - "Jet Boots Attack!"
* CameraSniper - Used in the opening.
* CanisLatinicus - All the PettingZooPeople have taxonomical names that ''end'' in ''Sapiens'' but are of different ''genus''; for example, Jade's "uncle", Pey'j, is a "Sus Sapiens" or "Wise Pig."
* CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker - The leader of the Alpha section on the floating screens in the market.

* CarnivoreConfusion - Not only do we have an anthropomorphic cow bartender ''and'' a slaughtered cow corpse in a freezer, we also have several jokes about eating Pey'j.

* CatGirl - Meï, the VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.
* ChekhovsGun - If you check Pey'j's inventory you'll spot an [=MDisk=] you can't do anything with. [[spoiler: Later on, Pey'j gives Jade the [=MDisk=] just before he's captured by the Alpha Sections, and it turns out the it contains important information about Jade's past, as well as telling you about the Beluga.]]
* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler:Secundo is seen onscreen twice at the start of the game. You hear his voice every time you acquire certain items, and he comes in handy at the climax.]]

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman - Alpha Sections and the Hillyan Army wear massive PoweredArmor.
* CloudCuckoolander - Double H, at least when you first meet him. To be fair, [[EasyAmnesia it isn't entirely his fault]]. He gets better, but still retains a few somewhat airheaded traits.

* ContextSensitiveButton - There are two "action" buttons in the game: One for Jade, and one for whoever is following her. The gameplay is heavily based on this.
* ContinuingIsPainful - When continuing after dying Jade will only be at half of her maximum health. This is painful in some [[strike:TrialAndErrorGameplay]] moderately tricky stealth sections which feature instadeath traps. Some players don't bother healing up from there since another death is probably just around the corner.
* CurseOfTheAncients - Pey'j both plays this one straight and subverts it. On one hand, he's prone to several "Consarnits!" and "Conflabbits!" On the other hand, his favorite epithet appears to be the decidedly less ancient "Sweet Jesus!
* {{Cutscene}}s - In-engine, and very well done.

** controlling the (game) camera is a pain as the X and Y axis cannot be reversed separately and they operate halfway between most games standards. (Most games have tilt left to look left but tilt up to look down, this has left for left and up for up and you can only reverse both at once.)

* DeathCourse - In particular, this game loves the LaserHallway.

* DetailHoggingCover - The "box art" for the [[http://www.bgemyth.net/visionneuse.php?code=g_bgehd_officiel_14 HD rerelease]] ''really'' ramps up the detail, to slightly creepy extent. The HD game does look slightly nicer, but the cover suggests an almost complete graphical overhaul.
* DialogDuringGameplay - Jade and her companions talk very frequently. Sometimes it's to [[ExpositionFairy explain things]], but sometimes it's just for entertainment.
* DoomedProtagonist - [[spoiler:Pey'j]]... at least until early footage of the sequel showed that [[spoiler:he]] seems to have gotten better.

* DoorToBefore - See that laser fence? The button to deactivate it is on the other side. You know what to do...
* TheDragon - [[spoiler: General Kheck]] turns out to be this.
* EasterEgg - If you talk to Yoa at various points in the game, she'll tell you some incredibly helpful things. The problem-she barely speaks a word of English, so what you understand amounts to a vague and unhelpful hint, and you probably won't figure out what she meant until it comes up in the course of the plot. The only indication that she's said anything important is her use of the phrase "batahn-batahn", which context suggests is roughly "tadah".

** One of the creatures you can photograph is the ''Aedes raymanis'' a {{Rayman}} mosquito.
* ElectricJellyfish - "Sweet Jesus! Jellies!" Pey'j reacts with ''zeal'' to being zapped by one, though that's probably his BoisterousBruiser side showing through.

* EmpathyDollShot - If the [[spoiler: destroyed lighthouse]] wasn't depressing ''enough...''
* EnemyWithin - [[spoiler: Jade, who is revealed to be the human incarnation of Shauni, possible queen or goddess of the [=DomZ=], who is important for their survival.]] Though it isn't really a split personality, but [[spoiler: Jade herself actually being Shauni.]] Might add a bit of FridgeHorror to the story.
* EruditeStoner - The Mammago brothers. Despite being the best mechanics in the land, they're rather, uh, "mellow." Suspiciously mellow. The [[http://www.bgemyth.net/visionneuse.php?code=g_artwork_24 original concept art for their garage]] had a marijuana leaf on the door, but they cut that for some [[SarcasmMode unfathomable reason.]] And while in English the three have the names Hal, Babukar and Issam, in the original French the first one is called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie Haile]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep - Double H always goes by his codename, despite the fact that he never addresses anyone else by ''their'' codenames. There's one cutscene where he gets called "Hub," though.

