Turns out the game won the first place (out of around 1400 games) and quickly reached over 300 000 players within a couple of months.
New players will discover a bit of video game history and a very fun gameplay, and veterans will also enjoy a host of references to legendary titles scattered along the game.Įvoland Classic was originally created by Nicolas Cannasse for a Ludum Dare competition in about 30 hours. The story of action adventure gaming as seen in the Zelda or Final Fantasy series, starting with the early age of action RPGs, when a few pixels were enough to make us dream for hours. It is an adventure / RPG game and a history lesson all rolled into one. This game was released on Steam on August 25, 2015.Įvoland was released on Steam on April 4, 2013. It is also a much bigger game and a classic RPG at heart, with a complex scenario based on time travel, dozens of characters with their own backgrounds and ambitions and vastly different gameplay styles that are linked to the story and the player’s actions. Sure, it's a little on the scatterbrained side, and there are RPGs on the App Store that do all of the things that it tries out better.īut as an experience in pleasant nostalgia, there's enough care and attention been lavished on this one to make it worth your while.Evoland 2 is the spiritual successor to the original Evoland with its graphics style changing as you travel through time and its gameplay evolving as you move along the storyline. It's still poking fun, but it's doing it because it cares, not because it's mean. And that makes it a far warmer and more welcoming experience. Unlike its predecessor, Evoland 2 tends not to get so swept up in how clever it's being. The joystick is definitely better this time round, and there's no getting caught on scenery or stumbling off in directions that you didn't mean to. Sometimes you'll be hitting the attack button to swipe at bears or jellies, only to find nothing happen.
They're better here, but they're not perfect. One of the problems with the original Evoland was that the controls were a bit on the clunky side. The village you woke up in is gone, but time seems to be playing funny tricks with you. Poke a glowy thing, read some funny words, and things switch around. But that's down to the way the game handles it. After a more modern pixel art section, you're then thrown back into a place closer to the 8bit era. Check the well, that's all I'm saying.Īll of this follows the tutorial, which is presented in Game Boy hues of green and black. There are some tongue in cheek references too. Because obviously you can't venture out without one of those. Waking up in a village with no idea of how you get there or what's going on, you set off to find answers. The game, almost predictably, sees you playing an amnesiac hero. Sure, underneath it all there's the beating heart of a game we've all played a thousand times before, but there's enough warmth and compassion for the source material here, as well as some more cynical wit, that it's worth checking out. It's sort of like if Chrono Trigger offered up a different JRPG experience every time you leapt to a different time zone. It's a bold gambit, and while it felt more like a gimmick in the original game, here it's integral to the plot. Evoland 2 doesn't just wear its influences on its sleeve, it changes it sleeve as you play, switching from art-style to art-style, shaking up the way you play and explore.
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