The first time I ever experienced Evermore, I was visiting a Best Buy back when they had multiple game stations to play games at while people shopped around, and I watched a young boy chase after his dog into a huge mansion, then with a huge explosion end up on a space station. When I was younger, I loved imagining myself as the hero, traveling with a dog (I have never had a dog sadly, but sometimes I’d look at the toaster and imagine it hovering like the robo dog did 😅), casting magic and exploring ancient ruins and fighting monsters. When talking about the music, I remember Jeremy Soule saying he wanted Evermore’s music to be atmospheric. You had six different mechs, all with totally different abilities, and you could even get out and cruise around as tiny lil’ pilot with a pistol and a jetpack if your mech got wrecked or if you needed to sneak through a tunnel that your robo-pal wouldn’t fit through or something.First time listening to a game podcast and I love the discussion. In 1995, LucasArts took a break from the whole “Star Wars” thing to bring us Metal Warriors, a side-scrolling action game that was basically 16-bit Titanfall. It’s a weird, B-movie version of that action-RPG style of game popularized by Square in the 90s, one that would be awesome to revisit if for no reason than for the sheer novelty of it. You dog transforms to match his environment, appearing as a feral wolf in prehistoric times or as a laser-firing toaster in the far future of Omnitopia, which is a nice touch. In Secret of Evermore, you play as a boy who travels through time with his dog sidekick, beating monsters to death with a bone (or a bazooka, depending on which time period they happen to be in).
I bought this game because I thought it was some kind of bootleg sequel to Secret of Mana or something and, in many ways, it delivered on this promise.
Secret of EvermoreYou know how sometimes you’re on Netflix and you’ll see some knock-off of a popular series - movies like “Transmorphers” or “Atlantic Rim” - and you click on it without thinking, and it’s maybe 15 minutes in before you’re like “hey, there’s something off about this?” Secret of Evermore is basically that. Click through the gallery above or scroll down the page for the full list.
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