* EyeScream / ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:The [=DomZ=] Priest. RIGHT in the eye, hell yeah.]]
* {{Fartillery}} - Pey'j's Jet Boots run on, er, "home-made biocarburant" and "pressurized methane." If his battle cries are anything to go by, he ''does'' have a penchant for Mexican food...
* FirstNameBasis - When Double H stops referring to Jade as "Miss," things have officially Gotten Serious.
* FirstPersonSnapshooter - One of the central mechanics. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Jade is a photographer.
* FlunkyBoss - The starting boss, first "real" boss, and the FinalBoss. The enemies they summon range from relatively harmless ElectricJellyfish to [[spoiler:[[ShapeShifterGuiltTrip guilt-tripping]] shapeshifters with BIG hammers.]]

* FriendToAllChildren - All three of the main characters. Jade and Pey'j most obviously, since they ''do'' run an OrphanageOfLove, but Double H shows his kinder side off in the PhotoMontage during the credits.
* FunnyAnimal - Many characters are non-human, animal-like humanoids.

* GameBreakingBug - On some playthroughs the second triangle key doesn't become accessible, requiring a save state editor in order to continue.

* GentleGiant - Double H is surprisingly playful when he's not pounding things into the dirt with his hammer.
* GlobalCurrencyException - Mammago Garage only accepts (illegal) pearls. There are, however, hints that pearls weren't always illegal currency.
* GoForTheEye - Many of the [=DomZ=] enemies.
* GoodScarsEvilScars - What's with that scar across Pey'j's eye, huh? Fehn (the literal kid) also has one across his nose.

* GottaCatchEmAll - Your first quest is to take photos of an example of ''Every single living thing on the planet.''
** And then, to a certain extent, the pearls.
* GroinAttack - Shoot a projectile at the crotch of a guard and watch them double-up in pain. It's fun!
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy - Even if you mercilessly slaughter their buddies, you can run around a corner and they'll dismiss you as "nothing."
* HealThyself[=/=] HyperactiveMetabolism
* HeroicBSOD - "Who did you think you are? Did you think you'd actually be able to make a difference? Well, you were wrong. ''Completely and utterly wrong.''"
* HonoraryUncle - Pey'j. He's technically Jade's godfather, but if you dare suggest that they're [[TrueCompanions anything less than real family]], you're liable to get pounded.
* HotScoop - Jade is a former page image.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl - Double H is about a head and half taller and three times as wide as Jade. Heck--most non-child male {{NPC}}s dwarf her. Of course, her and Pey'j [[TinyGuyHugeGirl invert this trope]]--she's a head and a half taller than ''him,'' although much skinnier...
* HumanResources - The [=DomZ=] use the Hillyans as a power source.
* HyperspaceArsenal - A literal one, the S.A.C. device on Jade's hip stores physical objects as energy patterns for later retrieval.
* IdleAnimation - Jade places her hands on her lower back and thrusts her chest out, stretching. And that's pretty much the only bit of {{Fanservice}} you get. Jade's partners have them as well; there are a couple differet ones for each character.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy - The Alpha Sections soldiers in both chase scenes. Even their leader isn't immune to it!
* InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt - One Alpha Section compound is full of them. [[MalevolentArchitecture With laser fences that serve no other purpose than to keep you off.]]

* InterfaceScrew - The [=DomZ=] Priest.

* InUniverseGameClock - Days do pass, but they're mostly atmospheric. A few animals for the CollectionSidequest do pop up only at certain times of day, though.
* InvisibleWall, [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. The field of play is bounded by sentinel spires that shoot oddly harmless bursts of energy to turn Jade back if she attempts to "leave territorial waters." It fits well with the general theme of a government that doesn't trust and can't be trusted.

