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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Platform : GameCube
Mature 4.6 out of 5 stars
Metascore: 92 / 100
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Battle a cosmic evil across space and time in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. From swords to guns to mind-warping spells, you'll use an array of weapons in this epic adventure that unfolds over thousands of years. A new style of psychological thriller, the adventure gets even more frenzied as you battle your own dwindling sanity. Made in USA.
It's often argued that Nintendo makes the best video games in the world, but one thing the company isn't known for is scary games. If you thought Luigi's Mansion was frightening, then quite frankly you've led a sheltered life. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, however, is the real deal: it's scary, it's gory, and it's really nothing like Resident Evil at all. The game starts when you find out your grandfather has had his clogs popped by some unspeakable monster. While rummaging through his stuff (alone, at night, in his huge mansion) you come across a jolly little hardback called The Tome of Eternal Darkness, and upon reading it you suddenly find yourself controlling a Roman centurion in 26 B.C. Persia. And this is how the game continues--you find and read a passage of the book in the mansion and then control a series of 11 completely different characters over the course of two millennia. Apart from the innovative structure of the game, the other big selling points of Eternal Darkness are its sanity effects--every time you see a monster and fail to kill it your sanity level will drop. If it drops too far, you start seeing things: flies walking along the inside of your screen, messages telling you your controller is unplugged when it clearly isn't, and all sorts of other clever freakery. The game's not perfect, though; the combat is a little too fiddly, and it's still not quite as scary as Silent Hill, but Eternal Darkness is an unusual and rewarding title that should finally shut up those annoying twerps that insist Nintendo only makes games for kids. --David Jenkins -- Amazon.co.uk Product Details
ASIN: B00005Q8M4
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,165 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWaiting for a Call of Cthulhu video game? Look no further..
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the most engrossing games for serious gamers.
AgeEighty
The opinions I've read below on this game seem to be about 80% who absolutely love it and 20% who hate it, and as far as I can tell the people who hate it are either young children who can't appreciate anything other than a hack-n-slash gorefest, folks who prefer shallow, poorly constructed games such as Resident Evil, or worst of all, people who only played it for five minutes or not at all. I fall in with those who love it.Eternal Darkness didn't get the promotion or the acclaim it deserved when it came out, but don't let that fool you. It's still one of the best games on any of the current generation of consoles, hands down.This game is all about mood. Play it at night with all the lights out. Everything from the lighting to the ambient sounds is designed to establish a creepy feeling, and it really hits home in several key parts, especially when your sanity meter is running low.Ah, the sanity meter. Yes, it's every bit as crazy as you've read. One reviewer wrote that there are only 10 different insanity effects. He most likely avoided going insane most of the way through the game, because the truth is there are around 100 different effects, ranging from minor things you'll barely notice to "What the...?" I won't spoil them for you, as they're one of the best parts of the game.It's got a compelling storyline and a mythos based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. You control 13 different playable characters who all exist at different points in history. Although there are really only 4 different stages, each of which is repeated a few times by different characters, the stages do change from one visit to the next, sometimes making them very different places from last time you saw them.Read more ›
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Game With An Innovative New Feature
This is the first survival-horror game that I've ever played. I never really got into the genre, but this game always intrigued me. I read about it when it first came out, and the game's new feature of the sanity meter sounded really cool. One of my friends (who is now my roommate) has the game, so I finally tried it, and was blown away.Right from the beginning, things start off creepy, and they only get worse (which, for players, means better). You start out as Alex Roivas, a young woman in her 20's whose grandfather was recently murdered. The police are stumped, because there doesn't appear to be any sign of a break-in, nor does it look like Grandpa Edward Roivas put up much of a fight. This would normally lead to a ruling of suicide, but the state in which they found the body makes suicide an impossibility. Alex decides to investigate herself, and you navigate her grandfather's mansion. Everything in it references the dark and macabre, from paintings of murderers to books in the library about some of the darkest periods in history (the Inquisition, the Salem witch burnings). Eventually, Alex discovers a book called the Tome of Eternal Darkness. When she reads it, she is transported to another time, place, and body. Whenever players "read" a new chapter of the book, they take over as another character in another historical period. A Roman centurion, a young Cambodian girl, a British photographer, and a few of the Roivas ancestors are just a few of the people that you'll control throughout the ages.As the story unfolds (which depends on a choice you make as the centurion), you learn about the Ancients, three god-like beings fighting for control of the world, and if one is summoned, will reign destruction upon the galaxy.Read more ›
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent game as it does not rely on just bloody ...
Excellent game as it does not rely on just bloody scenes but rather on psychological effects to cause the horror effect.
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Published 2 months ago by Douglas
5.0 out of 5 starsremember this in my early teens im gunna get this back for my...
Oohhhh where to begin, ohhhh the memories of being frightened this game still looks excellent plays excellent and is just the music shivering still scary after all of these years,...
Published 3 months ago by poisonus pedals
5.0 out of 5 starsPlease Remake!
One of the greatest games of all time.
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Published 5 months ago by Rene Rosado
4.0 out of 5 starsbut it was still fun to play through
The game has not aged particularly well, but it was still fun to play through.
Published 5 months ago by Matthew
2.0 out of 5 starsGet photos beforehand.
The game did not include the instruction manual as described.The game also appeared to be a rental store copy as the magnetic strip was torn off the back leaving a...
Published 5 months ago by Julian
Really scary game! That's all I need to say haha
Published 7 months ago by lance gancia robson
If you have a Game cube or a wii that'll play GameCube games you need this.
Published 7 months ago by grrblah
Amazing game
Published 8 months ago by dm
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