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Who knew that one game with the fake pokemon horror ads is actually kind of good? Why is there like no one on this hell site playing it? I feel like so many people would like it... **A fan blog for the mobile game Evertale**

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Heads up about my blog!

I have completed all the available story for Evertale, so my blog will have spoilers on it.

Spoiler tags will be tagged as "evertale post act (#) spoilers." For example, if I post something that has to do with act 2, I will tag it #evertale post act 1 spoilers, working my way up to #evertale post act 10 spoilers for anything about act 11. I'll be trying to go back and make sure that all my posts follow this tagging system so it's easy for those to block Evertale spoilers.

Feel free to DM or shoot me an ask if you have any questions, or if I miss something!

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I've quit Evertale, so I will no longer be making posts on this blog.

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Norza: So the Eternal was just using me? Finn: I'm sorry, Norza. Astrid, trying to contain her amusement: I bet you feel pretty stupid right now. Norza: Ludmilla, trying to avoid Norza from going Aeon Lord mode on them: Ok, that's a time-out. Astrid: Wait, I was just trying to- Ludmilla: Go wait by the warp portal! Astrid: *walks away in defeat*

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Some thoughts on the new event

I'm surprised we got an event centered around Jeanne. I honestly just thought she and Merlin were only added because they're well-known characters, but I was definitely not expecting it to take place in Camelot. I think the devs took the og story in an interesting direction, but I'm kinda getting sick of seeing so many women in the game? I'm just kinda tired of seeing so many sexualized women, namely because that's not what I started playing the game for (it's only Lancelot that I don't like, actually. No clue why). Gawain and Kay kind of carried the event for me because I felt like they were somewhat unique from previous characters.

Otherwise, I felt like this event was kind of bland? Maybe it's because the Arthurian legend is so well known and has had quite a few adaptations/references/retellings in other works? Like, I can appreciate them creating a curse that causes the titles, abilities, and feelings of the original Knights of the Round Table to be handed down to the next generation, but it kind of felt like it only existed to give the devs an excuse to make notable characters from the legend into women. It's just not my cup of tea, I guess? Anyone else feel the same?

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Evertale's future?

The new event has been out for about a week now, and I'm sure most people have noticed the length of the event. It's going to stick around for twice as long as normal events, which is strange to me. I've been wondering about this for a while, and this new event only makes me more curious: are the devs ever going to update the main story? I heard a rumor on the game's Reddit that a lot of the writers quit around the time Evertale 2.0 came out. Obviously, there's still writers on staff since we've been getting new(?) events and the last part of the story was apparently released in early or mid-2021, but I can't help but wonder if any of the original writers stuck around.

I'm sure I've said this before, but I think the story has a good amount of care put into it, and it'd be disappointing if Zigza scrapped it in favor of telling more episodic stories through events. I don't know, I've been thinking about this a lot since we've been getting so many new characters lately (it might just be because I was busy with classes, but I felt like we were getting new characters more frequently than normal).

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People are trying to make me cry, what the heck

First the "Fall of the Serpent's City" event and now @wishuponadragon's fic, You Were Everything. I'll probably share my thoughts on the event later, but first I gotta plug wish's fic.

SO READ YOU WERE EVERYTHING!!! IT'S SO GOOD!! It'll definitely scratch that itch for any Rolotia/Norza shippers, especially if you're a fan of sad stories.

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New Evertale Character, Sun Wukong, got everything wrong about Sun Wukong, and this is coming from a damn chinese person.

Like, if your gonna make a character based off a mythical historical figure, at least make SOMETHING right, they cant even write about Sun Wukong going to the WEST right, like, cmon.

Its like a r34 Artist was told "the details we want are, have a monkey tail, has travelled with a Monk, has a weapon and a headband, have fun!" And this was the result, absolutely trash.

Dont EVER, support their trash game.

@crookedtaleofdreams would love your thoughts on this

Also why did i accidentally made this into a draft

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So I didn't actually realize who she was supposed to be (I'm like chronically bad with names, so it didn't actually click with me). It's pretty shitty that they took an iconic character and did that. So many people want new male characters, so it's not like there wouldn't have been support for a character that was actually accurate to The Monkey King's Journey to the West appearance. Of course, Zigza literally does not know where to draw the line when it comes to making sexy characters, so what did we expect. I dunno, everything about this seems disrespectful.

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Memories of the Past

Going through the Young Riz event makes me kinda uncomfortable. Like, the dialogue for certain parts? Major yikes, chief. The devs obviously knew what they were doing when they made this character... Reading almost every piece of dialogue made me uncomfortable, especially the bandit boss' lines.

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Since young Riz is back, I figured I'd drag this out again.

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GOD DAMNIT, I FORGOT YOUNG RIZETTE IS A CHARACTER THAT EXISTS

I was hanging out on my alliance's discord only for one of them to notice that she was out again. It led to a long conversation and some questions about why the devs wouldn't put her in childlike clothing, since she's, you know, a child???

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You get a cutscene at one of the warp circles when you're on your way to Elvenlent. In this cutscene, it's revealed that Ludmilla can sleep while standing up. While Astrid, Finn, and Rizette are questioning what the heck Ludmilla is doing, she snaps awake and startles them. But, humans can't actually sleep standing up, like, it's physically impossible because our legs just did not evolve that way. As we all know, Ludmilla is capable of being a goofball, so I bet she 100% pretends to sleep standing up just so she can jump-scare people.

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I like becoming the very thing I sought to destroy. It makes the self-destructive path I'm on worth it.

