Working as a throwback to games from a much earlier era that were the first to dabble in a cinematic adventure experience The Eternal Castle will probably feel quite familiar to fans of the likes of Out of this World or even earlier fare like Prince of Persia. While for the sake of authenticity the game’s look is great the limited color palette, shading, and general design of some areas will unfortunately make determining what’s happening a bit of a muddy mess visually. To the game’s credit while the general adventuring beats feel very similar to other classics with a trial and error nature stacked on executing jumps and pivots effectively this also throws in what you’d consider to be boss battles every once in a while… though again making out the fine details of what’s happening and what you may need to do can be tricky and a bit aggravating. I appreciate titles like this that demonstrate what the industry has come from, and authenticity in that case is important, but at the same time a muddy sense of the action has only become more irritating over the years so this one can be hard to love.