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Secret of Evermore (Originally released in 1995 on the SNES)

The spiritual successor to the more popular Secret of Mana was highly looked over and many people considered to be a garbage game because it was one of the first games developed by am American team. That is not that case, however. SoE is a great game, that could have been better had they changed the limitations around a bit.

You are given this teenage boy, who you name, who is a crazy movie buff. His is living in a modern day suburbia when his pet dog decides to chase down a cat all the way to an abandoned mansion. Inside he find his dog and also finds a huge contraption that he accidentally triggers and send him to the world of Evermore. Once inside, he is trapped in this fantasy world until he can find a way out.

Evermore, in the game, is a real world that was thought up by the imaginations of the people who first stumbled across it. Earlier on, in that same mansion a scientist was making a breakthrough discovery when he sent he and his colleagues in the world of Evermore before he had all the kinks worked out on it. Each member of that experiment was granted their own world, so to speak. One side of the world is all prehistoric and cave men and dinosaurs run wild. Another area is all about archaeology and uncovering the secrets of the pyramids and is a waste sand wasteland. You go even further and you find a medieval area full of knights and dragons. There is even a futuristic area inhabited robots. The professor that started this whole mess stays there.

Appearance wise, you look the same no matter where you go, but your dog, who came along for the ride is affected every time he moves to one of these new areas. In Prehistoria, he looks like a savage wolf, in the desert area, he takes the form of greyhound that everyone seems to worship, in the medieval area he takes the form of a...pink poodle, and in the robotic world he is a robot canine who can shoot lasers.

The game plays out exactly like SoM does. It's a free roaming, action rpg, but the only fault this game has is it is not two players. For some reason, the creators didn't allow two people to play this game together and limited this games fun factor.But besides all that, this game is a masterpiece with a bunch of Easter eggs for fans of Squaresoft.

I wish I could create my own Evermore. The possibilities are endless with a world that you create from your deepest darkest fantasies.