Pros:
-Great mix of genres and different gameplay styles (depending on difficulty)
-Good Story
-The right amount of collecting for the extras if you want 100%

Con:
-Certain genres seem unfair at higher difficulties


Pros Explained:

This game is easily in my top 10 games of all time. Granted it can only be there because I've played most of the games that Evoland 2 references. The best games to compare the main theme / gameplay of this game is a Link to the Past or Oracle of Ages / Seasons. You solve puzzles by going through different eras in time while learning about the interesting story of the game world and how certain actions intertwine throughout the eras. One of the best parts about this game is that right as you are starting to feel like the gameplay is about to get repetitve, the game throws a curveball at you and has the area or boss fight in the style of a completely different genre. Evoland 2 will also have you actually laughing out loud at it's jokes and surprised by it's story. You'll most likely figure out each surprise before it comes up in the story but that didn't stop me from being surprised at the ending. Evoland 2 also has a fun, optional card game where you collect 61 cards throughout the game. The collecting never felt awful and the end game gives you a device to find all collectables.

Con Explained:

As you can tell from above that I love this game but there are some things that can get in the way of it being perfect. With throwing in different genres throughout the game, you are bound to hit one that you either don't like or one that is a lot harder then the gameplay you were just enjoying. Luckily, you can change the difficulty at anytime without penalty to your achievments so this isn't a deal breaker. I don't know the genre name, but in games where you have to move very fast in a side scroll without enough time to react to what is coming up, suck! A game that comes to mind is the lava level in Aladdin for the SNES. Like I said before, you can change the difficulty at anytime so if you start to feel stuck on a game type, change it down and then raise the difficulty once you are past that part.

All in all, Evoland 2 is a really fun game that I think anyone who likes multiple types of game genres, but mainly adventure, should buy when they get the chance. Here's hoping they make an Evoland 3 with even more genres and improvements on the genres that were already included.

PS. If you are like me and freak out that you missed something but are afraid that when you leave the area, you won't get the treasure, don't worry. All areas that have collectables are repeatable before the final boss.

Really enjoyed this fun lighthearted and very creative adventure. It keeps it interesting with a surprisingly wide variety of gameplay mechanics, colorful varied graphics, and an enjoyable story. It incorporates the time travel mechanic really nicely. My only issue came at the end when my computer went to ♥♥♥♥ and I lost my file at the final boss and I never saw the ending. Oh well. Maybe someday I will go back and see what I missed.
9/10

I hate this game. I don't ever want to play a single genre game again. $%^& you Evoland 2.

Jokes aside, this game is subjectively, almost perfect.

If I had to pick one thing that stands out to me as weak, it would be the character dialogue and the plot. The dialogue itself is actually not that bad, especially if you compare it to some of the JRPGs that inspired this game. For the size of the development team though, that's just nitpicking.

At the end of the day, Shiro made a fantastic GAME. It's rare nowadays that there is an actual game when a developer wants to tell everyone their story. It was a refreshing balance.

Other nitpickery
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This game could use a better title, in my opinion.
Fina's dialogue is, at times, exceedingly unnecessarily headache-inducingly melodramatic.
The silent protagonist, "...", dialogue was funny a grand total of one time.
That $%^&ing rooftop course.
I can't remember exactly which segment it was, but one particular music loop was only like 6 seconds long, and it almost made me turn the sound off completely. Throw in a chime or something here and there to at least pretend like it wasn't a 4kb soundbyte on repeat. I am glad that I didn't turn the music off though, because some of it is amazing. Irish Pirate Brawl, I'm looking at YOU.

This game is so awesome, i thought it was going to be like the first one, but this is 100x longer and better.

I can't put into words just how much I love this game, everything about it is wonderful the references, gameplay, and story all Merge into this amazing game. The only thing that was imperfect in this game was the ending that diddent really explain much and diddent feel like an end. But besides all that I adore this game and recommend it to anyone, worth the $20

WARNING LONG REVIEW!!!!! first paragrah will be basic opinion.
For starters I had this game on mind for sometime and heard that it wasn't related to the first one through storyline, and i have not played the first and was never lost with this story so I belive they are unrelated. I just started and stole from the people who saved me and was presented with a puzzle, and i enjoyed it.
I will admit however the game evolves hence the name into other games like final fantasy type combat to turnbase to bullet hell to Mortal combat! zelda bomberman as well as double dragon, gutar hero(sorry i can't spell well), Donkey kong, Bejewled and even an optional card game similar to herathstone. It overall brings back good times and is very fun and has diffculties Adventure for story , classic old school and hardcore I did an adventure play through and i loved the game Id say pobably a 96/100 as i will replay it in the future on hardcore.



Now for those who get this far it will go from area to area in detail without spoilers on story but i will talk about ups and downs for mechanics and what enjoyed overall.

Space time contimum if you viewed the screenshots the game chagres art style and you time travel to chage from snes to 3d and even 3d with curves and sense of actual 3 dimensions wher as staring at the screen you generally see 2 d but with the curvature you see another slope and side thus making it seen in 2d but being in 3d a little off topic but i felt should be said.

Zelda mode is the most common and love it, late game enemies dont matter really execot for xp and i guess diffculty would fix that.

puzzles there arent alot and some made me think up to an hour on one area with many but its optional to do them all and some are easier as you can "brute froce" or keep guessing through them.

