E.V.O.: Search for Eden (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@NintendoComplete]

Hey everyone, did you know that EVO is actually a sequel to a 1990 PC game? Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j56cip5-bd2Wn6c

[@jonghyun2263]

I don't think this is a sequel, but rather an alternate retelling.

[@Chaos7887]

To me the pc-98 version was more interesting and had more going for it. This feels lesser.

[@tehbigmadbarbarian]

@@Chaos7887 I never played the original, but when I was a child I definitely played EVO search for eden and it was my favorite game. It could be lesser, but the experience was not :]

[@angelmatesmolan]

This game is soooooooooo underated. What an actual masterpiece.

[@ゴンタ-u7i]

Yeah

[@bannor216]

lol

[@dornjv4545]

Too much farm

[@elimin-8]

used to play it back in the day. tripped me out

[@LordOfNothingreally]

This has to be one of the most realistic games. It asks but one question: "Is it alive?" "Yes." "Eat it."

[@richardsorgo8600]

If it moves Eat it

[@juanpaxdl]

@@richardsorgo8600 Chinese people be like

[@Dinoslay]

Have some more chicken, have some more pie It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried Just eat it, eat it, just eat it eat it

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

And if it is cold, reheat it

[@NintendoComplete]

@@richardsorgo8600 Pizza the Hut moves. I would like to eat him.

[@NintendoComplete]

The SNES sure hosted a lot of novel, unique games in its day, and this Enix gem has to be among the best of them. EVO took "taking control of your own destiny" to a whole new level.

[@KainYusanagi]

E.V.O. here was one of my favourite games to pick up and play. So much wacky stuff you can do, and it's like an action-RPG that's heavier on the action elements without making the RPG stuff unimportant.

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

Ehh, it's alright. A little tedious in how much grinding you gotta do for Evolution points, and boy can it be hard!! Still, it's educational, at least! I would've freaking LOVED this game as a kid!!!

[@KainYusanagi]

You really don't gotta grind much at all, especially if you search for or just get lucky to find the hidden secrets that let you level up easily. Other than at the very start, of course.@@therealseanw.stewart2071

[@TrueSolunar]

I bet Creationists HATE this game...

[@gohan12991]

I've been meaning to ask you this question. Do you think Square and Enix were better without merger? Square did make a lot of good games before merger.

[@koujimoreno]

"please be careful and use it wisely. if you use it improperly, you will have a much harder trial than the one you just experienced." Shit...

[@MoiraiScarlet]

T-rex: "defeating you will be as easy as lifting a baby." Me: *Staring at the T-rex arms trying to figure how he'll lift a baby*

[@NintendoComplete]

With his teeth, of course!

[@EHARPER256]

One fishes 800 million year journey to get a celestial waifu with parallax hair.

[@solinvictus4367]

yeah you lost to a fish let that sink in

[@NintendoComplete]

It's a long wait, but that parallax hair is damned stylish!

[@tyrant796]

Valeu apena

[@vulpes9842]

What the kids look like

[@mgcoficialchannel5976]

@@tyrant796 é.... só fica meio errado se vc n tiver como humano até o final do jogo... GAIA PRATICA ZOOFILIA

[@Nukem9999]

The spiritual grandparent of Spore.

[@PaulodeMelo]

Who's the parent?

[@rohgadriscol]

Seventh Cross, a weird game about evolution, but much more bizarre than E.V.O, check out on youtube, there is will be no point of return once you see it.

Angry Shark e Maneater tbm!

[@dalekxic5690]

A companion to the PC game.

[@Heiseiiii]

Yeeeeah

[@SolidusGabriel]

This is a really underrated game. I wish I had finished it but I only got as far as the reptile stage.

[@MrLordDarlington]

pretty much the same as most people. The reason being that the game is pretty linear up to a certain point, at which it becomes much less clear where you are supposed to go or what you need to do.

