While these levels are parodies or homage to the games of old, I couldn’t help but feel I’d rather be playing most of those games than the levels in Evoland 2. These levels work in your party’s abilities seamlessly, which is impressive since there are so many different genres. Other times, you’ll be playing levels based on many genres of old with tongue-in-cheek references to the games that popularized them including Cave shooters, Double Dragon, Puzzle Quest, and even Dance Dance Revolution. A majority of the game plays much like top-down Zelda games from the past meaning you’ll be hacking and slashing enemies and solving puzzles in dungeons. Once the dialogue ends is where the real fun begins. You won’t find anything too impressive, but there are at least a couple of twists to add a bit of flavor to a story we all know. The story of Evoland 2 is pretty par for the course as far as RPGs go: hero of time meets party members with their own conflicts, and travels through time collecting parts of an item to stop a terrible event from happening. For example, when climbing onto a boat, instead of just showing the main character get onto the boat, your party splits up and walks on one at a time. Between scenes, there are often transitions that almost feel tailor made to extend the playtime. A majority of my time was spent in conversations with characters that often seemed to drag on as they talked about nothing in particular or kept a joke going for far too long. The story took around 16 hours to complete and even then there were a few optional collectibles that I didn’t bother getting to 100% the game. Judging by our review of the original, it sounded like a fairly short and linear experience, which the sequel is anything but - for better and for worse. Serving as a spiritual sequel, Evoland 2 doesn’t require knowledge of the original game, which is a good thing for me as I’ve never played it. Rig: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2 GHz, 32GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980, Windows 10 64-bit, Intel 750 SSD Like colors of the rainbow, these genres shine brighter when standing on their own, but that doesn’t mean you should pass on Evoland 2, especially if you’re a classic RPG fan.Įvoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder (PC) Real-time RPG, turn-based RPG, tactical RPG, hack and slash, bullet hell, beat-’em-up, rhythm, side-scrolling shooter, fighter, puzzler, platformer, Metroidvania, and more: Evoland 2 takes basically every classic genre and combines it into one coherent package with the visual stylings of today and the past.
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