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At one point in The Evil Within a character says “The specific process to break down a human’s psyche, to obliterate it and give myself free rein, is so obvious.” The same thing happened later in the mansion, when I died in what was basically a quicktime event, only to lose thirty minutes of progress. Regardless, it wasn’t fun the second, third, and fourth time through. I never thought I’d been babied by checkpoints, but maybe I have been. It wasn’t scary anymore-it was frustrating. And then I died in the same spot two more times.īy the fourth time through the content I practically sprinted into the brother’s house like Rambo, shotgun brought to bear on anything that so much as grunted in my direction.

I was booted all the way back to the beginning of the chapter.

It took about ten minutes, all-told, and a number of those moments would seem like checkpoints. The first time through this sequence I crept in, was a bit startled by the presence of a corpse behind one of the doors, fumbled with the controls, finally killed it, walked downstairs, watched the cutscene revealing the brother’s madness, killed him, killed the third guy roaming the halls, walked outside, and promptly died. Also, there are other members of the living dead roaming around his house. Surprise! The brother is insane and operating on a corpse. If there’s anything that makes a game certifiably not scary, it’s having to play through the same content a second, third, fourth, or nth time.Īt the beginning of Chapter Four you’re told to go inside a house and meet with your traveling companion’s brother. Ready to traipse around the zombie-infested mansion so that a door with a locking-mechanism powered by three cylinders of blood will open? Ready to play as a main character who runs like an asthmatic grandfather? Ready for an insta-kill trap with no checkpoint ahead of it?Ĭheckpoints are actually this game’s most egregious sin, and one I hope is rectified prior to the game’s release. The Evil Within plays like it came out in 2005. The game came out in 2005, and it plays like it came out in 2005. Suspense, on the other hand, is something like Ti West’s House of the Devil-a slow, slow burn where the threat of something horrible causes more unease than the actual occurrence.īut go play Resident Evil 4 again.

#Evil inside game 2021 series#

Graphic overload is something like the Saw series of films: You’re supposed to be repulsed by the horrific imagery on-screen, creating unease. There are two primary paths to horror, which because I’m a journalist and not a scholar I’ll just call “graphic overload” and “suspense.” I wasn’t, and I don’t think it’s just because of the environment I was in (though I could be wrong). I’m not even going to bother spending a lot of time on whether or not you’ll be “scared” by The Evil Within because it’s a fool’s errand. In Chapter Eight the good detective and I marched our way through an old-timey mansion. In Chapter Four I guided protagonist detective Sebastian Castellanos through a creepy village and into an industrial basement area. The two sections took place in vastly different areas. I don’t know how far along in the story each of these sections were, though I’d guess four was about a third of the way in and eight was most of the way towards the end.

I played two chapters of The Evil Within: Chapter Four and Chapter Eight.