Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Nitro Rad
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2017
- One of the most notorious games from the Gamecube's library. Nintendo's first M rated venture pits the player against scenarios that'll make them question their own sanity.
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This game was such a good troll. My favorite is when I went to save it was like "Are you sure you want to delete your save file?" I select No. It proceeds to show a loading bar that says "Deleting file." My heart actually jumped into my throat at that one.
Tarks Gauntlet I shut off my console in fear and had to repeat like...an hour of progress was not a happy camper.
@@CheezersDeluxe that's what makes the sanity mechanic so good is that it was just targetting Alex/characters but also you the players sanity.
Honestly, it's this sanity effect alone that made me never pick up and play the game, as I heard about it being a thing that could happen but never heard nor got confirmation on whether it was just a trick to mess with your mind and thus didn't actually happen, or if it actually did and it was just that hardcore of a game. Actually, I had heard that it formatted your hole memory card, and so as such I wasn't going to let a game with that possibility anywhere near my memory card that had hours upon hours of Smash Bros Melee and other games on it.
By the time I _did_ get confirmation that it didn't actually do that, I had already really moved on from the Gamecube. Alas...
prinniesforeveryone
? Um, does that word offend you for some reason?
@@awkwardsilence4427 your name sums up what has just transpired here
Did you put in a Discord bleep on purpose?. IS THAT WHY YOU ASKED ON TWITTER WHAT MORE PEOPLE USE??.
clever canadian...
CLEVER SON OF A BITCH!
Kazuma Kiryu I put my phone on silent constantly so that kinda threw me off
Luckily I was on mobile
i've been getting constant discord bleeps for hours and now i don't know what's going on.
There's a big reason why you don't want your sanity to be that low aside from the sanity effects: When it's fully drained, monsters will start draining your health on sight instead of your sanity.
He mentioned the health drains
Yeah, sanity is basically armor. That's why it's the least important to maintain. If your health is attacked directly, it doesn't matter how much sanity you have. If your magic is being drained, it will make it more difficult to defend yourself or regain anything.
Yeah but it's sooo worth it just to see all the ways the game can mindfuck you lol
19:59 No one else noticed Nitro's Flipped Screen Sanity Effect? Gotta love subtlety.
I've watched this at least twice already and I only just noticed it this time.
I heard the Discord sound I just thought, "Oh? I'll check it when the video is over." Nicely done Sanity troll.
Nitro does a lot of cool subtle things in his videos. I think he has a film degree or something.
@@MegaHarv Funny seeing you here. Didn't know you're a Nitro Rad fan lol.
@@caifabe8050 I found Nitro Rad randomly a few months ago and binged watched a lot of his content. Rad indeed!
I recall Silicon Knights also saw controversy at roughly the same time as their crowdfunding campaign due to the fact that Ken McCulloch, a Silicon Knights dev, was charged with possession & distribution of child pornography (found guilty) and later sexual assault (found guilty albeit I can only find one source reporting on the verdict of this case).
YIKES
well...that damaged my sanity meter.
roll for sanity damage.
Back then I only saw one article on the Escapist mentioning that he was being investigated, but they never followed it, though it was obvious he was guilty. Thanks for bringing closure to theses terrible news.
"This... can't... be... happening..."
Oh thank goodness someone mentioned this. The ending to this video was weird as it was kinda shaming people for not kickstarting SOTE, even though Silicon Knights by then were a team not to be trusted (suing everyone, not being loyal to Nintendo, making Too Human, lying a lot about Too Human, etc and etc). And that CP thing you mentioned was just icing on the terrible, terrible cake.
When I was a kid I was _really_ into Eternal Darkness, I went to their website & it had a detailed Flash menu with spooky ambient sounds & every couple of minutes you'd hear an echoey man's voice saying something unintelligible...I thought it sounded backmasked so I reversed & it was actually a guy saying "geeez I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it!"
Seriously, I'm not making that up...so did anyone else ever notice it? I've tried viewing a WayBack copy of the site but it doesn't work. It's just too old. 😞
Fun fact, that voice is Rick Moranis and it's his own audio clip of him saying "I have to take a leak so bad I can taste it!" which was used on the website for the game but reversed!
@@theowlsofouterheaven yeah, it's from the movie Strange Brew.
Your voice is so soothing to listen to
He sounds like that good old friend from college.
I want nitrorad asmr (reading you my thesis on taz the tazmanian tiger until you fall asleep) roleplay
GamebroTV toxic
it really is, it has that nostalgic feel to it
True! He helps me sleep
12:50 - On my playthough I saw a really cool sanity effect in that room I've never seen anyone else mention.
