The grinding isn't as bad as people claim it to be. It only takes about 5-6 hours to beat the game and it offers a good challenge imo. But still after playing it 4 times, and trying out nearly every combo, you're literally done with this game.
the "E.V.O" in the title stands for evolution
crappy butt
Not great, extremely grindy even when you’re like me and you play on an emulator and with higher exp cheat codes cause you don’t give a dang. But the dinosaurs going extinct! It messed me up. Seeing the dead bodies of the triceratops and his child huddled together after the meteor falls, when only a few moments before you rescued that child and reunited them, and then seeing their ghosts later on, are the kinds of things I hope to see and feel when I play games
Fast forward is a must have and it'd honestly be a lot more fun with a couple of difficulty-altering cheats.
The clunky controls and contact damage make me want to scream after a while.
The clunky controls and contact damage make me want to scream after a while.
Joguinho difícil do caralho, mas o conceito é muito bom pra época.
Um dos jogos mais únicos e interessantes do super nintendo, o jogo é sobre evolução, você começa controlando um simples peixe que vai se alimentando de outros animais para ganhar pontos, com esses pontos você pode comprar upgrades para seu personagem, dentes mais fortes, nadadeiras melhores e o seu personagem vai evoluindo com o tempo e ao decorrer do jogo você vai evoluir para outros animais como mamíferos, repteis e até mesmo dinossauros.
O controle dos personagens são bem simples e as vezes chega ser irritante.
A trilha sonora é maravilhosa e o jogo consegue contar uma historia bem cativante e interessante, eu realmente recomendo esse jogo para todos que quiserem dá uma olhada.
O controle dos personagens são bem simples e as vezes chega ser irritante.
A trilha sonora é maravilhosa e o jogo consegue contar uma historia bem cativante e interessante, eu realmente recomendo esse jogo para todos que quiserem dá uma olhada.
I'm willing to give this a smidge more leeway from the occasional bad hit detection, strange difficulty spikes (albeit it's a SNES game so kinda comes with the territory), and the grinding of it all because goddamn, what a premise.
VERY flawed but also very charming
What a nice idea 💡 for an old game... Wonderful 👍
how accurate is this
I have a lot to say about this game. I should mention beforehand that I played on emulator, using fast-forward for grinding and using action replay to beat the Yeti Mother, Yeti Son, and Bolbox.
I'm a paleo nerd and always have been. Spore is my all-time favorite game. So when I found this obscure gem, I immediately got it and went in blind. Though the evolution and portrayals of some species are inaccurate, it's easy to ignore (it's a game from 1992 focused on fun so I don't think it's anything to care about). Seeing non-dinosaur extinct species like ammonites, trilobites, and even some very obscure picks like cladoselache sharks, was incredibly neat.
I think the worst problem with this game is that there's no form of invincibility frames, but you do get stunned. This makes it very easy to get pinned down and demolished when it comes to the boss fights with no chance of escape, most of which are incredibly cheesy. This also goes for enemies. Strategy for the bosses usually goes out the window once you find a way to lock them down and keep them in the stun animation. An interesting trick I wish I learned sooner was to stock up on evo points to do small evolutions like neck extentions to regain your health during these boss segments. Birds make a lot of the bosses broken.
The best parts of the game, in my opinion, are the Chapter 1: Age of Fishes (Devonian) and Chapter 4: Early Man (Pleistocene). The first stage is good at showing you the ropes of the game and has great music, and the last stage is all-around incredibly solid.
Overall, it's a very creative game and incredibly underrated, but it's not for everyone. I got very frustrated with it at times, and I probably would've quit if it weren't for the evolution aspects and the other design aspects. If you can put up with the frustrations I listed, I definitely recommend it.
I'm a paleo nerd and always have been. Spore is my all-time favorite game. So when I found this obscure gem, I immediately got it and went in blind. Though the evolution and portrayals of some species are inaccurate, it's easy to ignore (it's a game from 1992 focused on fun so I don't think it's anything to care about). Seeing non-dinosaur extinct species like ammonites, trilobites, and even some very obscure picks like cladoselache sharks, was incredibly neat.
I think the worst problem with this game is that there's no form of invincibility frames, but you do get stunned. This makes it very easy to get pinned down and demolished when it comes to the boss fights with no chance of escape, most of which are incredibly cheesy. This also goes for enemies. Strategy for the bosses usually goes out the window once you find a way to lock them down and keep them in the stun animation. An interesting trick I wish I learned sooner was to stock up on evo points to do small evolutions like neck extentions to regain your health during these boss segments. Birds make a lot of the bosses broken.
The best parts of the game, in my opinion, are the Chapter 1: Age of Fishes (Devonian) and Chapter 4: Early Man (Pleistocene). The first stage is good at showing you the ropes of the game and has great music, and the last stage is all-around incredibly solid.
Overall, it's a very creative game and incredibly underrated, but it's not for everyone. I got very frustrated with it at times, and I probably would've quit if it weren't for the evolution aspects and the other design aspects. If you can put up with the frustrations I listed, I definitely recommend it.
This game is awesome. Now I want to play it again (and then play Spore)
Joguei no emulador há um tempo atrás, é muito bom. A mecânica de evolução é muito legal.
The gimmick behind this game is kind of stupid, but the game is a lot of fun even if certain areas of the game spike pretty crazy on their difficulty.