Here we are in the Ocean of Origin.
EVO Search For Eden Soundtrack - The OceanI'm probably not going to link much to the music in this game, because most of it is variations of the same awful melody. This is probably one of the best tracks on the soundtrack, and they blow it on the opening chapter.
There you're!
Jellyfish: Welcome to the world, where the rule is only the fittest shall survive. Look newcomer! You better listen to the rules of this world. There are the three. One - "Fight for survival and for food." Two - "Only move forward never back." The last is "Evolve and become strong." Well, this is a very dangerous world isn't it? Are you afraid of it? The weak and flabby will be easy to defeat. What about you, newcomer?
Hey! I don't have to take any lip from an invertebrate!
TINYFISH used BITE!
Jellyfish have 2 HP, so it takes two chomps with my tiny, weak jaws to fell one. But once I do, it inexplicably turns into an on-bone roast! And jellyfish don't even have bones! Or meat!
Eating the jellyfish corpse nets me +10 EP (the white number) and heals +2 HP (the red number). EP are evolution points, which I can cash in for new body parts.
Plants are easy targets, since they don't move and can't attack, but only restore HP.
Starting status. Pretty weak.
Classification is what kind of animal you are.
Hit point max is pretty self-explanatory. As you evolve different parts, your maximum will go up.
Biting power, strength, kick, strike, and horn are different attacks. I can bite for Bite damage and tackle enemies for Strength damage if I get a decent running start. Needless to say, horn and kick attacks will have to wait until I have a horn or feet.
Defense power is damage reduction. When hit, your defense is subtracted from the damage you take. Oddly, it is also reduced from any healing you get from eating meat or plants.
Agility determines how fast I can swim.
Jumping ability determines how far I can jump should I swim up to the water's surface and leap out of it.
Which isn't much.
Jellyfish to 1 HP of collision damage, and 2 HP if they successfully snap with a tentacle. It took some doing to get this screenshot; I'm not actually getting beaten half to death by jellyfish.
Anyway, a crash course on Darwinism-via-Japanese is the most interesting thing in the Ocean of Origin, so moving on...