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It’s funny to think how memories can play a trick on us sometimes. We could be sure something we fondly remember is completely true only for it to be a mere creation of our minds that we willed into existence. But what happens when instead of leaving these recollections in your head you instead release a game based on them? For the developers behind The Eternal Castle Remastered, that’s exactly what they went with.

The Eternal Castle Remastered is a game based on the devs’ experiences playing old platforming adventure games in the vein of Prince of Persia and Out of this World when they were kids. One in particular is fondly remembered, but with fuzzy memories, or at least that’s what they want us to believe: the “Remastered” part of The Eternal Castle Remastered is merely a ploy. It’s a modern day creation under the guise of what would be a game released in 1987, complete with CGA 2-bit graphics, rotoscoped characters, and one heck of a cryptic story to boot.

Sometime in the 2000s Earth is depleted of its resources after millennia of humanity mercilessly exploiting it, forcing the scattered remains of society to form extraplanetary colonies, which in time also run into trouble because humans never learn from their mistakes. In the wake of absolute chaos caused by space terrorists, they learn that a scavenger unit that was sent back to Earth to look for a way to save the colonies went silent. Playing the role of lone agent, it’s a suicide mission, but as the dramatic opening text in a very stylized font states, it’s your only choice.

As either a man or a woman, you crash land on what’s left of Earth, in the view of the title’s Eternal Castle, where your rescue target is apparently located. Thing is, your ship doesn’t have enough power to get you there, so you have to make do with what you can find in the three surrounding areas in order to get it back working. That gives you a bit of flexibility as to what order you want to explore them.

The big thing that The Eternal Castle Remastered has going for it is its style in presentation, which it faithfully sticks to from beginning to end, giving it a lot of ambiance. Sure, some modern elements are there for convenience’s sake, like automatic checkpointing, extra save slots as well as crisp quality music, but the core concept is intact: making the experience feel as close to an authentic late 1980s action platformer, in which it most certainly succeeds.

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Movement in this game is very much dependent on momentum, including jumps, which if not timed taking that into account usually result in you falling into pits. Luckily, thanks to the abundance of save locations, running back to the spot you died in and retrying doesn’t take too long. Nailing that timing feels great, though, and if you have had any experience playing Prince of Persia and Flashback of old, your muscle memory might just carry over to The Eternal Castle Remastered like it did for me. You can even jump by pressing up instead of a face button on your controller, just like those games!

Earth is no deserted wasteland, and you’ll quickly run into other humans who aren’t at all keen with having you nosing about their turf. Combat in this game is very evocative to Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner’s first big hit, Karateka (one of my favorite games on the NES!), having you punch and kick your way at first until you start running into weapons. You can block incoming attacks and dish out your own at the expense of stamina, which also depletes whenever you jump and climb.

Visiting the various locations in the game is also important because you can find character upgrades hidden throughout them that boost your stats that will help you survive your eventual visit to the castle. It’s especially fun to try and discover how to reach these since they’re usually out of the way, requiring you to figure out where their hidden paths might be located. Since the graphics are so simple, it’s easy to miss out and completely overlook entrances that might be located under a ledge you jump over, for instance, or on an inconspicuous wall.

If you don’t take your time exploring, though, each of the levels can be completed relatively quickly if you know your way around the game. The Eternal Castle Remastered can be fairly short if you speed through it, but you’ll end up missing out on a lot if you do it in your first run. That’s also something that it shares with games from the time period it aims at emulating, how it can be completed in a single sitting, with the commodity of not completely losing your progress if you decide to stop along the way.

The Eternal Castle Remastered is a fascinating game that is sure to please nostalgic players looking to relive the experience of playing something that shares the visuals and overall gameplay of the games they love but with some modern conveniences. For those too young to remember playing anything that resembles or that for some reason have missed out on the games that inspired its development, The Eternal Castle Remastered is an especially cool pickup that will hopefully get them to go back and enjoy those oldies as well.


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How do you remaster a video game that, for all intents and purposes, never actually existed in the first place? The remarkable history of 80’s MS-DOS adventure The Eternal Castle is, well, entirely fictional. And it’s worth exploring ahead of the review. Are you sitting comfortably? Good, you’re going to want to hang around for this one.