-Norza at literally any point in his life

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Druke, my man :/

This is going to be kind of long, so buckle up.

Replaying act 1 makes me really want a prequel, especially since the devs have been rerunning some of the Rody and Druke events. I'm at chapter 3 in my replay of act one, and I just finished the scene with the Druke xahe-oyai and Norza. After the Blademaster Druke event a couple of weeks ago, I've been thinking about what Druke's motives for taking the aeon thorns were. Like, obviously he wanted to stay/become stronger despite his age (I don't think he's even that old? I assume he was somewhere in his 20s during the last Pandemonium, so he would have only been in his early forties or late thirties, which isn't that old.), but I feel like that deviates a bit from how his character was portrayed in the last two events (Blademaster and Witch of Winter).

When we first meet Druke in the Blademaster event, he's arrogant and eager to rush into battles if it means he can prove his strength. He's even glad that the Pandemonium has started because he's always wanted to fight in it. Druke and Norza (post-Menue's death) are pretty similar because they're always searching for that next big fight. Once Druke meets Rody and Rody is revealed to be the Crimson Crestbearer, Druke realizes that maybe there's more to fight for than just proving your strength. He swears to help/protect the Crimson Crestbearer and the act ends. Enter the Witch of Winter event. Druke is still his arrogant self, but it's less about growing his strength and more about helping Rody end the Pandemonium.

Now, how does this relate to act 1 chapter 3? The Witch of Winter event is only a short amount of time after the Blademaster event, but Druke has obviously found something new to fight for. If Druke's character motives have changed this much in the short time he's been traveling with Rody, imagine how much more he would have changed in the months (or maybe years?) leading up to Rody's battle with the Eternal. Maybe he even gave up entirely on seeking the next strongest enemy?

But, we know how Rody's battle with the Eternal ended. Rody and Druke were pretty good friends, so Rody's death probably hit him hard. Sure, their other traveling companions were still alive, but Rody was someone that Druke admired, which made their relationship kind of special. For some people (I think I can safely say that Norza and Druke fit into this category), losing the person that you admired can cause you to start sliding back into some bad habits. Once Druke lost the person he admired and wanted to protect, he probably started looking for something that would give his life meaning: becoming the strongest swordsman on Erden. Once he started getting older, he began losing confidence in his skills, and, despite having seen the outcomethanks to Xandra, he accepted the aeon thorns that Norza offered him.

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Norza: I'm a murderer (affectionate). The Gru Grim are murderers (derogatory). Norza: I kill people in, like, a cute, quirky way. They brainwash and kill people to bring back some ancient evil god.

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I love the little dialogue between Astrid and Finn at the start of chapter 2! Astrid really was out here fishing for compliments without actually thinking she'd get any, which, same, honestly. But because I am an Astrid simp and 100% think she's a sad character, you bet I'm going to read too much into this.

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So I'm replaying the first act, and there's some dialogue in the scene in chapter one where Finn meets Luther. Ludmilla says, "This is the first time our order has encountered a Crestbearer," but we know from the recent events that Rody (the previous Crestbearer and Finn's dad) worked with the Red Dragon Knights and was assigned missions by Luther himself.

So what I'm saying is, Luther definitely covered up Rody's involvement with the last Crestbearer. Maybe it's because he wanted the Knights to seem stronger and to take the credit for fighting off the monsters without the power of the crest, or maybe he didn't want his order to be seen as incompetent because the Crimson Crestbearer died during his fight with the Eternal?

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Evertales removed features

Okay, so I've seen some of the posts here and on Reddit about the game's 1.0 build, but there are some other things that the wiki has that don't actually appear in-game. Like the evolution materials that apparently you needed once upon a time in order to evolve units. Obviously, limit break potions took over this feature, but, like, needing to collect these materials instead of just farming for potions would have made it so much more fun?? Look at interesting this could have been:

Maybe material collections encouraged you to go back and replay certain story stages, or maybe the raids had more items than just tokens, berries, ores, and potions?

I wish I got to the 1.0 version of this game before they did all these changes. I'm not sure if the online story was before or after 1.0, but I know for a fact it would be so much more enjoyable if it was similar to the monster-cathing free-roam style of act one. I really like the gameplay, but I hate how everything is automated once you finish the story. Raids? Auto. Arena? Also auto. Tower of trials (which would make more sense being manual)? The fun police called, and they said to automate that thing.

I'm just saying, I'm working to collect all these characters and there are game modes that use 20 of them at once, but I'm not allowed to actually play the game during those modes. The automation kinda just ruins it for me because of that. There's not much reason to play the game after you finish the story unless you 1) just like grinding, 2) really like waifu collecting games, or 3) are in an alliance that can actually participate in War of Realms or Alliance War.

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As a veteran player that had played the game since launch, yeah, i miss getting the materials as well, and the Online Story was after 1.0

Rn, Evertale content is really trash, the designs of Ludmilla and Elmina used to actually look like olden times era armor but now everything is sexualised to make it "more appealing" so i wasn't surprised when all the features, including the manual Arena before, became automated, it was bound to happen lol

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That's so frustrating. I don't really mind Ludmilla's redesign, but Elmina definitely was done dirty s she has the most revealing outfit out of everyone in the gang. I'm not sure what the old arena pre-automation was like, but I heard they had actual PVP in 1.0? I don't mind too much if the arena and a PVP lobby are separate things (I'm not a fan of PVP if I'm being honest ^_^;), but things like alliance quests and tower of trials would encourage people to play the game longer. It at least gives people in the late game something to work toward imo.