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