Evoland

kidcynic's Evoland (PC) review

Lots of nostalgia but not much substance

Evoland is an RPG that's absolutely packed with nostalgia for lovers of the series. Having said the game doesn't offer anything more for the player within it's 2 hour long storyline.

The game starts out with the graphics looking akin to the Gameboy-esque green LCD screen and it quickly evolves and migrates to 8bit, to 16bit and eventually 3d graphics and the soundtrack evolves in the same manner. While there are a lot of references for players of the genre to latch onto (eg your character is literally called "Clink") from other games such as Zelda, Diablo, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest (amongst others) the storyline is flat, cliche, and otherwise a snorefest.

If you have some time up your sleeve, then why not but then again I could think of a million other things that would be more interesting including counting grains of sand on a beach.

The only upside was that the game could be played with a control pad.IMO wait for it to go on sale on Steam, and even then I would be wary.

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