The Evil Within A Beautiful Mess

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[@GrimBeard]

now THIS is content 😎

[@forzagiova]

The grim beard himself!

[@forzagiova]

When are you going to cover this gem you goth?

[@noelienoelie8425]

Deja vu.

[@maaniekgupta2787]

Wow grimbeard himself on sphere hunter. Can't get more awesome than that

[@LSK2K]

I'm still watching the video but here's a really dumb thing I'd like to point out: so he says he's always low on ammo cause he can't hold more then he says he's always got ammo no matter how dire the situation is. What?

[@goof827]

"Resident Evil, for depressed people" jeez this feels so real, I was intensely depressed when I first played this game, that's probably why I'm so attached to it, that and the expertly designed set pieces

[@musicaikana5516]

I feel you, this game comforted me so much. I love all the battles with Keeper

[@Schneider142]

the evil within is the real depression.

[@AMC5274]

I had just lost my job when I played it, def an awesome distraction hehe.

[@kyburn6195]

I liked both Evil Within's. While I prefer 2's gameplay overall, I like the story in 1.

[@jar768jake]

You read my mind!

[@tramelpennie]

It’s just too easy to exploit the A.I. in 2. Stealth is king sadly.

[@Mr.Honest247]

Nah part 2 was trash. Part one, although janky, had WAY MORE soul and fun gameplay!!! Polish but the game being a turd means it’s just a polished turd!!! I’ll take an unpolished gem(The Evil Within 1) over a polished turd(The Evil Within 2) ANY DAY!!! Although both polish AND gem would be a no brainer…

[@xornedge8204]

The atmosphere and story as well as the designs were better in the first game but gameplay is a massive part of… well, a game. If they made an update to it that fixed at the very least the gameplay issues the game had then I think TEW would be looked back on a lot more.

[@Mightyjordy]

Oh wow I actually prefer the story in 2 a lot more. Probably just hit harder for me since I was totally confused the whole time lol

[@andy_scrandy]

I feel like, The more Open world feel of the 2nd game didn't make me as scared as the 1st game, With the more Linear level design in the Evil Within 1 it truly made me feel helpless.

[@Dukesparrow1999]

Exactly, although I don't hate the sequel, I feel the linear take the first game made whenever the environment changed all around me made me go "Ah man where the hell am I now?"

[@pacman4596]

The first one was way more scary for sure, but the sequel is just as good tho i really enjoyed the exploration aspect of the game

[@ADP057]

Weird because I felt the exact opposite, it felt like at any point something could attack me. Though this only applies to the first act, after it's a shoot fest

[@jameswolf3302]

i felt the exact opposite, especially when i activated the ghost lady from the sebastian PTSD sidequest, i was on alert the whole time, always looking around for enemies that could sneak up on me. I was calm in the evil withinh 1 beccause it was linear and just an action game most of the time, the huge amounts of ammo i had even in higher dificulties made me confident, and dying all the time just made me frustrated. The Evil Within 2 made me feel helpless, beccause in higher dificulties, i was finally worried about using too much ammo and not having as much as i wanted to, the constant optional stealth section in the second game gave me more tension. And unlike a lot of people, one of my favorite sections is Theodore's blood sea, that area made me extra carefull.

[@buschilol8912]

also if you are like me and explore the whole map and kill everything i come across before doing the story there wont be any enemies left to attack until the second half of the game when new enemies spawn. after i did all the sidequests and explored the first map it was really just walking from story quest to story quest. of course you could say the ghost lady is still a threat but she really isn't. as soon as the fog appears just turn around and run a few yards. she'll despawn and you can go back to what you were doing. i really liked the evil within 2 but for my playstyle the lack of respawning enemies made the open-world empty and boring.

[@alexcruz3043]

Its funny how one person can play a game and have a completely different perspective on features can be so different. I personally love this game and thought it was under rated. I actually liked the straight foreword nature of the levels, I hate key hunts and back tracking so it was nice for my short attention span.

