Thread 718979107

E.V.O. Search for Eden is one of the most underrated SNES games ever made. Very cool premise, cute story, great graphics, fun gameplay, some hard as fuck bosses, and a stellar OST. Plus the entire game is you trying to meet and mate with Mother Earth to populate the planet with your children.

is that a SUPER NINTENDO GAME?

>eyes bulge out
>cartoon sound effects

>>718979107 (OP)
>you are in eden now
north africa dried up tho

>>718979107 (OP)
unc ahh graphics

>>718979552
That happened long after you and Gaia populated the planet and headed to a better place to watch over your offspring.

>>718979107 (OP)
The grinding sucked and one wrong evolutionary choice can make progressing almost impossible. Which actually makes it like real evolution but I had to put the game down.

You should check out the PC98 prequel which is even more insane.

>>718979107 (OP)
I've played the game and the gameplay itself is fucking garbage. The concept is really cool, but the actual combat and level design is usually dogshit.

>>718979776
>wrong
?
If you added a horn for 200xp, you refilled your entire HP.

>>718979776
>>718979836
skill issue

>>718980054
>almost close to death
>evolve cheap body part
>full health
>repeat as needed

I was immortal.

I was hoping the mermaid secret form would have been attractive. It has so much goddamned hair all you can see is her face, one arm, and her tail flukes.

>>718979107 (OP)
There were only a few good OSTs, honestly.
https://youtu.be/8pLtFwW4pMs
Also, is the original version on PC worth playing?

>>718980661
Really? You decided to post that one and not this one for awesome game music?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYm083Zb8jw

>>718979107 (OP)
E.V.O. mentioned: https://youtu.be/M5fIGlzDGpY?si=HUF2aeyr3eLURzk3

Fantastic game. Always wanted a sequel with a lot more evolution options. Too bad Square threw all of enix's IPs straight into the trash after the merger.

Conceptually fantastic. Gameplay is tedious and repetitive as FUCK though.

>>718980661
>>718980781
sugiyama was a racist

>>718980781
Why does old school SNES/Genesis music sound so much better than today's music?

>>718979107 (OP)
i like the game, but it's really poorly balanced

>>718981103
Oh, I dunno; if you're very skilled, you don't need much. If you're talentless, you could use a lot and still die.

>>718980781
I liked and remember the Ocean theme more, but I did imply the game had more than one good track.
https://youtu.be/ysuQCbx8_6w

>>718980661
>the original version on PC
Note, PC-98 is not the same as a western PC.
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/NEC_PC-9800_series

>nobody has posed the best track
You're all mindless Segnosaurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8DnQ5pK-tI&list=RDO8DnQ5pK-tI&start_radio=1

>>718979107 (OP)
the scene where all the dinosaurs fuckin die is absolute kino

>>718981172
no, most bosses are just really fucking hard

>>718980945
Don't forget that he hated trannies too. Dude was an absolute legend

>>718979107 (OP)
EVO is good and fun

>>718982260
I still can't decide which boss is the worst, Cro-Maine or Mother Yeti.

>>718982634
Mother Yeti is pretty easy if you use the hell out of the kick

>>718982678
Which makes her really boring, because you have to wait for her to do her ice breath attack then move back into range of the kick. And if you decided to go human before you reach her, you're fucked.

>>718979820
The one Square owned property i wish would get a remake. I love stupid sexy space Lucifer.

Game needed more iframes to protect from bosses catching you in a death loop of damage animations but stilll a solid 9/10. Favorite music was ocean of origin and the boss music.

>>718979107 (OP)
I love EVO Search for Eden but have you tried its predecessor, EVO Theory of Evolution?
Search for Eden's got a nice story and all but Theory has you pitched into a 4.6 billion year battle against Lucifer, (seen here literally orgasming as the Chicxulub Impactor kills the dinosaurs)
Search has you endeavoring to be Gaia's partner, Theory has you evolve from fish to the God Emperor of Mankind

This reminds me that there's some Japanese 90s Orchestras and has some of the Evo music. I think it was super nintendo focused? Name? I forget.

>>718983082
I loved all the bad end scenarios, including the one that is basically just our current real world doomed to an eternity of pointless consumerism lifestyle and never achieving enlightenment as a species.

>>718982850
>>718983082
>That one scene where she hatches from the moon
Games desperately need to go back to follow the rule of cool
>Also that dragon musician evolution that hurts others with an offkey Dragon Quest music

the original game is such an insane schizo ride I understand why it was never translated

>>718984326
being on the PC98, which saw limited distribution outside of Japan, probably didn't help

>>718984326
So is there a way to play it or do you need to screen cap the game with AI translation?

>>718984503
there is a fan translation

>>718984503
it's been fully translated
prepatched hdd image here:
https://46okumen.com/projects/e-v-o-the-theory-of-evolution/

>>718979107 (OP)
I wish we got another game like EVO. But gaming has changed.

