I’ve started recently playing Secret of Evermore I love old SNES RPGs and to my surprise I remembered this title especially because my grandmother used to play it and she used to let me watch her play it. There’s a kind of fondness there..It wasn’t that big of a hit over here; at least I haven’t heard people have actually played the game and what not.  It’s one of the more underrated video games of its time.

Summary taken from wikipedia:

“Secret of Evermore is a North American role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It was released by Square USA on October 1, 1995 in North America. In February 1996, it saw release in the PAL territories of Australia and Europe.

The story follows a boy and his pet dog as they are inadvertently transported to a fantasy world created by an eccentric inventor. The gameplay shares many similarities with Secret of Mana, such as real-time battles, a ring-shaped menu system, and the ability to switch control between the characters. The player guides both the boy and his shapeshifting dog through Evermore, a world that is composed of separate realms, each resembling a different period of real-world history. Control can be passed between the two characters at will to solve various puzzles.

Secret of Evermore is unique in that it is the only game developed by Square designers in North America.”

The bad part of the game is probably using the dog to search for items; I had a hard time with this and sometimes I have to sit and literally search an area before the one item is found. Another bad part about the game is probably the fact that you can’t equip certain items but yet they’re buyable? This confused me to no end..It kind of makes you wonder who is this equipment for certainly not the dog?

In the end if you did like the classic SNES RPGs like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6 and Secret of Mana then you’ll probably appreciate this game but don’t compare it to those.