Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Hmm yeah, upon playing this a bit I agree that the buzz around it has sort of hidden what it is. It seems fine, but I dunno if it's really worth playing by this point. Might have been cool and exciting when it came out, among the early Gamecube lineup, but eh.

Disappointing. Its most talked about shtick is at best around 6-7 minutes' worth of content combined and might not appear at all if you're playing decently, while the rest of the game is generic survival-action horror.

What kills this game for me are 2 things: the fact that there's no real protagonist for most of the game so I can't get familiar with anyone because I'm jumping from character to character with barely any changes in the plotline, no real sense of narrative progression. The other one is (and I'm sure many might disagree with me) that I find a big lack of atmosphere in this game. It has cool set pieces but never did I felt like I was actually immersed in them, everything felt quite going through-the-motions so I can get to whatever next guy I have to play as and I wasn't really having fun. It's not really a bad story but it's also nothing special so I saw no real reason to keep playing it despite the things that the game gets right (the horror parts mostly).

Saved on low health before a swarm of enemies started attacking me in chapter 4, oh well, next game...

At the end of a swarm is a big enemy that does a homing attack behind a barrier that injure you if you touch it, not much I can do then is there?

Can't count the amount of times I press B to 'finish' an enemy only to have the game open a door or examine something in a room

id like to play this someday but simultaneously i feel like after having been told about all the sanity effects and how super awesome and cool and meta and spooky they are by every fucking youtuber to ever talk about video games in the 2010s the sanity effects would not have the same impact

we get it