[@Ji99i3]

Same. Literally everything she didn't enjoy I loved. I hate big open world scavenger hunts. Backtracking just pisses me off at this point in my life.

[@nikkis.2066]

It is pretty fascinating. I loved just about everything about this game. My cons/issues are more on the technical side, and I didn't like a large part of the City levels. Just about everything else I was enjoying. The mood and atmosphere, the enemy designs, I loved how the game restricts you but doesn't make you fully helpless. It is what it is, but I feel she was way too critical and had unrealistic expectations and too caught up in the hype. Was weird how she complained about Horror games not allowing you to fight back, and wants a return to Survival Horror and we mostly get that in Evil Within aaaand she doesn't like it? Eh *slow shrug*.

[@Ji99i3]

@@senorgato4273 I actually agree tbh. I rolled my eyes at a few of her points. Especially the racoon city reference, that was cringe even Oh well everyone is different.

[@justalurker297]

@@senorgato4273 How the fuck are different opinions "L"s?

[@kadeestelle5268]

And yet that's why I didn't enjoy the evil within. I love games like the RE2 remake where you have free rein to explore, but you really have to think about how to spend your resources as you solve puzzles. I like when games expect you to think and explore but subtly nudge you in the right direction with expert game design. Games that are too linear leave me feeling bored right along with most open world games that lack proper pacing and level design, it's a delicate balance.

[@rodneyabrett]

13:35 By the way, the underwear Kidman screenshot is very typical of 3d body scan data that's been cleaned up. I recognize this because I'm a character modeler myself and worked with human body scans before. So it's likely her model started life as a real life actor that stood in a body scanning device in her underwear and the modeler retopologized the raw polygon data into proper edgeloops, then made the body symmetrical for rigging for the final asset.

[@jakethesnake4040]

They have devices now that can literally just scan your full body appearance into a program? Like if I was rich, and wanted a game made about me, I could actually go to the studio or workspace, and have my whole body scanned in? And they'd just touch it up and add details to finish making the model look like me? Is that how it works or am I way off?

[@rodneyabrett]

@@jakethesnake4040 Well, the full body scanners are these huge devices that are pretty expensive, but yeah. Common in Vfx especially for digital double work. However, what @Lying Figure is talking about is an alternative called photogrammetry, which is less expensive and is a method of extrapolating 3d shapes from a series of sequential photographs. It's gotten pretty good lately.

[@DarthMcDoomington]

@@jakethesnake4040 Like Lying Figure said, you don't need to be rich. A good quality camera, good lighting and a podium to rotate you while you T-pose are all you need.

[@goten339]

Then why don't any of the other characters have similar scans in their underwear?

[@rodneyabrett]

@@goten339 Because the dev team probably wanted her character to have more realism in the shaping. There's some stylization and adjustment for sure, but it probably started life as a scan. Hands always have to be made bigger too(scan data hands are very tiny). Her character wears tighter closes where as the male characters are in suits and you don't see the silhouettes of their body's physique compared to Kidman's. Female character modeling is actually very difficult(the female character in the last game I worked on was a struggle), way harder than a typical male character. The more subtle the shapes and forms, the harder to nail and the easier to screw up and have it look bad.

[@markymark6229]

I remember back then (2014) was such an exciting time to be a horror fan. You had trailers for Evil Within and Until Dawn CONSTANTLY running on the TV, the Strain had just released, and The Walking Dead was still pretty relevant and something to look forward to. Anyone else remember these days?

[@psychicrupture1874]

Nah I don’t remember

[@davidabest7195]

Nope only you remember mainstream popular culture from 9 years ago

[@CriticalNobody]

This is one of those weird cases where The Evil Within 2 is undoubtedly a better game, but there’s something about the clunkiness, sense of vulnerability and incomprehensible nonsense of the first game that makes it more charming. Though if someone told me they gave up on it, I would completely understand

[@Goochbot]

The art direction, pacing, enemy design and atmosphere is much stronger in the first game I think. But yeah, as a game, the sequel is definitely the better game.

