E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2018
- A playthrough of Enix's 1993 action-RPG for the Super Nintendo, E.V.O.: Search For Eden.
Way back in 1993 when Evo came out, I really wanted to play it. The magazine reviews were pretty positive, and it looked so different from all the other games out there. Alas, this was another one of those titles that I never even stumbled across in stores, and it was several years later before I got the chance to play it.
It is also the direct sequel to a Japanese-only PC game. You can find my playthrough of that one - in English - here: • E.V.O.: The Theory of ...
EVO, as the title would imply, is all about evolution. It's an action RPG that takes place across billions of years of Earth history, and it challenges you, a lowly fish, to travel the evolutionary trail with the goal of eventually becoming the dominant species. If you can do this, Gaia (the daughter of the sun, I think?) will accept you into Eden as an equal, and I bet you can guess what that means ;) If you can't hack it, get ready to become extinct.
It's mainly an action-platformer, but you can upgrade different body parts at will, and you will evolve into creations with more and more potential as you make your way through Earth's history. It's a super creative idea, and allows you to take quite a bit of ownership over how you play. The platforming is a bit clunky, but the overall appeal of getting to evolve helps ease that, and really - who would've thought Spore had been beaten to the punch by so many years?
If you like the offbeat and quirky stuff, this is an excellent choice - ludicrously expensive though it may be.
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Hey everyone, did you know that EVO is actually a sequel to a 1990 PC game? Check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/Ym9YkH8xciE/v-deo.html
I don't think this is a sequel, but rather an alternate retelling.
To me the pc-98 version was more interesting and had more going for it. This feels lesser.
This game is soooooooooo underated. What an actual masterpiece.
Yeah
lol
Too much farm
used to play it back in the day. tripped me out
The spiritual grandparent of Spore.
Who's the parent?
Seventh Cross, a weird game about evolution, but much more bizarre than E.V.O, check out on youtube, there is will be no point of return once you see it.
Angry Shark e Maneater tbm!
A companion to the PC game.
Yeeeeah
This has to be one of the most realistic games. It asks but one question: "Is it alive?"
"Yes."
"Eat it."
If it moves Eat it
@@richardsorgo8600 Chinese people be like
Have some more chicken, have some more pie
It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried
Just eat it, eat it, just eat it eat it
And if it is cold, reheat it
@@richardsorgo8600 Pizza the Hut moves. I would like to eat him.
"please be careful and use it wisely. if you use it improperly, you will have a much harder trial than the one you just experienced." Shit...
One fishes 800 million year journey to get a celestial waifu with parallax hair.
yeah you lost to a fish let that sink in
It's a long wait, but that parallax hair is damned stylish!
Valeu apena
What the kids look like
@@tyrant796 é.... só fica meio errado se vc n tiver como humano até o final do jogo... GAIA PRATICA ZOOFILIA
T-rex: "defeating you will be as easy as lifting a baby."
Me: *Staring at the T-rex arms trying to figure how he'll lift a baby*
With his teeth, of course!
The SNES sure hosted a lot of novel, unique games in its day, and this Enix gem has to be among the best of them. EVO took "taking control of your own destiny" to a whole new level.
E.V.O. here was one of my favourite games to pick up and play. So much wacky stuff you can do, and it's like an action-RPG that's heavier on the action elements without making the RPG stuff unimportant.
Ehh, it's alright. A little tedious in how much grinding you gotta do for Evolution points, and boy can it be hard!! Still, it's educational, at least! I would've freaking LOVED this game as a kid!!!
You really don't gotta grind much at all, especially if you search for or just get lucky to find the hidden secrets that let you level up easily. Other than at the very start, of course.@@therealseanw.stewart2071
I bet Creationists HATE this game...
I've been meaning to ask you this question. Do you think Square and Enix were better without merger? Square did make a lot of good games before merger.
That was savage that when you eat the squid that gived you tutorial...
I think that was a jellyfish.
But in the player's defense, it attacked first.
In the players defense, the jellyfish was in front of his mouth
@@hanzolos1852 Still savage af,eats anyone that helps him...and even attacked the baby...
@@BirikinPrimary well he did die for that one though...
Such savage
It cannot be overstated how awesome this mermaid attack sound effect is
Underrated comment.
Such a "specific" thing that I always agreed on in a subconscious level
....Not even a subconscious level. It's really that good ha ha!
What mermaid?
@@judahsoremy9857 2:24:06
I remember almost crying (if not crying) seeing the baby and the mom there in 1:34:32, man I played this game so many times
Ah yes the mermaid, the epitome of sea evolution, with her powerful jaws she can blow anything to shreds
Yup
I love how ruthlessly this game captures the true spirit of evolution: killing everything weaker than you for your benefit.
