Beyond Good and Evil 2 has taken so long to arrive for technical reasons

Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been a long time coming and Michael Ancel hit Instagram again with another image accompanied by an explanation of why it’s taken so long to create a new BG&E.

“2008 Characters . The game was playable with many prototypes . All videos where realtime but we had too much technical issues . We wanted planet exploration , space travel , cities … All this was also supposed to be in BGE 1 … Instead of not doing the game of our dreams , we decided to return to 2d , have fun with Rayman and go back at work for Beyond good and Evil 2 . We still have loooooots of work but now the tech is ready and the team is fantastic !”

Ancel also went on to clarify that they have not decided what platforms the sequel will appear on when it’s eventually released adding, “No specific platforms for now”.

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2008 Characters . The game was playable with many prototypes . All videos where realtime but we had too much technical issues . We wanted planet exploration , space travel , cities … All this was also supposed to be in BGE 1 … Instead of not doing the game of our dreams , we decided to return to 2d , have fun with Rayman and go back at work for Beyond good and Evil 2 . We still have loooooots of work but now the tech is ready and the team is fantastic !

A post shared by Michel Ancel (@michelancel) on Oct 19, 2016 at 12:18am PDT