Jade Empire: Special Edition

This is a 3D action/adventure game with a pseudo-Chinese appearance. I played it for a few hours before I uninstalled it in disgust.

THE GOOD:

• Nothing. This game is terrible.
• Actually, the only good thing is that I paid less than $10 for this garbage. Phew!

THE BAD:

• I actually paid money for this steaming pile of manure.
• On PC using a keyboard, the controls were really spongy. The only result of any battle: being killed. I had to lower the difficulty, but on Easy the game is too easy.

THE UGLY:

• The game didn't even run at first on Steam (on Windows 10) and I had to look up how to fix the install issue. It was something dumb the developer should have fixed (a missing .dll file).
• The plot is a very American plot with a pseudo-Chinese pastiche stretched across it. It doesn't fit. It comes off as gross, racist, and offensive.
• I looked at the credits, and spotted perhaps a Chinese name or two? A game about Chinese people with no Chinese people making decisions on the art direction and plot. How awful.
• This game sits square in the middle of the Uncanny Valley. The 3D characters are really disturbing. e.g. you see your character constantly nodding in a conversation, even when the other character has finished speaking and you're thinking of what to say next.
• The characters don't really look Asian. A lot of them don't really look human at all (although they're supposed to look human).
• There is a fake Oriental-ish language that they invented, that sounds like an idiot trying to babble Chinese or Japanese.
• There is a character that looks like the Boudha. This is more than a little offensive.