Why do you keep calling healing from evo an exploit? lol

@Lute Dawson i can't get past the worm

@HeftyOwl Ambiguousness is ambiguous.

Any game mechanic you can abuse to improve your chances is an exploit, you're literally exploiting the game's flaws to win. For example; in Super Smash Bros. Meele wavedashing lets you slide extremely fast while keeping the ability to act when you want; so it's exploitable. Or in ff15 you can use a potion to revive yourself, this was intended, but with 99 potions you can revive yourself 99 times -this is exploiting the mechanics.

As much as I enjoy this video that entire segment is so heavily inspired by another review that I would almost call it completely stolen from another review....

I wish I could have played but it didnt want to install on my computer(there was no install file or executable or isco or whaever) and now i watched this the game is spoiled for me and ive already finished evo on snes 3-4 times...at least...

Accidently smt game

Do...do they realize we genetically engineered bananas? That’s thousands of years of purposeful genetic modification until we got a banana as we know today...

I love this video so much

BOSS MEAT!

NO FRIGGIN' COMMENT ON THE FACT THAT "SING" PLAYS THE DRAGON QUEST THEME?

Love this video! Completely unrelated, but I recognized tehsnakerer from BPL/Tex’s X-Com playthrough years ago. 😎 Lastly, I’d guess that maybe that healing “exploit” was not an exploit, but a handicap shoehorned into an existing mechanic. Maybe after play testing, they realized that the difficulty ramped too much, and figured heals-on-call might just be an easier fix than trying to balance everything out. That’s my theory — a game theory, if you will.

I’ve never laughed so hard at a videogame cutscene as I’ve laughed at that fucking whale sliding onto screen right in front of you

Thrive is gonna be what spore should've been.

I would love to see a spiritual successor to this. There is so much potential to this game and I freaking loved it, but give it some extra polish and more unique features to the evolution, some further splitting paths, and this game would be absolutely amazing.

12:40 Nice EXP, bro

have you tried playing uncharted water 2: new horizons? chock full of secrets. it is a full-blown sandbox game with lots of rpg elements and well if you set your own goals after you beat the game there is a mind-boggling amount still to do. i have taken the world over through both piracy and money and then turned round and burnt the global empire I built to the ground.(check shops and shipyards at 2 am, sometimes there are specialty goods that become available with enough investment) also the pirates in this game are very dangerous so careful with who you tangle with as new horizons holds with this game in having enemies that will stomp your ass into the ground and there's a lot to learn before you stop getting your shit pushed in ^_^.

also for videos, I think you'd be the largest tubers to touch them lol so might be a diamond in the rough in that manner as well ^_^

also avoid joao as your first character, his playthrough comes with a very challenging handicap that starts hitting you very early in the plot. bth i would put him as the most challenging character to beat the game as( the cartographer is close but that's more time-consuming than dangerous. another hint. BUY BALM, storms without balm are death even endgame with the best-hidden ship in the game.)

why is this video so cozy

27:31 did he just get clapped

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I dont think evolving is an exploit, the bosses are intentionally hard, you evolve you get strong enough to defeat them, and when you win you look different, naturally.

SO wait Evo ends with you becoming the god-emperor of mankind and dying only to become a mind ghost not god, are you sure this isn't Warhammer 40k

I need a modern remake of this game in 3D I think it done by the right people it could be awesome

Theory of Evolution seems so cool, only held back by the technology at the time. What I would do to get a remake of this game that completely revamps the gameplay...

Who else nearly died upon seeing those drawings from THE VIDEO at 1:11:57 ?

Its weird to see a game about evolution take a direct turn into theology

This game kind of reminds me of cubivore on the gamecube. Anyone else?

Oh I love this game! Nice to see a YouTuber talk in depth about it, earned a sub my man!

I watchd this at night without skipping or pause in one go

God this is the craziest thing I've ever seen I don't regret clicking on it one bit It tying back to a fucking CULT is fucking crazy, what an amazing video

The first one: educational game trying to be *cool* The other one: holy god the drug trip is real man a great journey full of drugs

fun stuff: your mate Eve in chapter 5 of Theory of Evolution is the female thelodus from the beginning of the game. She's been on her own path of evolution

Really? Now that is something interesting. A neat detail in the game world.

Earth chan lend me your strength!

1:11:18 "And God said, power flows ever counterclockwise." What?

