★★★★★ Stellar RPG, Crappy Controls
Wed Jan 02 2019 SkyskapeOne of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. For me, this game is among the greats: Chrono Trigger, Legend of Zelda, etc. The Evoland 2 offers great storytelling and constantly switches up the format so you’re never bored. Beyond your standard RPG platforms (of essentially every variety) Evoland 2 has Final Fight, Street Fighter, Guitar Hero, and Bejeweled-style games, plus the ever present card battle mini-game. I’m the kind of player that usually needs a walkthrough to get through tougher parts of RPGs, but this one is pretty easy in terms of figuring out what the next step in the storyline is and solving puzzles. I was thoroughly entertained and sad when I beat it. The only drawback is the frustrating controls. You can’t turn around suddenly and attack, for example. And unless you hit the screen exactly where the “buttons” are, nothing happens; which really drives you crazy if you have big thumbs like me. If the developers fixed that problem, I don’t see how the game could get any better.
★★★★★ Fun RPG/adventure ruined by terrible required side-games.
Tue Jul 10 2018 SorrySnobThis Zelda/Chrono Trigger-style game is fun and cute until you reach areas that are impassible without going into new style of gameplay. The Alpha Mountain platform-gameplay level is far too long and frustratingly difficult with the iPhone controls. Then, if you beat that and were hoping to get back to the RPG style-game you are out of luck! That is followed up by an unavoidable, jittery, boring bullet-hell style flying game that is also made nearly unplayable by buggy, bad controls. (The flying thing constantly jumps to the top of the screen!) This section goes on about 3 times longer than it needed to. Then you are forced into a bad street fighter clone that’s also twice as long as it should be, shallow, and frustratingly difficult only because of the controls. All this twee, jokey gaming variation feels like conceited arrogance on the part of the developers that they couldn’t let this be all be shorter and more spaced out, or even optional. (“Hey check out my flying game! Now you need to play my fighting game! I can also do platformers! Is there anything we can’t do!?”) Maybe this game is worth the sale price, if you have patience or a separate controller. The RPG side is fun though, with some very clever levels and funny jokes. Overall, be warned. Frustrating game play from half-baked bad design is so much worse than something that is n intentionally well designed challenge.
★★★★★ Controls need work
Mon Apr 16 2018 seasjayIf i had left this review before the 3D era this would have been a solid 5 stars. But after reaching Alpha mountain, I am so frustrated I am going to put this game aside.
This game has you travel through time. Each jump in time changes the graphics style of the game. You play 8-bit graphics, 16-bit and 3D graphics.
The game has an interesting storyline and has been enjoyable to play. A lot of similarities to Zelda. The controls have been fine for the tasks that you are required to do. But in Alpha Mountain that all changed. you need to jump from bouncing mushroom to mushroom and if you do not land on the next mushroom you die. A touch screen does not work well for this, I have spent 60 minutes of jump jump jump die, start over again. You need to jump really high and over multiple obstacles.
I do not mind tasks like this that take some skill to complete, but when the reason for failure is not skill, but the poor responsiveness of the controls, it turns a fun game into pure frustration. These types of issues completely ruin a game. Yesterday I was looking forward to playing this game and seeing how the story ends. Today I have given up in frustration and am looking for a new game to play.
★★★★★ Huge disappointment
Mon May 13 2024 XveganroXThe first Evoland was fun and fresh, and felt like there was always something neat around the corner. This one sort of cut all the stuff that made the first one good and replaced it with a generic little old-school Zelda-style action game with only minor references to the past mechanics (like the opening scene). I was hoping to get some of the same gimmicky fun of the first one, but this one seems to have gone in a completely different direction. I’ve only played it for a couple of hours, to be fair, but in that time aside from the opening the “evo” gimmick popped up once, in a not very noticeable way. I spent the last 40 minutes pixel-hunting for the final 6th item I’m supposed to be finding in a forest where everything looks the same. The level design in this area is terrible. The combat controls are also quite bad, although the combat is mostly sort of a secondary thing and is never very difficult (even if you’re getting hit a lot because the controls are bad). Maybe it was designed to work with a gamepad, idk. Anyway, I wouldn’t recommend it based on what I’ve played, especially when the original Evoland exists and is much cheaper and more fun.
★★★★★ Poor control and one level really kills flow
Wed Mar 27 2019 skeptical tigerI like the premise of the game and the different mediums it runs through but have a big issue with the controls.
I am at the point where I am in 3D land and need to hop over mushrooms. Sadly the developers didn’t consider why we don’t have instant kill platform levels anymore or at the very least ones without decent controls. If they gave you d pad to control the side scrolling parts like they do in other parts of the game it’d be fine, but the issue is there is run and super run speed with a hair of space in between rendering accurate platforming nes levels of difficult.
Also, as well intended as the references are in the game it starts to get a little old when it feels like something you’d see in kingdom hearts. Sadly, a lot of these references won’t hold up with time and it can really kill the atmosphere of the game for pushing the 4th wall a bit too much. It almost comes off as a terrible meme and your second party member acting as the straight man is one of the few redeeming values so far.
★★★★★ Annoying Glitch that needs to be Fixed
Mon Jun 11 2018 HypnoVikeOverall the game is pretty great. Combat is similar to Zelda, characters are funny and quirky, and the music sounds great. However, it all starts to fall apart when the 16 bit era is unlocked. There is an annoying graphical error that occurs when moving up/down that causes black horizontal lines to appear and flash as you are moving. If you are moving left to right then white vertical lines appear, but they did not give me a headache the same way moving up/down the screen did. During this section there were a few annoying missions like moving the mammoths correctly or the sewer mission, but the graphical error does not appear to occur when the game transitions into 3D. I truly hope the Devs see this and fix this issue as it occurs for the first 1-3 hours of the game and it nearly made me uninstall it. The controls aren’t perfect either, but they were not awful to me anyway and certainly not as awful as the black line glitch. Once the issue is fixed I would be more than happy to change my score based on the incredible production value of this game and how it experiments with different genres of games.
★★★★★ Amazing game but has its glitches
Sat Jun 16 2018 BlueassassianSo far I’m 10 hours into the game (aiming for the 100% completion), the graphics are nostalgic paired with the music. With great inside jokes and references to other games an amazing lore and also a secret lore for those who can decipher the rest. Amazing story compared to the last Evoland. However they’re are glitched for one in alpha mountain when I go 2D I’m not able to jump or that the jump button disappear. Next thing is during the campaign on demon island for some odd reason the game glitches to where I can’t make move my character thus soft-locking the game, and the only way to do this is restart the fight but the same glitch happens over again and again (really hope this could be fixed with a bug patch), another thing is sometimes the game also crashes not sure why though. Over all this is an amazing game and it’s worth the price however there’re are some bugs. Hopefully the devs fix this when the next patch comes out.
★★★★★ Saving Issue
Mon Apr 08 2019 HunterB4I was at the point where you enter the mine to find Reno and Plum conversing. I went through the whole mine and got to the boss fight with Plum. After dying multiple times, I quit the app only to find out that when I went back in, none of my progress had saved. This happened again after going through the mine and this time defeating Plum. My progress was lost. I had then continued to play for hours, getting very far and found that if I didn’t close the app upon locking my phone, the game would be alright. After getting two of the five Magi keys, the game crashed and when I opened it back up I was back in the mine. Everything that I had done was gone. I am very angry and want to continue the game but do not want to lose my progress. This game is very good and I love it a lot but if I can’t get anywhere without having to do it all over again, I don’t want to keep wasting my time. Please fix this! I want to beat this game and get all the cards and stars so bad, but sadly I can not. Please fix.
