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EXCELLENT game to play on the ( Nintendo GameCube )

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Enternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem made by: Nintendo of American is a EXCELLENT game to play on Nintendo GameCube game console

I give it 5 Stars "Highly Recommended" REALLY WORTH IT TO BUY this game & play it on your Nintendo GameCube

If anyone have a Nintendo GameCube MUST HAVE GAME TO BUY AND PLAY

Tight

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay and random freakiness is awesome. The only problem I have is the graphics. They don't stand a chance when you compare them to Resident Evil, but I still believe the game to be creepier than RE.

Resident Evil? Huh? Forgot about that game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Just kidding... Well somewhat! But I can compare this game to Resident Evil. Hey look... Alone in the Dark started the genre known as survival horror... Resident Evil came along and improved upon it, but has since become like certain franchise slasher flicks with it's endless barrage of sequels rehashing out the same thing over and over! Now we have Eternal Darkness... Well my two cents anyways!

STORY: ED is a much more sophisticated piece of storytelling than Resident Evil. I wouldn't say either are too original since ED borrows heavilly from Weird Tales golden era Cthulu Mythos and the movie In The Mouth of Madness, and RE is basically Return of the Living Dead with it's biological weapon gone awry and makes zombies theme. But I appreciated the more mysterious Lovecraftian influences in ED. Resident Evil was always like a rubik's cube to me... You know what you start off with and what you will get in the end when you finish all the puzzles. The fun is just getting there through a campy schlock filled ride! ED plays like reading a suspense-filled and mysterious epic novel that leaves RE feeling like a short pulp tale. In ED... It's far from being totally predictable! Not everything is a happy ending here!

Edge: ED

CONTROLS & CAMERA: Eternal Darkness is way smoother and refined all around in control, and the camera angles are placed perfectly through most the game! Having played the game once through at time of writing this, I counted two... Yes only two grievences with the camera in ED! Everytime I got caught up by monsters and killed I felt it was by my blunder, not a fault of the controls or the camera! As compared to several dozen such gripes in RE! Well only the most fanatical of RE fans would argue this decision...

Edge: Eternal Darkness

GRAPHICS: Here's Resident Evil fanatics last possible grasp at saying that RE can best ED in any department IMNSHO. The graphics ARE more detailed in the RE rehash for the Cube when compared ED... But only slightly! ED has beautiful textures but there are some slight jaggies! And there is a price for the slight edge in graphics... LAME load times every time you exit a room in RE as compared to in ED where you encounter NO loadtimes between rooms! Heck even when levels are loaded in ED is really quick and impressive! Needless... Peeps who say the ED's graphics totally bite are blind or flat out fibbin'! You will note a difference, but not a big one!

Edge: RE

CHALLENGE: Here is another gripe RE fans have been ranting about concerning ED... That it's way too easy! Well partly true... For the first few chapters in... Then the challenge factor really increases! RE I only found really difficult because of it's mostly inane item placement and lame controls and camer angles which get you stuck... Aggravating is probably a better word actually than difficult! ED approaches it's puzzle solving more often with common sense than RE instead of just leaving you to search from hell and back for an item needed to procede your game! If you have common sense, the game WILL be easier for you! Ammunition is more plentiful in ED, but battle is more dependent on strategy than RE with enemy weak points (Which can be found through trial or autopsies), and magik useage! And besides in RE once you know how many hits an enemy takes you always find yourself with enough ammo. The amount of different enemies is about the same in each game, with RE having the edge as far as number of bosses which was something I felt ED was lacking in. Both games rather "flow" when you get into them except for RE which has you searching to hell and back consistently for items so you can progress. I think the real deciding factor is that it took me about 4-5 hours to beat RE first time over... ED took just over 20 hours... But it's also a much larger scale game. Still like I said, we're talking epic novel vs. pulp fiction short story here so on that merit, and the need for more thought out strategies...

Edge: ED

REPLAY: Resident Evil gives you a different outfit when you beat it. Yeah whatever! ED has three different paths cummilating in different battle strategies and endings. Easy victor here...

Edge: ED

FINAL THOUGHT: I liked Resident Evil very much, but I didn't out and out love it because of it's flaws and rather trite storyline. With numerous sequels and rehashes it also became obvious that Capcom didn't feel the need to improve or evolve much of anything in their franchise except for graphics which for me is not the sole selling point of a game! With Eternal Darkness I finally have the horror game I've been waiting years for! Rich epic story, plenty of original elements to this genre, and mayhaps most welcom of all... Refined gameplay!

OVERALL: ED

And if your still wondering... Just rent it! Do yourself a favor though before passing judgment and play ED for more than the first few chapters!

