While I am wanting to avoid spoilers in general, the game in particular made an excellent use of foreshadowing in my opinion. Additionally, when sometimes the world has changed most, of the lines get tweaked to reflect the new reality, especially in the second half of the game where those changes are more common. The game uses the different time periods to its advantages as well to show different generations of how people have aged between those time frames. The main characters are well-realized generally speaking, and side characters tend to stand out with strong personalities that are quickly seen and memorable. That's not to say that it's built to be a comedy but a game that doesn't take itself too seriously all the time, having a little fun in those moments where the player can smile thinking of all the little shoutouts the game does.īeyond shoutouts and having fun, though, the game's writing, even with its own plot, is very smart and well-done. It has fun poking at itself, at real life, and all around. The game pokes fun at tropes and expectations in games, as you might expect with this type of one. While Evoland 2 utilizes a lot of the same Hero's Journey path you're used to seeing in games, it executes it incredibly well for the most part and utilizes what is there to the best of its abilities, while surrounding it with a lot of incredibly smart writing. Evoland, is quite simply in my opinion one of the smartest and wittiest written games I've seen in a long time. In general though, while the different periods are a key feature to the game, the standout thing for Evoland 2 is the writing. That's not to say the past and present weren't-it's just at times for me they tended to run more together with their art styles, though there are definite differences as well. The art style changes here are the main thing that harken to the technological focus of Evoland 1, but they do very well fitting the idea of how things worked, and the future 3D stuff in particular stood out as very well done and smooth. Evoland 1 spent a lot of its historical look focusing on things like technology as the eras went by and how that changed over time, which was both its strength and weakness at times.Įvoland 2 uses a set of 3 main time periods-the past 50 years ago, the present, and 50 years in the future-each of which have their own art style and events going on.
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That small prototype did well enough to become the full Evoland 1 and was appreciated by many, though it had its flaws. In the original Evoland Classic made for Luudrum Dare, it took a look at what you could call I guess the adventure-rpg area dominated for so long by The Legend of Zelda.
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The industry, especially the large players and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), haven't been much of a help there, especially with the ESA's attempt to destroy anything like proper museums or emulation of past generations.Įvoland as a series began to explore that area. While a new medium, there are relatively few game historians who track those things-you can see some of them with like Matt Barton's excellent work or the CRPG Book Project, but for the most part gaming history tends to be ignored in many ways.
However, generally these games are all about exploring their own ideas, where the history of gaming has been something always a bit endangered.
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