Total Eclipse is a space flight simulation video game developed and published by Crystal Dynamics for 3DO.
The player is free to accelerate, decelerate, and maneuver around to dodge obstacles and attack enemies, but the course for each stage is fixed.
When the shields reach zero, the ship explodes, a life is deducted from the player's stock, and play resumes at a checkpoint.
This wave is strong enough to destroy most enemies and installations, and stops when it reaches the game's draw distance.
The player must pilot their ship across four planets and ultimately destroy the Sun Dagger to prevent further destruction.
They highly praised the graphics but criticized that the controls are too sensitive, the music is inappropriate for the theme of some stages, and that the hit detection is overly punishing.
[9][11][14] Bob Mackey of USgamer listed Total Eclipse Turbo as one of the worst launch games for the PlayStation.