Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game. Inspired by many cult series that have left their mark in the RPG video gaming culture, Evoland takes you from monochrome to full 3D graphics and from active...
Users comments:
Highlights:
- What starts off as a promising concept falls badly flat.
- As soon as you unlock "3D" the game just becomes alternately a bad zelda clone and a bad Final Fantasy clone (found in 8 reviews).
- The puzzles requiring you to switch between different "eras" are brilliant. Pity that this idea was so sparingly and arbitrarily applied.
- The game is ridiculously short, just a couple hours long, without replayability options.
- Puzzles are fun (found in 3 reviews)
- An original way to travel through the history of RPG video games.
- Evoland is a nice piece of nostalgia for anyone that played the old Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest games. And I'm talking way back, like starting with the originals in each series. There are references abound, making for some good fun.
- Very fun at first and is a good way to learn more about how video games evolved.
- For the same price you'll find games like Terraria on which you'll spend hundreds of hours.
- Fun to play.
- Interesting concept, but nothing else.
- Cute, well done (found in 5 reviews).
Gameplay
- The gameplay is what you would expect from this genre, though very thin in depth. It feels more like a snapshot of the older games than an actual copy. A taste rather than a full meal.
- As of now, this is the worst final boss I've ever seen, adding a huge difficulty spike right at the end for free and gratuitous rage (found in 8 reviews).
- Unnecessary amount of random encounters when you switch to Final Fantasy style (found in 14 reviews).
- There's a card game parody of Triple Triad from Final Fantasy 8 but it's much more simplistic and it's called Double Twin... so if you enjoy card meta games, you'll enjoy that little inclusion.
- Evoland offers real time battles and turn based battles. The real time battles can be frustrating at times and the turn based battles seem lackluster in a game with so few items and so little to gain from turn based combat.
Recommended for:
- If you like old school RPGs.
- If you like revival games.
- If you like mini-games.
- Zelda, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest fans.
- If you miss playing your old SNES games.
- Fans of early 8-bit games.
System Requirements:
- OS:Windows XP SP2 or later
- Processor:1.7 GHz single-core
- Memory:1 GB RAM
- Graphics:Directx 9.0c compatible video card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:100 MB HD space
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