Hey everyone, did you know that EVO is actually a sequel to a 1990 PC game? Check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ym9YkH8xciE.html
The SNES sure hosted a lot of novel, unique games in its day, and this Enix gem has to be among the best of them. EVO took "taking control of your own destiny" to a whole new level.
E.V.O. here was one of my favourite games to pick up and play. So much wacky stuff you can do, and it's like an action-RPG that's heavier on the action elements without making the RPG stuff unimportant.
Ehh, it's alright. A little tedious in how much grinding you gotta do for Evolution points, and boy can it be hard!! Still, it's educational, at least! I would've freaking LOVED this game as a kid!!!
You really don't gotta grind much at all, especially if you search for or just get lucky to find the hidden secrets that let you level up easily. Other than at the very start, of course.@@therealseanw.stewart2071
I've been meaning to ask you this question. Do you think Square and Enix were better without merger? Square did make a lot of good games before merger.
Seventh Cross, a weird game about evolution, but much more bizarre than E.V.O, check out on youtube, there is will be no point of return once you see it.
pretty much the same as most people. The reason being that the game is pretty linear up to a certain point, at which it becomes much less clear where you are supposed to go or what you need to do.
@@MrLordDarlington really? I thought it was because the game is insanely hard! I beat it, but I had to become a save scummer. That momma yeti boss is seriously hard!
I received this game from my grandmother on my 10th birthday. I had not heard of the game until then, but it quickly became one of the all time classics on the SNES for me! The soundtrack (at least the remixed themes from The Shinka Ron) is awesome!
@@NintendoComplete I eventually discovered that a lot of the soundtrack are remixes from a much older game for the PC-98 called Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron. From what I gather, it has a very similar theme to E.V.O. which I believe was the second game in the series.
@@rcblazer Yeah, there's a full fan translation of the original PC98 version kicking around the internet. It's pretty neat - it actually uses a turn-based RPG combat system.
@@capncrackfiendI think that's because most acts of violence in nature are born out of need, not actual malicious desire. A wolf hunting a baby deer or a shark hunting a baby seal are not monstrous evils, they literally NEED to do that just to live. Yes, some animals show sadism (cats and orcas), but even that is born from the choice-less instinct to hunt and practice. In that scene with the baby amphibian, there is obviously no need to kill the child. A few moments before that, your creature has just defeated a Boss and eaten a good fill of meat, so trying to kill and eat the child amphibian right after that is just needless malice. I agree with Gaia punishing players for that, there is a clear difference between killing to satiate your hunger/practice your skills versus killing for the sake of it..
I begged my parents to rent this game SO MANY TIMES! I spent so many hours playing this one. This shaped a whole lot of how I think about today's world from a logical perspective. Spore was the closest I ever found to this game and I'm wishing there were other Evolution/rpg themed games
I love how the game lets you get away with eating the tutorial squid but later on you try to eat an NPC and die of guilt XD Fantastic! The game should get a remake!
Way, way, WAY, ahead of its time, this game; I played it in highschool like 10 years after it came out and was impressed even then at its depth and player choice
For the longest (and I mean longest) time I kept thinking of an NES game I played as a child but could not remeber anything about it besides it taking place in a western town and a ball (orb) that would float up as you got close to it. I subscribed to your channel because I noticed you have TONS of NES games uploaded on it and thanks to you I now know the name of that game. Its Time Lord! The moment I got to the part in that video (where you walked up to the orb and it floated up) it instantly brought back memories and for that, I thank you for the video. All your videos tbh. Games I can no longer play unfortunatly, coming to your channel lets me re-live my childhood all over again!
Omg this game is savage in concep. Decades ago it talks about assited evolution like mas effecf do decades after. Increible travel and game amazing progammers at their time 10/10 inst enought. MASTERPIECE rest in peace baby tricerap :(
This game is awesome. Just played it randomly many years ago in an emulator, the name was curious for me and give it a try. Also underrated, because I never see someone recommend it.
I remember this game fondly. Way back before I can even form proper words. When I didn't eat my kiddy food, mom would let me play this for a bit and tell me to eat and grow like the fish. I'll eat everything.