* IronicNickname - "Peepers," the blind man who fronts for IRIS. (Well, ''ambiguously'' blind, anyway. He always wears dark glasses, his gaze is unfocused, and he identifies Jade by ''smell,'' but he somehow knows when she approaches, doesn't have a cane, and somehow manages to “see” a picture put up on a screen.)
* ItsQuietTooQuiet - Double H says "It's too quiet around here. [[BeingWatched Somebody's watching us,]]" [[spoiler: when he and Jade first enter the external corridor to the Cloister on the moon.]]
* JamesBondage - Both Pey'j and Double H get their time in the, uh, cage.
* KentBrockmanNews - Fehn Digler's news program at the beginning of the game.

* LanternJawOfJustice - Double H has one. A briefly visible, DummiedOut early character model for him actually suggests that it used to be ''bigger,'' and Hahn had one as well.

* LargeHam - Pey'j ([[FunnyAnimal no pun intended]]) and Double H.

* LetsPlay - By Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus.
* LifeEnergy - The [=DomZ=] suck you dry of this stuff.
* LightAndMirrorsPuzzle - Near the end of the game.
* LighthousePoint - Where the orphans are taken care of. It's a non-creepy variant.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle - Sort of a Literary Allusion NonIndicativeName, though. ExecutiveMeddling caused the title; it was originally ''Between'' Good and Evil.

* TheLonelyPiano - The piece "Enfantes Disparus," that plays when [[spoiler: you return to the destroyed lighthouse.]]

* [[spoiler: MacGuffinGirl]] - Also, possibly, [[spoiler: SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan]], but it's unclear.
* MamaBear - Just because they're not Jade's biological children doesn't mean you should mess with them. ''You will get your alien behind handed to you in a plastic bag.''
* MeaningfulEcho - Double H has a tendency to rattle off Carlson & Peeters-isms at random, so none of them seem incredibly important, at first. [[spoiler: However, when he [[TakeMyHand saves Jade from plummeting to her doom]], he turns one of them from a generic "[[FauxtivationalPoster fauxtivational]] statement of team solidarity" to a genuine admission of his [[TrueCompanions care and trust for her]].]]

* MeaningfulName - Jade (the stone) symbolizes immortality and resurrection. [[spoiler: Jade (the girl) can bring people back to life.]]

* MissionControl - The IRIS network, consisting of:
** VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - Meï
** PlayfulHacker / TechnoWizard - Nino
** MrExposition / BaldBlackLeaderGuy - Hahn
* MoodWhiplash - Silly setting plus serious plot--and TearJerker scenes combined with outright slapstick--equals one very confused, but at least entertained--audience.
* MookMaker - Several areas include devices that continuously vend robot enemies on demand.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood - "Miss Thyrus!"
* MysteriousWaif - Yoa. She has no plot significance that we know of--yet--but she's so ''strange'' it's hard not to wonder. Plus, she is either a spy or [[WaifProphet prophetic]].

* NarrativeFiligree - One of the things the game was initially praised for was for the way its setting actually felt like a ''world,'' with little details like advertisements, Jade's friendship with seemingly random [=NPCs=], and all the animals.
* NoHeroDiscount - In addition to the normal "making you pay for things even as the world is ending" deal, the game starts off with the energy field that protects you from the aliens failing--''because you forgot to pay your power bill''.
* NoIndoorVoice - Pey'j. Being on a stealth mission won't stop him from yelling "I'M COMIN', JAAAADDDEEEE!"
* NonSequiturThud - "They...shoes...the..." *whump*
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind - As dictated by “[[BadassCreed Carlson and Peeters!]]”
** Also leads to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome/[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Heartwarming]].
* OhCrap - Probably how Jade and Pey'j feel when they realize [[spoiler:how huge and terrifying the Pterolimax is]].
* OlderSidekick - And two of them, to boot.
* OminousLatinChanting - It's not Latin, but it ''is'' ominous and chant-y: The song [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "Dancing With DomZ."]] As well as the final boss song, "Sins of the Fathers."
* OneSteveLimit - A rare aversion: Both the orphan Fehn and the reporter Fehn Digler have the same name.
* OrphanageOfLove - Jade's Lighthouse Shelter.

* PettingZooPeople: There are several non-human races that resemble Earth animals
* PhotoMontage - The ending credits.
* {{Planetville}} - Almost the entire story takes place in what is essentially one population center.

* PlanetLooters - The [=DomZ=].
* [[PlotCoupon Plot Coupons]] - The pearls, used to purchase equipment for your vehicles in order to gain access to other areas of the world.

