Evoland

“Not only does it have the same issue above but the entire game feels like it's constantly wasting your time, it also has whiplash from the constant changing of gameplay styles and all of them are so poorly implemented. The most fun I had was the tactical RPG bit but not only was that spoiled by a softlock they have never fixed, it was followed by an awful DDR minigame as a boss for progress. After 10 hours (4 times longer than I played the first game) I tapped out. There's a reason games don't have such dissonance in playstyles: you don't build your skills and aren't used to them as they are thrown at you so suddenly, and having so many mechanics almost guarantees you implement all of them poorly. Pick up a DDR game and you'd see the first level is nowhere near what you put for the 1st experience of the mechanic in this game and every one of them overstays its welcome.”

“Then you go and repeat this ad nauseam for several hours as you're forced to slowly go through cheap mobile-looking copy-pasta asset ripoffs of superior older games like Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda, all in a poor attempt to nostalgia-bait you into thinking this is deep gameplay and indie quirkiness, as you collect...wait for it...your one thousandth chest that contains nothing of value and serves only to pointlessly pad out the hours to laugh at how much time you wasted doing it.”

“The gameplay is rudimentary, janky, and frustrating.”

“There are no options in the game to change graphics, resolutions, or sounds, which was especially bothersome in the second game during moments when certain annoying sounds repeated incessantly and the music heavily overpowered other sound effects.”

“The art style of the present ("16-bit" era) is gorgeous, but the art style of the future (3D era) is not nearly as good as the other two.”

“As far as I can tell, this is a PC port of the Evoland console release. Because of this, I do not recommend this version of the game and regret buying it personally; the options menu from the original version of Evoland 2 is missing, so there seems to be no way to change resolution, audio, language, or graphics settings. The game only displays Xbox controller button prompts despite there being no controller plugged in, making it very confusing and hard to play with keyboard and mouse.”

“It wants to take itself seriously, but at the same time there are also a lot of mostly unfunny jokes that make the game feel undecided about its identity.”

“Evoland 2 is the most boring, most unfunny, and one of the slowest paced RPGs I ever played.”

“That's not funny.”

“There are no options to change graphics, resolutions, or sounds, which was especially bothersome in the second game when certain annoying sounds kept repeating incessantly and the music seemed to heavily overpower other sound effects.”

“Both games lack in-game options that were available in the original release, so you can't adjust music and sound volume, and the game language is based on your system's settings, which is annoying.”

“The music quality remains the same throughout the game; the 2D sections aren't in retro chiptune but use a somewhat bland, off-the-shelf orchestral/ensemble soundtrack typical of many indie games, resulting in a lack of musical variation and coherence.”

“When it got me clunkily serving tables at a medieval McDonald's knock-off just "because", right after I ended an unbearably tedious "stealth" section, I ended up just completely dropping it.”

“You’ll need a second life, maybe some macros, and a will to live for grinding.”

“They literally ripped assets and level designs from other games resulting in tediously dragged out sections where dying means starting over with no proper checkpoints, making grinding frustrating and the game full of bugs and softlocks.”

“The final boss fight was not only garbage, it was hot buggy garbage that looks possible to complete but isn't due to a glitch caused by poor development of the game: the final boss fight is impossible on any monitor above 120hz and the developer just never cared to fix this, and dares to call this a 'legendary edition'.”

“On two separate boss fights I encountered game breaking glitches where one or both of us got stuck and I was forced to quit back to the main menu to restart because there is no other way to manually load a checkpoint.”

“It pains me to not be able to recommend this game as I absolutely adore it and its story but due to its countless bugs and glitches it is near physically painful to play and the devs aren't exactly going to change that anytime soon.”

“Unfortunately, Evoland 2 is dragged down by lengthy dialogues, a lot of meaningless NPCs, and a generic and boring story.”

“The second game is focused on a slow and boring story rather than gameplay that wants you to keep playing.”

“On top of that, it has a boring story and an annoyingly repetitive soundtrack.”

“Replay value may be a bit low, especially for the first game.”

“Sadly there isn't a lot of replayability.”

“However, because some of them are related to certain events, some genres aren't replayable in the second game.”

“But the developer retroactively added a forced launcher to be able to play the game with advertising for their new game and online tracking of your launches.”

“Now I need to launch a launcher, to launch a launcher, to see some ads, to play a game I paid for.”

“And if that somehow sounds interesting to you, they've recently updated the game, after years of nothing, to include in-game ads for their other games!”

“It now just uses your system language and the performance/quality settings are entirely gone.”

“Worse performance, I don't know why or how, it will just struggle at certain sections.”

“I'm a huge fan of both of the games, but with the fact that this is just a lazy port of the console version with no keyboard or computer optimization, and that they just updated the game with a launcher that advertises their other games every time you go to launch, I'm afraid I just can't recommend it.”

“Progression is poorly paced and mechanics are shallow, though the worst crime is that the true charm of many of the JRPGs spoofed by Evoland – the writing and character development – are nonexistent.”