(エヴァーグレイス, Evāgureisu)

Evergrace (エヴァーグレイス, Evāgureisu) is a 2000 Japanese action role-playing game (RPG/JRPG) developed by FromSoftware for the Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) and published by Agetec in North America (Ubisoft and Crave Entertainment in PAL territories). In North America Evergrace was one of Agetec's three launch titles for the Playstation 2, which include Eternal Ring and Armored Core 2.

The soundtrack for the game was created by FromSoftware's in-house band FreQuency and chiefly composed by Kota Hoshino. Prior to the conception of Evergrace, Hoshino wanted to a create unique kind of sound he could keep to himself and he expressed gratitude to the game's developers for allowing him the freedom to express this vision through the game's musical score. Takeuchi had been told that there were very few technical differences between the PS1 and PS2 and with the PS1 soundtrack for Evergrace already completed, he said that the team tried simply inserting this music into the nearly-finished PS2 version. The producer asked the sound team to improve the audio fidelity but they found the songs themselves did not fit the new version, so the music was completely reworked alongside the rest of the game. Hoshino stated that voices are used as the primary "instrument" for the game's sound. Hoshino recorded samples of his own voice and edited them with Soundforge, then recorded more voice samples to create what he considered to be an ethnic sound. Japanese instruments such as the shakuhachi and the shamisen were also added, while all of the percussion was synthesized.

IGN gave some praise to the game for its innovations at the time, including its full use of the DualShock 2 controller's buttons and the unique "paper doll" system in which the player's avatar actually visibly wears the armor and clothing assigned to it.

Evergrace features two main characters, Darius the swordsman and Sharline the homemaker, with two distinctly different storylines and different battle techniques. The game allows players to switch between characters at any save point, and uses an experience system dependent on items and equipment rather than statistical upgrades. Another feature is the Palmira Action System which allows players to improve the physical abilities of their characters by combining specialized crystals with their armaments.

Evergrace also features a bonus dungeon that is named after Shadow Tower, another game by FromSoftware, a company often known for including past game references in their games. The Moonlight Sword, for example, a weapon that originated in their flagship series, King's Field, also appears in Evergrace as well as its follow-up, Forever Kingdom.