• Evoland Legendary Edition
  

  32 hours playtime

  45 of 65 achievements

i started playing evoland when i wanted something i could play from the couch with a controller, and it drew me in enough that i ended up playing a lot of it at my desk too. legendary edition contains both evoland and evoland 2, and i’m pretty sure it showed up in my library as a result of owning evoland 2 from the humble eye candy bundle.

the gimmick of the first evoland is, as the title hints at, a journey through the evolution of video games. it’s also full of references to well-known video games — likely more than i even recognized. playing the game itself is fun too but the video game stuff definitely made it better for me.

evoland 2 instead of trending toward better graphics actually lets you time travel between 4 graphics levels and varies genres. there’s a decent chance you will encounter at least one genre you don’t particularly enjoy (for me it was match 3), but that probably won’t matter much because most sections are short. it also has more of a story, especially around the player character, and it took me a lot longer to beat.

there’s a lot to like in both evolands and i recommend picking them up together in the legendary edition. the only downsides to legendary vs getting the games separately are limited save slots shared between games (didn’t matter to me since i only used one slot per game) and exiting from one of the games goes back to the legendary edition launcher making exiting take longer, but i got around that by usually exiting using alt+F4.