![]() The game opens with our hero, the gruff detective-turned-alcoholic Sebastian Castellanos, drinking his days away, wracked with guilt over the death of his wife and daughter and traumatized by the events of the first game. ![]() It’s everything one could want from a sequel. By innovating on the gameplay established with the series’ initial outing and expanding the game’s scope and storytelling, The Evil Within 2 feels confident enough in its own skin to stand tall next to genre mainstays. The Evil Within 2, however, is an entirely different beast. Viewed by many as a spiritual successor to Resident Evil 4‘s style and gameplay, it never fully escaped the shadow of its zombified sister series, despite its psychological horror aspirations. A back-to-basics approach to survival horror from Shinji Mikami himself, it offered all the scares and tension of classic titles like Resident Evil, but was hamstrung by a slavish devotion to genre tropes and a nearly nonexistent narrative structure. ![]() 2014’s The Evil Within was a divisive title among horror fans. ![]()
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