on the SNES. What I am amazed by is how just... overlooked it seems to be. Of course if you own a copy you know that it is not overlooked by those who wish for you to pay them for it. In fact...A complete*version of the game is selling for $199.99 on the bays of E at the moment. Such a fickle gathering of bays. The cheapest copy is running for 59.
The E.V.O. of the title goes a long way to suggest what the game is about, the Search for Eden addition is not simply to let the game get by in this anti-evolution reality we live in. The game has you starting off as a fish who must devour other fish to gain evo points with which you....evolve parts of your body. Oh no! there goes the head of people who claim evolution is a no go.
Despite them, I find the customization of your little animal to be interesting. You move from the ocean to the life of an amphibian, then to something decidedly more land-based, then air-based, pretty much moving through an odd mis-matched evolutionary ladder. All the while you can choose what of your animal you will customize and what of it you will not. Each customization comes with pluses and minuses, which is something completely addictive to me in games. Soul Calibur hits this the best with me, and the armor and weapon pluses and minuses are similar to giving your fishie rock jaws or a sword fish horn.Having played through E.V.O. I can see how a copy of the game would rightfully cost you over $50. the game is an odd gem in the SNES world, and something I've decided is incredibly rare. Once I lived and breathed the SNES gospel, but looking back there are very, very few games that stand up to the test of time. E.V.O. is just a delightful oddity that I think could be successfully adapted for...oh wait. Spore. Sigh...
In other news: Gamestop employees get miffed when some girl knows more about their potential August 17th inventory than they do. Or: The new POKEMON DS is coming here. I am pretty excited since it will be a while before I can make my happy way to the Pokemon Center in New York or Japan. What I am annoyed with here is that I wanted this DS to launch here first. This is the ultra not so flash Pikachu Edition, and over in the shined out bottom right-hand corner there is a little etching of the current re-styled slim pikachu. I don't know why Pikachu had to be slimmed down, but that does not make me want this any less. Some day I might own this glowing object of excellence, but I am fore sure going to get another of the Pokemon Center DS lites, the one Japan thinks American kids would eat up.
I guess we do tend to export Japan's monsters frequently, or at least those capable of destroying the world or existence. This is the DS coming to your local unfriendly Gamestop this weekend (hopefully), and one you will see in my hot little hands. I like the black DS for how sleek it appears compared to the white or pink, and now that is supports two awesome monsters it is just that much more awesome. What makes this DS particularly cool to own is not that spiffy graphic, but the Pokemon Dungeon short that comes in the bundle, the carrying case, and the rumored Gamestop t-shirt. Christmas has come early to pokemon nerds who know they should focus on buying text books over a shiny bit of plastic. In my defense, this is an awesome shiny bit of plastic!
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