Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

''"Oh my god. Alvin is red... Simon is blue? Theodore is green?! Are the thr-- I don't know where I'm going with this, really."

-Allan has an epiphany during his most recent live playthrough of ''Eternal Darkness

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a horror game for the GameCube, developed by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo themselves! Seriously! An M-rated game published by Nintendo! '''This... isn't... really happening!'''

A cult classic from Canadaland, Eternal Darkness sets itself aside from most other horror games by including "sanity effects" designed to screw with the player, by making them think the game, their console, or even their television is malfunctioning in some way, as the currently active playable character's sanity meter degrades. Particularly infamous is one scene where the game abruptly thanks the player for completing the demo mid-way through the game, but you can also see fun stuff like BSoDs, your character exploding when you try to cast a heal spell, the game pretending to delete your save, a bug crawling on your screen...

There are three routes, one for each of the three major villainous Ancients. Depending on which you choose, you'll encounter more enemies that align with that ancient, and they'll deal more damage to the appropriately-colored meter. Yes, this makes Chattur'gha basically hard mode since monsters deal more health damage. There's also apparently a fifth, yellow Ancient that never appears in the game; it has some monsters aligned with it, though.
 * [[File:Chatturgha.png]] Chattur'gha -- red, with powers related to healing and physical might. Kind of looks like a lobster.
 * [[File:Ulyaoth.png]] Ulyaoth -- blue, with powers related to magic[k] and the mind. Big ol' space jellyfish!
 * [[File:Xellotath.png]] Xel'lotath -- green, with powers related to sanity. Extremely weird-looking thing that vaguely resembles a human without a head.
 * [[File:Mantorok.png]] Mantorok -- purple. Body horror thing. Mantorok doesn't truly have a route, but there are some Mantorok-aligned monsters and a super-strong Mantorok rune you can grab, which effectively combines the effects of all three other Ancients' runes.

Ulyaoth's recovery spell only heals you as much mana as you spent to cast it. Dick move!