Most of the characters are completely glossed over and maybe it’s for the best. The plot won’t win any awards for originality, but there are quite a few well-written gags to keep the whole thing feeling fresh.

From then on the two travel the world doing good deeds for people and smacking anything that gets in their way throughout the four lands of Evermore. The two protagonists crash-land in a prehistoric jungle, confused. The meeting is short-lived as the butler politely throws them out of an airlock and into an escape pod. They start fiddling around with a machine and, since one thing leads to another, they are transported to the world of Evermore where they meet the Professor and his butler Carltron. His dog starts chasing after a cat and they both end up in the abandoned mansion of Professor Sydney Ruffleberg. The story takes place in a small backwater town, aptly named Podunk, where the hero leaves the local theater showcasing the newest B movie (The Lost Adventure of Vexx – “You could hardly tell that it was really a bunch of old tires and a garden hose”). Unlike most RPGs, Secret of Evermore generally tries to stay low-key and upbeat. It’s actually a very decent game that has received good reviews and uses its own visual and musical style, and yet many people despise it to this day because it is not “ Secret of Mana 2” or even because it is not Japanese enough. Every part of Secret of Evermore is shaped around a person that was stranded there from the “real” world and is mostly based on different historical eras. Instead, the story revolves around a boy and his dog who are thrown into a parallel universe by a strange machine and must figure out a way to return back home. However, despite this similar interface, the two games are not directly related, as Secret of Evermore shares no common theme with the “ Mana” series. It is based on the “Ring-menu” interface previously seen in Secret of Mana. Secret of Evermore is an action-RPG and the first and only game by Squaresoft (now Square-Enix) to be produced in the USA.

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