You never care about the characters or what they do, regardless of how long it takes them to do it. All this hunting for the Alchemy seems like a lot of work for such a minor payoff since the graphics illustrating the spells are a few escalators down from previous Square titles.īut the most disappointing element of Evermore is the bland story line.

You also find various Alchemy power-ups, such as fireballs, though you must find the ingredients in order to activate them. You end up in a prehistoric village, trying to find your way back to Podunk, but before you're safely home, you'll fight the standard array of prehistoric creatures, time- jumping bad guys, and other assorted miscreants.Īlthough you start with a lowly bone for a weapon, you trade up to more powerful weapons like axes and spears. The action starts when your hero, a young man from Podunk, U.S.A., and his faithful dog stumble across a time machine. Tested on Secret of Evermore Gameplay Balance Patch and it works fine.Square's first American-made title is sure to be a hit with its 16-bit devotees, but Secret of Evermore doesn't reach the heights achieved by Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger. UPDATE 1.02: Fixed a minor issue with the question asking if you wanted to return to the space station, where it always thought the dog was the one that initiated the action so the player controlling the dog was always the one that had to answer. There’s even a controller indicator number that will appear beside the character you’re in control of. Now you can finally have a proper 2 player game of Secret of Evermore! You can hit start on the first or second controller to enter/withdraw from the game, and either player can control either character, just like in SoM. It then occured to me that if it still bothered me so much, why not just do something about it?Īnd this patch is the result.

I was trying to choose a multiplayer console RPG Zero-G and I could play together, when I remembered SoE and its annoying lack of 2 player support. I mean really, if you’re going to give it a name similar to SoM, and you’re going to use the same battle system, and the same ring menu system, and use the same method of switching the character you’re in control of using Select, then why in the world would you stop there and not make it multiplayer like SoM!?Īnyway, fast forward to the end of 2003. But the one major thing that really irked me about the game was the lack of 2 player support. And like many, I was rather disappointed. Secret of Evermore… like many people back in the SNES days, when I tried this game out I was expecting a game of the same caliber as Secret of Mana.

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