Industry Lamentations Beyond Good & Evil 2

Maybe I'm the only person on Earth who played Beyond Good & Evil and didn't like it. Over a decade later, all I can say is that it was profoundly un-memorable; the story wasn't noteworthy and the gameplay was very routine.

(I do remember that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time came out around the same time, and that game was super frickin' sweet.)

So it's doubly mystifying to me how the no-gameplay prequel trailer is driving so much hype. Is it because the monkey says "motherfucker?" It certainly can't be because of the hackneyed and Michael Bay-esque police chase.

Maybe if I could borrow Playtonic's time machine, I could go back to 2004, play BG&E again, and try to understand why the game became so beloved. For now, I don't remember the game as anything but wholly unremarkable.