[@cosmocosmoton]

@@MrLordDarlington really? I thought it was because the game is insanely hard! I beat it, but I had to become a save scummer. That momma yeti boss is seriously hard!

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

@@cosmocosmoton I couldn't beat the goddamn wasp.

[@ktownc936]

I was stuck at chapter 1 as a 7 year old child 😂. It was fun to eat the jelly fish and eels. Playing it as we speak just beat yeti mother.

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

It cannot be overstated how awesome this mermaid attack sound effect is

[@redband788]

Underrated comment.

[@yourknightmanny]

Such a "specific" thing that I always agreed on in a subconscious level

[@yourknightmanny]

....Not even a subconscious level. It's really that good ha ha!

[@judahsoremy9857]

What mermaid?

[@sylvielopez228]

@@judahsoremy9857 2:24:06

[@BirikinPrimary]

That was savage that when you eat the squid that gived you tutorial...

[@RenGraes]

I think that was a jellyfish. But in the player's defense, it attacked first.

[@hanzolos1852]

In the players defense, the jellyfish was in front of his mouth

[@BirikinPrimary]

@@hanzolos1852 Still savage af,eats anyone that helps him...and even attacked the baby...

[@brianhakins4692]

@@BirikinPrimary well he did die for that one though...

[@CyberSaurian]

Such savage

[@Dyrakro]

48:40 - 48:48 Evolving from a badass Amphibian to... that...

[@Hatzmaeba]

That fanfare makes it extra painful to watch.

[@hexerey]

@@Hatzmaeba lol

[@proplayer682]

year 2000 in a nutshell

[@rich1051414]

@@Hatzmaeba Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh _fart_ heu heu

[@corvotrevoso]

1:34:26

[@nyx5232]

I remember almost crying (if not crying) seeing the baby and the mom there in 1:34:32, man I played this game so many times

[@cheetoortiz2361]

The part where the dinosaurs were getting bombarded by asteroids was hard to watch too when i was a kiddo. 😢 1:30:15

[@RealTDragon]

2:23:30 wow did not see the mermaid thing coming.

[@HeavyArmsJin]

Ah yes the mermaid, the epitome of sea evolution, with her powerful jaws she can blow anything to shreds

[@haseo8244]

Yup

[@rcblazer]

I received this game from my grandmother on my 10th birthday. I had not heard of the game until then, but it quickly became one of the all time classics on the SNES for me! The soundtrack (at least the remixed themes from The Shinka Ron) is awesome!

[@NintendoComplete]

I love the music :) it was done by sugiyama koichi, the guy that has done all the DQ soundtracks

[@rcblazer]

@@NintendoComplete I eventually discovered that a lot of the soundtrack are remixes from a much older game for the PC-98 called Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron. From what I gather, it has a very similar theme to E.V.O. which I believe was the second game in the series.

[@NintendoComplete]

@@rcblazer Yeah, there's a full fan translation of the original PC98 version kicking around the internet. It's pretty neat - it actually uses a turn-based RPG combat system.

[@KeyleeTamirian]

Oh, nice to see you here! ^^

[@mothtolias]

not shown in this game: immediately after the ending cutscene, the player eats both gaia and the sun and becomes a god

[@NintendoComplete]

Hmm... maybe Asura's Wrath was actually a sequel to EVO, if that's the case.... lmao

[@Rokabur]

I would love to see an expanded take on this game with a lot more options.

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

A remake would be pretty cool to see.

[@5434345]

@@therealseanw.stewart2071 Spore

[@DJBaffler]

"seventh cross evolution" on dreamcast

[@RokuroCarisu]

@@5434345 Spore is joke compared to EVO in terms of gameplay. The closest it gets to it is in the cell stage.

[@ethankepple3672]

RokuroCarisu it’s an entirely different game really. The only similarity they share is that they are based around evolution.

