Lynn's Legacy: The Review Written by MystikShadows (August, 2006) ABOUT THE GAME: Lynn's Legacy is one of the newest games created by none other than chaOs and Josia Tobin. The game features some very original artwork, excellent sound tracks and really reflects so great quality coding, the kind I've come to expect from chaOs and Josia. Just to get you curious, I've assembled some screenshots right here. Note that I've kept it to basic screenshots to keep you curious, if you want to see more (and there is a whole lot more to see) go ahead and play the game. I don't know about you, but I think these screenshots (and the rest of the game) pretty much speak for themselves, You can tell right here how much quality Lynn's Legacy is all about. But you don't have to take my word for it. Just have a look at This thread on FreeBasic.net to hear what many others had to say. And then to really make your own mind up, get the game and play it. The game features some simple keyboard and/or gamepad usage that makes it easy to just sit down and play it. THE LYNN'S LEGACY REVIEW: As with all my reviews, the game will be reviewed based on my regular specific characteristics when evaluating a game. These characteristics are: Playability: Basically, how long it takes before you can efficiently play the game. Some games will require you to learn alot of key combinations and different things like that before you can do everything in the game. Some games are worth the learning too. But not all of them. Replay Value: This is the ability for a game to keep you coming back for more. Sometimes you'll notice you should have taken something at the beginning of the game that you didn't. Also, some games will hide things from you, make it hard to even know they are there. Next time around you'll want to make sure you don't miss a thing. These kind of things (and the simple urge to do better next time) are part of the "replay value" of the game. Overall Entertainment: Well this encompasses everything about the game, the combination of great graphics (or screen designs), sound and music, coherence in story and adventure to form a package that's worth playing from start to end. This defines the overall entertainment of a game. Technical Features: This part essentially covers how well the game was coded (not by looking at the source code but basically how much effort into the source it must have taken to bring out the game as we see and play it). So then, without waiting any longer, let's begin the review of this newly released game that is Lynn's Legacy: PLAYABILITY: 9/10 Lynn's Legacy, being a classic Zelda inspired game has some pretty simple means of letting the user play the game. Everything can be controlled either from the keyboard or (newly added feature) from a gamepad joystick. There's no complicated keyboard combinations to learn and remember, the gameplay is therefore simple and quick to get into. For this reason, Lynn's Legacy gets a 9 out of 10. REPLAY VALUE: 10/10 There's something to be said about this "genre" of game. Still today I hear about people playing Zelda (the classic version even). Games like these just keep you coming back for more by definition almost. Add to that the beautiful graphics, exquisite sound and music, a good story line with a good couple humoristic twists and you have yourself a perfect combination to just keep on playing. For this reason, a perfect 10 out of 10 on replay value is more than warranted. OVERALL ENTERTAINMENT: 8/10 Ok, so the game might not have the flashy OpenGL 3D visual aspects. But as I mentionned before, a game should be reviewed based on the type of game it is. As far as games in the "genre" of Lynn's legacy, it offers some very unique combination of fights, humor, story, excellent graphics, smooth scrolling, and you name it. Everything just seems to fit together. But even if you take all that eye candy out, Lynn's Legacy texts alone are entertaining. For that reason, I give it an 8 out of 10 on overall entertainment. TECHNICAL VALUE: 9/10 As far as gaming goes, Lynn's Legacy features some great technological savy. Game saving right in the game's graphics, good pixel collision, smooth stable graphics and game play. I can only imagine the kind of small scale wizardry it must have taken to bring all this together this well to bring us a game like Lynn's Legacy. chaOs and Josia Tobin really deserve a great pat on the back to say the least. They also prove that great teamwork can accomplish some great things. For those reasons I give Lynn's Legacy a 9 out of 10 for it's technical value. THE FINAL VERDICT: 36/40 (90%) What can I say. The best way to review the game for yourself is to sit down and play it. And after, if you can manage to pry yourself off of the game you'll see for yourself just how good Lynn's Legacy is. You'll see that the comments made on that forum thread I posted above are simply not exagerated. Lynn's Legacy is a great entertaining game that deserves every bit of any credit that are given to it. The developers of that game get my two thumbs up. If you want to play the game for yourself, you can get it from this location. Go there, download it, play it and you'll see just how well put together that game is on all aspects of game design and development. Definitaly worth your download and installation time. This is MystikShadows closing this review by saying "PLAY ON!". MystikShadows Stéphane Richard MystikShadows@gmail.com