Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
| Eternal Darkness | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Silicon Knights |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) |
Denis Dyack Tatsuya Hishida Hiroyuki Yamada |
| Producer(s) |
Shigeru Miyamoto Satoru Iwata Kenji Miki |
| Designer(s) | Brad Furminger Ted Traver |
| Programmer(s) | Doug Tooley Carey Murray |
| Artist(s) | Ken McCulloch |
| Writer(s) | Denis Dyack Ken McCulloch |
| Composer(s) | Steve Henifin |
| Engine | CryEngine |
| Platform(s) | GameCube |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 91% |
| Metacritic | 92/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |    |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| Famitsu | 32/40 |
| Game Informer | 9.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 9.4/10 |
| IGN | 9.6/10 |
| Shadow of the Eternals | |
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| Developer(s) | Precursor Games |
| Director(s) | Denis Dyack |
| Engine | CryEngine 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Wii U |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a psychological horror action-adventure video game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The game was originally planned for the Nintendo 64. The game's setting is centered on a mansion in Rhode Island—the home of protagonist Alexandra Roivas' grandfather—and a book that Alexandra finds there. It utilizes a third-person view in which the player must navigate a number of locations as twelve characters spanning different time periods, as well as "sanity effects" to enhance the gameplay.
Though not a commercial success, Eternal Darkness was widely praised, winning numerous awards. While a direct follow-up was cancelled by the copyrights holder Nintendo, and Silicon Knights bankrupted and disbanded, the game's writer and director Denis Dyack has been attempting to make a spiritual successor titled Shadow of the Eternals.
The action in Eternal Darkness is divided between four principal locations. The game skips back and forth through time when the player begins or ends each chapter. The locations include the Forbidden City in Persia, a Cambodian temple in Angkor Thom, the Oublié Cathedral in Amiens, France, and the Roivas family mansion with the Ruined City of Ehn'gha in Rhode Island, United States.
The plot of the game revolves around Alexandra Roivas, who is investigating the mysterious murder of her grandfather Edward Roivas. While exploring his Rhode Island mansion, she discovers a secret room containing, among other odd items, a book bound with human skin and bone. When she reads this book, The Tome of Eternal Darkness, she experiences a scene in the life of Pious Augustus, a respected Roman military commander in 26 BC. Pious is led by mysterious voices to an underground temple, where he chooses one of three mysterious artifacts. The artifact transforms him into an undead warlock, the Liche, and makes him slave to one of three Ancients, powerful godlike beings whose "Essences" are incarnated as the artifacts. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that Pious is attempting to summon his Ancient into this reality, while the powerful fourth "Corpse God" Mantorok is bound on Earth already, apparently helpless to stop it. If this summoning came to pass, the Ancient would feast on the bodies and souls of all living beings, and cast the universe into the horror of eternal darkness.
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