Eternal Darkness Sanity FAQ By Erik McLennan-Funkytoad Version 1.0 06/29/02 Mail-xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com AIM -xXFunkytoadXx ////////////////// Table of Contents \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 1-Introduction 2-Sanity 3-Reader Input 4-Closing 5-Credits 6-Disclaimer /////////////// 1-Introduction \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Hello, and welcome to my Sanity FAQ for the game Eternal Darkness, for Gamecube. This FAQ will explain to you the sanity system in ED, and list all of the sanity effects. Enjoy! ///////// 2-Sanity \\\\\\\\\ Ah...one of the greatest aspects of this wonderful wonderful game is the sanity meter! Whenever an enemy sees you, you'll lose a bit of sanity (some enemies take more than others, as logic would dictate). The only way to recover the lost sanity, is to defeat the enemy, and perform a finishing move on them. If you choose not to do so, you'll be less sane than the average man (but hell, is the average man really sane?). Anyhow, the less sanity you have, the more messed up things get. Your character will see, and hear, and experience some pretty messed up stuff. Also, your recover spell can recover sanity when aligned with Xel'lotath. All in all, this is an EXCELLENT addition to what would've been only a great game, not REALLY great, like it is ^_^ Here is a list of every sanity effect that I know of: -The walls will bleed. -You'll hear lots of screams, and whispers, and a lot of latin, and basically just some really ****ed up stuff, and if you're playing at night, by yourself, it can get you wondering if it was just your game that made that noise...^_~ -The camera will tilt about 10 degrees or so. -Strange music will play. -You'll hear strange quotes, from people such as Edgar Allan Poe. -Your character will talk to themself, and say things such as "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" -You'll walk into a room, and all of a sudden your head will fall off, then your arm, then the other. -Your head will fall off, and you can pick it up. If you do, it will begin reciting a famous passage from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("To be or not to be, that is the question, etc..."). -Statues will watch you. -Art will change from peaceful scenes, to pictures of hellish ungodly things. -You'll receive a phone call from your dead grandfather. -Your dead grandfather's ghost will visit you, saying some strange stuff. Sometimes he's nice, but other times he's being really evil. -Bugs will crawl across the screen. -Blood will drip from the ceiling. -You'll turn into a zombie, and be able to walk around as it. -You'll go into a room, and you'll be walking around on the ceiling. -You'll go into a room, severely damaged, and be attacked by many zombies. -You'll open your inventory, only to find that you've lost all of your items. -Your TV will appear to have changed video modes, but you can hear yourself being attacked. -The word Mute will appear, as if someone has muted your TV, and all noise will cease. -The game will "reset", and the quote from Edgar Allan Poe will begin to play. -After you save your game, the game will change it's mind, and say that it is deleting your game. -You'll walk into a room, and have many zombies surrounding you, and the game will give you a message that it doesn't detect a controller in port 1. -You'll enter a room, and the ground will be covered in ammunition. -You'll see the word Volume will appear, and the volume bar will decrease. -You'll appear to be walking in quicksand, and will sink into the floor. -Your character will appear to have shrunk. -Your character will appear to have grown. -Your character will shoot at the screen. -While playing as Maximillian Roivas, you'll enter a room, and end up in an insane asylum cell (foreshadowing anyone?). -In the bathroom, you'll see an image of Alex Roivas in a tub filled with blood, accompanied by a blood curdling scream (this scared the bejesus out of me, lol). -You'll go into a room to find a man hanging from the ceiling. He'll say evil things to you. -When you try to cast a spell, the top half of your character will explode. -Books will fly across the library. -Two handguns will appear to be floating down the hall on the 2nd floor of the mansion. -A poker will be poking the fireplace in the library. -You'll get Microsoft's infamous "Blue Screen Of Death". -The game will go to a screen that says "To be continued..." "Coming soon:Eternal Darkness:Sanity's Redemption". -When you try to reload your weapon, you'll shoot yourself. If anyone knows of any more, please e-mail them to me at xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com ^_^ /////////////// 3-Reader Input \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ This section is to feature all the e-mails that I've gotten that include other sanity effects. Some are good, things that I haven't already said, but some are simply reiterations of sanity effects that I included...oh well. From: JB007FRK@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:41:50 EDT Subject: Eternal Darkness Sanity Guide To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com These two things always happen and have nothing to do with sanity. -You'll receive a phone call from your dead grandfather. -Your dead grandfather's ghost will visit you, saying some strange stuff. Sometimes he's nice, but other times he's being