Huge disappointment
The 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.