“I’m glad the KT Extinction event happened and the Nanking massacre didn’t” LMAO

this game was amazing all hail the owl people overlords that is the last ending I have gotten. ;D

1:30 where is this image from?

I just realized this now but Evo is a massive Hikaru Genji plan, the winner of the competition is supposed to become her partner (husband?) and Gaia creates you and help you along the way specifically so you can win. So she not only raises her own partner but also created him (it?) from the start.

I love that number font. It’s identical to the one used in pmd2

Why not kill Lucifer and explore space? Why is endurance even considered bad?

I remember playign this on the snes I think it was. I mean I could watch the video and find out which machine it was on but I'm to excited lol. Damn I miss those times. Also, doing small evolutions during boss fights to heal is actually recommended in order to beat the boss's if I remember right.

Dude they gotta remake this. It would be be amazing now.

2:46 "If you see a wretched water creature trying to evolve and move onto our blessed ground, PUSH IT BACK IN"

"Africa is a bit of a boss rush"

To be fair, it makes sense, if we're doing this as the origins of mankind, then the place it all starts is Africa, so you winding up there at the end of the game, to lead into the modern era is actually fitting.

with all the grinding these would make great mmos

Gaia in the remake: - Basically Earth Chan - Doesn’t actually kill anybody directly - Lots of revival Gaia in the original: - All blue - Will absolutely kill you - Also has the original girl Lucifer as a rival

This game was dropping some ESOTERIC TRUTHS way back ! If you suspend your preconceived notions, you'll realise the WHOLE game is historically accurate ;)

Was trying to think of a less literal evolution mechanic and I thought of the BOBiverse novels. The computerized human protagonist starts trying to build androids to inhabit that are as realistic as possible and ends up studying biology as a hobby. It could be like an R&D game where you compete with others and your experience as an animal gives you options for upgrades to pursue.

where did you get the download/emulator for the E.V.O? like to try it

I am Gaia

The singing Dino song sounds like dragon quest builders 2 theme

It is the Dragon Quest theme, for the whole of the series. This game was made by the same guys who made the DQ series, ENIX, so you can say it was homage if you want, rather than a ripoff.

Wait... Is this the story of the holy Emperor? Fuck yeah

Heresy detected. Prepare the Inquisiton!

The coast... of... pange.

Please more old games

In time, aren't all games old?

They'll come in time

I absolutely loved this game when I was a kid. Thanks for bringing this game to the people. I completed the game in one sitting.

I accidently played the original once but thought it was a bootleg! I'm so mad I didn't play it lol what an insanity

That first shark boss was always such bullshit

I've never finished it either! I made it to mammel stage

One of my all time favorite games of all time

This game is so badass

This is just becoming anime god emperor.

i lost it when the dinosaur sang the dragon quest theme

King of Terror, it just hit me. Like a very large, very fast rock.

Are we going to talk about the fact they used Dragon Warrior music for the sing attack?

wait a ending wher humanity gets to colonize the stars and basically solving each and every conflict is a BAD ending cause your protagonist is dissapointed.... Holy shit what kind of ididot shit is that XD

@Lemmingcave Ever play Alpha Centauri? Mindworms remain a constant threat no matter how good a tech you have until you make some psychic defenses, and even those might not work against something like Lucy, wo has consumed thousands of civilizations.

@SageofStars nha we would have endurance to get trough it, since we solved each and every conflict... How is that power weaker the litteral uhu i'm spychic

To be fair, in that ending, nothing was stopping Lucifer from coming back, and as we saw, she was a Spiritual Entity. As a Physical Force, humanity could never have stood up to her, and would have wiped us out, no matter how far we spread.

King shit

I played this game a lot in my teen years. I had it on an emulator, quick saving made things nice

With the second game you played, I bet the reason it was so fast was because of your pc speed. A lot of games back then tied PC performance to speed, which was fine then but leads to stuff like stupid movement. Playing on an emulated pc of the time should've fixed that issue.

Earth is a Velociraptor confirmed at 1:03:23

....and in the back is playing in endless loop the song "right here right now" from Fatboy Slim

Underrated comment.

I thought I finished this game as a kid, but don't remember most of this.

This video game was one of my favorites EVER! I beat it.