[@joshuawhinery208]

Way, way, WAY, ahead of its time, this game; I played it in highschool like 10 years after it came out and was impressed even then at its depth and player choice

[@mattbell1381]

I love how ruthlessly this game captures the true spirit of evolution: killing everything weaker than you for your benefit.

[@capncrackfiend]

Apparently killing and eating a child is frowned upon even by the game, though XD I didn't know that it actively punishes you for that.

[@mrreyes5004]

@@capncrackfiendI think that's because most acts of violence in nature are born out of need, not actual malicious desire. A wolf hunting a baby deer or a shark hunting a baby seal are not monstrous evils, they literally NEED to do that just to live. Yes, some animals show sadism (cats and orcas), but even that is born from the choice-less instinct to hunt and practice. In that scene with the baby amphibian, there is obviously no need to kill the child. A few moments before that, your creature has just defeated a Boss and eaten a good fill of meat, so trying to kill and eat the child amphibian right after that is just needless malice. I agree with Gaia punishing players for that, there is a clear difference between killing to satiate your hunger/practice your skills versus killing for the sake of it..

[@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy]

Heterotrophy: Eat or be eaten.

[@KING_STRONGTH]

This is basically a Charles Darwin RPG

[@thatgaymerguyb5275]

I rented this game as a child several times. Its one of my earliest gaming memories.

[@tackogronday]

I begged my parents to rent this game SO MANY TIMES! I spent so many hours playing this one. This shaped a whole lot of how I think about today's world from a logical perspective. Spore was the closest I ever found to this game and I'm wishing there were other Evolution/rpg themed games

[@eyitsmattyyy616]

One of the most underrated games of all time. Need I say more?

[@justinlaboy6837]

I was about 2hrs into this game before i knew you could actually evolve yourself and level up lol

[@danielbueno8474]

I believe me and pretty much every foreign kid out there who couldn't read the text boxes did that, too.

[@luislizano7025]

This game is awesome. Just played it randomly many years ago in an emulator, the name was curious for me and give it a try. Also underrated, because I never see someone recommend it.

[@chronologizer422]

This would make an awesome theatre musical

[@YuubiTimberwolf]

I love how the game lets you get away with eating the tutorial squid but later on you try to eat an NPC and die of guilt XD Fantastic! The game should get a remake!

[@steampunkastronaut7081]

At which part does that happen (dying of guilt)?

[@bobwinyuma6891]

@@steampunkastronaut7081 probably when eats the kid and then dies

[@MichaelHarto]

I could never do this in any game. I felt incredible guilt

[@MElekiaZ]

Omg this game is savage in concep. Decades ago it talks about assited evolution like mas effecf do decades after. Increible travel and game amazing progammers at their time 10/10 inst enought. MASTERPIECE rest in peace baby tricerap :(

[@Fontana22]

"the castle is comming apart!" *castle literally explodes* sure, "falling apart"

[@jambrador]

One of my favorite snes games, this one, Rock and Roll racing, MK II, Goofy Troops and Super Mario World was great part of my childhood happiness.

[@mcasias33]

I had a friend explain this game to me on a long walk back from school back in the day, it was really ahead of it's time.

[@Ragesauce]

I like how you saved the baby dino and then tried to eat it.

[@RageyRage82]

This is actually one of my favorite SNES games. I played it so much as a teenager, renting it so many times. I still play every now and then.

[@SamuelCappola]

Earth-chan and Human-kun story in a nutshell

[@chronologizer422]

A love story across ages, for the ages.

[@spierdaczka]

I have been really looking for this game for 10 years

[@Shark1103]

"We are coelafish. It is very difficult for us to evolve or fight against other creatures. So, we stay as we are."

[@edwardgaines6561]

Sounds like a certain class of people I know.

[@Shark1103]

@@edwardgaines6561 this type of people usually get consumed by those who evolved.

[@WandererTheLost]

@@Shark1103 He actually never ate any of those fish. It was one of the only things he never ate.

[@eldacar351]

Very underrated title for the SNES. The creativity that goes into building your character gives it a lot of replay value.