You see, The Eternal Castle Remastered is an amalgamation of a video game that lives solely in the memory of its developers, particularly game director Leonard Menchiari, who talked about his ‘memories’ of playing The Eternal Castle back in 1987;

He was mortified, terrified. He could not tell his parents because he felt so bad about breaking something he cared so much about, so he didn’t. As a result, his dad sent the computer to get fixed, the metal piece was gone, and all he had left was a broken unusable floppy.

Eventually that floppy got thrown out, so he never got to play that game again. Such an easy thing to fix, but he was too young at the time to know what to do.

He kept thinking about it ever since.

And thus The Eternal Castle Remastered creates its own backstory. This version of the game is a ‘remaster’ of a game that he merely wanted to play as a kid, as stated in the games press kit.

Back in Sept 2016 over on the RGB Classic Games Forum, a member called ‘JohnM’ uploaded content such as screenshots and files for a video game titled The Eternal Castle. He went on to mentioned this game was “one of the precursors of most of the next generation cinematic sidescrollers”. The featured screenshots certainly looked like a video game of the time, but the files included that would have opened the game didn’t work. A day later, a user on the same forum called ‘JMenko’ took to the Internet Archive to upload similar files.

Cut to October 2017, and members of the Prince of Persia community forum discovered The Eternal Castle files, citing they also couldn’t get the game to run. Instead of leaving them be, however, they decided to decipher why the game wasn’t working, and went to work on a fix.

It was in this investigation that it was discovered game files within The Eternal Castle features files from the original Prince of Persia, a game that didn’t launch until 1989. These game files also included code for Star Control 2 and the original Doom. As you’re aware, these are two games that came out long after 1987. Metadata from Photoshop was also included in the files of The Eternal Castle, a software program that wasn’t released until 1990.

Upon trying to run the application, another wild discovery was found that led to where we are now, reviewing a remaster of a game that never existed. Appearing on screen was text referencing a secret mode that DOS can run in. But wait, a Twitter user pointed out that this was not a feature that was included in DOS until 1989.

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I had been playing the game a while before I stumbled upon this information. In looking for references to the original for comparison’s sake, I was coming up blank. Once I delved further into the fabricated backstory of The Eternal Castle, I gained a new appreciation for what the developers were trying to achieve. The sheer lengths they were willing to go to in order to proclaim this title a relic of the past, even though it’s no such thing, gave everything I was experiencing in the game a deeper meaning. Its mystique lends itself well to a video game that’s just as had a nut to crack as the bizarre wild goose chase I found myself on looking for an original to a remaster that was never real in the first place.

Let’s get into it.

Visually and aesthetically, you’d be hard pressed to think that The Eternal Castle is anything more than a re-release of a video game from 1987. On the surface it’s a visual throwback to the glory days of the Amiga and Commodore 64. with a basic colour palette, soaking up the beauty of rotoscopic animation and infusing fluid pixel animation of characters, enemies and background to create a visual feast that will be the primary focus of the games appeal. You have to really see the game in action to fully appreciate the wondroushttp://web.archive.org/web/20200616091936if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZXqrU65vkNk?feature=oembed

It’s not just the visuals that carry over from the pixel era, either. As you’re navigating your way through each wasteland, encountering any number of beastly enemies that want to kill you in the face without a second though, it immediately dawns on you that The Eternal Castle is absolutely nails.

You can find weapons throughout the game but ammo is scarce – so much so that you’re more or less stuck with whatever ammo was in the gun when you found it -, so leaning into the modern comfort zone of shooting your way through each room isn’t going to cut it. You have basic hand-to-hand combat options but you’re grossly under-powered in comparison to the monsters that you’ll come across.

Beyond the enemies that makes The Eternal Castle perpetually difficult, the controls are mapped rather awkwardly, and text can be perplexing to read at times. The story that’s weaving throughout the game isn’t exactly George Orwell but you’ll need to be keeping track of various discoveries such as diary entries as you proceed through each level. One could argue it’s a small nod to games of the era but of course, a little spruce up with the modern tropes would have been a little welcome in this regard. I began playing in handheld mode and was ok for a little while until I was stumbling across these diary entries and had to switch (heh) to the TV, as it was becoming difficult to keep up with just what on earth you’re supposed to be doing, and even then it was tough. There’s homage and then there’s just frustrating. We’ve moved on for a reason.

In regards to the controls there’s intentional lag between button presses and actions. Again, a slight nod hearkening back to the era The Eternal Castle always wanted to belong in but wildly out of place today. I mentioned above the game is a challenge, and it’ll do its best to reset your brain back to your childhood of when we didn’t know any better and was just delighted to see moving pixels on a monitor we could interact with. I realised a little whilst into playing that the game shouldn’t be rewarded for being obtuse, despite its various degrees of authenticity.

