Beyond Good & Evil: Day One

So I got Beyond Good & Evil for free from Good Old Games because of the contest they're running now, and once I'd fixed the flickering issues, I tried to give it a shot.  I'd heard great things about this title and a friend of mine strongly recommended it.

Damn it, Ubisoft.  The PC version feels like an afterthought.  Controls are poor, both in-game and in menus, and the lack of mouse flipping options makes it unplayable to y-inverted gamers like me.  Feels sloppy and unoptimized for the platform.  I know it's supposed to be a fantastic game, but my initial opinion is that is a broken, half-assed port of a Zelda-esque adventure game which relies on generic combat and seems to tell some kind of pretentious story of thinly-veiled socio-political commentary.