Eternal Darkness kicks RE's...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, it's finally here. It started as an N64 title but was then ported to the GC. It was released on the day where the planets aligned, which, coincidentally, plays a major part in the game's plot. Now for my oft dreaded review.
GRAPHICS:Excellent. Not amazing (Metroid Prime) but the textures and water effects are nice. Blood could use work.
GRAPHICS OVERALL:8.5

GAMEPLAY:This is what you bought the game for. You've heard about the Sanity Meter and thought it looked pretty cool. IT IS. In this kind of game nothing is cooler than, at the beginning of the WWI level, walking by a poster that depicts a grinning soldier with the words(in French) JOIN THE ARMY. This helps get a sense of atmosphere. Even better is walking by ten minutes later with low sanity and, out of the corner of your eye, noticing the soldier has been replaced with a demon. A bit unsettled, you walk away from the poster. The instant the camera leaves the wall, you here a squelching noise and turn around. Blood is squirting from behind the poster, dribbling down the wall, and making a spreading puddle on the floor. Very Stephen King. Why am I talking about Sanity Effects instead of gameplay? Read about gameplay in some other review, dang it.
GAMEPLAY OVERALL: 10.0

SOUND: The music is superb. Even better is the creepy soundtrack when your sanity gets low.
SOUND OVERALL: 10.0

CREATIVITY:Best plot I've seen in a game. Can you say H.P. Lovecraft? Each character is brought to life through amazing voice acting. From the encentric(read: borderline insane)Maximilian Roivas to the peerless Michael Edwards, all seem like real people.
CREATIVITY OVERALL: 9.5

GAME OVERALL: 10.0

dude wheres my car

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is the shiznit...it is CREEPY and SCARY (nice adjectives, eh?)...it is so fantasy like and there are parts where you have no idea what the he[ck] is happenin and that is normal...also, beware of THE BATHTUB SCENE...that haunted me for a while..aight..i g2g play it hehee...cya

While a good game...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Eternal Darkness is a good game, infact it's a great game but without a guide it can become one of the most frustrating gaming experiences you can have. Like many American games that leave you hanging, not knowing what to do, Eternal Darkness suffers horribly from this. Otherwise, a very good game with an incredibly addicting story. However, I suggest either getting a guide with the game or if you haven't already, Resident Evil is much more enjoyable play overall than Eternal Darkness.

Eternal Darkness -gewd? ....To an extent...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Eternal is a fresh survival-horror game that I have the utmost respect for. The reason for this is the innovative concept of "sanity" that one must maintain in order to view the very good looking world as a normal person would. The enemies can be somewhat intimidating at times, and they also have digusting sounds when they walk. The "Magick" system is great, and not too hard to understand. However, I found the fighting system bland and repetative. Aim for the arm, hack it off, or you can hack the head off, which will magic(k)ly grow back eventually if you don't kill it right away. How this happens is beyond me. So, there's nothing revolutionary about the fighting system. But the complex story line and the multitude of playable characters are what keeps you playing.

Simply Put

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game for the nintendo gamecube thus far, I believe Super Mario Sunshine will be tied with this for best title. I love this game so much, even going insane isn't bad, it's actually quite fun. The magick's easy to get used to, the characters are easy to control and the camera angles are very nice. This game has actually freaked me out on some occasions. For a couple of weeks I stopped playing it right when I got to Maximillion Roivas. The mansion in his time is just creepy, and frightfull. I finally worked up enough courage and I'm at the end of it battleing the last boss right now. I'm glad I bought this game, it's probably the best game I've ever invested in. More titles like this will be heading there way to the gamecube, and I'll be there with 50 bucks in my pocket purchasing each one. Don't dissapoint yourself, get this game.

Great game...not the best ever but pretty damn close

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

ok...i loved this game, i really did. Its got all u want in a video game and more. It really isnt that scary at all (there was only a couple times in the entire game wen i waz really freaked out) the insanity effects are really cool but its so easy to get rid of them and pretty easy to avoid them altogether if ure an expert player. sometimes i just leave it down cuz theyre cool. DO NOT ASK PEOPLE WUT THE EFFECTS ARE BEFORE U PLAY THE GAME CUZ IT WILL RUIN A LOT OF SURPRISES LIKE IT DID 4 ME. If they made the entire game with insanity effects throughout then wed really be gettin somewhere. the controls are easy to learn and the magic system is complicated at first but soon gets really easy. the replay value is good..yet the game lacks constant action. It gets kinda boring facin the same guys over and over (there r only like 6-7 different bad guys in the entire game) There r three paths red blue and green, theyre the same story pretty much just different enemies. I beat it all three times and u c a different ending the third time (its not that amazing but i think its leadin to a sequel) It dosent have the action of say 007 but wat horror game really does. I never played resident evil so i really cant compare the two. Whoever sez this is a really hard game tho ust be like a five year old or something cuz wen u get used to it its real easy (I beat it on my third time in like 7 hours) most of the puzzles r easy too but a couple just [make you mad]off and force u to go on the internet and look at a guide. Overall great game and i recommend it even with its few minor flaws. Im only 13 but this review is alot more accurate than a few others so really take in wut i sed cuz its the truth.

Wha...tHiS CaNt bE ReAl

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

From hence forth "Eternal Darkness" will be refered to as ED.

ED is a refreshing change to the "Resident Evil" style of horror games. The games plot isnt anything groundbreaking, girl's uncle dies, girl goes to creepy old mansion, girl is alone in mansion all night, girl fights bad things. What is new about ED is the fact that you get to play the background story that leads up to the current story as well as the current story....followin' me? A sanity meter has also been added. The sanity meter measures the amount of mental stability your character has left, as the meter goes down your character as well as you the player actually start to see and hear things. The first time i experienced one of these mental 'slips' it freaked me and my friends out, and we are grown men.

The graphics are nothing to get excited about (about on par with what the Game Cube is putting out so far), the xbox still has far superior graphics. The game controls are near perfect and the camera angles are also almost perfect. I highly recomend ED to all Game Cube owners!

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