Eternal Darkness Sequel WILL Be Coming Out

By Rich Knight: 2007-05-31 09:44:35

Eternal Darkness Sequel WILL Be Coming Out

It just doesn’t get any better than this. After Silicon Knights, once a Nintendo second party, left the company, it looked like we’d never see a sequel to the hallucinating masterpiece, Eternal Darkness. But after word from Director Denis Dyack’s Too Human blog, it looks like there will be a follow-up after all, it’s just pinning him down as to when it will come out that’s the problem.

With the planned Too Human franchise on the Xbox 360 looking to be a trilogy, a second coming of the Darkness saga could be years off into the future. And even though I haven’t even played Too Human yet, don’t hate me for saying this, but I wouldn’t mind if Too Human went the way of the Shenmue or the Xenosaga (both planned series’ that ended prematurely when people weren’t buy them) if it meant I would get another Eternal Darkness sometime in the near future.

For those who didn’t play the original on the Gamecube (and there seem to be a lot of you as it didn’t sell all that well), Eternal Darkness is the greatest survival horror game ever made. Period.

Much scarier than Silent Hill, and much more fun to play than Resident Evil 4, what made Eternal Darkness such a magnificent play was its looping storylines that overlapped from one level to the next. Told in chapters, the game’s engrossing plotline of evil throughout the years, spanned millenniums and took you from character to character, each wrestling with the darkness in their separate generation. But it’s probably best known for its sanity effects, which caused more than just one person to scream at their screen when they were fooled that all of their saves had been erased.

Seeing too many monsters all at once would start depleting your sanity meter, and the game would start flipping out on you. My favorite moment was when I started hearing footsteps on the floor above me only to find out that nobody was there at all when I reached the top flight. It is horrifying moments like these that make me believe in the power of the genre again.

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Andres Vazquez
October 7, 2007 at 14:05

I just "reaquired" ED used but in pristine condition to play on my Wii, and now i can tell you, im gonna keep that little disc forever.
Since i played it on GC some five years ago, i was hooked in a way no other game can match.
Its like having an old friend back.
If Sillicon Knights plans a sequel, it must be on Wii. It has that Nintendo touch of supreme quality that no other game manufacturer can produce.

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j.d. maul
June 22, 2007 at 16:18

if their is a sequal, i hope it comes out for PS2!

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al
June 10, 2007 at 00:17

Wait so what platform is it going to be on?

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CB G: Andrew Groen
June 3, 2007 at 09:34

Oh cmon CUSMAN it's not STUPID to say it's better, it's an opinion. Eternal Darkness was definitely more innovative than RE4, because despite being one of the most solid gaming experiences ever made RE4 was basicly still just RE4 with the new vogue over the shoulder camera.

Personally I still take Resident Evil 4 over Eternal Darkness, but I can definitely understand where someone was coming from if they said ED was better. I still remember the first time I was wandering the mansion and my head started to fly away, and I was so freaked out that I started to chase it as if I could put it back on if I caught it. haha yeah that was definitely a great game. You have to be willing to let yourself get caught up in the experience though, otherwise it's worthless.

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cusman
June 1, 2007 at 17:00

Err... Eternal Darkness was a great psychological horror game... but to say that it was better than Resident Evil 4 is just stupid... the gameplay/combat in Eternal Darkness wasnt that great and the last level was a real bore to play through more than once (rest of game is highly replayable).

The game had what... just two boss encounters... etc etc

Where the game excelled was in the story, atmosphere, and creating a whole deep mythology... oh and it had freaking amazing soundtrack... and some really great insanity effects to keep the player engaged and unsure.

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Revision
June 1, 2007 at 14:06

I wish. People put too much meaning into that blog post.

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steve
June 1, 2007 at 14:05

man! that was a good game!!!!scary as hell, i 'd definately want to play a sequal!!!!! cant imagine what they could do on a ps3 or 360 with 7.1 surround.

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gabo
June 1, 2007 at 11:53

God, I should never have sold this game. Though I believe Resident Evil had more of a scare factor ED is still the creepiest most intelligent game there is. The subtlties to some of the sanity effects were masterful. My favorite was pausing the game and turning off the tv. When I came back some minutes later as the picture on my screen slowly appeared I discovered a freightning screen saver awaited me. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

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ChadT
June 1, 2007 at 08:54

I have tried several times to play through Eternal Darkness and I always seem to get stuck at a point of pure frustration. RE4 was more intuitive and overall a much better game. There is a reason a lot of folks passed on Eternal Darkness, don't get me wrong it did a lot if things right, but lets hope the sequel fixes the problems of the original.

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