The Evil Within

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Posted on: April 18, 2020

dyscode

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Games: Reviews: 36

Truly unique and punishing horror

This game has me going ambigious - schizophrenic like the story itself and it scared the living lights out of me. On one hand I really appreciate the uniqueness of what Mikami did here. It's a labour of love, great atomsphere with even greater sound design, very different set-pieces and lots of unique bosses. A truly twisted and demented horror, that is rarely tried or found in other games. In this EW1 is among the best horror games ever made! On the other hand, unfortunately they did not carry through with it to the end in the main game. I loved the stealth aspect but from Chapter 10 on the game becomes an endurance-test action game. From here on, the game pits you into bossfight after bossfight and wave after wave, punishing you for every upgrade-mistake you made before. You will be replaying chapters at least twice anyway, because you need the Gel for upgrades and you need to plan ahead with balancing damage and resources. But you are also rewarded with a truly unique ride! I can see how some are not willing to invest so much time and energy in this, as this game needs to be replayed several times. Maybe even restarted halfway because you upgraded in the wrong order. This game is HARD and unforgiving and I would not blame you using Cheat-Engine. I found EW2 _way easier_ than this. The controls are far less bad as some make it out to be. I guess it's a matter of if you are familiar with the tank-controls of the Playstation 1 era 3D Action-RPGs like Resident Evil, Nightmare Creatures, Silent Hill and the likes. Because the controls exactly feel like that. But what is more important is that the mechanics are consistent and thus can be mastered! The 2 story DLCs are a must because they are delivering important story aspects. They are also even more unsettling than the main game and a completely skill-based hide-and-seek endurance test. With all it's flaws, I can still recommend EW1 wholeheartedly for the daring things it does.

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Posted on: July 1, 2021

FrappeMiku

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Games: 107 Reviews: 8

Great game. Reviews are kind of unfair.

This is an excellent game which will deliver tense moments and make you think twice before you make a move. Manage well your resources and you shall be rewarded with powerfull upgrades that will make your adventure more interesting. Every part of this game represents a challenge for you to overcome. The gameplay feels nice, has a very good opressing atmosphere and the visuals are pretty nice. I'm not the kind to despise others, but you should ignore reviews of those who try and see games as Resident Evil and Silent Hill in this game. This is The Evil Within, it's a different game, not an spin off of those. This game will deliver fear to you in it's own way. Personally, this is a must play.

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Posted on: June 11, 2020

Punpunya

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Games: 163 Reviews: 2

A good game with a lot of problems

I liked this game a lot... but the game have serious issues speceally in the gameplay and in it's design. The game offers variety on the situations in some of them the game really shines creating a really good experiences but they're just a few, the rest if they are not working with some issues, they are working really bad. The game puts you in many situations in which the systems that the player has access to are not ready to face said situation. Creating a really frustrating experience most of the time. the sloopy controls and some mechanics that barely works like the stealth they just add more problems to the game, and sometimes the game just doesn't make clear what it expect from the player, like in some bossfights in which the game give you the resources to kill it, but you just are not allowed to do it because the game want something else from you at the time and is hard to see the answers sometimes. and the story doesnt give you a lot. barely And the story that rarely tells you what's going on or tells you cryptically, combining it with the fact that you have to look for the story in collectibles in the form of documents and other things can make you lose interest in this. But. some segments are really well made.And when you can finally fight the bosses, these really are a challenge that will test your ability to manage resources in order to find a way to kill him and the general bewilderment surrounding the context and environment of the game really increases the tension of the game... I will put it this way, the game seeks to be old and current at the same time, mixing many mechanics of survival horror games that have been going on for years and htye do not work quite well, to this we add sloopy controls and many frustrating segments, but if you are able to ignore this, you can find a very entertaining game that is really trying to make new things

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Posted on: April 16, 2020

I-BOS

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Games: 2726 Reviews: 34

I love this Game

I have played this awesome game on Xbox 360 and this is a must have horror game. Great graphic, good sound amazing horror atmosphere. thank you gog for this perfect game

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Posted on: September 14, 2023

Noirshock

Verified owner

Games: 60 Reviews: 3

A game that leave you wanting more!

I love the story and the characters. Shinji Mikami brought another great story in his particular style. If you like RE4 or other of his works, you should know what to expect from Evil Within. There's a nice combination of slow sections and action that you may or may not like, but I enjoy this dynamic in my playthrough. The ending feels just like the beginning of the story, but thankfully there's DLC to continue the story and it is REALLY good. So I recommend you buy the complete edition, otherwise you're losing a lot of experience. I want to point out how your performance might suffer playing it since the vsync is always active and tank your fps quite a lot in full screen mode. To solve this issue, I recommend going to the data folder and locating the "release.cfg" archive, it should be inside the "base" folder. Open it with notepad and look for "r_swapInternal", change this value to "0" and save. Now you should be able to play without performance issues. Although I recommend you cap your framerate on your AMD Radeon or Nvidia control panel since this change will disable the 60 fps limit. Overall, I like the game and I'm ready to enjoy the sequel! Note: You can disable the letterbox of the game inside of the setting by disabling panoramic mode. This is a personal preference, but I disabled it for a while in my playthrough just to enable it later on. It may not be a feature for everyone, but I just realized how all the elements on screen are designed with this feature in mind and once it was enabled, I just noticed how the experience significantly improves for me, so I want to point this out just to let you know that you can experiment with this feature and you may find it part of the experience too. Have fun!

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