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A superior adventure game with plenty of secrets

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Simply the best adventure game going for GC currently, as long as you are not totally addicted to all combat all the time, and like some wandering, story, and puzzles.

The graphics are great, the procession of characters ties in with a fun storyline, and the groundbreaking and thorough magick system is a heck of a lot of fun, and way cool to watch when you cast a spell.

The insanity effects are an incredibly original addition to gameplay and will, will, will, weird you out late at night. Sometimes they'll tick you off, like the one where the screen blanks except for an operating system message which tells you your memory card is being erased and you're scrambling for a button to push! Or the volume bars that look just like the ones your remote makes on the TV show up, and start going down as the volume reduces all by itself. Or in the middle of a fun battle when it says stops, says thanks for playing the demo, buy the full game due out in 2004. Or when you shrink and can't fight, or explode for no reason, or fight tooth and nail and then find you haven't moved and didn't kill anything at all, or see the walls bleeding, or statues turning to watch as you pass, or the continuous moaning or people pounding on doors with no one there, or......

The fighting system seems odd at first, but once you get the hang of it using the joystick to direct hits is incredibly nimble and you can do some really fun slicing and dicing.

All in all, a top notch fun game even my wife is obsessed by, with lots of secret rooms and ways to make up and discover new spells all by yourself. Slick game, nice and long especially if you itend to master all three spell alignments. If any of this sounds like fun and you're not needing a game that's simply a slashing spree but still like a healthy dose of combat with some skill, combined with magic, insanity, and lots of exploration, trust me, this game is for you.

Nothing like Resident Evil

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

One game that is a must buy, It has is all, deep story, complex gameplay, puzzles, Hack and Slash battle, Persition Gun battle, and a though and ingenuis Magick system. GET THIS ONE! One more thing, make sure you get the strategy guide to.

Love It

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok.I'm a 21 year old girl and I have to say that this game is awesome.I first rented the game fell in love with it and had to buy it.I was so hooked on it that I wouldn't even go out with my friends on the weekend because I couldn't put it away.Everything about the game is incredible.I would tell anyone considering buying this game to go ahead and buy it,you won't regret it.It was pretty hard for me to beat the game in all three stages,but I finally did and there wasn't a boring minute of it!

Amazing...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. Is a unique mix of mistery, horror, magic and adventure. For the horror genre fans, I can tell that the sanity element adds a huge boost, without equivalents in other games (even RE series). So, my recomendation is: buy it, play it and beat it three times...You will don't regret.

Breaking All the Rules of Traditional Gaming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Remember a couple years ago when Silent Hill debuted for the ps1? Now, remember how incredibley different and amazingly original it was? Well,it's time to forget that now that Eternal Darkness has stolen the show. Besides twisted stories and gruesome gameplay,the definite best feature about this game is your sanity. During the course of the game you encounter grim foes who mess with your mind as you spot them. This inflicts damage on your "sanity meter". You can only guess what happens when it runs out. At first when you start to get low your character starts to talk to themselves and ask crazy questions and such. Also a srange trance like music that depicts insanity itself rush into your ears and a distorted camera tilt are also prime examples of your suffering sanity. I thought that was the extent of the side effects to your mental health but it gets better and more original as you play. Sometimes the area will trigger different things to happen with your low sanity. Such as going through a door then a flash on the screen appears and you find yourself at the entrance of the door without any clue what just happened. One of my favorite insanity effects is when a green authentic message appears on the screen saying mute and sure enough all sound cease. I paused the game and actually fumbled around for the remote and when I turned the game back on...surely enough it was just another sanity prank. Another cool one would have to be when the tv just turns off...or did it? Then suddenly jolts back on and sometimes showing a logo for the game saying to be continued. I was furious. I thought how could the game just end like that ?!? But my mind was shorting out due to the game and it was another prank on my part. You can actually feel like you are the character when playing,feeling what they are feeling and you can start to feel insane. I don't think any game has made me feel so moved in this way. Other sanity tricks include all of your body parts getting cutt of randomly(STARTING WITH YOUR HEAD) and letting you pleasantly walking around spurting away until you think you die but appear at the entrance of that door you just opened triggering your character to shout and yell "this isnt happening!" The sanity meter is the most freshly original thing I have ever experienced in all my years of gaming. No game can compare to it. This saves the game emensly from ehh certain other things. Dont get me wrong,the gameplay is good except for the fact that it feels and looks like any other adventure game. But using,combining,and forming spells with runes that you find in the menu jumpstarts the gameplay a lot. There are so many spells that you can create and find that usually are needed to uncover secrets and puzzles and others just for battle tactics. Two things I didnt like about the game had to be how all the foes you fight look exactly the same. There are some exceptions(like fighting possesed humans,creatures that fly out of humans bodies,and Naga's)but they aren't used enough. A very vast majority of the game forces you to slay countless brown zombies instead of more different creatures. The other dislike I had with this game was it's constant theme and story(or lack there of). Throughout the entire game you hear many people and big bad guys babble on about the eternal darkness and some portal opening. But not until the very end do you even get a hint to what is happening. During 99% of the game I had a giant question mark in my eyes. Who or what is this eternal darkness? Who are you guys? What is going on with the portal or what not? And when the so called story started to take shape it left me still wondering what was going on a little bit and also feeling that this has all been done before. Group of heros are chosen and fight and ancient evil to save the world. Booooooriiiiing. Like that hasn't been done. Aside from the unoriginal storyline and mostly used gameplay this game was excellent. The originality put into some of the new concepts and ideas not used before in a game can never die and that alone makes this game an instant classic.