When returning to the room a singular, stationary zombie will have respawned next to a door, and it just lets you kill it.
But after you do so it plays the deathsound of the character you're controlling.
There are so many sanity effects it's hard to mention them all, but I remember this too. Made me think I had to reload save from an hour ago 😂
10:19
Ok, who else checked their Discord notifications?
HEHEHEHEHEHHHH
Youuuuuu cheeky devil.
Loved the video, man, actually recently picked up a Wii to play a few games I missed out on like Xenoblade Chronicles and the No More Heroes games. Will definitely check this out too!
MAN FUCK YOU (not really luv ya bbygurl
lol shit i really thought it was my discord!
The clever bastard
I remember a moment in Batman: Arkham Asylum where during the scarecrow fight your screen gets colorfully pixely in a way that gives you the impression your GPU has basically lit on fire.
Because my mind recognized it as the specific visual artifacting that happens when your GPU is going kaput (Since I've experienced it for real before) I had a small panic attack until the game went to the next scene.
I think that's proof that you really can do something like Eternal Darkness in the modern era, cause that scared the shit out of me. Not many developers do it though; I guess the only games where you can still experience 4th wall stuff from time to time are obscure horror games and stuff like Oneshot.
Apparently the issue is that Nintendo has a patent the sanity system, so making a game with that sort of system for any game that isn't made/published by Nintendo could lead to a lawsuit.
Gammera How do you patent a gameplay design? That’s like ID software suing everyone who makes an FPS game. Makes no sense.
@Brupcat Didn’t Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed do that?
WHOA
I better be careful when I get my PC back! XD
@@joshwist556 Shadow of mordor nemesis system is now patent by WB lmao
If companies want to be evil and give a "fuck you" they can do it. We are lucky ID were nice to us and never try to bog down game industry evolution.
That bathroom part is actually the only reason I've ever played this game. My friend was looking at a forum where the subject was, "what is the scariest scene ever in a video game?" Half the board at the time said Eternal Darkness, bathroom. So we ended up renting the game to try it out and I'm so glad we did. I'm very glad you have played the game in its own time. I don't think the jump-scare was stupid at all, mainly because it's literally the only one in the game. Can't think of any other game that has one and only one jump-scare.
jump scares are fine when they're scarce like that
it just gets stale when its plastered everywhere
I used to play this game high as crap and I swear everytime I knew that scene was coming I would close my eyes or look away...even in broad daylight!
One of the most amazing sanity effects, and apparently one of the rarest, is when I played the Franciscan monk in the same cathedral in France. I entered the main hall and suddenly the picture goes black and white, and in there instead of rows of seats there are white tents and women in 19th century nurse uniforms wandering around what looked like a make-shift field hospital. And instead of thunder, I hear bombs and artillery going off outside. Only for a few seconds, then the vision ends.
Later I played as the young journalist in the 1st world war, which takes place in the same Cathedral, 100s of years later. I entered the main hall and there was the field hospital they had set up for injured soldiers. Blew. My. Mind.
Eternal Darkness is still one of my favorite games of all time. I lost my copy long ago, and there doesn't seem to be any plans of remake, or even re-release that I know about.
This one time, I was midway through Anthony's chapter, and I was really getting my ass kicked by a horror. All of a sudden, the game freezes and it says DISC READ ERROR etc etc. I was like "Oh haha wow! Eternal Darkness is so cool!" and then I started hammering on the controller, waited a minute and nothing happened.
Oops
XD
The reason why you haven't seen any other game use the 4th wall breaking sanity system quite like Eternal Darkness did is because Nintendo patented it. I shit you not. Here's the link to the patent: patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6935954.PN.&OS=PN/6935954&RS=PN/6935954
It's kinda like how Namco made a patent for having mini games in loading screens.
You know how in some Namco games, you can play a Galaga level while the game is loading? They patented that shit.
However, I believe that patent hasn't been renewed by them, though I could be wrong.
lightskintwin hold up but what about call of Cthulhu dark corners of the earth they have a sanity system?
+Mark Hirsch It's not the same type of sanity system. If you read the patent I linked you can see specifically all the things Nintendo patented with their sanity system. A game merely having a sanity system isn't necessarily infringing upon Nintendo's patent. The devil is in the details.
lightskintwin what the actual fuck !?
PikaLink91 there needs to be a law against patent hoarding
this is probably the best review of this game I've seen you've not only put the games scares in but you've put in your own with the discord app sound and the video suddenly crashing and the video recommendations showing up nice job
11:16 ok ok you got me.