Is the movement speed so crazy because movement speed is tied to framerate? I know that a lot of older games are practically unplayable without modding thanks to tying things to framerate but not capping them, for example the original Fallout has some obstacles that can be disabled, but counting the downtime before reactivating is counting seconds based on framerate, so disabling them on a modern computer will make them blink for an instant before returning to normal. If that's the issue with speed then would it be the game's fault for the devs not using another method of controlling player speed or worth fixing and forgiving the game for since they probably couldn't have expected someone to have what's essentially a government secret super computer in comparison?

You know it's funny how the other endings were against extraterrestrial colonization or rampant war But here we are on the main path with a reference to Mobile Suit Gundam's Colony Drop in Australia.

This is such a great video, that I can not stop myself from coming back and rewatching it

I liked how you recommended against the speed upgrades, and then go on to complain about the unfair fights where you are too slow to survive.

13:58 literally Spyro the Dragon and his companion

That interesting evolution sequence in the second game really threw me off and made me laugh!

This made me remember an old game where you can terraform other planets, you can change alot of things on earth too. Apparently its hard to understand, I forgot the name :(

From a purely philosophical standpoint, we could say evolution has a definite endpoint - when a species has complete control over their environment, and no longer needs an adapted body plan to survive because they can adapt the environment to all of their biological needs.

Spore but fixated

1:08:19 best part of the video, hands down.

didnt knew the angler horn actualy works as ti should... and i reached this game to the end

I remember playing this back on SNES way back in the day. SO fun! Never got out of the water though lol It is hard to find now and i THINK the actual cartridge goes for a lot these days.

If you preserve your flight ability, in one of the zones, you can fly WAAAAAY up and acquire a Dragon EVO and save it. It's killer against the final boss.

1:13:22 That’s a shame, I was looking forward to joining

12:59 leet evo points

Why are you british?

You can't just go around asking someone why they're british!

I used to play this on an emulator in the late 90s. Could never remember the name

Would like to see E.V.O.: Search for Eden re-released for the Switch as part of its SNES library. And for the release of this re-release, they should include some of the characters from the SNES version as Spirits in SSBU (possibly renamed into their actual names for the latter, e.g. Tyrasaurus is changed to Tyrannosaurus rex).

Also, would like to see a remake or reboot of the PC-88 classic, and this time, include more creatures (yet still keeping a retro 2D look, possibly each creature unlocked or encountered should now get info in the style of encyclopedia entries), more endings to collect (complete with achievements), and elements from both PC-88 and SNES games (how about entering the Bird-Men's fortress or the Rogons' cave in the style of the PC-88 game?).

*Nostalgic*

the patcher cant find the disk image in the theory of evolution folder, do i need to download it elsewhere?

Haha Cro-maine go bonk

More games need to incorporate the Lost Continent of Mu. The only other ones that I can think of off the top of my head aside this are Ever17(using the Lemuria name) and Illusion of Gaia. And the former is only a reference, being what the underwater amusement park everyone is trapped in is named after.

@SageofStars Oh right, I think I might have done that? I played Terranigma a few years ago, along with Soul Blazer and Illusion, but I don't remember if I did that.

You can bring it back in IoG's sequel/successor, Terranigma, but it's mostly just a bonus area.

E.V.O. is still one of my favorite RPGs ever.

I honestly hope one day we get either a remake or a game similar to the theory of evolution. Bonus points if they keep the crazy evolution branches and paths.

39:21 - Well, these things _were_ made to run on like.... 256 KB of RAM or something. Like how _Space Invaders_ has it's 'speeding up' mechanic as the difficulty curve? That's actually a bug: the game is *stalling at the start* because it's having trouble running all those sprites at that speed: by killing them, you're actually freeing up memory, so when there's just a few left? _That's the actual speed the game is programmed to run,_ but it was published with that 'bug' in mind to have a reasonable difficulty curve.

Holy shit this channel is good! I might subscribe after finishing this vid!

I'm gonna be honest the first time I found the Spirit Science channel and the main video, I was like "wow this is some great worldbuilding" before realizing it was their genuine belief system and a lot of the shit they said was crazy as hell.

Somehow, I have never heard of this game. Now that this has been corrected, I must play. Thank you!

Why the G-Man at 1% transparency on one of the slides?

Borat: Space Jew? by Allah...

my hat goes off

"Call it 'the land before taste' because we look dopey as all hell." LOL!

I’m 34 minutes in, why is there an hour left

Ah, the end of the game. I remember finishing it, it was weird and difficult but wew what an experience. Wait. 35 minutes in... is only one third of the video? Oh boy what did I miss in all those years