really evil. From: "Daniel C" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: EtErNaL DaRkNeSs insanity thingy Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:24:46 -0400 Hey Hey! I read your Sanity FAQ on gamefaqs.com and I discovered a new one that's not on your list! (since I love going insane so much) I walked into a room, got swarmed by zombies and then a thing popped up that said "There is no controller inserted into controller socket #1" so you can't move and then you DIE@!!! hah, it was great. Well, that's all Later, -DaNeL- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:54:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "War Eagle" Subject: eternal darkness: sanity FAQ To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com I thought of a couple of effects I did not see in your FAQ ... - When in the study area, you'll hear someone walking around upstairs - you'll hear someone banging on a nearby door - also in regards to the books flying around in the library I've seen two different instances of this 1) a single book will fly across the room, 2) dozens of books will fly around in a circle in the middle of the library - about the hanging man, I think this only occurs once after you get the page out of the piano then he'll appear on the otherside of the piano the bath tub scene scared the hell out of me as well ... From: "Kirk Miller" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: ED:Sanity's Requiem Sanity Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:36:46 -0700 Hey funkytoad, I have found another affect of low sanity. Sometimes,instead of changing video modes,it will appear that your TV has turned off.You can't hear anything either. Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:08:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Sexy Man Strumpet" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Sanity FAQ (Eternal Darkness) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:23:49 -0400 Hi, I was reading your FAQ at GameFAQs on the insanity effects in anticipation for Eternal Darkness, and I just got it today and found an insanity effect that you didn't list. I walked into a room and Karim was being 'erased'. Starting from his head to his toes, he sorta got wiped of the screen and once he totally disappeared the game went back to normal. I've also been attacked by a bunch of zombies while low on health only to have the TV turn off. Hope you can make use of these :) Keep up the great work on all the FAQs you've done for Eternal Darkness! -Cubist (GameFAQs username :) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 06:57:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steve Laurent" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Another sanity effect is... Playing chapter 7 as Paul Luther, you enter the doors from the front of the church leading to the main hall, when you enter the next room, it'll be black and white, but you'll be in chapter 9's world war 1 setting. First aid tents set up, and the broken glass by the altar. Please reply From: "heidi n jme" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: eternal darkness insanity guide Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:01:10 +0000 i have another 'side effect' that happens to you... i'm not sure if this is for everybody though, or just edward linsey, but that's who i was playing as when it happened. i walked into a room and the room shook accompanied by a loud sound, a few moments later it shook harder and the sound was louder, then again (louder, harder), and a few more times until whatever it was seemed really close, and then it just stopped an there was lots of screaming from what sounded like a group of people, not just one. that's the best way i can describe it. ~jme From: "Colin Langton" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Another Eternal Darkness hallucination... Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 03:31:36 +0000 Nice sanity FAQ you've got there. Anyway, the only hallucination I've seen that you don't have in there is this: sometimes, when playing as Brother Luther, you'll enter the main hall of the cathedral to find the view in greyscale, with all the medical crates and such that are there in Peter Jacobs' chapter. Judging from the amount of emails you recieved about the Trapper autopsy, I'm sure you know of this already by now, but I figured I'd send it in anyway. Oh, you also might want to clarify that the camera tilts more or less depending on the exact level of your sanity, but it's your FAQ. So, yeah, keep up the good work, and all that jazz. From: "pohl pohl" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Another Insane Thing Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 02:37:15 +0000 Hello buddy! I saw your FAQ on GameFAQs on Sanity THings in Eternal Darkness and found that one that you din't whrite. One time i played as Roberto Bianchi and i entered a room and there was the usual zombies of that room... all VERY SMALLS! I wasn't able to hit them because they were so tiny but they was hitting at me, then Flash i get back to the previous room as if nothing hapened, but i kept the damage from the tiny zombies! There it is, and Grats for your FAQs. From: "Todd Garcia" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Your Insanity FAQ. Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:39:33 -0400 In Lindsey's level, you'll hear 'boom' as though from a large footstep, and the screen will shake. Great FAQ, just didn't see this one on it. To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com From: jollyone25@stny.rr.com Subject: Re: Eternal Darkness Sanity FAQ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:40:55 GMT I think I have another one that you don't have listed, but I could be wrong. When you enter a room and you are smaller than you should be. Like as a midget. Let me know if you have this one since I haven't read the FAQ completely yet. Mark pop-server.stny.rr.com From: "kip calendine" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: sanity Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:25:19 -0600 Hey, After reading your FAQ on the Sanity Meter in Eternal Darkness, i was scared shi*less. Some of those things (Especially the dead chick: that scared the bejeezus out of me too.) were terrifying to even imagine. But as I read I noticed one that you were missing: While playing in Chapter 4 as Karim, my sanity meter being especially low, and I had just beaten one of the tougher battles in the chapter. (The one just before getting the artifact.) During the middle of the battle all of the zombies dissapeared and I was sliced clean in half. My bottom half walked around when I tried to move, but my top half stayed lying down on the ground. This was an especially gruesome one, and one that really pissed me off. (I had almost beaten the chapter!) As for that, now I can't seem to beat that part. (Y'know, when you're fighting where Pious was transformed at the beginning of the game.) Do you have any hints of how to make the ordeal a bit easier? Thanks, Kip Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:19:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ur Mom" Subject: sanity? To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com You said that when you save your game it will say it is deleting it, does it really? I just wanted to make sure before I get the game. "Tanks" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 21:39:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "James Haylrik" Subject: Eternal Darkness - Sanity FAQ - Kitchen To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com If you go into the kitchen with low sanity, sometimes there will be dishes and kitchen utensils flying around the dinner table. From: "Contra" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Eternal Darknes Sanity Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 00:38:07 -0400 Sometimes, when you're insane, your GameCube apears to reset, and gives you the PS2 or Xbox startup screens. Just thought you might want to know for your FAQ. -Contra- From: C007Sam@aol.com Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:59:07 EDT Subject: info for eternal darkness on gcn To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com another thing your character will sometimes do when they are very not sane is suddenly scream bloody murder for about 4 seconds then just stop and get on like normal PS-this gets annoying when fighting zombie creatures Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:28:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brady Paladichuk" Subject: another sanity effect To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com I found a sanity effect you haven't listed yet. I came across it right after Lindsey's quest when you regain control of Alex. The screen will appear to turn off like someone switched off the T.V or the power went out, then it will come back on with the white flash that happens after every sanity effect. I was actually wondering if the power went out but then i looked down at my gamecube and noticed it was still on so it kind of scared me thinking i did't save my game in a while. Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 05:33:41 -0400 From: DroogieDim77@aol.com To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: eternal darkness i get a ton of wierd sounds...and mostly really creepy knocking on the door. i did get a visit from grandpa already, but am not sure if that is already part of the game. this is such a great game....it freaks me out, but i love it. From: GJSJF1@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:12:50 EDT Subject: Eternal Darkness, sanity effect To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com As i was playing, a sanity effect occured that isnt on your list, this has happened to me twice: Your character turns partly invisible Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:43:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kith Dillon" Subject: Eternal Darkness Sanity FAQ To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Nice list I've not managed to get some of the things you meantioned and wonder if some are charecter spacific. The two to point is the BSD and the head falling off then quoting shakspere. Here are some I have seen. As Alex. In the Kitchen plates, knives, dishes are floting above the table. As Maximilan and Edward. Various servents descriptions change becoming horrific. As the reporter The descriptions of the nurses change. I do not have proof of this one but it seams that sometimes when you are at zero insanity the finishing move is more violent. To note all the sceens with Alex and the ghost of edward are fixed and part of the plot. The bathtub can also be triggered at full sanity as with the ghost maid. I think these are plot points. I hope this helps and thanks for the list. Kei Dillon. From: BitePlate6012@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:51:26 EDT Subject: Sanity faq 4 Eternal Darkness To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com This is 4 ur sanity faq. when i was anthony in the cathedral, i was walkin up the stairs and i went right through them. From: "Dustin Rodgers" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Eternal Darkness Sanity Effects... Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:11:06 -0500 Hey...I was reading your wonderful compilation of insanity effects on GameFAQ's and was compelled to submit some of my own... -The TV will appear to shut off -Enemies will appear where there shoundn't be any and when you attack them they disapear -Your Character will attack when there isn't anything but air to attack (unless you have a gun, because then the ammo needs to be conserved, so the game won't waste it on you) Unfortunatley thats all that I've seen other than the ones you've listed, but I am constantly trying to figure out new ones...I'll sen you updates as I find them... ~Dustin PS. The Picture turning evil and the bath tub with alex freaked me out to! The ED:Sanities Redemption one had me going, and that statue staring at me is un-nerving... From: ZeIgadisChimera@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 05:07:24 EDT Subject: Other Insanity trips To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Hey there, Just got through playing Eternal Darkness, and I thought I'd point two more definite ones out, minor but definitly included; Definilty the strangest one of them all, you will enter the next "room" you opened the door for, and nothing, and I do mean NOTHING will have changed. Everything can be picked up and manipulated as normal. However, once you exit the room, the screen flashes white and you return standing outside the door, effectively nullifying your actions. This only happened for me in the World War 2 level, but most of the insanity effects didn't repeat themselves. The second one is fairly similar, with a twist. The entire screen turns brown "flashback" mode. But again, nothing really changes, and nothing in particular occurs. Screen flashes again after a bit of time. WWII level again. The third one, was almost, glitch-like, and didn't suffer from the strange hallucinations--maybe I just screwed up. I had the WWII character down to a quarter of insanity, and while in the basement, went into the small room with the letter on the desk. Strangely enough, I heard a laughing voice, and I went to exit the room, it was locked. I tried again, same results. Walked around the room, tried AGAIN, same results. Around the 4th time, the door opened, but without the usual white flash "This can't be happening!" affects. Damndest thing. Maybe I just wasn't hitting the door right? I dunno. From: SwickDawg2000@aol.com Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:15:20 EDT Subject: Eternal Darkness sanity effect To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Just to add a few to your list: TV screen turns off Knocks on the door You hear footsteps Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:42:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Icee" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: ET faq... another insanity effect that (rarely) happens is when you try and save when your sanity is low, the little bar that usually says "accessing" will say "deleting all game files" and it'll look like it's deleting all of your games.. then the screen will go white and it'll be back to normal... that one scares me heh.. From: "The Dolphin" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: another SANITY for your SANITY FAQ !!!! Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 19:20:58 +0000 While playing at Anthony, you will go through a room, then poof! You are in the previous room you entered. You re-enter the room where you "teleport" and there is many (real) zombies attacking you. PLease add it in your FAQ! From: "Matthew Miles" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Eternal Darkness Insanity Effects Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:26:45 -0400 As the preist when you enter the main area of the Cathedral, he will see into the future from when you play with the WW1 character. Maximillian Roivas head will pop up from the bottom of the screen and give you a bit of a wink (this scared the shit out of me, almost as much as the bathtub scene.) I'm not sure if you had this one already but... The quicksand effect. The character will walk around the room only to begin sinking into the ground as if we was sinking in quick sand. Flashbacks. As you're playing as one character, you randomly go back into past chapters and start controling old characters back in their missions once more. For instance, I was walking with Maxamillian and the screen flashed taking me to the Egyptian girl's chapter as she stepped on the trap flaps in the floor and was chopped by the blade. Then it simply went back to Maxamillion in the hallway. Just thought I'd share a few with you. See ya Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:13:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "crap head" Subject: Eternal Darkness Sanity Stuff To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Well I was playing and I was at Chapter 10, playing as Dr. Edward M. Roivas. Well anyway after I picked up the Tome of Eternal Darkness, that dog monster was walking around, and I beat him up enough to go down to the basement, and I really wanted to save so I went back to the secret place(where I got the Tome of Eternal Darkness, pushed pause, and the screen went black for awhile, then showed me, how I was when I pushed pause, but across the screen it said something like "Your Nintendo GameCube has had an error please turn it off and refer to your instruction booklet". So I turned it off because I thought I was just going insane, so I waited awhile pushing buttons and nothing happened, so I turned it off, then back on and I was back where I last saved, and it really pissed me off. Has that ever happened to you? Now would you send me back something here or something. Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Julian Rodriguez" Subject: Question To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com When you go insane when you save the game will really delete your game and will it really reset??? From: talc_lander@attbi.com To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Eternal Darkness Insanity Meter Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 21:41:56 +0000 Yeah, on your Gamefaq thing that you made you said yo email you if we had any more insanity hallucinations so um,.. yeah... I have one. It's nothing big though but stil... When you go into a room you will walk a little bit and then be teleported back into the room you just came from. J. P.S. The image of Alex Rovias in the bath tub of blood freaked me out too. *aie* From: RedEyedDragon03@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:21:34 EDT Subject: About Eternal Darkness To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com The Stuff like when you go insane and shoot yourself and the game resets and all that, will you have to start again at the last time you saved? From: Steven_C_Bodie@Dell.com To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: Another one Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:08:06 -0500 I think I found another one. When I was Maxamillian Rovias I came back into the main hall, and there were three boss monster out there, but they were only an inch high. I thought that was pretty odd. When I was the main character I heard someone banging on the doors. I think that is all, plus the ones you found of course. THIS GAME ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Steven C. Bodie DFS Sales Coach Nashville, TN 1-800-901-3355 ext 58511 <<...OLE_Obj...>> steven_c_bodie@dell.com Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:14:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "raymond hubick" Subject: Sanity Effects To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com In the mansion as Alex, you hear someone knocking at the door, also if you kill a "civilian" you lose a fair bit of sanity. Also in the Maximilian part, if you kill one of your servents one of those creepy bird-like things with big claws (I can't remember what they are called) will burst out of their skin. Also, I'm not sure if its the sanity or the fact that one of those big monsters zapped me, but the players movements are backwards (left goes right, up goes down etc). Thats all that I experienced so far, (plus some of the others). If you decide to add these effects to your FAQs guide, i would appreciate some credit (yousuckdiddlyuckflanders) for my contribution (ha-ha). Thank you for your time. ps: found some of the effects quite interesting. From: AREA352@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 00:36:48 EDT Subject: An effect of insanity in ED To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com I ran into this today... I walked through a door as Roberto and on the floor in the room lay, like, twenty arrow containers... (We were thinking that we might be needing to do a lot of shooting in the next room, then we logically rationalized that we were insane) As I tried to pick up the last one, the screen went white and he screamed "This... isn't... really... happening!" From: SykotikUno@aol.com Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:39:04 EDT Subject: ED sanity To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com I walked into a room and the were some zombies in it. I slashed at them then they just disintegrated like when they die with only one hit. From: "Brad" To: xxfunkytoadxx@yahoo.com Subject: eternal darkness Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:16:22 -0500 hey i found a sanitly effect that you did not list in your game. this one really pissed me off but what it does it that is acts like your tv turns off for 5 seconds and then turns back on. ////////// 4-Closing \\\\\\\\\\ Well, there you have it...I hope that this was of some use to you! Email me if you want to use it for your site, or have any questions! ////////// 5-Credits \\\\\\\\\\ CJayC-for running such an awesome website, and hosting my FAQs Silicon Knights-for making this AWESOME game! Nintendo-for making the AWESOME system to play this AWESOME game on! (lol) Everyone who is feature in the Reader Input section. ///////////// 6-Disclaimer \\\\\\\\\\\\\ I own this guide, and it is protected by copyright...so don't plagiarize, got it? I'll sue yer ass faster than you can call for your mommy. The only thing I own is this guide. All characters, trademarks etc, are owned by Silicon Knights and nintendo. *EOF*