E.V.O.: Search for Eden/YMMV

• Awesome Music: The final boss theme, the regular boss theme, the ocean theme.
• Breather Boss: King Bee is considered MUCH easier than the previous two bosses and the following boss.
• Demonic Spiders: Many enemies can be this, but the Tyrannosaurus and Omosaurus are the worst of the bunch, being able to cause massive damage very quickly, and also being nearly unbeatable if you're not tall enough.
• Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Might Makes Right. Genocide is the right thing to do if it clears the way for your own species. Evolution's a bitch.
  • A more accurate reading of the story's Aesop is that, if your species expands uncontrollably beyond its natural niche and threatens to wipe out all other species, Gaia will send her boyfriend to eat you. Agent Smith would approve.
• Freud Was Right: YouTube commenters have had a field day with the final boss.
• Game-Breaker: Boss fights become much easier once the player discovers that undergoing an evolutionary change also has the beneficial side-effect of also healing all your health. Just stock up on EVO points prior to the battle, and when you're getting your ass kicked, just go to your evolution menu and make one small change (like adding a horn), and you'll be back in business.
• Goddamned Bats: Trilobites in the Fish Age chapter, most flying enemies if you're not a bird, and the monkeys and dino-people in the final chapter.
• Older Than They Think: The SNES game itself is HEAVILY based on a much older game by Almanic called 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinka Ron ("4.6 Billion Year Story: The Theory of Evolution"), released only in Japan in 1990 on a very obscure home computer called the PC-9801. E.V.O might even be considered a heavily-downgraded port, which is odd because as we all know, the SNES can handle some pretty epic RPGs.
• That One Boss: Fucking yeti.
  • Which of the three yetis? The father yeti is somewhat problematic, but the mother and the son's descendant are the most problematic ones, especially the son's descendant, when you have to fight with him in the last segment of the game.
  • The giant outside Bolbox's cave, the shark at the beginning and the Cockroach of Bolbox. The bosses in this game are abnormally difficult.
  • You may have a horrific time with the queen bee, even using cheat codes to stay alive.
• That One Level: Fort Bird-man and Entrance to Eden are often thought of as this due to their labyrinthine layout and annoying enemies.
• The Woobie: Yeti Avenger and Cro-Maine. The former one is the descendant of the Yetis you killed (humiliating the Yeti race in the process), while the latter one was a victim of abuse and bullying by his own kinsmen, the Monkey-Humans, because he had less hair and was smarter than the rest.