The Evil Within PS4 Review
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You know how most games allow you to settle in to their world before ultimately building to that first moment where your heart pounds and your adrenaline courses through your veins? Yeah… The Evil Within is not one of those games!
Don’t get me wrong, The Evil Within starts like any other game, the short opening cutscene showing your main character (Detective Sebastian Castellanos) riding in a squad car with his colleagues, Joeseph Oda and Juli Kidman having just finished up some prior case, but when a call comes in over the radio ordering all units towards a mental hospital, things from this point forward take a very drastic turn, and before you know what-is-what you’re being brutally chopped up OR sliced up OR pummelled with no mercy like you’re a piece of meat waiting to be cooked! These unfolding sequences are actually rather difficult for a first hands on experience too. I was in a survival horror game, of that I had no doubt! My mind thinking back to the first couple of tranquil minutes in that car, which were now completely eclipsed by the preceding twenty, because what I came to learn is that this is not some ordinary survival horror game; it’s an experiment in pain and punishment, so much so it will test your sanity as well as your patience! The sole purpose of this beginning segment it seems to teach you one lesson and one lesson only…