Apparently killing and eating a child is frowned upon even by the game, though XD
I didn't know that it actively punishes you for that.
@@capncrackfiendI think that's because most acts of violence in nature are born out of need, not actual malicious desire. A wolf hunting a baby deer or a shark hunting a baby seal are not monstrous evils, they literally NEED to do that just to live. Yes, some animals show sadism (cats and orcas), but even that is born from the choice-less instinct to hunt and practice.
In that scene with the baby amphibian, there is obviously no need to kill the child. A few moments before that, your creature has just defeated a Boss and eaten a good fill of meat, so trying to kill and eat the child amphibian right after that is just needless malice. I agree with Gaia punishing players for that, there is a clear difference between killing to satiate your hunger/practice your skills versus killing for the sake of it..
Heterotrophy: Eat or be eaten.
48:40 - 48:48
Evolving from a badass Amphibian to... that...
That fanfare makes it extra painful to watch.
@@juckey2730 lol
year 2000 in a nutshell
@@juckey2730 Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh _fart_ heu heu
1:34:26
This is a really underrated game. I wish I had finished it but I only got as far as the reptile stage.
pretty much the same as most people. The reason being that the game is pretty linear up to a certain point, at which it becomes much less clear where you are supposed to go or what you need to do.
@@MrLordDarlington really? I thought it was because the game is insanely hard! I beat it, but I had to become a save scummer. That momma yeti boss is seriously hard!
@@cosmocosmoton I couldn't beat the goddamn wasp.
I was stuck at chapter 1 as a 7 year old child 😂. It was fun to eat the jelly fish and eels. Playing it as we speak just beat yeti mother.
I received this game from my grandmother on my 10th birthday. I had not heard of the game until then, but it quickly became one of the all time classics on the SNES for me! The soundtrack (at least the remixed themes from The Shinka Ron) is awesome!
I love the music :) it was done by sugiyama koichi, the guy that has done all the DQ soundtracks
@@NintendoComplete I eventually discovered that a lot of the soundtrack are remixes from a much older game for the PC-98 called Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron. From what I gather, it has a very similar theme to E.V.O. which I believe was the second game in the series.
@@rcblazer Yeah, there's a full fan translation of the original PC98 version kicking around the internet. It's pretty neat - it actually uses a turn-based RPG combat system.
Oh, nice to see you here! ^^
Omg this game is savage in concep.
Decades ago it talks about assited evolution like mas effecf do decades after.
Increible travel and game amazing progammers at their time
10/10 inst enought.
MASTERPIECE
rest in peace baby tricerap :(
Way, way, WAY, ahead of its time, this game; I played it in highschool like 10 years after it came out and was impressed even then at its depth and player choice
I rented this game as a child several times. Its one of my earliest gaming memories.
One of the most underrated games of all time. Need I say more?
"the castle is comming apart!"
*castle literally explodes*
sure, "falling apart"
not shown in this game: immediately after the ending cutscene, the player eats both gaia and the sun and becomes a god
Hmm... maybe Asura's Wrath was actually a sequel to EVO, if that's the case.... lmao
One of my favorite snes games, this one, Rock and Roll racing, MK II, Goofy Troops and Super Mario World was great part of my childhood happiness.
I begged my parents to rent this game SO MANY TIMES! I spent so many hours playing this one. This shaped a whole lot of how I think about today's world from a logical perspective. Spore was the closest I ever found to this game and I'm wishing there were other Evolution/rpg themed games
I had a friend explain this game to me on a long walk back from school back in the day, it was really ahead of it's time.
I love how the game lets you get away with eating the tutorial squid but later on you try to eat an NPC and die of guilt XD Fantastic! The game should get a remake!
At which part does that happen (dying of guilt)?
@@steampunkastronaut7081 probably when eats the kid and then dies
I could never do this in any game. I felt incredible guilt
2:23:30 wow did not see the mermaid thing coming.
I have been really looking for this game for 10 years
Very underrated title for the SNES. The creativity that goes into building your character gives it a lot of replay value.
This game is awesome. Just played it randomly many years ago in an emulator, the name was curious for me and give it a try. Also underrated, because I never see someone recommend it.