[@TheSphereHunter]

Yea I don’t even hate this game, but I don’t like it as much as the second game.

[@jonathansoko1085]

2 is universally panned and regarded as much worse. Wtf yall on fam. Its like some of you live in a different universe and time line. You state why 2 is so bad but also claim its a better game LOL You on some kinda drug there or what

[@jonahbrown5669]

@@jonathansoko1085 Maybe people preferred the story and character in 2? Maybe people liked that it's a much better game performance wise? On PS4, the first game struggles to get even close to a stable 30fps.

[@TadejVig]

First game is definitely much better. It's basically the Resident Evil 5 we should have got after 4. The variety of encounters, pacing, level design and boss fights is really cool. Sure it was clunky and had some problems (terrible intro, after that stealth is basically not required or used much) and poorly explained mechanics (such as matches, which is a great mechanic if you know how to use it). But I love it even with these faults. And cmon, most of survival horror genre has glaring issues like Evil Within has.

[@ruebenb8887]

The Evil Within series is one of my favorite horror game series. The first game definitely wins in story and atmosphere (it literally feels like shit could go down at any moment) while the second is far more polished and more fun to play gameplay wise.

[@DeathnBloodx]

@Mass Dupp Addiction funny thing, ghostwire tokyo was supposed to be evil within 3

[@thomasfield4772]

​@Mass Dupp Addiction from what we know it was changed in very early development. Doesn't mean we'll never get TEW3

[@danteion7354]

I enjoy evil withins more then resident evil ....i don know its just me??? The second i enjoy more .....

[@DeathnBloodx]

@Mass Dupp Addiction yeah im serious lol and i have no idea why. im currently going through EW2 at the moment. So maybe the ending didnt really need a 3rd game?

[@tgyry3199]

I think the first game was superior in terms of gameplay as well. The second one was just boring.

[@theotherguy6263]

I think that in case of TEW1 what matters is what do you consider a horror game should look like. I actually had a hard time getting into it initially, as it felt too hard, but after a few days of practice I fell in love with this title. It's uniqueness lies in this sort of hardcore-arcade'y gameplay - as it wants you to learn to be super precise and fast thinking. No other horror game felt as oppressive to me as this one - and it's actually very respectable move from Mikami and the dev crew, because here everything wants to rip you up and it doesn't care if you like it or not. Thinking about it, that is actually a good definition of real horror. In TEW1 you're being hunted, and in TEW2 you play as the hunter, and I guess it says a lot.

[@Andy_Sgouros]

The evil within is one my favourite games ever.Not only because of the ideas it explores but also because the combat is REALLY satisfying especially landing headshots

[@Sigmundfrued]

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[@StabYourBrain]

You mean the Headshots that don't kill half of the time because the critical hit is literally RNG?

[@Mr.Honest247]

@@StabYourBrain Omg STFU, the game is great!!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@ga35am]

@@StabYourBrain urgh. You are awful.

[@PendulumCancel]

Same here I love how deliberately fine tuned the combat is in this game. The shaky aim being something you could upgrade felt novel to me and I liked how TEW at higher difficulties pressures you to upgrade and use all sorts of weapons. Aside from the more action oriented chapters I had nothing but good experiences with the game's varied weapons and large cast of cool enemies (especially the boss fights). I felt like I was at the edge of my seat for most of my multiple playthroughs. It might not be up to RE4's standards, but I wouldn't fault anyone who put TEW1 on the same pedestal as REmake/RE3 or Dead Space 2 (I consider the first superior). The combat might reach actual perfection if they improved the burning mechanic and added moderately okay Souls style roll though imo.

