【E.V.O.: Search for Eden】Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest (First Level Only of Super Nintendo Games)

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Published on May 17, 2017 8:30:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-TK9vrS9fM

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E.V.O.: Search for Eden (1992)

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This is one of the best games on the SNES. It might even be the best one. It's like a simplistic Spore 10 years before it's time... what's there not to love?

E.V.O.: Search for Eden is basically an action-evolution game, and there are very few games holding that title, hahah. Especially on the SNES -- this was way before it's time.

Basically, you start off as a fishie of basic form. You kill some animals, eat their delicious flesh. and gain experience towards the creature you were destined to be. By spending your experience in different categories, such as Teeth, Fins, Tail, you can upgrade different parts of your little fish, such as Attack Power, Vertical Movement, Horizontal Movement (respectively).

After fighting your way through the ocean, you make it to land and start the platforming part of the challenge as a land-walker. You get the same type of evolutionary choices.

I love this game. I never owned it, but I wish I did. I think it's like 200 dollars now though, and probably for good reason. It's gotta be one of the most unique games ever made at this point in time. It's got great graphics, sound, gameplay, and (above all) concept. There's just nothing else like it, and I fully intend to play through this game at some point on the channel.


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E.V.O.: Search for Eden, originally released in Japan as 46 Okunen Monogatari ~Harukanaru Eden E~ (４６億年物語 はるかなるエデンへ?, "4.6 Billion Year Story: To Distant Eden"), is a side-scrolling action video game developed by Almanic Corporation and published by Enix for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Released in 1992 for Japanese audiences, the game was later translated and released in North America in 1993. Combining traditional platforming mechanics with experience and leveling mechanics originating from role playing games, E.V.O.: Search for Eden involves the player navigating a creature through a number of side-scrolling levels while undergoing bodily evolution to cope with ever-changing environments. The game is heavily based on Almanic's original title, 46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~, released exclusively in Japan for the PC-9801 home computer in 1990.

Spanning a period of over a billion years, the game's story involves Gaia, daughter of the sun and mystical embodiment of the Earth, guiding the player through five distinct geological periods of the planet's history. Beginning the game as a fish, the player must travel across the planet defeating enemies and gaining the strength to evolve into more powerful and complex organisms before eventually earning a chance to enter the paradise realm of Eden, becoming Gaia's immortal partner. Crystals with the ability to influence evolution are laden throughout the player's quest, with the mystery of their origin becoming a secondary factor to the main story.

E.V.O.: Search for Eden tells a mythical saga of life's evolution on Earth, with a subtext of a creation myth and polytheistic evolution. The player takes the role of one of many billions of lifeforms created by Gaia, the nurturing and benevolent daughter of Sol, the Sun. Among the creatures known as life, there is a competition to evolve, and the best lifeform will eventually be granted the privilege of entering the Garden of Eden and becoming the husband and partner of Gaia. As the game progresses, it soon becomes apparent some mysterious external force is interfering with evolution on Earth in a destructive manner. Strange crystals not native to Gaia appear across the planet, and creatures that eat the crystals are transformed into monstrously powerful beings that dominate all other lifeforms, overconsume resources and disrupt the flow of evolution. In each Age the player character is tasked with confronting the species transformed by the crystals and defeating them so that the evolution of life can continue as intended.


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Squiggy's SNES First Level Quest is a series where I attempt to beat the first level of every SNES game. Some will be chosen randomly, some chosen because I liked them when I was younger, and some chosen by viewer request. This isn't necessarily a review or first impression or anything - the only true goal is to first define "What is Level 1 in this game?" and then beat it.

You can find the series playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmx77jI3k0GERGUCJuvO5wM2ZNP5knNXE

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