70
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.
85
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] try to demonstrate the current maturity of the videogame medium simply using a few modern tools in a structure inspired by the adventures of the 80s, playing with the player mind starting from the title.
60
The Eternal Castle is a neat experience that prides itself on its unique aesthetic and interesting environments. Unfortunately, gameplay felt a bit dated, though, and left me with conflicted feelings. Overall, The Eternal Castle is undoubtedly a title that is definitely style over substance.
9
An amazing experience that is dripping with atmosphere, albeit not without some frustration. The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] successfully captures the feel of an 80's or 90's platformer and manages to so much with so little, painting a beautiful world with its unique and oddly colorful visual style.
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The one thing that will leave people frustrated and possibly even angry as they try to make their way through the game, is the controls. Not only will you have to either figure out most of it on your own or look them up, but the running-and-jumping parts can be especially punishing, as are some of the fights and shootouts. With gameplay, exploring and puzzles like what we have here, it's quite crucial to have tight controls, and sadly we don't.
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Despite this flaw, the feelings that The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] could leave you with are well worth getting a little frustrated, especially since you'll make your way through the game in only 3-4 hours. There's something about the world, what drives the character, and how the story is told that makes quite the impression and those of us who make it through it all are sure to want to come back at some point.
8
Another World fans will be delighted to play it. I liked the game. The only issue is the controls. Took me a while to figure out.
8
The visuals are simply stunning, music is great, gameplay is outdated, but it was still quite easy to play, and level design was very unique for each level. Great game!
The Eternal Castle Remastered
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Jan 5, 2019
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73
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7.1
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Jan 10, 2019
90
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.
Jan 19, 2019
80
The Eternal Castle Remastered is an enjoiable tribute to Prince of Persia and Another World.
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Nov 4, 2025
9
An amazing experience that is dripping with atmosphere, albeit not without some frustration. The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] successfully captures the feel of an 80's or 90's platformer and manages to so much with so little, painting a beautiful world with its unique and oddly colorful visual style.
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The one thing that will leave people frustrated and possibly even angry as they try to make their way through the game, is the controls. Not only will you have to either figure out most of it on your own or look them up, but the running-and-jumping parts can be especially punishing, as are some of the fights and shootouts. With gameplay, exploring and puzzles like what we have here, it's quite crucial to have tight controls, and sadly we don't.
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Despite this flaw, the feelings that The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] could leave you with are well worth getting a little frustrated, especially since you'll make your way through the game in only 3-4 hours. There's something about the world, what drives the character, and how the story is told that makes quite the impression and those of us who make it through it all are sure to want to come back at some point.
Nov 15, 2024
8
Another World fans will be delighted to play it. I liked the game. The only issue is the controls. Took me a while to figure out.
Jan 8, 2019
80
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.
Jan 16, 2019
75
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.
Feb 18, 2019
70
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.
Jan 15, 2019
65
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.
Jan 8, 2019
50
This faux-remake does what it sets out to do eerily well. There's just the question of whether that goal was worth achieving.
Dec 9, 2023
8
The visuals are simply stunning, music is great, gameplay is outdated, but it was still quite easy to play, and level design was very unique for each level. Great game!
Jan 20, 2019
7
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.
Jan 29, 2019
6
The Eternal Castle Remastered is the reason why the gaming industry has upgraded its adventure games. Sometimes a little bit of nostalgia is fine, but too much of everything is never good.
May 14, 2019
4
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".
SummaryThe 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.
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- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date:Jan 5, 2019
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