Escape from Ever After Reviews
For players looking for an action adventure/RPG that blends style, substance, and a healthy sense of humor, this is an easy recommendation. It may wear a fairy tale costume, but underneath that bright cloak is a sharp, confident experience that knows how to fight, how to entertain, and how to keep you turning the page.
If you’re at all a fan of the more RPG-focused Mario RPGs, you owe it to yourself to play Escape from Ever After. It may be over a bit too quickly, but the writing, charm, and gameplay mechanics all come together to make for something you won’t want to miss.
A genuinely funny Paper Mario style role-player, with entertaining puzzles and a welcome mockery of LinkedIn culture, let down by rhythm action battle mechanics that don’t quite work.
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Escape from Ever After is a simple, enticing turn-based RPG with a great sense of humor. It features storybook worlds many of us are familiar with and bends them in a way that keeps the characters new and fresh. If you’re a fan of comedy, Paper Mario, or RPGs in general, you should give this a go. Whether you’re 7 or 70, there’s a good time to be had here.
Escape Ever After pairs a clever satirical premise with charming storybook visuals, delivering a creative RPG experience that doesn’t always maintain its momentum.
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Review in Russian | Read full review
Escape from Ever After is colorful, traditional, and provides surprisingly interesting commentary on the power of stories. Flynt isn’t the most interesting protagonist, but he has cool companions, and his story of battling a corporation is relatable. The combat system and the presentation are both heavily inspired by Paper Mario.
Charming RPG adventure in which fairytale and storybook characters must fight back against capitalism
Escape from Ever After establishes its lighthearted fairy tale world wonderfully with its endearing visuals, characters, and music and it plays superbly to boot thanks to its impressively strategic party setup and battle mechanics. What an absolute delight! 📖
The characters and areas are charming, the puzzles are fun, but the combat is slacking by comparison and there’s not really any music that’s quite as memorable. Still though, this is well worth playing if you get the chance. It’s not massively long so it’s less of a time commitment by comparison, and most Paper Mario fans will be able to get into it.
Escape From Ever After takes great pleasure in subverting Fairy Tale expectations while skewering corporate culture and blind capitalism. And it does so with some wonderful characters and even more wonderful writing that manages to tug on the heartstrings while eliciting a chuckle. The fun gameplay rounds out a wonderful RPG experience that will make you wish you could jump into your favourite books world all the more.
Escape from Ever After is a refreshing surprise in this year’s lineup of games and therefore a strong candidate for my personal Game of the Year list. Its whimsical premise, satirical tone, and overall humorous writing – combined with quirky gameplay mechanics and sufficient variety – carry the experience wonderfully throughout the entire adventure. Best of all, it offers entertainment for all ages: cutesy and fairy-taleish' elements for children, and an engaging script for adults that brings a smile on my face time and time again, enhanced by enjoyable gameplay mechanics. The end credits even left a slight sense of wistfulness in the air, as this is the kind of game one would have gladly kept playing for longer.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
While I wish the puzzles and platforming were more refined, I can also see the follow-through and how others may not have had the same issues as I did. What I won’t deny is that Sleep Castle Studio has created a genuinely fun game that has brought new life into fairy-tale properties and given them an original spin.
Fans of Paper Mario can look forward to this turn-based adventure RPG. Developed by Sleepy Castle Studio and Wing-It! Creative, Escape from Ever After is inspired by the aforementioned Mario game. It combines fairy tale whimsy with corporate espionage and an anti-capitalist mindset, creating inappropriately modern and realistic circumstance for our fairytale characters. Published by HypeTrain Digital, let’s see if Escape from Every After is a dream come true or just a wish upon a star.
Escape from Ever After is a charismatic and accessible RPG that perfectly understands what made the genre's classics so special. By blending clever corporate satire with nostalgic gameplay and impressive technical performance, the game becomes an essential item for anyone seeking a cozy and personality-filled adventure on the Nintendo Switch.
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Escape from Ever After is truly a delightful game, and a worthy successor to the Paper Mario franchise, at least until Nintendo hopefully brings the series back to its original RPG roots. While I had complaints with aspects of the game, mostly in the writing, the general soul of Paper Mario remained intact, and it was great playing what felt like a new entry in that iconic series. I hope the game is successful and that this is the start of its own franchise, as I think Escape from Ever After has laid a solid foundation to forge its own unique identity and legacy. With a greater focus on different storybooks and fairy tales, a potential sequel is set up for a home run. Even if this ends up being a one off game, I definitely recommend it.
Escape From Ever After is a game that not only stays true to its roots, but flourishes in its pursuit to take its inspiration and run with it in its own direction. The story is as wonderful as it is scarily relevant, and is complimented by a fun cast of characters and visually interesting storybook worlds to traverse through. If you’ve been looking for a game that evokes the same enjoyment of a classic Paper Mario game, look no further than this one.
It has a few small issues, but Escape from Ever After still manages to stand out as a cracking RPG that offers engaging combat that’ll hook players in with its clever mechanics and variety, and a wonderful world and narrative that’s simply oozing with charm. It manages to scratch that Paper Mario-like itch perfectly, all whilst standing tall as a brilliant release in the genre in its own unique, fairytale way.
Don't judge a book by its cover. Escape From Ever After hides a depth that many “adult” games would love to have.
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