This article is about the video game. For the EP by Battery, see Eternal Darkness (EP). For the astronomical phenomenon, see Permanently shadowed crater.
2002 video game
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Canadian cover art
Developer(s)
Silicon Knights
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Director(s)
Denis Dyack
Producer(s)
Denis Dyack
Kenji Miki
Designer(s)
Brad Furminger
Ted Traver
Programmer(s)
James O'Reilly
Doug Tooley
Carey Murray
Artist(s)
Ken McCulloch
Writer(s)
Denis Dyack
Ken McCulloch
Composer(s)
Steve Henifin
Platform(s)
GameCube
Release
NA: June 24, 2002
JP: October 25, 2002
EU: November 1, 2002
AU: November 7, 2002
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Mode(s)
Single-player
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is an action-adventure video game developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo for the GameCube in 2002. It was produced and directed by Denis Dyack. The game follows the story of several characters across a period of two millennia and four different locations on Earth, as they contend with an ancient evil who seeks to enslave humanity. The gameplay distinguishes itself with unique "sanity effects", visual and audial effects that confuse the player and often break the fourth wall.
Development began on Eternal Darkness after Nintendo, impressed with Silicon Knights' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (1996), contacted the company to propose a collaboration on an original mature title. Silicon Knights based their concept around Lovecraftian horror and the Eternal Champion concept, and decidedly avoided making a survival horror game. It was originally planned for the Nintendo 64, and was mostly completed before development was moved to Nintendo's forthcoming home console, the GameCube. It was the first game published by Nintendo to receive an M (Mature) rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).
Eternal Darkness was widely acclaimed by critics and won numerous awards, however the game was a commercial failure, selling less than 500,000 copies worldwide. A direct sequel to the game was explored but never materialized, and Silicon Knights went bankrupt and disbanded in 2013. Attempts by Dyack to make a spiritual successor entitled Shadow of the Eternals with his new studio Precursor Games failed both of its Kickstarter campaigns, leading to the project being placed on indefinite hold.[1] In the years since Eternal Darkness' release, it has been regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time, as well as one of the best horror games ever made.
^Phillips, Tom (September 29, 2013). "Shadow of the Eternals dev Precursor Games disbands". EuroGamer. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
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