The dungeons are well designed to make use of the abilities of new villagers as they appear, although even the hardest one would be early in the third quarter of a Zelda game. This allows you to concentrate on the unfolding plot: protecting the oasis from Chaos by collecting three plot devices. Once you get to a certain point in the game, you can restock shops automatically and send parties of villagers out to scavenge. Thank goodness for the guys who just want to live in the oasis and not open shops. One or two people seem to arrive every day and wait patiently for you to execute their fetch quest. However, as I've played Animal Crossing: New Leaf, I expected you to have to get know the residents with the rate they turn up, you can't. You can take control of any party member and some villagers have special skills that let you explore your surroundings more thoroughly: you yourself can create gusts of wind to trip fan switches, whilst some colleagues can roll into balls to fit through tight spaces, or hammer large rocks to bits. You head into the desert in a party of up to three, yourself and two residents, to gather materials to keep the shops afloat. They then open a shop of some kind that persuades more folk into your oasis.Īnd so the gameplay loop goes for much of the early game. NPC's stumble into the oasis and become permanent residents in exchange for the accomplishment of some task, usually to gather x of an item, or find something they lost on the journey over. You then find your own water spirit - Esna, now the last of her kind - and start your own tiny town. Your brother's last action is to send you away on the wind, just before his village is destroyed. Moments later the dark force Chaos ruins this peaceful idyll. Your brother, the mayor, works with a water spirit to keep things afloat. You, Tethu (male) or Tethi (female) (I named my female character 'Tethina' - it's my journey, dammit), live in a village in an oasis. You choose your character's binary gender and skin colour (you can be blue or green, if you'd like) before the fairly sad prologue. Let's just say I'm going to try not to pigeonhole titles like that in future. I did that when playing Luigi's Mansion 2, as well. You know, Animal Crossing meets Zelda, or Secret Of Mana meets Sim City, or Lost Vikings meets Fantasy Life. ![]() ![]() Instead of letting the game's mechanics speak for themselves, for most of the early hours of my playthrough of Ever Oasis I was trying to describe it in what TV Tropes would call an 'X Meets Y' fashion.
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