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eriph's E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES)
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| [February 10, 2007 03:36:13 AM]
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Ohhhhh yeah. I beat EVO tonight. I wasn't exactly expecting or intending to, but I just kinda rushed the last two chapters and there it was.
First time you evolve into a mammal, you're a totally useless rat. But eventually I turned my guy into a crazy multi-horned rhino beastly thing. At least mammal evolutions were fun because you got different animal-like parts ("dog-like jaw," "moose horns," "rabbit-like body"). The cat jaw made your character's face supercute. It cracked me up when it was on a really tough body.
I sort of missed being an avian creature though, because flying was fun. Every time I got a green crystal (which lets you turns into a previously obtained evolution for a limited amount of time), I always chose the dragon form because it rocked hard.
I gotta admit, I've been playing this game emulator-style. And I'm a total obsessive save whore, so I'm doing save states CONSTANTLY. Especially during boss battles. Because seriously, some of these boss battles are difficult/annoying/frustrating as all get-out. I can't imagine actually playing this game on the SNES and having to restart levels and boss battles over all the time. I would cry. Even when you're as evolved as you possibly can be, a boss can still hit you once and it'll take away 1/3 of your HP. I'm pretty sure I would have given up on this game a long time ago if I had to play it without cheat-saving.
Not just the thing about bosses, either. Some enemies, you'll run into them and they'll hit you like 5 times in a row before you can even get a chance to bite at them. Really, really frustrating.
I really loved the mermaid evolution. It was cute (her bite motion looked like she was giving kisses, and she even made a kind of "chu!" sound), powerful, and super fast. I'm sad you only got to have it for one level.
I knew there was the option of evolving into a human, and I tried it for a little while. You kinda expected the human to be the best evolution. But eh. Man wasn't really where it was at. I liked my hornedrhinolongneckasus better.
Final boss was WEIRD. It took place in this weird tissue-y cell-y cave and was against a giant amoeba that was like, "I'M GONNA BE GAIA'S BOYFRIEND." Very surreal. I always find it interesting when games pull out something super crazy and bizarre at the end. I mean, this game was a little weird to begin with, but this was icing.
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| [February 9, 2007 10:14:00 PM]
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Man, this game is weird. For those of you that don't know, EVO is a game of evolution. You start out as a crappy fish, you eat other crappy fish to gain Evolution Points, and then you can evolve/upgrade parts of your crappy fish (body, tail, jaws, etc.) and become a not-so-crappy fish. There are different chapters (The Age of Fish, Age of Amphibians, Age of Dinosaurs, Age of Mammals, and Age of Eden) which correspond to stages of evolution and determine what kind of creature your little evolving guy will be for that time period.
I started playing this game completely randomly a few years ago. It's one of those on-and-off type games. I'd get stuck at a point, forget about it for a while, then start playing it again a few months or a year later. Tonight was one of those times.
I last left off at Chapter 3, Age of the Dinosaurs, apparently. But it was somewhere near the beginning, so my dinosaur still sucked. One issue I have with this game is that it can be SO repetitive and time consuming/boring at times. Just like leveling up your party in an RPG, you have so spend excessive amounts of time eating other animals in EVO just to get enough EP to give your little guy decent body parts.
Which I did. I spent a good amount of time making sure my dino had really powerful jaws. And then a few levels later I went and turned into a bird, which meant all of my sweet dino evolutions disappeared. Boo. Eventually I evolved my bird like crazy, and went to the last area and oh no, asteroids! It's time for the Ice Age.
The asteroids falling to Earth to kill the dinosaurs scene was a little...weird, for being part of a Super Nintendo game. It was kind of depressing and a little disturbing and even seemed a bit violent for the time. I dunno, it was more emotional than I would have expected from a game like this. Which I like. I like it when games get me to feel something.
So, onto the Ice Age. Apparently I'll get to evolve into a mammal here. I hope it's something sweet.
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eriph's E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES)
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Current Status: Finished playing
GameLog started on: Friday 9 February, 2007
GameLog closed on: Saturday 10 February, 2007 |
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