Game Review, Evil Within

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You might be familiar with this game and its content since the same creator of the Resident Evil series-Shinji Mikami supplied his great mind as the game’s director.  The game was developed by Tango Gameworks and released by Bethesda Softworks. The game is available for both PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One consoles.

But that’s enough with the specs, let’s get right into the story base of this game. This puts you in the third person perspective and you take the lead as Detective Castellanos. All you know in the beginning is that you are going to the hospital where all the crazy just explodes into your reality. Without dropping any major plot twists and spoilers, EVERYTHING hits the fan and you are left in a world of despair trying to survive.  

This world gives you little to start with. It’s just one of those things where it leaves you wondering if you should run, hide, or fight while looking and picking up ANYTHING that may help you on your conquest to survive; so you can get the answers to your questions on what the heck is going on?!

 

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This game is brilliant. The mechanics of it could be very confusing at first until you are used to what is going, but I’m telling you, once you get used to one environment and the way of surviving it almost feels like things changed on you.  The environment, the monsters and the puzzles that just leave you screaming at your tv screen, because you are doing your best to play it “safe”.  

Even some of the boss battles or major events before clearing the stage will surely give you nightmares, or at least wishing you had a unicorn to tell jokes with before bedtime so you are less scaredy cat while lying in bed.  

Now one of the things I enjoy about this game IS the ever changing scenes. It almost feels like you are in a whole new game and if you think 2 chapters prior to where you are now you wouldn't believe it was. 

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Another thing that I liked about this particular survival horror game it does give you room to improve and give you skill sets to modify as you progress.  One of the items you randomly pick up are these green jars of goop or as I like to say “brain juice”, because when you find a mirror it will take you to a spot of the hospital where you are able to upgrade your weapons, ammo and abilities. This is also where you will be saving most of your game play and unlocking items in the morgue…morbid, I know but once you see the setting you will understand.

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Which if I give you any advice on upgrading on any skill set to upgrade first in the beginning it would be your SPRINT. Just trust me on this because there will be a lot of areas where you will rely on this less noticeable skill set and you don’t want to be huffing and puffing after 3 seconds while some big ole baddie comes up behind you and gives you a death hug.

Also while the main reason of going through each chapter is to take care of the big villain(Ruvik) who brought you into the world of Safe head Monsters and Floor Monsters that Death hug you from the floor, this game also allows you to get to know Sebastian Castellanos. Throughout the game you are picking up random notes or case files that give you and insight into his life. Which is such a sad story in itself if you have time to really absorb it in, but I love games that make you feel for the character you are playing as, like what drives him and how or why he is that way.

There is so much more to this game besides throwing bottles at water monsters and disarming loot crates. This game has a bit of depth that some survival horror games lack. The story is a powerful one since it has many tied into one. It leaves you thinking and it pushes the gears in your mind to see how well you react to certain aspects in this type of survival game.

If you want jump scares, brain inducing exercise, and the thrill of what is waiting for you to fight around that corner, then this game is for you.

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Take your time going through something like this. I don’t see this as a nonstop marathon of game play for the next 24 hours because then you will miss so many details for when you reach the end of the game it will leave you shouting at the screen because you won’t “get it”.

This is the type of game that if you do take your time you will be rewarded with a satisfactory end to a fan-frightening story and game. I give this 4 out of 5 Brain Juice jars!

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Written by: Sugs DeLeon