Every once in a while, a game comes around that, for some reason, knocks you on your ass. It’s not always the same game for everyone. It’s so much more than you expected it to be, and it holds a special place in your gaming heart.



For me, Eternal Darkness is one of those games. I feel bad for anyone who has not experienced it. No game has played the player as much as Eternal Darkness, and I’m disappointed that no game has tried since. It had so many memorable moments.

When your sanity meter would start to fill up it would:

Start off with simple things like hearing the door knock or the floor creaking. Then it might escalate to walking into a bathroom with an empty bathtub then a quick flash of the bathtub full of blood and you’re in it!

But when the sanity meter really got good was the following:

After about 1 – 2 hours of play a screen pops up that says “Thank you for playing the demo. Now go out and buy the full version.” But then the game continues on because it is the full version. LOL.

Late in the game, after you save your game, it acts like you told it to delete all of your saves. WTF? But then it flashes back to reality and your saves are just fine.

You’ll run down a hallway and your head will suddenly get chopped off, or your body will suddenly grow too large for the room. But then you flash back to reality.

You enter a hallway you already cleared, only to find half a dozen monsters killing you while your screen flashes that your controller is disconnected…then you flash back to the reality of an empty room and you’re fine. This one really made me crap my pants.

This game was a trip on acid, and truly scared me in a way that I haven’t been scared before (Why the f#*k is my memory card deleting?!!). And I haven’t even mentioned how awesome the adult storyline was that took place or several centuries and characters. What about the voice acting? Some of the best I’ve ever heard. Music? Top-notch.

Even with the old-gen graphics and all, this game would be awesome. I played through it 3 times, and I almost never play through a game more than once. If you haven’t played Eternal Darkness then I feel bad for you. Check it out, now!