Your average Sci-Fi junkie and his dog are sucked into a weird jumbled world called Evermore. Funny, funny stuff.
Story: Well, it about your average joe and his mutt just walking down a rundown street after seeing a B-movie in an old theater. The boy is has developed a thing for cheesy movies as the town of Podunk doesn't seem to be the most exciting place in the US and his quarky dog just follows him everywhere. Anyway, on his way home his dog catches sight of a cat and chases it. The boy naturally goes to after him to avoid losing his dog and winds up following the little mutt to an old abandoned house. The dog refuses to come and the chase continues until the cat manages to disappear in a hidden room full of old technological junk. The boy notices his dogs has begun to chew on some wires and the technological junk comes to life and both disappear. They wake up in a bizarre world called Evermore. A world created by a group of unfortunate scientists that is being altered because a bizarre conspirisy. The boy's immediate goal is to get home, but how? What is Evermore exactly? What happened to it? And even more puzzling why does the world seemed divided into different timezone that relate to earth? Despite all these questions the boy takes this with considerable light heartedness and humor, relating everything he sees to the cheesy movies he's seen in the past. His dog, while it does crake jokes constantly, is even more funny because of all the trouble it gets into. The dog also suffers from bizarre transformations every time the unlikely heroes get brought to another timezone of evermore. In the prehistoric timezone the dog is a giant wolf, in the future he resembles a toaster, ect. All this an more of the tangle events of the story creates some pretty laughable stuff.
Gameplay: Prior to it's release, there was a tiny bit of confusion in the US about whether or not this game in any way related to the "Secret of Mana" titles. In truth it was deffinatly not related, but if all you had was a screenshot comparisons could be easily made. The two charcater round around the world and hit things very similar to "Secret of Mana",. There is a action ring to choose weapon, spells, ect. from. But that's where the similarities end. The most distinguish feature being that your dog can sniff out ingredience from you to use in your spells or "alchemy". You have to find people, sometimes very hidden, to teach you the forumlas that you have to mix ingrediance to use the spells. The more you use anything the better you get at using them. It's a lot of fun finding new ways to mess with your enemies.
Graphics: The graphics aren't to unique for it's age, but the art style of the environments and enemies were unique from the usually japan standerd in RPGs. The detail into making each timezone feel more authentic was deffinatly there despite the obvious fiction embedded in it.
Sound: Some like the sound, but I didn't think it was too special. It just didn't seem to match the humorous tone in the game some of the tones almost seem sad or loney the why they sound.Such a funny script should have had more unbeat stuff to go with in my opinion, but the music itself was very well written whether it macthed the mood of the game or not.
In conclusion, I don't know why they haven't continued with this game's success. Everything about it is just plain entertaining. If you can still find it and you still have an SNES, buy it (good luck). It's just too bad Square-Enix hasn't made a sequel, a remake, a spinnoff, or even a transfer to the GBA. It would be such a hit...