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Secret of Evermore
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| Part No: | B00002SVYB |
| Manufacturer: | Square Enix |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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| | This is a game I was introduced to back in 1996, after it came out, at a friend's house. It is put together a lot like Secret of Mana, graphics and all. It has the same item ring design, and the characters are similar. The music, like Mana's, is one thing I remember the most about this game; I find it to be haunting, though I can't put it on equal footing with Secret of Mana. For one thing it is a single-player game. You can't play it with a friend, and the story is not quite as deep. It's actually predictable. You can assume from the beginning the boy is going to go home. All in all, though, it is still one of my all-time favorite games from this period in my life. |
| Difficult, yet fun | 2009-07-02 | 4 / 5 |
| | Ok, well I recently bought this game after playing it probably over ten years ago. I started off playing it, and it was pretty cool. It wasn't that hard to find out where you were supposed to go, and it was cool leveling up weapons, and gaining more experience. However, the charm and coolness started to wear off for me, after you have to start travelling far distances in the game to make progress. Each time you die, you have to return to your last save point, which could leave you redoing scenes that you already got through. Also, it kind of gets annoying to have to keep killing enemies which regenerate every time you leave the screen!!! Anyway, I find myself relying on walkthroughs just to make progress on the game. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are great, the soundtrack is great, and there are some really cool aspects to the gameplay like buying and selling items, and casting spells. I just wish the character could move faster (the walk is slow, and the run isn't that much faster.) All in all, it's a cool game, kind of brings me back to when I first played it. |
| It's ok I guess... | 2009-06-06 | 3 / 5 |
| | I know. You are probably thinking a sequel to Secret of Mana. Well.... This game doesn't hold a candle to the Secret of Mana. Don't get me wrong it doesn't suck that bad. It just really isn't that great of a game. |
| This game is probably my all time favorite game! | 2009-05-01 | 5 / 5 |
| | I'll try not to reveal too much so I'll keep this as short and sweet, yet as informative as I can. Rarely will a game come along that you can relate to so closely. Your everyday normal guy gets blasted into a land called Evermore. Evermore is constantly changing and if you watch this you will get what's going on. With all the twists and turns and probably one of the most believable games you will play. Evermore really feels like you are in the game. Aside from that this game was made by Squaresoft of America and so if you haven't played this pick it up! |
| Wonderful. I wish I could buy the soundtrack. | 2008-12-12 | 5 / 5 |
| This is the type of game to play on a rainy Saturday afternoon, when you're in the mood to quietly sneak off into another dimension and heroically save the world there all by yourself.
Or, at least, with your super-powerful dog.
Secret of Evermore takes you into one of these secret dimensions. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm a musician and serious music-lover, but for some reason the music in this game seemed to have an incredibly powerful effect, and actually set most of the atmosphere. The low occurrence of dialogue compared to most other adventure games too, as well as the fact that you only control one human character and a dog that only barks occasionally, actually made this feel like a completely private, very introspective game. The story was unique and interesting, taking you through the best possible settings they could have provided for each time period (i.e., a pyramid next to an archaeological camp, a castle enclosed by a peasant town and a lush forest, etc.); but you could also play this game just to relax. One of the great features is the ability to collect alchemy ingredients for magic spells, which can be sniffed out by your canine companion and then collected with the press of a button. You wouldn't believe how oddly therapeutic it is to do this for hours on end, while listening to laid-back, eerie, deep, or mysteriously distant-sounding instrumental themes that match your surroundings. The battles are also particularly fun, partly because they are not done on a different screen, but also due to the elastic, sometimes goofy animations of your characters. There is plenty of comedy and sarcasm in the dialogue too; I loved, for example, being told by a palace guard not to play in the crater created by my defeat of one of the bosses. Two of the forms taken by the dog are also amusing.
I won't reveal much of the plot, since it isn't particularly complicated or long, but all in all this game is great, though you can get sucked into it if you're not careful. The quiet, haunting intro theme is enough to leave you feeling as though you too, like your character, might possibly get sucked into an alternate dimension.
Unfortunately, the soundtrack is no longer commercially available for purchase. |
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