* PluckyComicRelief - Pey'j is comic relief and he knows it; he supplies plenty of jokes, [[ButtMonkey is the butt of a few]], and always keeps his chin up. He's even a bit of a BoisterousBruiser at times. Double H comes off as comic relief due to his [[BunnyEarsLawyer weird mannerisms]], though it's suggested that he's actually [[GenreSavvy quite self-aware.]]

* PoirotSpeak - Secundo, again. What's weird is that it's never established whether the thing is supposed to be French, Spanish, or Italian. It actually uses idioms from all three languages. (And his grammar is ''terrible''.)
* PoweredArmor - The Alpha Sections wear massive suits of powered armor. The regular Hillyan army does too--while it doesn't look special, it ''is'' laser-proof, and it does provide some kind of strength augmentation.
* ProjectedMan - Secundo again.
* PropagandaMachine - These are found everywhere in town, delivering the word of the Alpha Sections and [[MaliciousSlander denouncing]] the [[LaResistance IRIS network]].
* PunctuationShaker - Obviously with Pey'j; more subtly with a minor character named Yoa who speaks in apostrophe-laden babble. The game's original story also featured a LastEpisodeNewCharacter named Toy'l.
* TheQuisling - Fehn Digler. [[spoiler: The instant you defeat TheDragon, he even puts out a news report sucking up to the IRIS Network!]]
* RecurringRiff - Two of them. The first, "Redemption," is the game's theme and appears in various places--most notably, as part of the basic lighthouse music and finally in full in the last cutscene. It's the "high point" riff. The second is the music that appears in numerous battle scenes, and even in the LonelyPianoPiece. It's the "low point" riff.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize - Rattus Giganteus
* RoofHopping - The very, ''very'' cool rooftop chase scene, [[spoiler: where the leader of the Alpha Sections, General Kheck, chases Jade himself before she makes her getaway.]]
* SceneryPorn - Lots of it.
* ScreamingWarrior - '''Double. H.''' "ATTTAAAAAAAAACK!"

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip - Pulled in the FinalBoss in order to convince Jade to give in.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend - Gender-flipped, but otherwise played straight:
---> '''Fehn:''' ''[overlooking Double H]'' So, I see you're bringing home [[PoweredArmor canned food]] now?
---> '''Jade:''' I swear, he's not like the others!
* ShorterMeansSmarter - Pey'j is about three and a half feet tall. He's also the smartest person on the planet, probably.
* ShoutOut - There's a pretty obscure reference to the creator's most well known creation, ''{{Rayman}}''. There's even a fairly well-hidden reference to ''TonicTrouble,'' an even ''more'' obscure game by the same creator. To elaborate, the reference to ''{{Rayman}}'' is in the Factory dungeon. In a fairly out of the way hidden area, you can find a cow skeleton. If you examine the skeleton, you can find a small bug sticking on to it. The bug is Aedes Raymanis, or Rayman mosquito. Fittingly enough, the mosquito is Bzzit, the first boss from the original Rayman and one of Rayman's friends. The ''TonicTrouble'' reference is the lead character of that game, Ed, advertising K-Starkos, a health item.

* SmoochOfVictory - Subverted. [[spoiler: Jade's actually rather nervous and reacts quite unsurely to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq2J4DlRrCU being kissed by Double H]], around 7:25. Since we don't get to see the actual thing itself, interpret that reaction however [[ShipTease you]] [[ShipSinking will]].]]
* SpaceBase - The location of the Alpha sections' primary base is on the moon.
* SpaceMarine - Double H
* SpaceWhale - ''Megaptera Anaerobia,'' or "whale that doesn't need oxygen."
* StealthBasedGame - Combat against the Alpha Sections is possible most of the time, but incredibly difficult.
** By default the only way to defeat Alpha Sections at all is by sneaking up on them. Also in some rooms there is a floating laser cannon that will kill you instantly if you're spotted by your enemies, so you have a lot of reason to be stealthy.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl - Although not actually a ghost, Yoa has the appearance of such, and apparently the ability to predict the future.
* StupidStatementDanceMix - [[http://www.bgemyth.net/?page=plus_d_infos/creation_du_jeu/interview_christophe_heral/interview_christophe_heral.php In an interview]], the game's composer, Christophe Heral, said that a significant portion of fan favorite track "Propaganda" was created by remixing portions of a telephone conversation between himself and a Bulgarian woman. In the original version, dialogue from the game production team was included, but got cut. (The Bulgarian phone conversation remix is still there.)
* SurrogateSoliloquy - Jade, to Woof.

