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Eden Blues is a neat action/adventure game from ERE, French developer known
for making quirky titles. In this real-time adventure you are a prisoner of jail
guarded by droids. And you know the roster of their duty: some of them are on beat by
day, some by night. You have to find the way out of labyrinth using your legs and a
knack to bash the doors out. Your health decreases with time, and you must find the
bottles to recuperate. When you are bashing the door, your physical endurance
decreases and you must find a food to restore it. In the game you'll also find the
coins for coffee dispensing machines, but beware of talking portraits and other traps.
The game is fun, but the adventure elements are not integrated nearly as well as
OCEAN's classic The Great Escape. Your constantly decreasing health (from languishing
in prison too long, perhaps?) adds the sense of urgency for the entire game, but
fortunately those bottles are not so hard to find. Mapping is a must in this game,
otherwise you might find yourself back to where you were before, with no more bottles
to pick up. The only thing in the game that can be called "puzzle" is the need to
observe the droids' movement patterns. Even with interesting new objects you will
find every few screens, Eden Blues is simply neither as fun nor original as ERE's
other classics. Play The Great Escape instead if you want an escape-from-the-prison
action game. |
