A very good shooter with a good plot.
I can see Legend of Eden becoming a great shooter. As a HUGE FAN of shooter games, I ranked this and compared it to some of my favorite Flash related shooter games since comparing to something like a Konami shooter series or Technosoft shooter series wouldn't have been fair. Here's my breakdown: GRAPHICS - Very simply drawn but it came across very well once I saw the animation. The backgrounds were nicely done, especially in the first area where you could see the Frigate in the background firing it's cannons and flashing it's revolving strobe lights. The enemies were pretty repetitive, but the way the bosses were designed were pretty creative. You did an excellent job programming the action-scripting. Of course, things still affect your ships shields even though they should not like when you've shot down an enemy ship, your shields still go down even though the enemy has completely been destroyed/disintegrated or when you're going against the Blue Dragon Boss.... the Blue Dragon can still damage you even though it's barely touching the FLAMES of your Interceptor's exhaust. Change those details and you've got a great game. SOUND - Nice choice in music. The 2nd stage's music was easier to listen to than the 1st stage's but I suppose it's all on personal preference. The sound effects were clear but got repetitive after a while. INTERACTIVITY - To me, shooters should be played with control sticks or a really good cross-pad and not with keyboard buttons. But since you really don't have a choice in Flash, I would have to say the controls were precise. Again, it's repetitive because all you have to do is control the ship and keep the space bar held down for auto fire. STYLE - Legend Of Eden has a great plot to it and shooter games are always fun (IMHO), but the game got a bit (again) repetitive because all you really had to do was sweep up and down to clear the enemies from the screen. However, the bosses were a challenge, especially the 2nd stage Mid-Boss (Spiral-Eye). VIOLENCE - You killed many living organisms once you reached Eden. :P HUMOR - Well, what I found funny was the appearance of the bosses. OVERALL - You've got a good game on your hands if you correct a few things that I mentioned. Add some power ups (besides the SHIELD UP which only appears ONCE!) as well as some enemy variety and you'll have an even better game. WELL DONE