Description
The shadows... The whispers... The fear will consume you...
The intense psychological thriller of Eternal Darkness is sure to blur
reality from insanity! Travel back to several different time periods,
including the Middle Ages, Roman Times and the 19th Century to stop the
ancient evil spirits from spreading their poisonous power over the planet.
Review
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
