Look out, Miss Jade, looters!
Yesterday when Dad left for his annual volleyball tournament (company vs. company) I stole Beyond Good & Evil which he’d been playing. It’s an interesting game — a nice change after FPSs (well, I just played NOLF II which isn’t all FPS either). And very very funny! The installation music, which later is playing at Akuda Bar, was a hoot!
On Ubi Forums I read how to get the song, so now I’m listening to it over and over and over… “Propaganda!” 
The game is set on a planet called Hillys and you play Jade, a reporter/photographer who joins a rebellious group, the IRIS Network, which is trying to reveal the truth and free the Hillyans from their oppressors, the Alpha Section. Along the way you get to fight alongside with uncle Pey’j and Double H.
In addition to making money by exposing a conspiracy, Jade photographs the fauna of Hillys for a Natural Museum catalogue.
There are a few (I’ve found 4 so far) pirate caves on the planet. Once you enter the pirates (or looters) steal 100 Units from you and you have to chase them. At least I didn’t pass the “race” on the 1st try, so after a couple of dozens (in total, not per cave) “Look out, Miss Jade! Looters! Don’t let them get away, Miss Jade!” a la Double H, I felt like banging my head against the table (I took an easy way out, I turned the volume down…). But once I do catch the darn looters and get their treasure, plus a big pearl with which I’m able to buy all kinds of goodies to my (sorry, Jade’s) hovercraft — ah, what a feeling.
The game site is very very odd. Or not the main site, but the “side sites” of
Hillyan News and IRIS Network. On Hillyan News it says “Others News” and on IRIS Network “Lastest News”. Bah! And none of the sites can decide if it’s “Hillyan” or “Hyllian”, “Hillys” or “Hyllis”.
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