This game come to my mind today, i remember playing it years ago but never finished it, today i did it, and now it this video just slaped my face and said "look you missed like, all the secret special evolutions" lmao
This was one of my favorites back then and I forgot all about it until today when I smelled something in a store that rushed over me with nostalgia and brought me back to that time. That is why I am here watching this now
I just started playing this for the first time and looking at your playthrough, I'm about to evolve to "flying". It took me a few hours, so you doing it in a little over 1 is insane! Lol. This game is so freaking cool! I plan to beat it when I wake up.
I remember seeing this game in a magazine about a year or a year and a half before it came out. It was an instant must-buy for me when it finally did release. They didn't manage to live up to the expectations set in the early press, though. Must have been a challenged development. They certainly didn't put much effort into most of the music. I used to get yelled at to turn down the TV when I had to grind in stages with those stupid 6-8 second looping tracks.
Im playing re 2 atm but i just suddenly thought about this game. God its been so long, i remember spending alot of hours in this game back then. So much fun :D
Me and my brother played this on an SNES Emulator in the early 2000's, nuts how many SNES gems we didn't know ever existed. Emulators have the bonus of save states and a fast forward feature, lots of these older games fluff playtime with some sort of grind or with cheap deaths. Glad to see I'm not the only one that ate the tutorial jellyfish thing.
Imagine what this could've done for headlines in the early 90s when people tried to crucify video games? I can just imagine it: An 8 year old cannibalizes his own family in an Ohio trailer park and relatives blame a violent new video game. This story, and more, on the news at 9.
@@NintendoComplete The only cannibalizing going on in Ohio was Jeffrey Dahmer at that time. As for crucifyng video games, Mortal Kombat 2 was taking all the slings and arrows.
This was such a lovely game, lovely sounds, imagination. It really did feel ahead of it's time. Everything you chose could effect your appearance, nearly un heard of for the age of how deep it could go or where you could end up as a being. To those who say videogames aren't art, let them rejoin the ranks of idiocy that takes away their own artistic licenses for their vision is truly shallow.
Oh, boy. This game is awesome! It's just sad, they didn't let we procede to Eden to see what happens next as the Partner of Gaia, when you have to create a civilization. Picture this; suddenly the game turns into a city simulator, where your mission is to use your God Powers to build a city from the ground and-... Uh-oh, wait... Sim City was already out at that point... forget it.
I used to play this game ALOT when I was little. So much so that I got 2 copies for B-Day and Christmas and was perfectly fine with it. Loved this game, wish it was playable on Steam or GOG or somewhere because I could still play it today.
The only part i hated about this game was the end, i got absolutely bamboozled by the door with a "?" sign like it was an "OKAY" ending. C'mon man i was expecting something better!
This game is amazing but ridiculously hard. The only way I managed to beat some of the bosses was by exploiting a little loophole - if you pause and evolve a feature your entire energy bar refills.
"'ey, Bob, you look like hell, what's up?" "Man, you wouldn't believe it, but some chublord of a dinosaur slow-walked into our headbuttin' grounds and just starts jumpin' on everyone! He wouldn't leave!"
WA.. WAIT!! YOU CAN SAVE IN THIS GAME!!!??? I THOUGHT YOU COULD ONLY RECORD THE EVOLUTION!? WHY NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE!! OMG I FEEL LIKE HOMER IN THAT MEME
You should play the english patched version a game called 46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~. The english patched version is called E.V.O Theory of Evolution. It's predecessor to this game.
Charizard is a flying, fire breathing lizard, yet not a dragon type (even if he should be) due to *balancing issues* back in gen one, making him a flying fiery lizard. Mega Charizard X however IS a dragon.
@@CyberSaurian Funny how the most dragon-looking Pokémon of them all is not a Dragon-type when the other Dragon-types look way less dragonish then Charizard does. :P Oh well, Mega Charizard X kinda rectifies that, I guess.
I remember playing this game and I evolved into a golden dragon flying through the air and then it evolved me into a human and I had so much trouble fighting the bosses I just gave up.
Fun fact, E.V.O. started as an overhead RPG released in Japan for the... PC-98? There's an entire article on it here: hg101.kontek.net/46okunen/46okunen.htm
