Review: Eternal Darkness

**bahn** · 02 Jul 2002, 04:17 AM

Directions: Purchase, play, enjoy. Insanity effects served optionally.

<i>Eternal Darkness</i> is the fruits of Silicon Knights' labor over the past four years or so. The pride of London, Ontario, Canada, Silicon Knights had made it a point to keep their little baby under wraps for as long as humanly possible in order to give gamers a truly unique experience, and delivered they have. Despite numerous delays and a switch from the N64 to the GameCube during development, <i>Eternal Darkness</i> is Nintendo's first real killer app for 2002, which undoubtedly heralds the coming of the rest of its lineup.

Got the lights on? Good...read the full review <a href="http://www.the-nextlevel.com/reviews/gamecube/eternaldarkness">here</a>.

Warning: Spoiler materials included...don't say we didn't warn you.

**Despair** · 02 Jul 2002, 10:11 AM

Another, good review Reno

Keep up a good work

I also been enjoying ED, and right now, on the last chapter of the game, and once I finish it, there will another run

As I said before, it controls very well, and camera system is good for majority of the time, except when there are some items in foreground, that can block the view of your character behind them.

Combat works great, but sometimes its not very easy to targed multiple enemies, when surrounded.

Magick system is pretty cool, with 3 power levels that can be used to upgrade your spells. Spells themselves are pretty cool, with a cool Shield spell, and Summon Zombie

The game is somewhat easy though. SO far I only encountered one tough Boss, and he was only tough until I figured out on how to beat him. Rest of the game, is a breathe. It takes sometime to solve the puzzles, but enemies are easy to dispatch.

Well, Even with some minor flaws, its a great game, and its been a fun week for me

**Korly** · 02 Jul 2002, 01:36 PM

When you say Pious looks cheesy, do you mean good Pious, or bad Pious?

**Nick** · 02 Jul 2002, 04:22 PM

Those worried about spoilers needn't worry about Reno's review, by the way. Nice job. (Except for getting Alex and Edward's family name wrong, that is.

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