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It's in colour, I have a full range of motion, and I'm a bloody yellow square! Early home video games weren't really known for their detailed graphics, especially the ones that had to display the hero as a Pong ball sprite.Īn overworld huh? Didn't really see that coming (not before a proper Zeldary dungeon anyway). At least I'm pretty sure it's the first game in the adventure genre. I mean here's the first action-adventure game ever made, which came out in 1979 on one of the first home games machines you could recognise as being a console: the Atari 2600. Even Computer Space, the first commerical game ever, gave players the run of the screen and four whole buttons to play with, and the earliest of early home Pong machines displayed more than a strip of screen to look at. I suppose it could be trying to illustrate how early console games in general were monochrome, with a limited range of motion, but. The history of action RPGs begins with a monochrome Final Fantasy hero who can only walk right? Say what? Are we starting with the 'broken Game Boy' era or something? It definitely looks like they've put an LCD screen filter on it. I mean I'm not getting my hopes too high, I had to give the game administrator privileges before it'd even recognise my controller, but c'mon this could be cool. That might not sound so encouraging, but Evoland Classic managed to beat 1400 other games in the end to take first place, so I'm taking it as a good sign. The Evoland I'm playing is actually based on a browser game of the same name created for the 24th Ludum Dare contest in just 30 hours. New players will discover a bit of video game history and a very fun gameplay, and veterans will also enjoy a host of references to legendary titles scattered along the game."It's an action RPG about the history of action RPGs, though judging by that bright pixelly title screen and the '1986-2013' copyright, I'm guessing it's going to be leaning towards the Japanese console RPG side of the genre.
The story of action adventure gaming as seen in the Zelda or Final Fantasy series, starting with the early age of action RPGs, when a few pixels were enough to make us dream for hours. I've been curious about this one for a while, as the premise is pretty much genius. Today on Super Adventures I'm taking a look at indie RPG Evoland!