This would make an awesome theatre musical
This game come to my mind today, i remember playing it years ago but never finished it, today i did it, and now it this video just slaped my face and said "look you missed like, all the secret special evolutions" lmao
This was one of my favorites back then and I forgot all about it until today when I smelled something in a store that rushed over me with nostalgia and brought me back to that time. That is why I am here watching this now
I was about 2hrs into this game before i knew you could actually evolve yourself and level up lol
I believe me and pretty much every foreign kid out there who couldn't read the text boxes did that, too.
i love how you are a lobe finned fish and evolve into a prehistoric amphibian called icthyostega
Wonderful to hear the music, this was a really nice looking game back in the day, was so fun to get the choice of adding horns etc. nice job!
I remember this game fondly. Way back before I can even form proper words. When I didn't eat my kiddy food, mom would let me play this for a bit and tell me to eat and grow like the fish. I'll eat everything.
I would love to see an expanded take on this game with a lot more options.
A remake would be pretty cool to see.
@@therealseanw.stewart2071 Spore
"seventh cross evolution" on dreamcast
@@5434345 Spore is joke compared to EVO in terms of gameplay. The closest it gets to it is in the cell stage.
RokuroCarisu it’s an entirely different game really. The only similarity they share is that they are based around evolution.
Earth-chan and Human-kun story in a nutshell
A love story across ages, for the ages.
I just want to say, i thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you.
This was my MFin game when I was a kid! Enix really had some hidden gems I loved this and especially Star Ocean II 😭
Beautiful piece of art
Im playing re 2 atm but i just suddenly thought about this game. God its been so long, i remember spending alot of hours in this game back then. So much fun :D
I remember playing this game. I evolved my character into a dragon.
Ahhh dragon was the best
I played this as a kid and loved it, not sure why not more people talk about this game
Always enjoyed this game. Picked it up for nothing when Blockbuster was moving their SNES stuff out. Glad I did.
"We are coelafish. It is very difficult for us to evolve or fight against other creatures. So, we stay as we are."
Sounds like a certain class of people I know.
@@edwardgaines6561 this type of people usually get consumed by those who evolved.
@@Shark1103 He actually never ate any of those fish. It was one of the only things he never ate.
For the longest (and I mean longest) time I kept thinking of an NES game I played as a child but could not remeber anything about it besides it taking place in a western town and a ball (orb) that would float up as you got close to it. I subscribed to your channel because I noticed you have TONS of NES games uploaded on it and thanks to you I now know the name of that game. Its Time Lord! The moment I got to the part in that video (where you walked up to the orb and it floated up) it instantly brought back memories and for that, I thank you for the video. All your videos tbh. Games I can no longer play unfortunatly, coming to your channel lets me re-live my childhood all over again!
That game is TImeLord
I'm glad you were able to find it again! :)
Just play the games with an emulator.
I used to draw these jellyfish all over the place, I loved this game so much as a kid!
I used to play this game ALOT when I was little. So much so that I got 2 copies for B-Day and Christmas and was perfectly fine with it. Loved this game, wish it was playable on Steam or GOG or somewhere because I could still play it today.
I remember seeing this game in a magazine about a year or a year and a half before it came out. It was an instant must-buy for me when it finally did release. They didn't manage to live up to the expectations set in the early press, though. Must have been a challenged development. They certainly didn't put much effort into most of the music. I used to get yelled at to turn down the TV when I had to grind in stages with those stupid 6-8 second looping tracks.
Just Incase you don’t remember her name
She is Gaia
I just started playing this for the first time and looking at your playthrough, I'm about to evolve to "flying". It took me a few hours, so you doing it in a little over 1 is insane! Lol. This game is so freaking cool! I plan to beat it when I wake up.
I enjoyed this game several times. So unique and interesting. It can get a bit grindy at times, but that's about my only criticism.
I want this game on the SNES arcade on switch. I’d be so happy to play this again
I remember this game, it's one of the best game I've played in that time. So nostalgic
Feel like I really missed out as a kid never even hearing of this till today.. at the prime age of 34 lol. Wot a great idea for a game
47:20 THAT FACE
That was a very interesting game to watch. Very unique, even by todays standards.
I love that you named your dragon Bruce Lee
This was such a lovely game, lovely sounds, imagination. It really did feel ahead of it's time. Everything you chose could effect your appearance, nearly un heard of for the age of how deep it could go or where you could end up as a being.
To those who say videogames aren't art, let them rejoin the ranks of idiocy that takes away their own artistic licenses for their vision is truly shallow.
Me and my brother played this on an SNES Emulator in the early 2000's, nuts how many SNES gems we didn't know ever existed. Emulators have the bonus of save states and a fast forward feature, lots of these older games fluff playtime with some sort of grind or with cheap deaths. Glad to see I'm not the only one that ate the tutorial jellyfish thing.
