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Best Survival Horror Games
I saw her in my nightmares for WEEKS


9) The Evil Within 1 & 2

Evil Within pt 1 Gameplay Trailer

Evil Within is beautiful, gory, tense, and insanely difficult. A return to his roots,Evil Within is Shinji Mikami’s grand opus. Functionally, this reminds me of Resident Evil 4 yet somehow even darker.

Don’t let the hackneyed setting scare you off. Set in the Beacon Mental Hospital, Evil Within is so much more than the sum of its rather disjointed parts. Detective Sebastian Castellanos is also somewhat lackluster. His dialog is stiff and emotionless to the point of being almost a parody yet somehow, occasionally, darkly comedic.

What this game lacks in dialogue and character development it more than makes up for in atmosphere. Dark corridors and terrifying mood lighting cause you to jump at every shadow and noise.

What ties Evil Within together is the combination of these ever increasing and terrifying foes and an extremely limited arsenal. While the crossbow can be altered for a variety of special attacks, the pistol, shotgun, and sniper rifle aren’t much in the hostile environment.

The Point of The Evil Within is its chaos. Moving with breakneck speed, you are propelled from one encounter to the next.

Evil Within 2 drops the linear format in service to an open-world platform. While it also suffers from its “B-movie” stylizing, this member of the franchise is far more in depth, reveling in its gory details.

There is a more thoughtful progression of plot. Without the demand of a linear story arc and the crafting feature you are free to make this game more than just survival horror. Almost everything was improved for this sequel yet, somehow it is still classic horror. Psychological mixed with gore keeping the gameplay fresh.

The Evil Within plays off of some of your darkest psychological fears. 

The monsters in Evil Within are picturesque, grotesque, and insanely difficult. 

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From the kingdom of the sun, Florida, Osha has a weakness for all things geeky, quirky, scary, or not on fire. She has a deep distrust of rodents and boy wizards and is still waiting for the Doctor.
Gamer Since: 1995
Favorite Genre: RPG
Currently Playing: Darksiders I
Top 3 Favorite Games:The Evil Within, Darksiders II, Portal


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