[RETRO GAMING] Remember the Eternal Darkness title on GameCube: Sanity’s Requiem?
As good as psychological horror games Silent Hill 2 hard to find, but when you have one, it’s guaranteed to leave a mark on every gamer’s memory.
The goal of any psychological horror game is to give the player the impression that they are living an interactive nightmare that they can barely escape. The mechanics that confuse the player’s mind while playing make the game more difficult than normal.
Eternal Darkness: The Requiem of Health is one of those games.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem Story, Gameplay
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It’s pretty hard not to get nervous while playing when a bust that shouldn’t move is looking your way.
Eternal Darkness: The Requiem of Health Eternal Darkness is a psychological horror game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo GameCube in June 2002, according to the Wiki.
The game tells the story of Alexandra Roivas during her visit to her grandfather’s house. There he finds a book called “Repentance of Eternal Darkness” and reads it, having the following experiences.
Twelve playable characters set in the early first century past.
eternal darkness plays similar Resident EvilIn this game, players control playable characters using a fixed third-person camera to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. By doing this, they progress through the game’s story and ultimately learn more about the game’s overall story.
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But the game won’t let players do that easily. On the contrary Resident Evil which uses its monsters as a means of scaring the player, Eternal Darkness instead it uses game mechanics.
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The game is one of the few games that shows the game’s spine-chilling situations affect a playable character to show how scared they are. For this, the game uses “sanity effects” – hallucinations in which the characters and the player experience in tandem.
According to IGN, if a character’s sanity bar drops too low, the player will notice certain changes in the game that can horrify and even disturb them. This could be the death of a character after passing through certain doors, a character’s head falling off the screen while reciting lines from Hamlet, or even a fake system error.
There is a way to increase the player character’s Intelligence, but it also has its own effect on Intelligence.
Will it be a remaster or a remake?
According to Gamespot and Metacritic, the game was praised by critics and players alike for its horror, inventive gameplay, and attention to detail. However, the game was not a financial success.
Nevertheless, the game became one of the most popular games on the Nintendo Gamecube and became a cult classic.
The game was memorable enough that gamers and even game developers wanted the game to be rebuilt or even just remastered. Eternal Darknessin vain.
Even after releasing the first Nintendo 64 games on the Nightdive platform, Nintendo is still “slippery” about working with third-party game developers, according to Game Rant’s interview with Nightdive Studios CEO Steven Kick.
The statement means that Nintendo isn’t sure about remaking or remastering the game on the Switch or even the Wii U, although it has previously patented the concept of a sanity counter, possibly for future sequels to the game. Unfortunately, this patent has expired, allowing other games like this Amnesia: The Dark Descent to present something similar.
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