Evoland user reviews

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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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut (PC) user reviews

Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!

Users comments:

Highlights:

• Dragonfall takes the same basic formula, with lots of small improvements. The new UI and VFX put a bit of extra and much welcome polish on the game (found in 17 reviews).
• The game itself is an RPG with turn based combat, with real time exploration smoothly (for the most part) transitioning to turn based when the combat starts.
• An expanded and improved version of the Dragonfall DLC for Shadowrun Returns, this Director's cut cleans up the user interface, adds some new quests, allows for a few new endings, and has lots of achievements to grab. Really though, Dragonfall was already good when it was a "DLC", and as a bigger and improved stand-alone game it has not lost any of its quality.
• 15-20 hours to complete the main campaign.
• That Dragonfall director's cut mission has little new stuff in comparison with the "classic" version: aside of better graphics and some new missions and dialogs, it's basically the same thing.
• Long story short - amazing single player experience.
• One of best old school RPG's I've played since Fallout 2 and Planescape: Torment.

Story

• By the way, your companions are all very well written, having many memorable lines and moments.
• The Shadowrun universe can be intimidating at first, it was for me at least. Though this actually can help gameplay, as you are thrown head first into a living breathing world; which wasn't made for the player but rather the player is a part of it.
• The story is simply amazing and the side missions are intense.
• Phenomenal storyline with appropriate twists and turns.

Graphics and art Style

• Graphics and art style are really well-made, with vibrant colors even for a game that takes place in the "shadows".
• There's no voice acting.
• This game is a top-down / isometric rpg design.

Gameplay:

• Story and character development are trully engaging. One of the few games that actually manages to make you care for your team outside combat situations.
• They need to hurry up and get the campaign editor set up and give author's the tools to port their work over.
• The story and game mechanics are delightful, overall skill usage was diversified compared to original Dead Man's Switch campaign and a bunch of other improvements were made (more optional missions, manual save points, selling items option, etc.).

Combat System

• The mechanics aren't exactly deep, but they're much more in depth than Shadowrun Returns, and they focus on fast, fun tactics.

Recommended for:

• Fans of Shadowrun, cyberpunk in general, or just turn based strategy.
• If you like cyberpunk worlds, with great story.
• If you like old school, pen and paper RPGs.
• If you like turn based, isometric RPGs, you will love Shadowrun. Lots of fun, great replay value.

System Requirements:

• OS: OSX 10.6
• Processor: Intel-based Macs only (x86-compatible, 1.4GHz or better)
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Modern 3D graphics card with at least 256MB of addressable memory
• Hard Drive: 2 GB available space

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