Episode 111: Eternal Darkness

No Story Is Sacred

In this episode, Brendan, Pippin, and Alex discuss the 2002 video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. It was available on the Nintendo Gamecube. It has not been rereleased.

Content warnings for strong language, significant discussion of and reference to mental illness, derangement, and derealization/dissociation as pertaining to the gameworld and gameplay, mentions of formative traumatic media, recollections of a real child feeling significant fear, mentions of police and police ineffectiveness, the inevitable march of time, and rather a lot of discussion of safety standards regarding the handling of cursed books

We reference or spoil: Clueless, Our Flag Means Death, Hamlet, Edgar Allan Poe‘s “The Raven”, H.P. Lovecraft literary universe, literal Biblical descriptions of angels, Bo Burnham‘s Inside, Ghostbusters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The History of the World Part I, Indiana Jones cinematic universe, Hadestown, “Wehadababyitsaboy” Geico commercial , “idk my BFF Jill” phone commercial, Hamilton, Control (video game), The X-Files, The Simpsons, and the Marvel Cinematic and Television Universe

Also check out Kat’s The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine and Bren’s Select Start improv shows benefiting Arcade Comedy Theater.

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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.