The creator of Beyond Good and Evil 2 explained how the game ended up in production hell
Everything is prosaic: many people worked on the game and they could not come to a single concept.
The legendary long-term construction Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been in production hell for 16 years. The creator of the series, Michel Ancel, explained how it all happened.
Ancel gave an interview to Superpouvoir, in which he shared what went wrong with the sequel. It's actually simple: a lot of people worked on the game, each with their own passion and vision. The developers reworked the core mechanics many times, but could not come to an agreement:
“The art director wanted to redo everything over and over again, the game director was going to create a game with generated dungeons, and I dreamed of a space adventure. We simply could not come to an agreement, and the game director took the title in other directions…
