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The Eternal Castle Remastered
Released On: Jan 5, 2019
73
6.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The mood, ambience, and ultimate meaning of The Eternal Castle all come together, intertwined and beautifully realised. It will be a long time before The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] leaves my imagination, which, funnily enough, is exactly the feeling from which the developers created it.
The Eternal Castle Remastered is an enjoiable tribute to Prince of Persia and Another World.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
42% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
37% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
6.8
42% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
37% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
21% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
graficamente encanto de antaño jugabilidad tosca echa a proposito recordando viejos tiempos musica atronadoramente encantadora como las de antes jajaj todo en este juego huele a antiguo, juegos que a estas alturas muy pocos disfrutaran y valoraran, a mi me engancho a acabarlo pero no lo rejugaria, bastante duro los movimientos para mi gusto, pero reconozco que tiene su encanto.
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The Eternal Castle is obsessed with the idea of feeling like a game pulled from either the late 80’s or early 90’s. It compiles successful hallmarks of that time in gaming and culture and rewrites them as an ode to a highly specific time and place in the minds of its creators. It’s more fun romanticize history than perfectly recall history, which is a method of operation that only really works in entertainment. The Eternal Castle is a remaster of everything and also nothing, and it’s immensely successful from either perspective.
In the end The Eternal Castle is a fascinating experience and one that you won’t soon forget. If like us, taking one look at a screenshot makes you immediately wanted to play it – be sure to check it out.
The Eternal Castle (Remastered) makes an art out of misguiding the player, hiding behind its limited colour pallet (based on the CGA technology) a very convincing homage to cult classics like Flashback or Another World. Fast paced action, stealth mechanics, and some puzzle elements make it varied and fun to play.
I left my time with The Eternal Castle Remastered extremely impressed by its aesthetic achievements but more than a little let down by how much the gameplay feels like a chore. The quality of its visuals are undeniable, but sometimes it’s better leaving certain things, like clunky controls, in the past.
This faux-remake does what it sets out to do eerily well. There's just the question of whether that goal was worth achieving.
A superficially charming but ultimately disappointing game:
- the art and game design mimick the classic rotoscope adventures (Another world, Flashback...), however, it's much more of a shooter than an adventure - this is a great disappointment for me;
- the art design is attractive and "retro-innovative", however it's excessive; in my perception, the imposed limit penalizes the immersion too much;
- by having a very strictly old schools structure, it has slow and imprecise controls;
- finally, I find extremely annoying (and confusing) when a game forces the player to use 6+ buttons, when it could comfortably do with half; Another World used one, and it didn't even have analogue controls!
All in all, I'd say it's a myopic game, made by designers who did "retro for the retro's sake".
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Summary The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original ETERNAL CASTLE from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Jan 5, 2019
Developer:
- Leonard Menchiari
Publisher: Playsaurus
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