I love all of the 4th wall breaks
*character turn and shoots at the screen*
The fake TV setting effects would be super creepy on my TV, wow. It’s actually a Trinitron and it’s volume slider and mute button looks exactly like that. Wow.
The scariest part of the game for me was whenever I had extremely low health in the middle of a fight and knowing that I haven't saved in an hour or longer.
19:59
Subtly mirroring the video. Nice.
holding up the case practically gives it away though
10:19 You played me like a goddamn fiddle
YES! Eternal Darkness is one of my favorite games of all time!! The coolest thing is that you don't have to learn spells before you can perform them so long as you have the runes, so you can do a bit of mild sequence breaking if you remember the rune combinations.
You could say this game is a....
"CULT" CLASSIC
It honestly does sound like one.
You should totally do the Fatal Frame series
Deadeye Duncan what is fatal frame? I've heard of it but I've never seen it or any gameplay or art of it, or at least nothing that I can remember
Jeffskii Without spoiling anything, it's a semi survival horror game series where you uncover mysteries and exorcise ghosts with a special camera. Typically underneath the horror the games are extremely depressing, often with loss of a loved one in a tragic manner.
Deadeye Duncan oh, now I remember that game. Yeah that shit was silent hill level horror
I was going to say this as well! Good call! I think FF2 is the one to go with if he ever reconsiders.
PikaLink91 Damn, did he say why he doesn't plan on it?
You and Somecallmejohnny NEED to collab at least once
Nin10Boy 6464 Agreed! This needs to happen!!
Y E S
They have totally different tastes...maybe they could team up and do Earthbound!
YES! PLEASE!
I have great memories of playing this game. I loved how the levels evolved and changed across the different time periods. I remember playing in the mansion during a different time period and thinking to myself, "Hey...I don't remember this door being here."
October Nitrorad is going to be spooketh!
Got this with my gamecube when my wife bought me it for christmas in 2003 , that was our first year of married life crazy to think we've been together that long
One of my favorite things about this game is how in the Ellia/Lindsey mission, where they look at the same decorations and interpret them differently. Things like that are all throughout the game, and really help with character and world building.
My favorite one was when entering into another room the game loads a splash screen thanking you for playing the demo to eternal darkness. Considering I got the game used when I was a kid that one DEFINITELY tricked me when it happened.
👍 for an early episode
LAWDhavemuhsee 7 months later gives a thumb up
Eternal Darkness will always be one of my favorite Gamecube games. It has a unique atmosphere with a unique magic and sanity system that add to the game's setting. The story is structured in a unique way. The controls are surprisingly smooth for a horror game and the game is balanced accordingly. It's miles better than the glitchy Cthulhu game on Xbox.
11:17 Sorry, didn't work I'm using a mobile device.
Mobile gang, rise up
OUR BRAINS ARE TOO LARGE TO FALL FOR HIS TRICKS
Amazing work as usual man! Loved the "Fourth Wall" editing you did to go along with the game haha
This is one of my favorite games ever, I absolutely LOVED it in high school, I'm rarely scared of games, but I enjoy when I actually CAN be scared, I really try to get myself creeped out, Eternal Darkness was one game that could actually have me on edge, especially Peter Jacob's level in the Cathedral during the battle of the Somme, when a nearby mortar knocks out the power, the atmosphere is TERRIFYING, full of darkness and dread. Especially when you read papers of info and find out that the soldiers corpses are being used to feed some ancient horror.
I always figured the Tome of Eternal Darkness somewhat existed outside of time, explaining the weird chronology of the characters
11:16 lol you got me, I was like "This video can't be over already! wtf"
Someone had fun with the editing of this, amazing video as always!
You actually got me on the 4th wall breaking editing things you did with the buffering and the other ones. I literally thought the video was done. Good videos as always
I played this game due to your recommendation over Twitter and I am loving it right now. Thanks mate.
11:16 God damn it, you got me!
Just beat the game today and wanted to see a well made review of it, and this video did not disappoint, it delivers beyond what I thought going in! So well edited and really summed up great thoughts about the game overall, great work James!
I've always loved the options menu on the title screen and the transition to it. It's so atmospheric. I can't start the game without visiting it.
I really should have mentioned it in the video, but I always loved how the options menu screen has that X-RAY view of Alex's skull. As if we're peering inside to make changes.
Noting beats watching nitrorad after a frustrating day of gaming (thank you for calming me down nitro dad)
I remember seeing that Nintendo had renewed the trademark for this game a while ago.
Here's hoping it comes to Switch in one form or another 🤙🤘🖖
I will be watchful... WAITING
It mightve just been for smash
Well we're just about to head into October, so this is a great start.