1:13:48 - I've played this game several times, and never heard of this easter egg until today. Nice!
This game is on my top ten favorite SNES games.
Man, played the hell out of this game back in 1995! Never could figure out how to become a human though, no UA-cam back then!
I used to have this game omfg I forgot the name and thanks to you I found out now. ima start playing it again.
This game is very great, and the story... is... meaningful. If my father plays this game, he will know his own miskates and finally understand me...
2:05:11 how elephants started to eat meat
I never played this, I only knew about this game thanks to videogame OST videos.
The main theme sounds super sweet, I love it, and the game has a lot of soul.
Just because you can eat someone doesn't mean you should. This game challenges that assumption.
Imagine what this could've done for headlines in the early 90s when people tried to crucify video games? I can just imagine it: An 8 year old cannibalizes his own family in an Ohio trailer park and relatives blame a violent new video game. This story, and more, on the news at 9.
Sometimes games back then were tough enough that you gotta go full Chara.
Except for the friendly Ichtyostega. The only thing in this game that deals damage in three digits is their meat!
@@RokuroCarisu Probably only because Tide Pods didn't exist yet when this came out.
@@NintendoComplete The only cannibalizing going on in Ohio was Jeffrey Dahmer at that time.
As for crucifyng video games, Mortal Kombat 2 was taking all the slings and arrows.
The only part i hated about this game was the end, i got absolutely bamboozled by the door with a "?" sign like it was an "OKAY" ending. C'mon man i was expecting something better!
This mean future in your hands.
Evolution never stops. It'll always continue, it cannot be stopped.
This game is absolutely amazing.
After a long time struggle, we still cannot see the Eden in the end...
This game is amazing but ridiculously hard. The only way I managed to beat some of the bosses was by exploiting a little loophole - if you pause and evolve a feature your entire energy bar refills.
Had this when I was a kid, came in a shoe box full of games at a yard sale. wish I would have held on to it.
Lol that Jellyfish near the end is probably the same one you ate in first level 😁
cool Playthrough. Game had several good and bad endings, though. Also never got to become human... always wondered how it was possible to do so...
Damn, you need the patience of Job to play this game!
I remember playing this game and I evolved into a golden dragon flying through the air and then it evolved me into a human and I had so much trouble fighting the bosses I just gave up.
You should play the english patched version a game called 46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~. The english patched version is called E.V.O Theory of Evolution. It's predecessor to this game.
It's also worth mentioning that it's an RPG.
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/Ym9YkH8xciE/v-deo.html
I really liked this game as a kid, i have been wanting to buy it for a really long time but it's really expensive and very hard to find since it never got released in Europe.
Oh, boy. This game is awesome! It's just sad, they didn't let we procede to Eden to see what happens next as the Partner of Gaia, when you have to create a civilization. Picture this; suddenly the game turns into a city simulator, where your mission is to use your God Powers to build a city from the ground and-... Uh-oh, wait... Sim City was already out at that point...
forget it.
Act raiser.
Utopia?
35:00 what happened to "Only the strong will survive" and "survival of the fittest"?
2:24:00 pfft
Gaia Cheated!!!
This game needs to come out for switch
The kiddies nowadays don't get the greatness of this game! Please Nintendo don't release it on switch..
@@hexereythey can maybe make an Evo 3 instead and release it on Switch.
This has to be the catchiest music score I have ever heard in a video game!
I loved this game
Watched Tehsnakerer's analysis on this game, highly recommend it!
This game was my childhood!
This makes me yearn for Enix to be its own entity again
This is a very dark game. And the annihilation of the dinosaurs is dark too
Thank you, this vid helped me to get unstuck a few times
I laughed so hadd when you named the elephant "Susan Boyle" lol
This is really cool!!
I never knew how to evolve into a man and this vid helped me. Thanks for that.
That explains why you were still watching video game videos
"'ey, Bob, you look like hell, what's up?"
"Man, you wouldn't believe it, but some chublord of a dinosaur slow-walked into our headbuttin' grounds and just starts jumpin' on everyone! He wouldn't leave!"
... Yoshi?
2:56 Ah, this song... 👌
EDIT: 1:16:33 AND THIS SONG!!! 😌👌👌👌
It's cute when Gaia blinks (in my opinion).
Yeah. I like it that she has eyes.
@@NintendoComplete me too.
I didnt even know you would end up as human in this game. I think i finished it as a wolf or something. Nice gameplay
Countless hours with this gem.
This whole song is a resurrection source
:)
Cool game...
I'ma watch the entire video...
This was one of my favorites on the snes next to Terranigma