* TimedMission - Saving Double H from the [=DomZ=] disease; getting out of the exploding moon base
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome - After [[spoiler: leaving the atmosphere]] in the Beluga for the first time, Jade momentarily forgets the solemnity of her mission in order to have a moment of pure {{squee}}:

* TopHeavyGuy - Double H

-->'''Jade''':[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Thanks for everything...My companions.]]
* TwentyFourHourArmor - Double H never goes anywhere without his armor. This is apparently {{Hand Wave}}d somewhere in [[AllThereInTheManual the Manual]], saying that wearing armor makes him feel manly and empowered.
* UnexplainedRecovery - [[spoiler: Pey'j. He does have a reason for coming back, though.]]
* UseYourHead - Double H

* {{Uncancelled}} - Everyone thought that poor sales of the first title pretty much doomed the game to being a one-shot - up till Ubisoft dropped the trailer for the sequel out of nowhere.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange - Hovercraft racing time!
* VideoGameFlight - The Beluga lets you take to the skies--though you'll still need the dinky Hovercraft to actually get ''into'' places.
* VoiceOfTheLegion - [[spoiler:The [=DomZ=] Priest speaks like this.]]

** SimpleStaff - Jade's choice, as a martial arts master.
** ImprovisedWeapon - Although Pey'j's wrench is ostensibly intended to be used for fixing machinery and cutting wires, it makes a handy bludgeon.
** DropTheHammer - Hammers seem to be the WeaponOfChoice in general for both the evil Alpha Sections and and Hillyan army--and, by extension, Double H.
** FrickinLaserBeams - The Alphas' hammers can sometimes shoot these.
** BeamSpam - Jade's "super attack" is somewhere between this and a MacrossMissileMassacre.

* WeNeedToGetProof - Jade's a professional photographer, what did you expect?
* WhackAMonster - The first boss, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the Volvagia fight from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk - Mr. Hovercraft's more resilient than it looks.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - A recently-revealed series of design documents for the game reveal that its early design was ''much'' different. It featured such things as the IRIS Network (here called, uh, SPOON) having a flying home base, a ''second'' alien race called the Nazh, lost characters such as one Colonel Garis, and others.

* WhatTheHellPlayer - Pey'j and Double H get quite irritated if you hit them. "RESPECT THE HOME TEAM!"

-->'''Pey'j:''' You overestimate me, Jade. If you don't give me some of those PA-1's, I'll be a burden to ya.
* WidgetSeries / [[FunWithAcronyms Weird Thing from France]]: This game is approximately 60% sci-fi action adventure, and 40% what the hell is ''wrong'' with the French?

* YouHaveFailedMe - When you reach the end of the Factory area, you overhear the Alpha Sections chief telling his [=DomZ=] boss that the intruders have been captured. As they both notice Jade, the Alpha offers to take care of her himself, but the [=DomZ=] kills him.

* CoolCar - The car Jade and Pey'j manage to crash into a tree in the desert. It makes it here only because it's a hovering car.

* DarkerAndEdgier - Not a whole lot, but the overall style gives this impression.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms - Averted, with the first game's FrickinLaserBeams being replaced with (or at least accompanied by) actual bullets.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture - The city which Jade is being chased through has a mix of Indian and Middle Eastern culture.
* JitterCam - Used during what is rumored to be actual gameplay, though this is yet to be confirmed.
* LeParkour - A trailer features Jade going parkour-tastic in an urban India-esque city, leaping off roofs, the heads of policemen, and some poor guy stuck in a bathroom.
* MessyPig - Pey'j does it better than ever.
* NobodyPoops - Amusingly averted.

* SheFu - Jade appears to have gotten better at it.


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Needless to say, the gaming community pretty much went nuts when {{Ubisoft}} surprised ''everyone'' at their press conference/marketing event in mid-2008 by showing a trailer for ''Beyond Good And Evil 2''. From that point on, the game got stuck in the ninth circle of DevelopmentHell, and seemed to go through endless rumor cycles of being cancelled, not cancelled, moved, and more. As of E3 2010, WordOfGod has is that the game will be switched over to a development style not unlike that of the recently revealed ''{{Rayman}} Origins,'' with a small team (and even using a 3-D version of ''Origin's'' engine). An HD remake of the first game was just released on XBLA and PSN.