I enjoy a LOT your Halloween special every year. Great stuff!
Fantastic review! I was thrilled to go back to this game for my own video. So many great memories and, in my opinion, it still holds up today.
This is one of my favorite horror games, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I played through it multiple times, Mantorok was my god of choice. Fun fact - You run into it through the games actually, it was the decaying god in the cambodian temple.
Great twists on the game's sanity effects, Nitro...
I always used to dream about how Eternal Darkness could be revived on Nintendo's later consoles and how the sanity mechanics could be incorporated on their unique layouts (e.g. suicidal voices coming out of the Wiimote's internal speaker)
I love your October episodes. I have all your horror videos converted to an mp3 so I can listen to it at work.
Nice touches on the video. Liked how you did little sanity effects of your own
This game has pissed me off through my whole life, and I've never played it.
"Oh, you wanna buy it? couple hundred dollars plz" Or
"Oh, you wanna emulate it? Too bad!"
While typing this, I remembered I have a homebrewed Wii. My anger is gone!
I thought the discord sound was my from my computer and the part where the video ended but didn’t really was great, you clever feller
Only just found your channel, you got me at the No More Heroes style voiced "Nitro Rad" intro... Loved Eternal Darkness...
Oh I love the editing on this video, tripped me out a couple times.
I recommend the extra work getting the Mantorok rune, it adds so many awesome abilities, spells that heal both health/sanity/magick all at the same time, strong weapon enchantments, etc...great for adding some extra fun for a 2nd full playthrough.
One unmentioned sanity effect that I think scared me the most was I went to save and it just showed the save screen followed by "Deleting all memory card data" and a progress bar that starts all on its own and I had a 3rd party $40 memory card with a ton on it. I remember vividly jumping up shouting NOO!
After I realized you were doing sneaky edits I waited the entire video to see the RUclips HUD or ad overlay pop up for a few seconds (I brushed my keyboard on accident which implanted the idea in my head). I imagine it'd be amazing, but you'd run into the problem of when people watch it on mobile or stream to TVs, where the format is completely different. Ah well, a great video! Always love your Halloween specials.
I thought of the idea for a fake advertisement overlayed in there while it was rendering. Really wish I thought of it sooner, it would have been an awesome one.
Aww, a good way to get in the spook mood, for October, thanks my dude.
Nitro Rad: Hotline Miami.
I mean, I would love to see your interpretation of a drugged out murder spree of a story that was most likely written by Kefka Palazzo on a LSD binge.
Corvus Alendar I've been recommending Hotline Miami for the greater part of a year and a half on this channel but it seems like it might not be his thing.
"LSD binge" You can't trip every day. Maybe once every week.
This. I agree with.
Lesbian Lioness. Who told you that? It's most definitely not true. It's just a rumor that every teeneager gets told at some point.
I've taken ACID three days in a row, the first day was fine, then the second two I just felt awake for 12 hours, no actual trip. You'd have to continuously up your dose if you want to trip everyday, and that's true.
Ever have one of those moments when you're watching a review of Eternal Darkeness and then suddenly the sound glitches and nothing moves and you're not sure if it's part of the video or if your computer just froze?
Then after rebooting watching the review only to have thing happen, only this time it was the video?
It's a surreal experience.
LOVE IT
I've never clicked on a Nitro Rad episode so fast! I've always wanted to see a review for this game but never really saw a good one. Your videos never disappoint so this is going to be amazing
Your best video yet XD
Love the fourth wall breaks
Eternal Darkness is still to this day one of my favorite Nintendo games, and the fact Alex has a Spirit in Ultimate gives me new hope for at least a remaster if not a full on sequel. Also I know this video is a couple years old as I type this comment but Nintendo published a couple of M rated games between Geist & Bayonetta 2....they actually co-own Fatal Frame ( as of around 2008 ), with 4 & a remake of 2 being released on Wii. Bayonetta was just the 3rd time ( at least as best as I can recall anyway ) that Nintendo published a 3rd party M rated game with the first being Conker's Bad Fur Day & the 2nd being Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.
"A Baby's First Silent Hill" sounds like a Christmas Special.
You got me with the "video stop" at the middle. I felt dumb since you were talking about the sanity meter.
In addition to the standard great content, the little 'glitches' were suuuper well done. Great vid.
I know it's probably never gonna happen but imagine this being remade, the spooks would be crazy
I'd love to see a remake of this game for the Switch. Think of all the new sanity stuff you would be able to do.
