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A Most Successful Homage
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/13/2020
“Evoland 2” is the 2015 sequel to 2013’s “Evoland,” the inaugural development effort by French Indie developer, Shiro Games, which initially started out as a speed-programming challenge during the 2012 Ludum Dare competition. Unlike its predecessor, “Evoland 2” was not part of a contest, but was a concerted effort on the part of Shiro Games to fully realize the rough concepts explored by the first “Evoland.”
Going into “Evoland 2,” I was expecting more of the same: A sort (roughly 5-hour) campaign involving the evolution of videogame design and a tongue-in-cheek look at the roots and branches of the genre family tree. Instead, I was pleased to find not just a simple nostalgia trip or a novelty museum exhibit, but a fully-fleshed-out blending of the RPG and …
