The Evil Within

Игра клёвая. Мало того, что в дурку увозят, ещё и пугают. Механик в этой игре достаточно, что бы почувствовать себя беспомощным среди монстров. Иногда эти механики душат, но так же помогают быть осторожным и внимательным. В игре полно контента и интересного лора, учитывая DLC. Прошёл игру не отрываясь и не пожалел потраченных денег и времени. Лучше резика однозначно

i really liked the like ps3 vibe and i am in absolute love with juli kidman, plus the dlc is soooo fire and i enjoed really much the castellanos bossfight

I REALLY wanted to like this game. I went in invested in the story, atmosphere, and gameplay loop, and for a while I was genuinely having a great time. But once I hit chapter 10, this game started testing the absolute hell out of my patience. The jank was already there, but the INSANELY QUESTIONABLE DESIGN CHOICES started piling up to the point where I was dying over and over again on Standard difficulty, just sitting there thinking, what the ♥♥♥♥ does this game actually want from me? And that's what frustrates me the most. I didn't want to drop this game. I wanted to finish it. I wanted to see where the story went. I was invested, I was having fun, and then the constant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slowly wore me down until I was completely burnt out. Chapter 11 was especially infuriating. Some enemy spawns feel less like actual challenges and more like straight up gotcha moments. The Spider boss can chew through a huge amount of your ammo, only for the game to immediately throw you into a section with multiple enemies using dynamite and guns, PLUS a sniper sitting in the distance, while you're already running low on resources. And apparently I'm expected to memorize enemy spawn patterns just to get through these sections? At that point, it feels less like skill and more like "die once so you know what's coming, then try again." After a while, I was just sitting there thinking, are you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ serious? That's not challenging anymore. It's exhausting. Then Chapter 13 happened, and that was the final ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ straw. There's this jigsaw-esque room that's basically a deathtrap in the dark. There aren't even normal enemies, just flames, spikes, and those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bladed Roombas patrolling the area while you're trying to figure out how the hell you're supposed to proceed. These things can stun lock you and shred your health incredibly quickly, which is already infuriating when you're trying to navigate around environmental hazards. And because apparently regular murder Roombas weren't enough, SOME OF THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ROOMBAS HAVE MINES ON THEM. So I'm standing in this dark ass room, trying to navigate around spikes and flames, trying to keep track of these things, trying to figure out the timing of the traps, and hoping I don't get caught in a stun lock that kills me before I can even react. One mistake and you're dead. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fantastic. And that's where I finally snapped. This isn't even me complaining about a game being difficult anymore. I was just completely exhausted by the constant trial and error. You die, figure out what killed you, retry, and hope you remember everything that happened so you can make it slightly further. By this point, I wasn't scared. I wasn't tense. I wasn't even enjoying the challenge. I was just pissed off. I don't mind difficult games. I don't mind dying. Survival horror SHOULD make you feel vulnerable. But there's a huge difference between feeling vulnerable and feeling like you've been screwed over because you didn't already know what was coming. That's ultimately what killed the game for me. It wasn't one boss or one terrible chapter; it was the constant accumulation of awkward enemy placements, surprise spawns, stun locks, resource draining encounters, and trial and error ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. And the worst part? I actually liked this game. The atmosphere is fantastic. The story had me invested. The gameplay can be REALLY damn fun when everything clicks. That's why I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disappointed. There's a genuinely great survival-horror game buried underneath all these frustrating design decisions, but chapter 13 finally pushed me past the point where I could keep forcing myself through it. I didn't drop The Evil Within because I hated it. I dropped it because the frustration eventually outweighed the fun. And honestly, that's even more disappointing.

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9/10

If you like survival horror gameplay you will probably like this game, the bones are solid enough to be enjoyable. The main story is a bit mind numbing, as it's essentially just running around to find your NPC companions, then you do 1 area with them before the antagonist appears and teleports you to a different area. Most of the time these areas don't feel like they have any significance, they really just feel like generic survival horror locations. It's not that these areas aren't fun but at no point during the main story did I feel like I was making an real progress towards any sort of objective. I didn't find the main character very interesting, he reacts to everything in an extremely flat manner, his voice acting it meh at best, and the interesting story bits he does have aren't utilized for anything. The 2 major supporting characters aren't much better in the main story, but Kidman is at least made into an interesting character by the DLCs, which I think are very good if a little short, but they do manage to fix the problem I have with the main game by adding character significance to the areas and not overstaying the welcome, as well as leaning further into the horror aspects.

I shat myself more than once playing this game.