The puzzles aren’t over the top difficult, but are clever and fun to complete. These are much bigger than the caves you’ll encounter throughout and offer more complex puzzles with tougher enemies, each culminating with a fantastic boss battle. While Ever Oasis offers a ton of varied gameplay elements, where it really stands out is in the dungeons. You’ll be able to purchase items at different merchants you encounter in different settlements, but unlocking designs and crafting items tends to yield the best results and can help your team take down enemies more efficiently. Ever Oasis also offers a robust crafting system, which helps keep your party members decked out in the best gear. Each weapon style plays differently and that, mixed with the ability to switch between your trio on the fly, helps keep combat fresh throughout the 20-hour adventure. Specific weapons are tied to different types of villagers, ranging from swords and hammers to bows and bolas. As you and your citizens level up, combos and buffs are unlocked that help deal out massive amounts of damage and give you a little more to think about when approaching an enemy. Primarily, just three buttons are used for a light attack, heavy attack, and a dodge. The combat system is simple yet satisfying, as you roam the world with your hero and up to two residents. Time not spent expanding your oasis is spent out in the desert gathering materials, meeting new creatures, engaging in combat, and exploring different caves and dungeons. Luckily, just around that point, a new citizen comes along that automatically restocks the stores for you without having to visit each individual shop and even allows you to delegate gardening duties to another townsfolk, freeing up your schedule to explore the world outside your home. In the early stages it’s easy to manage restocking and gardening, but as more stores pop up, it can become overwhelming. The latter starts off small, much like the oasis, but grows bigger as you progress. Keeping your shops stocked with supplies is something you, as the chief of the oasis, have to regularly do, whether it’s with materials you found while exploring the desert or things you can develop in town, usually at your garden. While expanding your oasis is vital, journeying outside holds even more to do. Each uniquely designed potential inhabitant can be discovered and acquired in different ways, with some of the more common ways being completing light fetch quests and designing your town in a specific way. This all makes for a nice, rewarding loop where you recruit residents that can open up shops that in turn attract new residents. You start out as a tiny haven and grow into something spectacular as your budding villa swells with residents, shops, and more. Quickly forming a tight bond, the two work together to cultivate an oasis where beings of all races come to spread happiness and take aim to stop the spread of Chaos.Įxpanding your oasis is a focal point. Luckily it doesn’t take long for him to meet a water spirit named Esna. Lost and distraught, the protagonist does the only thing a seedling knows and starts the search for a water spirit to build an oasis in honor of the brother. The main character is all but doomed to perish alongside the oasis, but luckily his (or her) brother takes the devastating blow. While it isn’t without a few hiccups along the way, this is one oasis you won’t want to pass up.Įver Oasis starts off by introducing you to a beautiful town bustling with life, but this world is quickly ripped to pieces by Chaos, something you’ll be dealing with throughout your adventure. Offering numerous elements found in a variety of genres such as RPG, action-adventure, town building, and even farming, Ever Oasis offers plenty to do. After years of working with the Zelda franchise on the 3DS, developer Grezzo finally has the opportunity to step into the spotlight with their own world in the game Ever Oasis.Taking what they’ve learned from remaking classic 3D Zelda and combining it with director Koichi Ishii’s past experience on the Mana series, they have spawned a unique and diverse experience.
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