Escape from Ever After

Quality game

adorable and fun paper mario clone. if you are a fan of PM64 or TTYD (or whatever you might call the paper mario-like genre), please pick this game up.

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8.8/10, "Satisfying"! Escape From Ever After is a mix of the VERY familiar with a healthy dose of anti-corporatist humor and a few original ideas. The writing never feels forced or tired, and the game is paced very well for the most part. Character designs are charmingly used, if a little generic for good reason. Indeed, I enjoyed the story from beginning to end, though the game's finale doesn't seem like it leaves a ton of unexplored space for a sequel. I won't bemoan a book that knows when to shut, but this where I will mention what I feel is EfEE's (Escape from Ever After's) biggest weakness. It doesn't go far enough. Its ideas are all very well executed, its identity is solid, its characters are firm. But they aren't exciting. This is fine, it's okay to have a simple story that's just enjoyable to experience. But this applies to every facet of EfEE. The scope of the game is fine, but feels like it could've gone farther, with it only having one real good "surprise" in terms of location. The mechanics of the battle system are solid and feel good, but they never had any twists that truly surprised me. In the endgame, there are also few to no NEW enemies, mostly souped-up recolors of earlier foes; this is felt most keenly in the optional "Stairs of Success". The Trinket system is satisfying, but the variety of "builds" that are possible are limited to making one or two people in your party actually do good damage, a smattering of survivability and defensive pieces, and some stuff that seems cute but entirely ineffectual. I feel like there could've been more. More enemy types, more interesting trinkets, party members with more variety. The fact that we always control Flynt all the time even starts to seem vestigial given that he can be swapped out in combat, and actually becomes detrimental when trying enter battle vs enemies with shields in the overworld. I would never say that the game seems "Half-baked", because that would be a lie, clear thought and effort has gone into every facet. But this feels like the solid laying of a foundation, and I would love to see them build something special upon it.

Simply amazing. if you loved paper mario thousand year door, this is a must play. Loved every minute of it and would highly recommend to almost anyone to play

Great game, great writing, great gameplay, I feel like this raises the bar for these types of games. I highly recommend if you are a fan of the classic Paper Marios and/or Bug Fables. I also am happy with there being a hard difficulty option.

Really fun game, especially if you work corporate!

Really fun

Incredible and rich spiritual successor to paper Mario TTYD. Deserving of high praise!

I don't often finish story games on steam because I'm easily distracted, but I have the perfect funnel to start focusing on them and this is what I started with. I wasn't sure what to expect except maybe some paper mario similarities, but it really is it's own thing. The characters are very individual and well written. Found myself laughing quite a few times and Tinder and bad wolf ended up being my favorite. Tinder for her depth and Wolf cuz he's a doofus. The game was fun, perfect length, not to hard or easy. Offers collectables and puzzles. Only one time did I have to look up a solution for a puzzle late in the game XD. Highly recommend people to get this and play.