Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem

dmcdante

Hi All was looking at this for the gamecube anyone no if its worth getting i like all the resident evils so is this all so worth getting
Thanks all

martineatworld

I'd encourage you to get a copy.

Really fills the survival horror niche on the GC, as it's the only real game available apart from the Resident Evil series. Personally I prefer Resi but I would definitely recommend it if you've made your way through those games.

CiDeRmAn

Not the same as the Resi's, a great game though.
Episodic in nature you play a series of characters, can't tell you too much but the dev did go out of their way to mess with your head.
Best to go into it blind, without reading too much, and you'll get a greater thrill and chill from it as it unfolds.
A real pants soiler at times, a number two in my "Scary Games" list, after Silent Hill 2.

Retr0gamer

Didn't think this game was scary at all really and it's a terrible game to play. However I think what saves it and makes it well worth playing is the fantastic story and how well it's told. Don't expect to enjoy it the whole way through but it's worth slogging through the bad bits to find out what happens.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0 = Contrary

Retr0gamer

Ah come on you have to admit the gameplay is rubbish. Walking through rooms running up to zombies and picking which limb to hit. Same zombies everytime as well. We all know you've a hard on for Lovecraft and will forgive anything influenced by it :P

CiDeRmAn

I have not got a hard on for Lovecraft...
Ok, maybe a little one (no sniggering down the back!).

I liked the vulnerability of your characters, the shocks as you don't quite prosper as some of them, unlike other games where its EPIC FAIL when your character snuffs it, here it's required!
Also, the revisiting of levels as a new character separated by a couple of hundred years from the first playthrough, is brilliant.
The only bit not fun for me was the overworld, or the present days scenes.
I enjoyed revisiting the church as well,
And the first visit to the big boss there, always figured I last longer...
One character gets a nice premonition of his own end, and some of the moments of insanity were nice too.
If you are going to crib about enemies and movement, sure remember RE, moving like a tank, most of the time, the same shambling messes coming for you.
Now, don't get this confused with the superior REmake.
It doesn't compare well to REmake, but then that took everyone by surprise.

Jack burton

I keep hearing lovecraft everwhere recently, and lovecraftian themes in games.

I feel I'm missing out on havge never read any lovecraft, I dont even know what cithluiu is!

But yeah Eternal Drkness, great game!

dmcdante

Zombies you say think i will pick this one up then thanks all

CiDeRmAn

Lovecraft was a brilliant author, his fiction was not quite horror, but a blend of sci-fi and horror, Mountains of Madness being a good primer.
After that Color out of space, Call of Cthulhu and Shadow out of time are all fantastic.
Well worth picking up are the three books, I think by penguin, that have pretty much everything in them, brilliant stuff.
The only fly in the ointment are the constant racist overtones in his description of his characters, different racial types associated with good, bad, evil and so on.

But, still, well worth getting into

K.O.Kiki

Lovecraft was derided as a mere pulp-author in his time.
It is only now that we appreciate his madness.

MADNESS, I TELL YE!!

Also I played through Eternal Darkness 3x in 2 days. I think that says it all. (hint: IT'S GOOD!)

paperwork

Oh its a deadly game! While the fight system isnt really that well presented, especially with melee weapons, it makes up for it in other ways... great magic system that isnt over complicated, interesting story and the series of levels based around the french church are some of the most memorable and ambient in any game i've ever played.

Also, i don't know if this is just rose tinted glasses, but from what i remember the voice acting is very good.

Retr0gamer

It's not rose tinted specs, the voice acting is superb as are the production values. Jennifer Hale is a standout as always. Love the little touches like when it's set in Roman times the actors speak latin before it morphs into english.

nmblade

I think if you're a general horror fan and prefer a story driven game that requires minimal action to progress then it's worth purchasing.

Nice atmospheric type horror. Well worth a go, shouldn't take any longer than two days to a weekend for completing.

CiDeRmAn

Some games are like a book of genre fiction, very easy to get through but being very enjoyable and it can linger long long after you have completed it.
Sometimes, in games, you don't need to trawl through endless cutscenes, or grind your way building up stats, or die in a thousand unlucky ways, or die a thousand times in the same bloody way, to make the experience worthwhile.
To return to the book analogy, sometimes a short story or novella can say twice as much, be twice as enjoyable as a brick of a novel, with dozens of sequels.

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

To return to the book analogy

he he

dmcdante

So got this game for christmas and only played around 20 min and it is really dark looks like it should be fun really looking forward to cracking in to this