In Focus: Eternal Eden
Blossomsoft’s first game reminds me of the kind of game you would get if it was made in Game Maker; a highly derivative, Eastern themed JRPG with leanings towards Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. It’s not of course, but the Final Fantasy reference is an apt one, because this RPG is all about paying homage to the classics. Of course, it does so almost to a fault; the dialogue reads like a badly localized NES RPG, with silly dialog, a goof protagonist and several rivals dueling for the affection of a princess.
The game’s story is also highly derivative – perhaps unearthed from the musty smelling sarcophagus of some long forgotten JRPG. It opens in a strange land where people live hundreds of years, but never age; where a tower named after that mythological garden in the old testament holds a forbidden fruit, and where partaking of said fruit turns this small island into an empty, decaying husk of its former self.