[@metroidomega80]

For the longest (and I mean longest) time I kept thinking of an NES game I played as a child but could not remeber anything about it besides it taking place in a western town and a ball (orb) that would float up as you got close to it. I subscribed to your channel because I noticed you have TONS of NES games uploaded on it and thanks to you I now know the name of that game. Its Time Lord! The moment I got to the part in that video (where you walked up to the orb and it floated up) it instantly brought back memories and for that, I thank you for the video. All your videos tbh. Games I can no longer play unfortunatly, coming to your channel lets me re-live my childhood all over again!

[@sparkster7744]

That game is TImeLord

[@NintendoComplete]

I'm glad you were able to find it again! :)

[@magic1wizard]

Just play the games with an emulator.

[@TheDiplomatAflame]

This game come to my mind today, i remember playing it years ago but never finished it, today i did it, and now it this video just slaped my face and said "look you missed like, all the secret special evolutions" lmao

[@GrimmHades]

This was one of my favorites back then and I forgot all about it until today when I smelled something in a store that rushed over me with nostalgia and brought me back to that time. That is why I am here watching this now

[@lootasisew]

I used to draw these jellyfish all over the place, I loved this game so much as a kid!

[@PedroJaimeCostaPereira]

Beautiful piece of art

[@Kingsoupturbo]

Wonderful to hear the music, this was a really nice looking game back in the day, was so fun to get the choice of adding horns etc. nice job!

[@tristanwilliams4180]

i love how you are a lobe finned fish and evolve into a prehistoric amphibian called icthyostega

[@SilverSkyline92]

I played this as a kid and loved it, not sure why not more people talk about this game

[@MichaelHarto]

I just want to say, i thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Thank you.

[@jarnMod]

I remember this game fondly. Way back before I can even form proper words. When I didn't eat my kiddy food, mom would let me play this for a bit and tell me to eat and grow like the fish. I'll eat everything.

[@Dorelaxen]

Always enjoyed this game. Picked it up for nothing when Blockbuster was moving their SNES stuff out. Glad I did.

[@rickool07]

Im playing re 2 atm but i just suddenly thought about this game. God its been so long, i remember spending alot of hours in this game back then. So much fun :D

[@philiptucker7590]

This was my MFin game when I was a kid! Enix really had some hidden gems I loved this and especially Star Ocean II 😭

[@P.Whitestrake]

I remember playing this game. I evolved my character into a dragon.

[@kittentalons]

Ahhh dragon was the best

[@yuhanzhang2882]

2:05:11 how elephants started to eat meat

[@sarysa]

1:13:48 - I've played this game several times, and never heard of this easter egg until today. Nice!

[@TheAlexMei]

I love that you named your dragon Bruce Lee

[@Bangcat]

This was such a lovely game, lovely sounds, imagination. It really did feel ahead of it's time. Everything you chose could effect your appearance, nearly un heard of for the age of how deep it could go or where you could end up as a being. To those who say videogames aren't art, let them rejoin the ranks of idiocy that takes away their own artistic licenses for their vision is truly shallow.

[@boodro2122]

I just started playing this for the first time and looking at your playthrough, I'm about to evolve to "flying". It took me a few hours, so you doing it in a little over 1 is insane! Lol. This game is so freaking cool! I plan to beat it when I wake up.

[@redfeildre349]

This game is on my top ten favorite SNES games.

[@beardywally]

Feel like I really missed out as a kid never even hearing of this till today.. at the prime age of 34 lol. Wot a great idea for a game

[@ExaltedDuck]

I remember seeing this game in a magazine about a year or a year and a half before it came out. It was an instant must-buy for me when it finally did release. They didn't manage to live up to the expectations set in the early press, though. Must have been a challenged development. They certainly didn't put much effort into most of the music. I used to get yelled at to turn down the TV when I had to grind in stages with those stupid 6-8 second looping tracks.