Card game is weird as you have to fight people in order type situation as it makes progressing very easy if you can't beat someone in 3 trys stop and find a new person ann hunt for cards, late game you can just find everything with an item to get 100% so you can wait , and I will tell you one guy the hardest in my experience is the second to last to fight it took me well over 15 games to beat him and I had all other cards but his and the last one.

Mega man runnign , the screen will kill you, many people hate this from what I read and I passed first time for the run part I did it a few times and passed, but i did over level.

Bullet hell I did the story part fine but the optional was very hard that I actually had to use a healing potion and both the full and 1/2 ones.

bomber man isnt too much with it but it does have problems as there are some things you need to blow up that will1 hit you so that be wary.

Mortal comabt has the least game time and no replayability unless you start over, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Double dragon mode is pretty short but with an optional arena which was how I grinded but this is mid-late game bfore i found an area to die in acid kill rats and I repeated for some time and got really buffed, the arena is good for leveling and get to round 11 and you get a good card that is needed as it carryed me when I would exchange it for mana in card game.

gutar hero(still can't spell) was hard for me but i did this and it may help W and A with left hand and down arrow and left arrow with right This has a sort portion but has optional songs and Im bad but if you get a passing grade yellow you win so on adventure a little hard to fail.

Donkey Kong old version with ladders only for story but you can come back and farm xp as well I ony did it twice for the missing chests and I liked it.

Bejewled(also probably wrong but I can't spell) Sort and I dont think you can replay you can do it more then the required number but I belive thats it.

Final fantsy (probably wrong as well ) kinda boring but thats me I did breeze through it but i still think it was a low point for me ad in this area you get classic games to play which can be replayed but i dislike the area so I just dont do it.

Stratgy turn based combat This was fun, I did every mission and optionals and got an army , noone died until second to last misson but they come back so no great loss that and only the main people are good, I dont know if you get to the final and dont go down both paths if they can be replayed but I did them all so i can't tell you.

Items - healing potions have green 50% health and red all only used them twice bullet hell and one green on final boss and the bullet helll was the harder optional and i still felt it was harder as i did it before final again. You can get good ore for armour and I got all of it which was nice , stars are for an achievement and thats ok, cards can be inchests or winning games. some items seem useless potions as I said not much use on adventure but I did overlevel. Other items just seemed useless until I found where they belong, others have no use, the best items are the radar for chests and money multiplier which money is kinda useless best itmes are from ore and you can almost "haggle or say no to npc's to lower prices for the story".

Bugs- The sound may repeat and just make an annoying sound but fix itself longest less then a minute.

characters - very lovable and the jokes they say are very good where i didn't laugh but I cracked a good smile so I give them that.

Story- not bad actually I do wish this and that or this would be explaind and do need to play again to make sure people said this and that but It is one ogf the best and I did predict a plot point but it wasnt until one day in changing the oil of my car that I realized that I may be wrong and this is it so I was engrossed in it and loved it not the best but good.

Bosses are good some fell like bett enemies but some are proper bosses and the old trick of wait dodge and wait to figure out the mechanics works for this.

If you played Skyrim and know how easy the achievements are in that game (they just require you to put effort in and not get bored) Evoland 2 is like that get 30 stars and i went place to place in differnt times clearing times by checking each area until finding them all. Cards I enjoy the second hardest guy is still the hardest even when i have all the cards and this was my first perfect game and I must say well worth it, I got it on sale for under $10 I dont know exactly but I think $19 is a little high but I almost always get games on sale so Im not the best with that.

I would like to thakn you as you probably are bored out of your mind hearing my review but I like reading them and I hope you did too. Have a nice day! :)

No words. This game is great and it is worth the price. Although I had several technical issues, a simple restart of the game was what fixed it for me.

Pros:
-Great execution (gameplay + story meshes together well)
-Can run in many PCs
-Many Gameplay styles (primarily Legend of Zelda gameplay, but also include Megaman/Castlevania gameplay, a mix of DDR and Guitar Hero, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy, Touhou, etc.)
-Great story if you are into time travel (I personally love time travel games because it revisits a place with a new look and exploration)
-Music is catchy
-Awesome minigame (Game of cards is so addicting xD. I actually beat this old guy at Wind Valley [Future] with somewhat ♥♥♥♥♥♥ cards)

Cons:
-Sometimes the textures won't load. Might just be me though
-No option to change the resolution (I like it when it's not borderless windowed)
-Sometimes I wished there was an item that could escape dungeons and stuff
-Saving is a hassle. I wished there was saving system where you could potentially save to a different slot. It made me repeat some dungeons sometimes.

I think the game was plenty fun, for the 30-40 minutes I got to play. Very shortly after starting the game, I ended up stuck inside of a wall and the game auto saved right there. I'll need to restart, and risk getting stuck in another such situation, or just quit the game altogether.

I've read some of the discussion threads, and it turns out this game is riddled with bugs. I'm afraid to invest any more time into playing, so I'll see if I can get a refund. Hopefully they'll fix these in time, but for now, buyer beware.

I liked the puzzles and dialogue, but the combat system has about zero depth and many of the fights/battles are boring. It's similar to older Zelda titles combatwise. The graphics change as you travel through the games timeline is cool, but it wasn't enough to keep me interested in playing.

Its a really good game it took me hours to get almost all achivments