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In Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, A man from ancient times, Pious Augustus, has taken control of a terrible force and you play through a series of tasks as different characters that will eventually lead you to stopping Augustus from summoning the evil force that will eventually lead to the world's doom.
There are three different ways to go about this game, depending on which artifact Pious Augustus chooses. This means that you will have to go through what is basically the same storyline three times. The lack of difference in the three paths makes the game rather boring; the only differences are what enemies you run into, the order in which you get the red, green, and blue runes, and slight differences in what the characters talk about. Everything else (the traps, the puzzles, etc.) is exactly the same in all three paths. You even go through all of the same stages, in the same order! "yawn" Boring.
The gameplay time is very short; it takes only 10-20 hours to go through the storyline one time. And it get shorter everytime since you will most likely remember what you have to do to get to the next situation. Also, none of the enemies are all that difficult to get past. You almost never have to ration your ammunition for guns; ammunition is too abundant.
The only thing you get for completing the game through all three paths is a cutscene. I was expecting to have access to the "purple artifact story" (if you actually play this game, you will know what I am talking about). In fact, the cutscene leads you to believe that you will gain access to the "purple artifact story". What a big disappointment...
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This game will hook you in and engross you in it's ingenuity. I have NEVER played a game like this. It's about time a company thought up of something so original and refreshing. You play as a modern day college student who learns of her grandfather's gruesome death. She stumbles upon a book and as she reads each chapter, she experiences it first hand. You'll end up playing from a Roman Legionnaire, Cambodian dancer, to a early 1900's Doctor. Each character uses weapons authentic to it's time. Not only do you have swords and guns at your disposal, you'll have magic spells. What sets this game apart from the others is the Sanity Meter. As you encounter enemies your Sanity Meter will drop and STRANGE things start happening. I won't go into that because you'll have to experience it first hand to know what I'm talking about. With the combination of EXCELLENT game play, graphics and sound, you won't go wrong with this game. So it's up to you to investigate his mansion and unravel the clues to prevent the world from, you guessed it, Eternal Darkness.
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I was hesitant to get Eternal Darkness simply because I thought that it would be another wasted Resident Evil look-alike that was terrible. However, after reading many great reviews of Eternal Darkness, I simply knew that I had to get it! Let me say right away that I wasn't disappointed by the game! In fact, it's the most original game to ever come to a platform, and it started a new genre, psychological horror. This genre tampers into your brain, using something known as a Sanity System. When the sanity of your character becomes low, you begin to experience things such as blood running down walls, T.V. visuals such as MUTE on and the screen going black while it says VIDEO on it, and then you go back to the game as your character wimpers. This adds a lot to the game, and it gives the whole gaming world a little something extra!
In the game, the plot is consisting around three ancient artifacts and the Ancients, a powerful race of aged beings, consisting of monsters such as zombies, giant bear-looking things, and spider-like creatures known as Guardians. All of the creatures live in an ancient city, and as twelve characters spanning 2000 years, you must defeat the darkness and save the light. This is another awesome feature, where you play as anything from an ancient Roman soldier to a modern-day Canadian firefighter. You will have a variety of spells and weapons to use, such as anything from Flintlock Pistols to military OICWs. Most game do not have numerous characters, and this feature make Eternal Darkness all the more interesting. The graphics are good, especially since Nintendo had to remake them(this game was supposed to come out of N64). The sound is good, with haunting music and pretty good voiceovers. Combat can be weak, but the slashing of zombies a thousand times over with a magically enhanced sword should give you pleasure in fighting! Gameplay is smooth, and the controls are easy to get used to, much easier than Resident Evil's odd control scheme. Puzzles are complex but not impossible, unlike RE's which could take days to figure out how to solve. The game is fairly linear without much coming-and-going such as in RE, and it is definitely not as linear as first-person shooters, which is a sigh of relief! You'll find the game to be a joyful experience for any gamer out there, and if you like Nintendo games or anything with Resident Evil schemes this game may just have a place in your gaming heart!
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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.
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Eternal Darkness is insanely good (pun intended). It's got 15 playable characters, an outstanding story, 3 different game paths, insanity effects, a perfect camera, and more. One of the best games available on GameCube.
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