The Evil Within

The game has a few lighting issues, and the game itself is insanely tedious

打起来要比生化危机难，但恐怖氛围确实不错

The Evil Within sigue siendo un survival horror muy especial. Lo que mas me gusta es su atmosfera oscura, pertubadora y extraña, junto con sus escenarios y diseños de enemigos, que hacen que el juego tenga una identidad propia. Tambien me gusta que el sigilo y la escasez de recursos te hagan pensar antes de enfretarte a enemigos. Aunque tiene algunos problemas, como ciertos controles, la camara y una historia que puede resultar confusa, siento que eso no le quita lo especial que es. Ojala en algun momento tenga un remake, por que seria una excelente oportunidad para manejar esos aspectos y modernizar su jugabilidad, pero sin perder la atmosfera, el diseño y esa sensacion de terror que hacen unico a The Evil Within. Si logran conservar esa esencia, podria quedar increible.

The true evil is within.

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Крутой хоррор

I know it's pretty silly to be leaving this kind of review on a game that's over a decade old, but I need to shout into the void. Grabbed this game because I remember it being a part of the good old days, all-nighters at my friends house, Domino's and Mt Dew. But good God, is it a relic of the past. There's so many parts of this game that just make me want to do anything else with my time. - AWFUL checkpoints. I know older games, especially survival-horror types, can be intentionally punishing, but my God is that a terrible idea when it's so easy to die through no fault of your own. - It's so easy to be insta-killed, and in very unfair ways. Are there spinning blades overhead? Your character will find some damn reason to stand up for an action that he DOES NOT need to be standing to do. Boss enemy whittled down to the last bit of health? You bet they're going to pull out some complete BS they haven't done before and lock you into a lengthy death animation. - RNG. There isn't any stated RNG in the game, but I swear it's actually there, hiding under the surface just to screw you over. Sometimes, an explosive bolt you plant in the middle of a crowd will wipe the whole wave for you, and other times it doesn't even appear to do damage to the guy it was planted next to. Other times, regular-ass cannon-fodder enemies will decide that they, in fact, do not feel like dying after you put 12 gauge buckshot through their cranium at a point blank range. Occasionally, your character will simply not feel like it today, and take way longer to recover from minor damage than usual, leading to stun-locking and often death. And above everything else, the upgrades suck. There is nearly objectively no reason to take anything beyond health/stamina and weapon damage. Yea, the last couple upgrades in a path are pretty pricy so you'd be incentivized to buy cheaper, less useful upgrades, but honestly I never felt a difference after doing so. As a last little grief for me to give, I really don't know why the crossbow is in the game. Yes, I know it's nearly a necessity for several encounters, but it's presence is so damn out of place. All of the other weapons are standard firearms, no flash or flare, but them boom: the game gives you the "Agony Crossbow" with no real reason behind it's existence. It's so gamey, I have to wonder if it was a "the game needs to have X" command by the suits. I can get over it in the end, but it's so out of place that I feel silly every time I whip it out.