You will come to know fear as I have...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, for those of you who think this game is dumb, a rip-off, poorly done, ect. let me say, "MAY THE RATS EAT YOUR EYES!"

Ok with that done, this game is far for a rip-off of Resident Evil. True the graphincs are not up to RE (bearly), the game play is excellent. The story is very well done. I find it interesting that you play the future villian when you first dive in. I also like the fact some of the levels take place in actual roles in history like the Inquasition, World War I, ect. (not just some time where nothing historicly happened).

This is also one of the several games where one decision at the begining will determain the best mothod for enemies and the endings. Your first charictor, Pious Agustus, determains the ultimate villain you try to prevent from coming into our universe.

In comparison to Resident Evil, this game branches off most of the time. Some of the puzzles are simular to RE. However, the use of melee weapons is excellent. Swords, axes, and other hand combat insterments are sometimes more effective than actual fireing ones. Now throw in the ability to use magical spells that you can experiment with.

Along with that, the infamous sanity meter that measures your grip on reality. You'll hear a lot about the effects of insanity in other reviews, but if you intend to buy the game, experience it for yourself. It's not as fun if you are expecting it to happen. But, I will tell you this. Your perspecive will change not only as the charicter, but the player as well (that's only if your REALLY going nuts).

And don't expect a happy ending all the time. Some of the charicters don't exactly meet a pleasent fate (or a clean one).

All in all, this game is great for anyone who likes survival horror, wants to play something other than Resident Evil (though it is a slightly better game), or just wants to see the consequences of insanity.

Oh My God!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! The graphics are great, the game play is incredible, and the game is all aound unbelieveable! You play as a variety of characters between a span of about 2,000 years. You collect magick to cast spells, but you also get to use melee and firing weapons. The are a variety of obstacles to overcome such as different emenies to beat, puzzles to solve, and stages to complete. This game is one of a kind and is worth every penny and more. The insanity effects can play tricks on your mind, and confuse you, making the game a little harder. I highly suggest you get this!

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem B00005Q8M4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Eternal Darkness is a very great game. It has 12 chapters of different great stories of the people that are ancestors to the roivas family. The best part of the game is the sanity meter. Just for fun, I would let the zombie take away my sanity or I would just not fill it up with magick and see what happens. when I first played the game, I was playing as Alex and was browsing the mansion. I went into the bathroom area towards the tub, and that one freaked the heck out of me. This game can freak you out and it will. You will also see a hanging man in the dining room. Kinda freaky too! The horrors in the game can be tough. I like to summon creatures to see them fight. I have already beaten the game 3 times and 2 have the same ending but with different Gods. The last one has to do with the Mantorok, which is the creature that is being kept in the temple where Ellia was in. I smell a sequel. I had a lot of fun with this game, you can review your autopsy from max's journal, and you can view your cinemas, which is great. The only thing wrong with this game is there is no Quit button. You would have to turn the whole thing off. Since I have jump to game mode, I was able to play as whoever but if I didn't want to play that character,I would have to turn it off and start from the beginning. One more thing in this game I do not see a Delete button either. I wanted to delete my Second block file and I can't. I don't know where people get 13 characters cause there is only 12. They must have rated it before they even bought it. C'mon buy this game, it has great graphics and beautiful music and there are some freaky voices and screams that'll freak you out and the major sanity's that occur within. Hey I had a great time with this game, and you wont be disappointed.

Eternal Darkness Is The Best Of The Best !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game today after weeks if saving my money ($10 a week). This is a excellent game. I only played the 1st chapter and i was hooked. The graphics show what gamecube has, and the sound shows that no matter what type of speakers you have it still sounds great. My favorite part of the game is the combat. I like that you can target what body parts that you want to hit. The story line is also excellent. Well I think i said why this is a great game, and I think everyone who has a game cube should get this game. Also if you dont like playing scary games like Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness is just right (Not To Scary). This is an excellent game to add to your Game Cube collection, so go buy Eternal Darkness now!!

The Best Gamecube game to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I got Eternal Darkness, I tried to convince myself that I shouldn't have bought it because I hadnt heard that much about the game but everyone was excited about it. As soon as I started playing all of that went out of the window. I cannot put the game down, it is by far the best ACTION game I have played in years. While you can compare it to survival horror, it really isnt. This game is more of just a very scary action game that isnt very hard to figure out. BUY IT NOW

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