![]() Despite having gone through all this once before, he still regularly quips mundanities at the weirdness of it all. ![]() Sebastian himself, on the other hand, is somehow even more dull three years later. Like the original before it, The Evil Within 2 may not know how to deliver convincing dialogue or maintain a consistent tone, but it does know that the mark of pure survival horror is to leave you feeling like you only just survived, time after time after time.Developer Tango Gameworks has done a good job at a cleaner set-up this time around by sending protagonist Sebastian Castellanos to rescue his thought-dead daughter from The Evil Within’s version of the Matrix, called STEM - adding some vital emotional stakes that were lacking in the original. The Evil Within 2 is an ambitious, genuinely tense, and at times brutally difficult experience, but one that left me exhilarated. Thinking back on my 20 hours with it, I had. Despite that all going horribly wrong in the last game, they are somehow surprised to find it going horribly wrong again here.After finishing The Evil Within 2 I was exhausted, like I’d been through an ordeal. ![]() to help with their broken experiment to create a psychic virtual reality (which manifests as a generic American town, of the sort that always gets overrun by monsters in ‘80s horror films). The game starts with ex-police detective Sebastian Castellanos being approached by an Umbrella-like global mega corp. This sequel also adds in some semi-open world areas and The Last Of Us style scavenging, but it doesn’t survive that comparison very well either.īut the first problem with The Evil Within 2 is its unnecessarily complex backstory. ![]() The original was much anticipated, as the first game from the new studio of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, but rather than being a new milestone in the genre it spent all its time reminding you of other, better games – primarily Mikami’s own Resident Evil 4 and the earlier Silent Hill games. Although the first Evil Within wasn’t a flop we think everyone was surprised that it even has a sequel. ![]()
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