Earnest Evans
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD | |||||||||||||||
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| Developer: Wolf Team | |||||||||||||||
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| Sound driver: Wolf Team sound driver | |||||||||||||||
| Genre: Action[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Earnest Evans (アーネスト・エバンス)[4] is a 1991 platforming action game developed by Wolf Team for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD released in the US and Japan as exclusives for the respective consoles. The Mega-CD version features animated cutscenes made by Madhouse.
It is the second game to be released in a trilogy following El Viento and followed by Anetto Futatabi. Its plot, however, comes first in the original Japanese chronology (but second in the US localization).
A European Mega Drive release was planned by Ubisoft[5] but it did not materialise.
Contents
Story
In the 1930s, a man known as Earnest Evans had learned of three ancient idols which hold enough power to destroy the Earth. Evans had decided to search the world to find the scattered idols, but was injured before he could find all three. Now, many years later, his grandson, Earnest Evans III, continues his grandfather's quest to save humanity from total annihilation. However, a rival treasure hunter named Brady Tresidder also seeks the idols to bring the world's destruction. Earnest must find the treasures before Tresidder does. During his journey, Earnest stumbles upon the beautiful young green-haired girl Annet Myer lying in some ruins in Peru who decides to accompany him for the rest of his adventures. The two encounter a mysterious figure by the name of Sigfried, who has unknown motives, but seems to know a lot about Hastur and his cult.
Gameplay
The game is an action platformer played as the adventurer Earnest Evans. The character Earnest Evans is composed of multiple sprites to give him a fluid, ragdoll-like movement, a technique typically only used for large bosses in other games. Each level has a boss at the end. In some stages, including the first, Earnest must collect pieces of treasure to make the boss appear.
He runs with 
and 
and jumps with 
. He crouches with 
; he can walk and jump while crouching. If he is already crouching, he lies down by pressing again. He can crawl in this position; he can roll along the ground with . He stands back up with 
. He attacks with 
and can attack while crouching, crawling, or jumping. He starts with a long-range whip but obtains other weapons later. These weapons can be used a limited number of times and do not carry over to the next stage. He can switch his weapon with 
. He can climb ropes and walls with and . He swims with
Earnest has multiple health gauges. He loses health on a subgauge when he takes damage from an enemy or hazard; when a subgauge is empty, he starts over a full subgauge if he has one remaining. The number of subgauges remaining is indicated by red rectangles under the subgauge. He starts each stage with one extra subgauge but can obtain more by finding items. If he loses all of his health with no subgauges remaining, the game ends. It can be continued as long as the player has continues remaining, with Earnest reviving in place. Unlike most platformers, Earnest does not have a brief period of invulnerability when he takes damage, so he can lose a large amount of health from a single enemy or obstacle if the player does not move him out of them quickly.
Weapons
| Whip | |
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| The default weapon. Earnest swings it at enemies. He can also attach his whip to hooks, ceilings, and tree branches to swing from them. | |
| Exploding Rocks | |
| Earnest can throw these at enemies for greater damage than the whip. The only projectile weapon. Found in the third stage. | |
| Morning Star | |
| Earnest can swing this weapon a long distance and then retract it. Found in the fourth stage. | |
| Club | |
| A strong weapon that Earnest can use to bludgeon enemies by swinging it in an arc. |
Items
| Apple | |
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| Gives Earnest another health subgauge. | |
| Roast | |
| Gives Earnest two extra health subgauges. | |
| Elixir | |
| Puts Earnest to sleep for a duration. |
Stages
| Cave of Coaterique, Mexico | |
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| Ukayari Valley, Peru | |
| Stage 3 | |
| Stage 4 | |
| Trans-Europe Express | |
| Brussels, Belgium | |
| Gobi Desert, Mongolia | |