* BadassCreed - The code of [[FictionalDocument Carlson & Peeters]], at least in ''theory.'' Double H seems to apply ''liberal'' amounts of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome to his interpretation of it, though...

[[caption-width-right:289: Jade, player character.]]

Not related to the book by FriedrichNietzsche under the same title. ''[[NonindicativeName At all]]''. (Or, for that matter, the second game in the ''Xenosaga'' trilogy.)

* ActionGirl

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent - Pulled with sidekicks instead of the main character, but it still fits.

** Propaganda!

* BashBrothers - How Jade and her teammates fight. When she's fighting alongside her sidekick, they can even use a combo "Super Attack" to send enemies flying.

* BigBookOfWar - '''''CARLSOOOOOON AAAAND PEEEEETERSSSSSS!'''''
* BigFriendlyDog - Woof, who is, sitting up, at ''least'' as tall as Jade herself.
* BilingualBonus - At least one song in the game isn't ''all'' in ForeignSoundingGibberish--the mini-game/competition song has some lyrics in Spanish, about pretty much what you'd expect a mini-game-song to be about (specifically, racing).

* BunnyEarsLawyer - Both Pey'j and Double H have abilities beyond what their [[PluckyComicRelief comical exteriors]] would suggest.
* ButtMonkey - Bad things happen to Jade and Pey'j because it moves the story along. Bad things happen to Double H because it's funny. Even a pre-teen goat boy gets away with picking on him...

* CarnivoreConfusion - Not only do we have an anthropomorphic cow bartender ''and'' a slaughtered cow corpse in a freezer, we also have several jokes about eating Pey'j.
** Interestingly, several of the cow-bartender's patrons are ''sharks'' (one of whom quips about eating families). Seems like it'd be hard to keep the peace.
* CatGirl - Meï, the VoiceWithAnInternetConnection.

* CloudCuckoolander - Double H, at least when you first meet him. To be fair, [[EasyAmnesia it isn't entirely his fault]]. He gets better, but still retains a few somewhat airheaded traits.

* ContextSensitiveButton - There are two "action" buttons in the game: One for Jade, and one for whoever is following her. The gameplay is heavily based on this.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory

* DeathCourse - In particular, this game loves the LaserHallway.

* DetailHoggingCover - The "box art" for the [[http://www.bgemyth.net/visionneuse.php?code=g_bgehd_officiel_14 HD rerelease]] ''really'' ramps up the detail, to slightly creepy extent. The HD game does look slightly nicer, but the cover suggests an almost complete graphical overhaul.

* DoorToBefore - See that laser fence? The button to deactivate it is on the other side. You know what to do...

* FriendToAllChildren - All three of the main characters. Jade and Pey'j most obviously, since they ''do'' run an OrphanageOfLove, but Double H shows his kinder side off in the PhotoMontage during the credits.

* GentleGiant - Double H is surprisingly playful when he's not pounding things into the dirt with his hammer.

* GroinAttack - Shoot a projectile at the crotch of a guard and watch them double-up in pain. It's fun!
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy - Even if you mercilessly slaughter their buddies, you can run around a corner and they'll dismiss you as "nothing."

* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: You can't climb or jump over a box that's waist high. But you can leap over the waist-high laser beams next to it.

* IronicNickname - "Peepers," the blind man who fronts for IRIS. (Well, ''ambiguously'' blind, anyway. He always wears dark glasses, his gaze is unfocused, and he identifies Jade by ''smell,'' but he somehow knows when she approaches, doesn't have a cane, and somehow manages to “see” a picture put up on a screen.)

* [[spoiler: MacGuffinGirl]] - Also, possibly, [[spoiler: SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan]], but it's unclear.

* MoodWhiplash - Silly setting plus serious plot--and TearJerker scenes combined with outright slapstick--equals one very confused, but at least entertained--audience.

* NarrativeFiligree - One of the things the game was initially praised for was for the way its setting actually felt like a ''world,'' with little details like advertisements, Jade's friendship with seemingly random [=NPCs=], and all the animals.

* NonSequiturThud - "They...shoes...the..." *whump*

* OrphanageOfLove - Jade's Lighthouse Shelter.

* PettingZooPeople: There are several non-human races that resemble Earth animals

* {{Planetville}} - Almost the entire story takes place in what is essentially one population center.

* ProjectedMan - Secundo again.

