The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

This game is an utter eye sore, and it's beautiful. Designed to feel like a remaster of a (corrupted) CGA game from the 80s, it brings back to life a retro experience that is really unique, not just because the limited graphics feel novel to modern eyes, but also because it creates a strange dichotomy where you both see the game world, and don't quite see the game world. Everything is recognizable, and at the same time, you never actually see the world like it truly is. This creates an air of mystique that wouldn't have been there if the game had detailed graphics, and engages your imagination. The game is a cinematic platformer, with all that it entails (clunky movement). It straddles the line between being a bit of a chore to play, and being properly challenging, and it manages not to cross that line. Overall, I'm strangely glad this game is "only" 4 hours long, so I don't have to look at its ugly face and suffer through the clunky controls, and also wish there was more of it, and would happily play a sequel. In conclusion, it's a unique game with a clear artistic vision that is well executed, and at only 4 hours of playtime, there's no reason not to give it a try.

The game looks really cool but has hard to read text at the start, and feels verry clunky to play due to its really low frame rate (its an intentional stylistic choice), theres also no modern optimisations like snapping or quick turning so every time you are walking to the left you have to stop dead in your tracks, move right and then jump to the ledge on top of you rather than just jumping whilst moving left and snapping to the ledge and moving forward, gameplays just slow and tedious and gunplay is simplistic yet overly difficult and quite frustrating. if you are into this sort of thing its probably a good game but it really wasnt for me and it all just feels too dated to be enjoyable.

What a striking game. I found it incredibly impressive how much you managed to express with the deliberately restrictive art style. In the short time I had with the game I rarely found myself not understanding what was happening on screen. My only point of criticism is the font on the intro text was borderline unreadable, I appreciate the attempt to recreate a retro feeling text box, but I think you might have gone slightly too far with it and an option to use a more modern font would make the game more accessible. [b]FULL VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lS54OLjoIE[/b]

very cinematic adventure, would play again. Great work making it seem CGA

cool concept and style but you did not need to take gameplay mechanics from literally 1987. they are too stiff and the game itself is not that enjoyable to play unfortunately. if there were a neutral vote i would give that. i will finish i hope tho

The controls are absolute ass.