I first played this game on a friend’s emulator. Being a fan of old obscures games I dove right in and discovered a wacky and comical debauchery of Darwinian principles. Like a weird cross between Jurassic park and Pokemon, your duty as Evo is to gain points by moving around and eating stuff and killing other small creatures and with these points you can purchase evolution in the form of new limbs and accoutrements that will allow you to wreak more prehistoric havoc.
Now, I say havoc but this game is pretty sesame street in terms of maturity.
Firstly, Evo has ridiculously cartoony cutesy eyes and most of the other creatures aren’t far off the mark in these terms. There isn’t traumatic gore even when you are attempting to bite claw or impale other poor creatures just trying to survive natural selection either. If you don’t mind really old games and their limited capacity for complicated game-play you will probably enjoy this completely silly little pixilated creation. I, having a freakishly active imagination, have always enjoyed games where a creature with odd sets of limbs and parts are concerned-yes I played pokemon in elementary school and digimon too-good times. So if you like weird Picasso-style
animals that seem as though they crawled out of a six year old boy’s imagination this is a good choice for you! You even get to customize your little Jurassic freak.
From fish to reindeer-like monstrosity, he’s your little genetic reject all the way! Also, there are some fun secrets in the game that will give you a little spurt of extra interest in this estranged plaything. Take for instance the possibility of an attempted suicide off a cliff suddenly forcing your genetic mutant to evolve wings all at once and become a flying freak.
That’s one thing that is a double edged sword-you have to start over with your creature during each stage. Levels range from marine life to amphibian festivities to reptilian shenanigans to flying experiments and finally the ice age and evolution of furry fluffy mammals and such madness as that. This game is almost intolerably silly so it’s not for everybody but if you have free time and an open mind it could be fun for YOU! Happy shenanigans!
