Tera Kirk grew up in a small Nebraska town called Papillion. While Evoland 2's trip through video game memory lane made me feel like a kid again, the high points are outnumbered by the times I muttered "Ugh, one of these." Nostalgia can be great at times, but but most of this stuff is better left in the past. Its shoot-‘em-up portion is about as long as an actual shmup, and someone thought it was a good idea to combine a best-of-three-rounds fighting game with Square-Enix's penchant for multi-form bosses. Many times I was sure I had to be approaching the end, only to run smack into the same thing but worse.Īpart from replaying the kinds of puzzles that I never wanted to see again, Evoland 2 feels too long.
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During a trip through a mountain, I met with boingy mushrooms, disappearing blocks, more boingy mushrooms, and then disappearing blocks plus boingy mushrooms. The library isn't the only time a bunch of puzzles are thrown at the player in succession, it's just the most egregious example. If two comets are flying toward each other and they can only travel diagonally and without passing through any stars, what square will they meet in? Is this a video game or a math class? Thanks to systematically choosing every possible answer and sheer dumb luck I finished them all. At this point, a bunch of academics offered credits for solving problems that require spatial abilities I just don't have. The absolute worst, though, was when I had to solve six such puzzles in a row while Kuro and company were hunting down information about Magiliths in a secret library.
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Other ‘joys'? Footholds that appear and disappear, herding animals into exactly the right spots, and bouncy platforms in rooms full of Spikes of Insta-Death. Among its faithful renditions of puzzles from gaming's history are things I've always hated-bits like aiming mirrors to bounce light off them in a specific way, aka The Reason I Never Finished Tales of Symphonia. While seeing 3D with renewed eyes was great, not all the feelings Evoland conjures up are pleasant. Of course, this use of 3D is primitive by today's standards, yet Evoland 2 filled me with a wow-look-what-this-newfangled-3D-stuff-lets-me-do! joy that I haven't felt in years. It's the kind of puzzle that we saw a lot of in the Nintendo 64 era-just being able to move in three dimensions opened up previously-unrealized possibilities and engaged players' minds in new ways. With the camera placed overhead, players must walk over deadly spikes while wearing a suit of armor. I saw this quality most clearly in a dungeon early in the three-dimensional period.
These are standard RPG-involving-time-travel questions, but it's the answers that make the game unique because Evoland 2 is a video game about video games, and the developers bring that history into the present. How did this happen? And more importantly, how can they get home? They soon stumble into a magical rock formation called a Magilith that transports them to an 8-bit forest that looks just like theirs. When the game begins, our heroes Kuro and Fina are checking out the sudden influx of monsters in the 16-bit forest near their village. Unfortunately, that level of brilliance isn't often repeated. In its best moments, it understands not only the why of how its puzzles work, but the when-how certain things were only possible when 3D was the New Big Thing, for instance. In fact, it's something that I would've assumed was impossible-it made me feel like I was experiencing previous technical and intellectual video game innovations for the first time all over again. Shiro Games has done something really, really cool with Evoland 2.
LOW …including the stuff I've always hated.
HIGH Experiencing video game history for the first time.
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