[@FerSave1]

The only part i hated about this game was the end, i got absolutely bamboozled by the door with a "?" sign like it was an "OKAY" ending. C'mon man i was expecting something better!

[@alexkatc59]

This mean future in your hands.

[@Mr_Wahee]

Evolution never stops. It'll always continue, it cannot be stopped.

[@Lasershadow]

I used to play this game ALOT when I was little. So much so that I got 2 copies for B-Day and Christmas and was perfectly fine with it. Loved this game, wish it was playable on Steam or GOG or somewhere because I could still play it today.

[@markulous08]

I enjoyed this game several times. So unique and interesting. It can get a bit grindy at times, but that's about my only criticism.

[@TheFoodieCutie]

I remember playing this game and I evolved into a golden dragon flying through the air and then it evolved me into a human and I had so much trouble fighting the bosses I just gave up.

[@tb87670]

Me and my brother played this on an SNES Emulator in the early 2000's, nuts how many SNES gems we didn't know ever existed. Emulators have the bonus of save states and a fast forward feature, lots of these older games fluff playtime with some sort of grind or with cheap deaths. Glad to see I'm not the only one that ate the tutorial jellyfish thing.

[@almcroof2146]

After a long time struggle, we still cannot see the Eden in the end...

[@dianagung6303]

I remember this game, it's one of the best game I've played in that time. So nostalgic

[@dat0ne821]

Just Incase you don’t remember her name She is Gaia

[@carlitosm2819]

Man, played the hell out of this game back in 1995! Never could figure out how to become a human though, no KZbin back then!

[@akostoth9389]

This game is very great, and the story... is... meaningful. If my father plays this game, he will know his own miskates and finally understand me...

[@luisruiz8248]

I laughed so hadd when you named the elephant "Susan Boyle" lol

[@Leto85]

That was a very interesting game to watch. Very unique, even by todays standards.

[@DerivativeWorker]

Just because you can eat someone doesn't mean you should. This game challenges that assumption.

[@NintendoComplete]

Imagine what this could've done for headlines in the early 90s when people tried to crucify video games? I can just imagine it: An 8 year old cannibalizes his own family in an Ohio trailer park and relatives blame a violent new video game. This story, and more, on the news at 9.

[@KnownAsKenji]

Sometimes games back then were tough enough that you gotta go full Chara.

[@RokuroCarisu]

Except for the friendly Ichtyostega. The only thing in this game that deals damage in three digits is their meat!

[@NintendoComplete]

@@RokuroCarisu Probably only because Tide Pods didn't exist yet when this came out.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@NintendoComplete The only cannibalizing going on in Ohio was Jeffrey Dahmer at that time. As for crucifyng video games, Mortal Kombat 2 was taking all the slings and arrows.

[@kevdogyt08ti]

This game is absolutely amazing.

[@l.a.i2571]

Oh, boy. This game is awesome! It's just sad, they didn't let we procede to Eden to see what happens next as the Partner of Gaia, when you have to create a civilization. Picture this; suddenly the game turns into a city simulator, where your mission is to use your God Powers to build a city from the ground and-... Uh-oh, wait... Sim City was already out at that point... forget it.

[@pablodaniel-retrogamer716]

Act raiser.

[@NintendoComplete]

Utopia?

[@mrshootinputin7251]

You should play the english patched version a game called 46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~. The english patched version is called E.V.O Theory of Evolution. It's predecessor to this game.

[@RokuroCarisu]

It's also worth mentioning that it's an RPG.

[@NintendoComplete]

Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/j56cip5-bd2Wn6c

[@anabaker9810]

I wish they added this game to the switch’s virtual console

[@timroehm1728]

Same

[@rigobertovillalobos3614]

This whole song is a resurrection source :)

[@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906]

Part 3 49:38 Part 4 1:32:09 Part 5 2:07:00 Final Boss 2:39:25 Credit 2:50:00

[@Wolfinmind]

cool Playthrough. Game had several good and bad endings, though. Also never got to become human... always wondered how it was possible to do so...

