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Author: Suskie
Posted: January 03, 2010 (02:44 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Hmm. Well, glad we at least see eye-to-eye on this one. Eternal Darkness understands survival horror more than any other game in the genre as far as I'm concerned. You've read my own review so you know I agree with pretty much everything you say.
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Author: bloomer
Posted: January 03, 2010 (04:41 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
A genuinely and successfully novel review here. Good work. You also moved me to go look at the unfinished ED review on my hard drive from 2004(!). I am surprised how decent and near-done it is, and perhaps if I just structure it a little, I can post it in the near future, and that will show where my own interests fell while playing ED, rather than me just typing them in this box here.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: January 03, 2010 (10:14 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
You know what? All of us have our own style and I'd guess we all see things in other writers that we envy. After reading this review, I'm feeling that emotion right now. This was just a clever fucking bit of writing. Using the game's sanity meter as a gimmick for your review to throw in seemingly unrelated things to tie into the points you were making was pure genius!
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 04, 2010 (03:22 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks, folks. I'm glad people think this was successful. I had a real urge to write something that would top last year's Alphabet Olympics entry in terms of utter ridiculousness, but knew it would be something of a risk. Hopefully the Judges of Doom think it paid off as well.
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Author: jerec
Posted: January 04, 2010 (04:19 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I do have one question, Lewis. What's the game like, apart from the sanity stuff? Because I came out of that review knowing more about Red Faction. And I've never played Red Faction.
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Author: radicaldreamer
Posted: January 04, 2010 (05:19 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I wasn't really a big fan of trying to incorporate the sanity effects into the review or the presence of the Red Faction tangent. I think the Red Faction part would be great for an actual Red Faction review, and the parts of this piece that are actually relevant to the game in question are really interesting and insightful, especially the intro paragraphs and the comparisons to AA and Indigo Prophecy.
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Author: Lewis
Posted: January 04, 2010 (05:46 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The Red Faction stuff was lifted straight out of anoter of my experiMENTAL competition entries from some time last year. Wasn't sure how much of it to shoehorn in. I wanted it to be enough that it made you feel a bit awkward to read it all, but not so much that you just stopped entirely.
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Author: aschultz
Posted: January 04, 2010 (06:52 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Judges of doom, eh? It will be as monsieur requests!
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Author: zippdementia
Posted: January 07, 2010 (09:59 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I think Eternal Sanity's sanity meter was underused. It was so easy to avoid going insane that it became something I would just show friends to try and convince them the game was cool.
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Author: qxz
Posted: January 08, 2010 (06:07 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
My own brief experience with Eternal Darkness very closely mimics ZippedDimentia's. I was thoroughly bored with the game only two chapters in.
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Author: sashanan
Posted: January 10, 2010 (12:51 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I think Eternal Sanity's sanity meter was underused. It was so easy to avoid going insane that it became something I would just show friends to try and convince them the game was cool.
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Author: zigfried
Posted: January 11, 2010 (05:15 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Now that the contest has been judged ---
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