* TheQuisling - Fehn Digler. [[spoiler: The instant you defeat TheDragon, he even puts out a news report sucking up to the IRIS Network!]]
* RecurringRiff - Two of them. The first, "Redemption," is the game's theme and appears in various places--most notably, as part of the basic lighthouse music and finally in full in the last cutscene. It's the "high point" riff. The second is the music that appears in numerous battle scenes, and even in the LonelyPianoPiece. It's the "low point" riff.

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip - Pulled in the FinalBoss in order to convince Jade to give in.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend - Gender-flipped, but otherwise played straight:
---> '''Fehn:''' ''[overlooking Double H]'' So, I see you're bringing home [[PoweredArmor canned food]] now?
---> '''Jade:''' I swear, he's not like the others!

* SpaceWhale - ''Megaptera Anaerobia,'' or "whale that doesn't need oxygen."

* StupidStatementDanceMix - [[http://www.bgemyth.net/?page=plus_d_infos/creation_du_jeu/interview_christophe_heral/interview_christophe_heral.php In an interview]], the game's composer, Christophe Heral, said that a significant portion of fan favorite track "Propaganda" was created by remixing portions of a telephone conversation between himself and a Bulgarian woman. In the original version, dialogue from the game production team was included, but got cut. (The Bulgarian phone conversation remix is still there.)
* SurrogateSoliloquy - Jade, to Woof.

--> '''Jade:''' [[spoiler: Algenib? The Omega Dipper? We--we're surrounded by stars, Double H...]]

-->'''Jade''':[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Thanks for everything...My companions.]]
* TwentyFourHourArmor - Double H never goes anywhere without his armor. This is apparently {{Hand Wave}}d somewhere in [[AllThereInTheManual the Manual]], saying that wearing armor makes him feel manly and empowered.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange - Hovercraft racing time!

** ImprovisedWeapon - Although Pey'j's wrench is ostensibly intended to be used for fixing machinery and cutting wires, it makes a handy bludgeon.
** DropTheHammer - Hammers seem to be the WeaponOfChoice in general for both the evil Alpha Sections and and Hillyan army--and, by extension, Double H.
** FrickinLaserBeams - The Alphas' hammers can sometimes shoot these.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk - Mr. Hovercraft's more resilient than it looks.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - A recently-revealed series of design documents for the game reveal that its early design was ''much'' different. It featured such things as the IRIS Network (here called, uh, SPOON) having a flying home base, a ''second'' alien race called the Nazh, lost characters such as one Colonel Garis, and others.

* [=~What The Hell, Player?~=] - Pey'j and Double H get quite irritated if you hit them. "RESPECT THE HOME TEAM!"

* LeParkour - A trailer features Jade going parkour-tastic in an urban India-esque city, leaping off roofs, the heads of policemen, and some poor guy stuck in a bathroom.
* MessyPig - Pey'j does it better than ever.

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** Also subverted with the laser fences surrounding the initial area, that appear to be pretty obvious invisible walls. However, you later get the ability to jump over them.

** In-game, averted in that the controls from sprint, jump, etc. were the same for Jade and the hovercraft.
** Played straight in that controls for taking photographs switched camera control from one joystick to the other in the [=PS2=] port. This is hell when trying to take a photo during combat.

Designed by Michael Ancel of {{Rayman}} fame, the game plays like a SciFi twist on ''TheLegendOfZelda''. It combines simple yet engaging combat, with vehicle action, puzzle solving, stealth, and photography challenges. The environments are detailed and beautiful, the characters are interesting and well-animated, in a stylized balance of cartoonish and realistic. It was released for IBM PC, [=XBox, PS2=] and Gamecube, but sold few copies on any platform.

* WhackAMonster - The first boss, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the Volvagia fight from ''[[TheLegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time.]]''

* GlobalCurrencyException - Mammago Garage only accepts (illegal) pearls. There are, however, hints that pearls weren't always illegal currency.

* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere - Mammago Garage only accepts (illegal) pearls.
** There are, however, hints that pearls weren't always illegal currency.

* FirstPersonSnapshooter - Actually, Jade is a ''Professional'' Photographer.

* AmateurPhotographer - Actually, Jade is a ''Professional'' Photographer.

