Silicon Knights has had a torrid time in recent years: after years of development, its first Xbox 360 game Too Human met a tepid critical and commercial reaction, and its most recent release X-Men Destiny didn't fare much better. Things weren't always like this, though: the studio did a great job with Konami revamp Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, but there's only one title Nintendo fans associate with the Canadian developer — Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.
The company is currently refocusing and returning to its roots, working on one of its most requested titles for the next generation.
While nobody's mentioned the name Eternal Darkness 2, it seems the most likely candidate for a next generation revamp and a perfect fit for the Wii U controller — or, even better, the Wii Vitality Sensor.
Holy wow. Seems basically confirmed.
They Just layed off a good number of their Staff. They made a franchise game so terrible that it didn't even sell. Im just not looking forward to what they do next. I give it a year before the studio goes the way of factor five.
Dyack should have stayed with nintendo.
"or, even better, the Wii Vitality Sensor."
I've never understood why SIlicon Knights never re-released Eternal Darkness for the Wii. They could easily have done a quick 'Play Control' style makeover of the controls, and made a tidy sum from it.
Nintendo owns the Eternal Darkness IP not Sllicon Knights. Plus Knight left nintendo with some bad blood. The Wii wasn't powerful enough to run Too Human and Dyack didn't like the casual direction that the Wii was going in and he thought it was going to fail. Same thing happened to Factor 5 but they were still open to working with nintendo before they died.
Well it is going to take them sometime to do it as they cut their staff by 75%.
Has Legacy of Kain been greatly requested? If so then I can't get my hopes up TOO high.
It has to be ED2. Question is will it be a Nintendo exclusive? Considering the problems the developer is currently facing, it seems unlikely Nintendo has stepped in with a request for this game. Otherwise, they wouldn't be having those financial woes.
Please let it be so! This would be my number one most wanted game EVER! I would definitely get Wii U for it.
I would pay $100 for a 3DS Eternal Darkness remake.
If they make ED2, they'll go from financial woes to financial WHOAs.
The original Legacy of Kain is one of my top ten psone games of all time. Remake it for the 3DS!!! Then make Eternal Darkness 2 for the Wii U! Do it. Do it now.
See, if they had made ED2 in the first place, they wouldn't have had to lay off 100 people.
An Eternal Darkness sequel is looooooong overdue.
Say what you want I absolutely loved that game!
How many games will pretend to erase your save file just to screw with your head? None that I remember. Awesome game!
I'm excited to hear this news but at the same time I am concerned that it won't be anywhere near as good as the original Eternal Darkness. Silicon Knights isn't exactly making quality games anymore. Then again they did make their best stuff when they were doing it for Nintendo. Here's hoping!
This one's up to Nintendo whether or not they make another one. They could surprise us with a Wii U game, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Personally, if they did make it, I'd love to see Wii Remote plus and nunchuk support.
Spiritual Sequel and/or HD remake not coming to Wii or Wii U.
Hopefully they can pull themselves together, it's been ages since they last made something worthwhile. They've had a downward spiral even worse than Rare.
@lockelocke: (below) I didn't read Kotaku, just making a joke and hoping they're not being delusional about what is actually a requested sequel.
Yeah... but wasn't the "HD Remake" of Final Fantasy X based on "popular demand" ... Yeah, cause I'm sure FFX is more popular and needs a remake more than Final Fantasy VII... sarcasm... If they're popular demand is based on the same stuff as Square Enix then we'll probably end up with "Too Human: Too"
That must be Eternal darkness, no doubt. If it comes to Wii u has yet to be seen, but it's possible!
If you read the Kotaku article, they talk about the Too Human sequel and this mysterious upcoming "back to their roots" project as two separate games.
I would love to see a remake of the original Blood Omen... that is if SK has the rights to it.
Have they confirmed it as a Nintendo title? Seems more likely to be another Blood Omen installment to me.
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese be Eternal Darkness 2.
If they are really are going back to their roots maybe they will resurrect production of blood omen 3 (even though they havent been involved in the series since the first one).
Who owns the rights to Eternal Darkness? Nintendo or Silicon Knights?
I was wondering that myself. I mean, with Rare, Nintendo could easily have kept, say, Conker mainly because the character first appeared in a Nintendo franchise (Diddy Kong Racing). But, Nintendo acknowledged Conker as being a Rare creation and therefor let them keep him. Nintendo could more easily have let SK keep Eternal Darkness (though the ED IP is worth so much more than Conker). Also, Too Human was slated for the GameCube, so I wonder how much, if any, Nintendo had their magical fingers in that before SK took it away.
Regardless of who owns the rights, I hope ED does get a sequel, lives up to its predecessor, and graces a Nintendo console.
I guess Silicon Knights' new game would either have to be Eternal Darkness 2 or Blood Omen/Soul Reaver...either way, this is promising news!
I'm cautiously optimistic that Nintendo will be involved and co-develop another Eternal Darkness game.
@tendoboy1984 Nintendo owns the IP for Eternal Darkness and has patented the "Sanity effects".
I also discovered Nintendo still owns stock in the company.
ED2. I guess the story had enough of a loophole to do more in the series... but if they manage to pull it off, I damn sure would NOT mind an ED2.
I loved eternal darkness , scarey stuff. I was playing it when re1 remake for cube came out and i was getting my thrills on both games. So id like to see if they can top that experience.