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"Eternal Darkness (Well, until dawn...)"

After deciding against sleep last night, I spent a little while on an internet chess thing. Call it homework for the forum match :^)
Being completely new, I had the low starting rating. When I beat someone who clearly considered himself pretty good, as his ego-massaging rating supported (I was a bit lucky - I was playing overly offensively, just cos it's more interesting (yep, chess, interesting. Odd one.), and it didn't go horribly wrong), he tried to accuse me of cheating. Exactly how it's possible to cheat when the computer restricts everything you do is beyond me, I'm pretty sure he was just a very sore loser.
The I played a couple more people who were quite offensive (nasty personality, not chess style) too.
I don't like these strange chat forum nerds
;^)

I think they place too much of their self-esteem in being better at chess than the last random stranger they met...

Anyway, leaving the chess field (?) I picked up Eternal Darkness. It's been around for a couple of weeks, but with Tonty Hawk's 4 and exams, it hadn't got a look in. Not a single play. Hadn't even registered the pin (and no, you're not having it :^P ).
After Resi disappointed me I wasn't expecting all that much from ED.

I couldn't have been more wrong.
That game rules.

The controls, especially attack controls, felt a bit awkward at first, still do when it takes more than one or two hits to kill an enemy, but it must have been balanced into the game difficulty I think.
Other than that, the gameplay is supurb. Can't fault it. Maybe the puzzles could get a little 'zelda' - ie, you spend a week trying to figure one thing out, then you see the solution, and it was all so obvious... - but it hasn't yet.

But the insanity effects... Damn. That. Game. Is. Good.

Entering rooms and finding myself somewhere I didn't expect, I'm still not sure if one of those was insanity or actually me getting lost...
The knocking on the doors also got inside my head, as did the statue head for that matter.

Still, without spoiling anything, the bit in the bathroom was *the Daddy* of gaming moments. I spent the next five minutes wincing whenever I pressed B :^)


Clocked up 2 1/2 hours so far, and completed 3 chapters. I have the next one waiting for when it goes dark tomorrow night :^)

Actually you are made to pick up the runes, it's the codex's that you sometimes miss out because they are not as important to completing the game with.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> When playing the chapter with the Monk dude make sure you make doubly
> sure that you pick up all the codex's on the level. I missed one so I
> couldn't use the Summon Zombie spell on the next level.


*slaps self*

That'd be why I was stuck then. Thanks.
(Oddly, tried random spells systematically (not random then), didn't get anything. Must have just missed some.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> When playing the chapter with the Monk dude make sure you make doubly
> sure that you pick up all the codex's on the level. I missed one so I
> couldn't use the Summon Zombie spell on the next level. I've been
> stuck on that bit since before Xmas, only worked out what i'd done
> last night and had to start again.
>
> Other than that though the game rocks.

You don't need the codex for the spell to work, you just have to guess the right rune, and then just use the spell, although it'll just say 'spell 8' or something instead of 'summon zombie'

When playing the chapter with the Monk dude make sure you make doubly sure that you pick up all the codex's on the level. I missed one so I couldn't use the Summon Zombie spell on the next level. I've been stuck on that bit since before Xmas, only worked out what i'd done last night and had to start again.

Other than that though the game rocks.

Oh

I thought Eternal Mode was a fourth path

There wasn't one so I stopped playing it

[Reads original post]

Bathroom bit? No wait, don't tell me. I'm at that bit where you're that scantily clad girl, chapter two or three. Am I near this part?

Strafex wrote:
> Whitestripes wrote:
> There's no such thing as Eternal Mode
>
> I cried for days
>
> Yeah there is.
>
> Beat all 3 ancients to get the proper ending (with a clever twist -
> nothing special, but clever) and Eternal Mode.
>
> Once I had Eternal Mode I could mess with Magic all I wanted.
>
>
> You can mess around controlling destroyers as much as you want now.
>
>
>
>
> I think that the game would've benefited from a multiplayer too.

Nice idea. Could choose from one of the main characters and an alignment. Then -specially developed stages with the themes from the single player stages (eg. Mansion, Church etc)

The strategies would be quite intense when you met and battled another player - protection speklls and barries go up -summoning, (hehe get a trapper and annoy the feck out of your opponent by sending him into the trapper dimensions over and over again..)

I like it - Oi silicon knights?!! Make me one!

Whitestripes wrote:
> There's no such thing as Eternal Mode
>
> I cried for days

Yeah there is.

Beat all 3 ancients to get the proper ending (with a clever twist - nothing special, but clever) and Eternal Mode.

Once I had Eternal Mode I could mess with Magic all I wanted.


You can mess around controlling destroyers as much as you want now.




I think that the game would've benefited from a multiplayer too.

ED is an brilliant game. I stopped playing it when I got some other games through, but I really must get back to it.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> It is in some ways but overall I much preffered Resi Evil.

I haven't played ED since the weekend I got it. Which was ages ago. I don't even dislike it that much, but it hasn't interested me enough to play it again.