The odd modern trope has been included though, thankfully. Whether it be a life bar you can energise at checkpoints or the staggeringly good synthwave soundtrack presented in full high-fidelity stereo. The game won’t boot you back to the very beginning if you die (thankfully. I died a lot) and you’ll get to retry levels as often as you like until you finally beat the bloody monsters that stand in your way.

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The majority of the levels share a similar visual theme – stark, abandoned, desolate – and soaking in the design of each level feels like a part of the game. You have that immediate moment of ‘wow, this is beautiful’, and then you’re back on the grind tearing through the platforming sections at times either in complete darkness or the crisp colour palette giving each of these levels a shot at becoming your next desktop wallpaper.

Completing levels will teleport you back to your ship where you can choose to take on a different area to take on. These areas in any order so if you’re finding one particularly taxing you can head back to your ship at any time and head somewhere else to try your hand on there. It’s worth jumping back and forth to see which location you can begin to understand the games mechanics easier. I’m pretty sure I landed at the most difficult area first. Handy for learning what’s ahead of you and taking on enemies by learning movements and navigating your way through the levels, but you’re probably not going to beat this level at this point so it’s best to explore and find where your comfort zone is at before taking it on. That worked for me, anyway.

The aforementioned weaponry is sparse, but handy. From pistols and shotguns, machine guns to axes and seemingly whatever your pixellated character can find on the ground (admittedly, it’s slightly difficult to make out exactly what he’s brandishing at times). They all pack a punch and you feel a little safer in your surroundings when in possession of something you can throw/shoot, though their uses are minimal it’s really more of quick fix. If you feel overwhelmed in certain spots you can just leg it off to the right hand side of the screen, but not every time. A certain segment where you’re moving through an underground nightclub with a large number of human enemies – who aren’t difficult to take down but in numbers can be particularly awkward – in which you have to take them all down in order to proceed. I’ve added a before/after picture below to showcase just how nuts it is.

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The funny thing is, The Eternal Castle just kept getting harder. Whether it be the enemies or through the more puzzling aspects of the game. There will be times when you enter rooms and you’re not entirely sure what you’re going to need to do in order to escape. The way the visuals work it’ll take a second to even find your character on screen at times, and whilst most levels are ‘kill the enemies to proceed’ or ‘climb over this to get to that’, particular levels that encourage minimal exploration can become a little bit of a muddle. The fun part is of course is that once you’ve overcome enemies and figured your way through the rooms you’ll be presented with a boss fight that is immediately exciting in no small part thanks to the aforementioned soundtrack, turned up to eleven when you’re in a boss area. Depending on your understanding of the control lag at this point the difficulty is balanced in your favour, though it can be tough at bosses are, at times, hugely overpowered.

For a game that effectively never existed, The Eternal Castle does a sterling job of transporting you back to the times of video games on cassettes and crappy monitors you’re hitting every fifteen minutes.

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The history of The Eternal Castle is one of mythical folklore, and to create a game purely out of what you thought the original game should have been way back in 1987 must be commended. You have to imagine that should it have actually seen the light of day not thirty-two years ago, it would have been heralded as one of the best of its era, standing proudly next to the likes of Flashback, Another World and Price of Persia. That the story of how this Remaster came to be is almost as engaging as the game itself leads to a distinctive approach to promote your new game, based on an old game that was never real in the first place.

It’s certainly an experience to be back in that mindset, with the good and the bad that comes along with it. Your enjoyment of The Eternal Castle will weigh heavily on either having fond memories of the era or wanting to leave it buried. It’s difficult to see how younger players will react to its visuals and punishing difficulty, but it serves as stark reminder that we’ve come a long way, baby.

It’s certainly the best remaster of a game that never existed I’ve ever played, that’s for sure.

I wonder what else is hidden away in lost game files of history?

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is available now on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch (reviewed).

Note: The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] currently is only available on the North American eShop. We don’t currently have information on an EU release, so if you want to play the game on Switch you’ll need an NA account.If you’re based in the EU you can find outhow to do so here, with thanks to Chris Scullion.

Developer: Leonard Menchiari, Daniele Vicinanzo, Giulio Perrone
Publisher: Playsaurus / The Indie Bros.

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