[@mygamestodayllc]

Lol that Jellyfish near the end is probably the same one you ate in first level 😁

[@JoanSlugXAkaJerkyBogard]

43:08 King-bee: here comes another amphibian. You have evolved strangely. Me: ¿strangely? ¡¡¡THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE CHARIZARD!!!

[@JoanSlugXAkaJerkyBogard]

Also he is not a dragon and still manages to kill king-bee, so he decides to be a gargoyle.

[@CyberSaurian]

Charizard isn't a dragon.

[@MrDibara]

@@CyberSaurian *Bullshit.* XD No, seriously, what IS Charizard? A glorified salamander?

[@CyberSaurian]

Charizard is a flying, fire breathing lizard, yet not a dragon type (even if he should be) due to *balancing issues* back in gen one, making him a flying fiery lizard. Mega Charizard X however IS a dragon.

[@MrDibara]

@@CyberSaurian Funny how the most dragon-looking Pokémon of them all is not a Dragon-type when the other Dragon-types look way less dragonish then Charizard does. :P Oh well, Mega Charizard X kinda rectifies that, I guess.

[@ninepillarsofsalt]

35:00 what happened to "Only the strong will survive" and "survival of the fittest"? 2:24:00 pfft

[@vpls6237]

Gaia Cheated!!!

[@MeowKitKatKitty]

I used to have this game omfg I forgot the name and thanks to you I found out now. ima start playing it again.

[@Rofl-Knife]

Had this when I was a kid, came in a shoe box full of games at a yard sale. wish I would have held on to it.

[@kongyiu]

Each time you'll get a new body, your are back to a lowlife of your kind. Even if you are a badass monster before the evolution. Haha

[@kongyiu]

Love the way you called the elephant Suzan Boyle!

[@volnutt1609]

Countless hours with this gem.

[@h3llg3ar]

I never knew how to evolve into a man and this vid helped me. Thanks for that.

[@sikkableeat5614]

That explains why you were still watching video game videos

[@Zarggg]

47:20 THAT FACE

[@PKaye-ru2ks]

This game is amazing but ridiculously hard. The only way I managed to beat some of the bosses was by exploiting a little loophole - if you pause and evolve a feature your entire energy bar refills.

[@dathorndike4908]

This has to be the catchiest music score I have ever heard in a video game!

[@mrnobody2683]

This makes me yearn for Enix to be its own entity again

[@edwardgaines6561]

Damn, you need the patience of Job to play this game!

[@ThatOneAgarAgarioThePro]

Can we still paly it today cile!

[@danielbueno8474]

2:56 Ah, this song... 👌 EDIT: 1:16:33 AND THIS SONG!!! 😌👌👌👌

[@jesstaylor5593]

This game needs to come out for switch

[@hexerey]

The kiddies nowadays don't get the greatness of this game! Please Nintendo don't release it on switch..

[@soggypotatochip]

​@@hexereythey can maybe make an Evo 3 instead and release it on Switch.

[@Khaizan]

I never played this, I only knew about this game thanks to videogame OST videos. The main theme sounds super sweet, I love it, and the game has a lot of soul.

[@matthewroyer1561]

This is a very dark game. And the annihilation of the dinosaurs is dark too

[@MHArcadia]

"'ey, Bob, you look like hell, what's up?" "Man, you wouldn't believe it, but some chublord of a dinosaur slow-walked into our headbuttin' grounds and just starts jumpin' on everyone! He wouldn't leave!"

[@cannon9009]

... Yoshi?

[@tutulio9095]

This game made me cry so many times, it's all about life and feelings and the lack of answers xD

[@kurtdewittphoto]

50:02 - This music can literally drive you insane. It's best to mute it once you get to this stage.

[@chocobolows9830]

Cool game... I'ma watch the entire video...