![]() His reaction? “There’s something wrong with this place…” It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to mute the game because of how aggressively gormless the player character is. There’s a point near the start of The Evil Within where Sebastian is dumped into a sewer filled waist high with blood and body parts. Like any good B-movie it’s flawed but never enough to frustrate even if Sebastian still greets every grotesque and ghostly creature with the same stony resilience he did in the first game. Playing The Evil Within 2 feels like the low-budget B-movie it should be with heavy nods to its influences and even heavier mugging to the camera. With all that said it’s still miles ahead of the first game in its world, story and gameplay. The enemy AI is simple and easy to fool while the characters we’re supposed to care about never really feel truly fleshed out. Sebastian controls like a steamroller in first gear and the game punishes most missteps with a brutal, bloody death. The Evil Within 2, like its predecessor, is a flawed game. Anyway one thing leads to another and Sebastian finds himself trapped in another disintegrating hellscape in search of his missing, presumed dead, daughter. If you think that’s convoluted you should play the first game. MOBIUS control the technology that trapped Sebastian in the nightmare realm of serial killer Ruvik’s mind and are now using Sebastian’s daughter, Lily, to create a new simulation in order to achieve global unity. Still traumatised by his experiences within the crumbling mind of a disfigured and deranged scientist Sebastian has been hunting MOBIUS. Sebastian Castellanos is down on his luck three years after the events of The Evil Within. A film is over after two hours, most games keep going including the recently released The Evil Within 2 which clocks in at an average of 15 hours. Tense thrills and jump scares have their place but playing a game is different from watching a movie oriented around sudden shocks. Movies have undergone somewhat of a course correction in the last while with the likes of Get Out and It Follows ranked highly by critics across the globe but games are still playing catch-up. ![]() For every Babadook there was a Bye Bye Man and for every Resident Evil there was a Layers of Fear.
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