The Evil Within

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!

Tango Gameworks with mastemind Shinji Mikami just blew my mind with this game. If you crave for the horror back into your mind this game will deliver this. Evil Within take another step forward and makes you shiver from its presentation. Really like the story and what it does to uncover full truth. One of the best experience you can have. It so unique and new. Amazing settings and boss encounters wont let you sit calm while you try to narrow all these horrific dreams. This game reminded me a bit of taste from silent hill 1 and 2 for sure. Fun gameplay mixed with stealth and action approach wont let you snooze. Plus two amazing DLC explain some of the story plot that were left semi unexplained in the main game. I will rate this game 9.5/10 Now the wait begins for Ghostwire Tokyo from Tango Gameworks studio.

Hard to say if this game is good or not - the boss fights suck and every single boss leaves you with frustration and anger. It's not that hard, it just sucks. You die either instantly or after a few hits until you "get" the boss and then you move on. This destroys the atmosphere - there is no more horror if you have to do thos fights over and over again. All tension gone, what stays is boredom and lack of motivation. And there are many of them. THe typical gameplay loop is this: Play a chapter, great 30-40 minutes, you love the game. Then a boss fight, you hate the game. Then the chapter ends. The problem is: The end of any game, series, movie or, in this case, chapter decides on how you feel about the medium. And when you play this game and decide to quit for bedtime or dinner or whatever, you always quit with frustration and lose the motivation to continue playing. Without bosses, 4/5 stars. The bosses alone 1/5. So, this game is a subjective 2/5 and an objective 3/5. Continue playing, it stays good. But a game that has a hard time keeping you motivated is not a good game.

Great psychological story, bold concepts regarding mental health issues and how fragile the mind is, how the world within is changed and how it affects other "worlds". Great artwork, monster design and level design, interesting ideeas around mechanics and how they are integrated in gameplay. Haven't met a single error on either steam or gog versions. Difficulty is fair, although i will say that nightmare is a bit ruthless ad i won't even mention Akumu.

Runs better than the Steam version of the game because it's DRM-Free. There are a few points in the game that bother me though with level design. There is one point where you have to fight wave after wave of enemies until you get past a door guarded by harpoon turrets. Then there's another point in the game where you have to bunker up and defend your buddy while he disarms a trapped door. Otherwise I've found this game to be a fantastic experience, give or take a few issues given its age.