| Stage 8 | |
| Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S.A. | |
| Final Boss | |
Production credits
Mega Drive version
- Produced by: Masaaki Uno
- Directed by: Bugtarou
- Programmed by: Bugtarou
- Graphics by: Tosio Yamamoto, Masayuki Kaneda, Kazuhiro Nagata, Jun Hoyano
- Music Composed by: Motoi Sakuraba
- Executive Producer: Masahiro Akishino
- Cooperation by: Ryota Furuya, Jun Hoyano
- Thanks to: Chikaaki Tokuhiro, Fumiaki Fukaya, Hiroshi Ogawa, Jo Asanuma
- Special Thanks to: Kazuyuki Fukushima
- All Produced by: Wolf Team
Mega-CD version
- Producer: Masaaki Uno
- Director and Main Programmer: Bug太郎
- Mega-CD Assistant Programmer: Chikaaki Tokuhiro
- Visual Support Progammer: Jun Hoyano, Osamu Watanabe, Hiroshi Ogawa, Bug太郎
- Main Graphics and Character Design: Tosio Yamamoto
- Stage Map Graphics: Tosio Yamamoto, M. Kaneda, Kazuhiro Nagata
- Visual Chief: Jun Hoyano
- Visual Graphics: Jun Hoyano, Masayuki Matsushima, Kiyoka Tajima, Mari Kimura, Yumiko Nishitani, Takeharu Isogai, Keiichi Fujita, Go Tsukasa, Hidetoshi Nakajima, Yuhji Ushijima, Mitsutoshi Yasumori, Masayuki Kaneda, Tosio Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nagata
- Music Composer: Hiroki Itou, Motoi Sakuraba
- Sound Effect: Ryota Furuya
- Executive Producer: Masahiro Akishino
- Cast
- アーネスト: Kazuki Yao
- アネット: Yuko Minaguchi
- ジーク・フリート: Ryo Hoirikawa
- シャルロット: Hiromi Tsuru
- アル・カポネ: Hideyuki Tanaka
- ウルリッヒ: Masaharu Satou
- Production and Picture continuity: Katsuhisa Yamada
- Visual Director: Tetsurou Aoki
- Visual Establishment: Hisaya Takabayashi
- Animation Works: MAD HOUSE
- CD-Sound Editor: Video Company Mitomo
- Thanks: Jo Asanuma, Fumiaki Fukaya, Z.Ando, Tadashi Hamada, Kimito Iijima, Junichiro Shibata, Uchida, Nakamura, Hisao Kunimatsu, Black kamakura
- Special thanks: Kazuyuki Fukushima
- This game is created by: Wolf Team
Magazine articles
- Main article: Earnest Evans/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
Mega Drive version
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60 |
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 Cart  Manual |
Mega-CD version
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69 |
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| Based on 13 reviews | |
| Mega-CD, JP |
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  Cover
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 Spinecard  Disc  Manual |
Technical information
- Main article: Earnest Evans/Technical information.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/mcd/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-10 17:56)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mega Play, "March/April 1992" (US; 1992-0x-xx), page 60
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 GamePro, "April 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ File:EarnestEvans MCD JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ Sega Force, "January 1992" (UK; 1991-12-12), page 10
- ↑ File:Earnest Evans MD credits.pdf
- ↑ File:EarnestEvans MCD JP SSEnding.pdf
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 66
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 70
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 26
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 309
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 MegaTech, "March 1992" (UK; 1992-02-20), page 50
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 13
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1992" (JP; 1991-12-07), page 82
- ↑ Consoles +, "Février 1992" (FR; 1992-0x-xx), page 64
- ↑ Famitsu, "1992-01-03" (JP; 1991-12-20), page 40
- ↑ Games-X, "30th January-5th February 1992" (UK; 1992-01-30), page 25
- ↑ Game Zone, "March 1992" (UK; 1992-02-21), page 51
- ↑ Hippon Super, "February 1992" (JP; 1992-01-07), page 98
- ↑ Joystick, "Février 1992" (FR; 1992-0x-xx), page 162
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1992" (JP; 1992-02-08), page 83
- ↑ Sega Pro, "March 1992" (UK; 1992-02-20), page 62
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 74
- ↑ Sega Force, "1/93" (SE; 1993-01-14), page 16
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
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Main page | Comparisons | Hidden content | Magazine articles | Reception | Region coding | Technical information | Bootlegs | |
| Annet Myer & Earnest Evans games for Sega systems | |
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| El Viento (1991) | Earnest Evans (1991) | Anetto Futatabi (1993) |