Imagine the switch popping up with the "Closing software, an error has occurred" sign
I love your Sanity Effects
This is one of my favorite games of all time and i'm always happy to see anyone cover it in any way
Once you started talking about the sanity effects, I saw them all comming. Hey, your editting style is recognizable!
Another Bomb-Ass-Video to make my day brighter!!!
omg this game is genius. srsly they really though it through when they made this. and i love how you also edited some tricks to troll us well done. also, I'm a fellow Canadian too!
Omfg your sanity effects in this video are flawless
*Discord sound* *Checks discord* Dame it, James. YOU MADE ME LOOK!
You are so incredibly wrong about why shadow of eternals didn't get funded with mighty no 9. Dyack was such a poison in the industry throughout the years from too human being terrible to being a complete jackass on forums and critics to the disaster of x-men destiny. No gamer had any faith in him. He also tried funding it multiple times on different platforms and nothing ever took
I'm pretty sure Too Human would've sucked even if he didn't work on it.
This video was just awesome!
It's september and you're doing a Halloween special?!
Absolute madman
And then a discord notification sound?!?
Are you sadistic or something?!
The Discord's notification.....you cheeky ding dong.
Hey Nitro, would you mind trying out the King's Field series? I feel like it be up your alley.
I love when you invert the image at 20:00. I immediately though "Was the whole video inverted and I did not notice for 20 minutes?"
Really well done video dude, the little sanity stuff you did was fuckin sweet. Keep doing what you’re doing
Eternal Darkness
*Ansem Seeker of Darkness wants to know your location*
I am very nitro glad to see this. No, I'm not sorry. Why would I be?
because it might make nitro mad
Unknow0059 # this reply is just nitro bad
Jeffskii but when I comes to puns, I am a nitro grad
Nitro lads
When the 'Select another video' screen came up....it got me. I was brushing my hair across the room and walked over to my PC like, What happened? LOL
My first survival horror game. I was just a kid and this game was just released so those old tv effects were really realistic, managed to freak me out a bunch of times. Still one of my favorite horror games to this day
Let's get an Eternal Darkness character into Smash Bros.
No.
You say that Eternal Darkness is the first of future M rated games published by Nintendo. Did you know that Conker's Bad fur Day was an M rated game back on the N64? Maybe you should give it a play-through someday. WARNING: you will have to use a lot of censors for various parts of the game due to suggestive language, sexual themes, and gore. Just sayin.
Maybe Eternal Darkness was the first M rated game to be published by Nintendo, but Conker's Bad Fur Day was the first M rated game to be playable on a Nintendo console.
Doom?
There were super Nintendo games that were rated M. There were also N64 games, like Turok, that were rated M and came out years before Conker.
@@NitroRad what about Madworld from the Wii version it was one of the rated R Wii game
Yea I also heard him say that as well and all I could think of was Conker's BFD, Perfect Dark, and Turok ... all these games were rated M and were on the N64 as well.
Love how you had your on spin on fucking with us in the video, I actually thought the video had ended XD
The 4th wall breaking edits had me laughing my ass off. Especially the buffering one! I believed it.
I was under the impression the kickstarter for the spiritual successor failed because of shady shit with one of the team members. Not MN9 existing.
I really REALLY want you to review the dangenronpa games its one of my favorite series
Vin May I'd love to see hi review all of them. I love this series to pieces 😍
One of the great things about the sanity meter was the background/ambient sounds that would play to distinctly indicate insanity: they were normal, everyday background noises that your mind usually filters out. You don't notice them UNTIL you play this game. Absolutely brilliant.
YES! YES! I love this goddamn game, I'm so glad you're reviewing it.
Great video, but "Wouldn't publish another one until Bayonetta 2" you remember No more heroes 1 and 2 and Madworld right?
Nintendo didn't publish any of those.
Was about to point that out myself. Not every M rated game that's exclusive to a Nintendo platform is published by Nintendo, it's just considered rare to see third parties put M rated exclusives on Nintendo systems.
Speaking of, Rad is technically wrong about Eternal Darkness being Nintendo's first M rated game, that honor goes to Perfect Dark on the N64. Yeah I know that IP ended up being retained by Rare so it then became Microsoft's property after Rare was sold in 2002, but fact is Nintendo published the original N64 release due to Rare still being a second party studio at the time.
You remember that those titles weren’t published by Nintendo, right?
Conker was rated M
Tuck Koppinger Published by THQ, not Nintendo.
Sarato you're thinking about Live and reloaded. The original was Ubisoft I apologize
Tuck Koppinger THQ for the original Conker in Europe.
Halloween Specials are my addiction on this Channel, crossing my fingers for one day there to be a Darkwood episode.
Nice job blending the sanity effects with the video.