In a distant star system, presumably sometime in the future, there is a peaceful mining planet named Hillys. The peace of this planet was shattered not long ago, when mysterious alien monsters called the [=DomZ=] invaded this part of the galaxy, striking in surprise attacks, and kidnapping people away to who-knows-where. A mysterious military organization called the Alpha Sections appear to be all that keeps the [=DomZ=] in check. But something about them just seems wrong...

* MysteriousWaif - Yoa. She has no plot significance that we know of--yet--but she's so ''strange'' it's hard not to wonder. Plus, she is either a spy or [[WaifProphet prophetic.]]
** Yoa has a strong physical resemblance to Yorda in ''ICO'', and even has speaks an unknown language like Yorda. Possibly a ShoutOut.

* CanisLatinicus - All the PettingZooPeople have taxonomical names that ''end'' in ''Sapiens'' but are of different ''genus''; For example, Jade's "uncle", Pey'j, is a "Sus Sapiens" or "Wise Pig." Given that ''every single one'' of the Petting Zoo People are humanoid(two-handed bipeds), a more appropriate terminology would be in the vicinity of "Homo Sapiens Sus", or "Wise Pig ''Man''".

* InterfaceScrew - Priest.

** SimpleStaff - Jade's choice, as a martial arts master. It's not magical, so she's not a StaffChick.

* TokenWholesome: Jade

** Jade's alias "Shauni" is an in-universe example. [[spoiler:It's the name with which the [=DomZ=] refer to their power source.]]

* BadassCreed - The code of [[FictionalDocument Carlson & Peeters]], at least in ''theory.'' Double H seems to apply ''liberal'' amounts of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome to his interpreation of it, though...

* ChekhovsGunman - [[spoiler:Secundo is seen onsceen twice at the start of the game. You hear his voice every time you acquire certain items, and he comes in handy at the climax.]]

* ContextSensitiveButton - There are two "action" buttons in the game: One for Jade, and one for whoever is following her. The gamplay is heavily based on this.

* CurseOfTheAncients - Pey'j both plays this one straight and subverse it. On one hand, he's prone to several "Consarnits!" and "Conflabbits!" On the other hand, his favorite epithet appears to be the decidedly less ancient "Sweet Jesus!

* MeaningfulEcho - Double H has a tendency to rattle off Carlson & Peeters-isms at random, so none of them seem incredibly important, at first. [[spoiler: However, when he [[TakeMyHand saves Jade from plumeting to her doom]], he turns one of them from a generic "[[FauxtivationalPoster fauxtivational]] statement of team solidarity" to a genuine admission of his [[TrueCompanions care and trust for her]].]]

** ImprovisedWeapon - Although Pey'j's wrench is ostentiably intended to be used for fixing machinery and cutting wires, it makes a handy bludgeon.
** DropTheHammer - Hammers seem to be the WeaponOfChoice in general for both the evil Alpha Sections and and Hillyan army--and, by extention, Double H.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk - Mr. Hovercraft's more resilent than it looks.

* AirVentEscape

* EverythingIsMessierWithPigs - Pey'j does it better than ever.

& CanisLatinicus - All the PettingZooPeople have taxonomical names that ''end'' in ''Sapiens'' but are of different ''genus''; For example, Jade's "uncle", Pey'j, is a "Sus Sapiens" or "Wise Pig." Given that ''every single one'' of the Petting Zoo People are humanoid(two-handed bipeds), a more appropriate terminology would be in the vicinity of "Homo Sapiens Sus", or "Wise Pig ''Man''".

** Fehn could have gotten it when the DomZ took away his parents in an attack.

** Also, sometimes Double H will disappear in the Slaughterhouse and never reappear. Hope you have an earlier save, like this troper didn't!

* HonoraryUncle - Pey'j. He's technically Jade's godfather, but if you dare suggest that they're [[{{Nakama}} anything less than real family]], you're liable to get pounded.

* MeaningfulEcho - Double H has a tendency to rattle off Carlson & Peeters-isms at random, so none of them seem incredibly important, at first. [[spoiler: However, when he [[TakeMyHand saves Jade from plumeting to her doom]], he turns one of them from a generic "[[FauxtivationalPoster fauxtivational]] statement of team solidarity" to a genuine admission of his [[{{Nakama}} care and trust for her]].]]

* DoomedProtagonist - [[spoiler:Pey'j]]... at least until early footage of the sequel showed that [[spoiler:he]] seems to have [[IGotBetter gotten better]].

* IGotBetter - [[spoiler: Pey'j. He does have a reason for coming back, though.]]