>>718979107 (OP)
Yeah, I loved that game as a kid. I ended up playing the fan translated PC98 game a few years ago and that one is fucking wild in comparison.

>>718983082
for me it is gaia

>>718981031
Game development was still nerdy/fringe enough to only attract passionate autists instead of the "I'm just doing my job" types (aka women)

Would you have taken the crystals too if you were given the chance?

>>718979107 (OP)
>A good retro thread in /v/ of all places
Why is /vr/ so shit

>>718979107 (OP)
>E.V.O.

Here for these posts: >>718983082 >>718983809 >>718984326 >>718984058

EVO Theory of Evolution in such an insufferably fucking cool and interesting game: all the interesting little failed states, the fact Gaia literally told you to evolve a creature to defeat Lucifer, it's all very Devilman. I mentally categorize it within two categories: that early period where people thought the pc was a good platform for more intellectual, smarty, sci-fi, and adult content, and that early experimental period where Japan devs hadn't quite figured out what "video games" were supposed to be, so they were just doing whatever.

EVO Theory of Evolution, Terranigma, Shin Megami Tensai (to some extent), and Linda Cubed, all occupy way more space in my head than is needed, purely on looks and premise.

>>718985836
Americans are asleep so the twitter eceleb politics threads aren't sliding it off page 10

>>718979107 (OP)
>Plus the entire game is you trying to meet and mate with Mother Earth to populate the planet with your children.
?
The premise is that you're the OTHER homo sapien who managed to get the monoliths that the first game's protagonist reaches near the end. If anything, you're there to fuck him.

I played this game on zsnes back when I first discovered emulation but I had no idea what was going on. I think I evolved wrong at the end because my final form was some gray alpaca looking thing instead of anything decent but I won anyway. Maybe I should try it again.

>>718983082
>that scene where she's sitting on that dino's corpse with her fat fucking thighs crossed
If only she had a pantyshot, I don't think Life's dino dick could have held back.

>>718986301
>The premise is that you're the OTHER homo sapien who managed to get the monoliths that the first game's protagonist reaches near the end. If anything, you're there to fuck him.
no? Search explicitly has you seeking to be Gaia's partner. It'd be cool as shit if you were Eve on her journey to meet Adam at Eden but that's just not what it's about

>>718979107 (OP)
evo enjoyers is this true?
https://youtu.be/1zI9B01UUEc?feature=shared&t=1142
is this really the goal of the SNES game?

>>718979107 (OP)
I wouldn't call it underrated, but it is a fun game
Would have been an absolute blast to play at the time
Right now though, your time is better spent on the many other better games

>>718986840
>>718986301
never mind, I may have been wrong
while the ending implies that you're Gaia's metaphorical fuckboy, the intro could very well cast you as the fish who became Eve

>>718981664
>recording that form and turning back into it later

>>718980661
Overall the soundtrack is very good except for this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iNOfIy284A&list=PLfF_Ww_riDems4C_h-UTuS9-y2FHJBCJi&index=26

The game should end with you wiping out all life on the planet, because the real goal of evolution is to produce something strong enough to kill everything else.

How does she already have a human form, if shes waiting for you to evolve into it?

>>718990267
the entire story is her grooming a lifeform to be her husband

I remember finding some loophole where I could cycle through two mutations for full HP, horns and jaws maybe idk

*causes the events that lead to you having to go to work*

>You're the reason the now wingless big birds cry at the sky
Their ancestors deserved it...I guess.

>>718983082
>evolve into a goblin
My sides will never recover.

spore if made by competent devs
good game

one of the only games i emulated that i actually finished
bee boss is hard

>>718980661
i didn't notice this was Enix. it really sounds like a dragon warrior monsters track

>>718994573
Why did he do it /v/ros?

>>718997658
gaia pussy too strong

>>718997735
based

>>718979107 (OP)
clap
>-70hp
clap
>-70hp
Kino game despite its many flaws

>>718994573
just jump back into the water bro

>>718981031
It wasn't composed as a movie score.

>>718989795
evolution isnt a thing that has a goal. its a word to describe a natural process

>>718979107 (OP)
you'd think some indiefag would at least attemp to try make awesome games just like the popular/hidden gems of the past generations like EVO. But that rarely happens.
Werent indie developers supposed to be the "future" or something?

>>718985836
Every board is bad at talking about what it's actually made for.

>Final battle is between two cheaters at the gate of Eden
Really makes you think.

>>719001618
All's fair in evolution.

>>718979107 (OP)
ah yes, the totally not smt game

>>718985158
one of my three wishes would be for green hair to be natural like 15% of the population (of girls, guys with green hair are gay)

>>719001992
do not want another cat, but if life brings me a munchkin i'll do it

>>718999967
there is a recent indie game just like evo I played the demo on steam fest and it was fun, name is strange seed

>>718998256
Life is a game. Win it or die.