[@lucasgruber8509]

The Evil Within made a great first survival horror. I grew up watching my brothers playing resident evil and silent hill, but I never got to experience them myself because I was too young. As a kid in high school, the evil within felt like I was finally getting to partake in that tradition. Other games and older ones have obviously come to outclass it, but I’ll always look back on those memories of it fondly because it was my own resident evil that I didn’t have to watch over my brothers’ shoulder.

[@joeboo8626]

Always felt "The Evil Within" was what RE6 should have been.

[@ireallydontcareabouthandles]

I consider Revelations 1/2 to be the actual RE5/6. Never mind that Wesker died in one of those games, it's kind of counterbalanced by the end of Rev2 anyways.

[@LadyAtoli]

I love RE6. It's the ultimate mash up of all the characters in the series. Was super fun playing as Sherry.

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

@@ireallydontcareabouthandles I could see that with revelations 1... Don't exactly see that with 2. Like yeah, it's still survival horror, but not only is a lot of characters pratical shells of themselves, but the gameplay is bogged down with your partner. It's silent hill, not resident evil

[@crissy4346]

Let's be honest. Resident Evil hasn't been the same since Shinji Mikami left.

[@maverickslastoddworld6476]

@@LadyAtoli it's a great action game I love it!

[@DemonKingCozar]

I absolutely adore Sebastian's voice in this game. I wish it was in the second game.

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Also Kidman's. Jennifer Carpenter was truly missed in TEW2.

[@DeathDustDespair]

I prefer the voice of Marqus Bobesich, from the sequel

[@MrMetalforever5]

Not saying you’re wrong, but I thought I did too until I played it again recently. To me, for 99% of the game, Sebastian constantly sounds mildly annoyed/surprised and it takes me out of it.

[@DemonKingCozar]

@@MrMetalforever5 I like that a lot more than the grainy voice of 2.

[@joshuaandrews8622]

"Out of ammo?!"

[@b1thearchitect401]

Evil Within 1 & 2 are VERY underrated. 1st one is more ambitious and all over the place, the 2nd is a little more safe but way more polished, overall I think they're both pretty great on the whole!

[@davidabest7195]

I constantly confuse EW1 with Outlast because they both have some tryhard edgy villain that can possess people etc.

[@MistaCx]

I just loved the horror in this game. Every monster in the game is pretty scarry

[@mateuszjasicki]

The true monster is encountered by those who save with no ammo and heals

[@MistaCx]

@@mateuszjasicki This is me 😭 I be using one save file for no reason

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed every time one showed up i was running for my life.

[@windtacht1480]

I preferred Evil Within 1 to 2, because the story matters a lot to me when I play video games. The story was much more interesting in the first game and I loved how they told the story in the main game and Kidman DLCs.

[@nikkis.2066]

I prefer EW 1 to EW2 as well. I just didn't like the open world aspect and felt we just never really explored fun or interesting levels like in the first game. I also had many technical issues with the sequel. Still some great stuff in it.

[@peppinoandweskerfriendsfor3450]

I like playing EW2 more but yeah the story is definitely better in 1. In 2 it’s like “okay here are twenty million villains for no reason”

[@holymemoly3833]

yes everything was so much better and the small places that you were was amazing

[@hawken796]

I felt 2 was way more comprehensible and better written in terms of characters

[@iAmPimmiCue]

@@peppinoandweskerfriendsfor3450 There's like 4 villains, which go down to 3 at the end.

[@Throbingkcoc]

I really hope we get a 3rd game in this series. Such an amazing game with great boss fights.

[@Dukesparrow1999]

If it does happen, im pretty sure another protagonist would take the spotlight, I mean Sebastian's arc is over, he saved his daughter and redeemed himself. Joseph Oda could perhaps be the next main character

[@Chef.Sinatra]

@@Dukesparrow1999 but Ruvik is still alive in Evil within 1

[@Dukesparrow1999]

@@Chef.Sinatra potential main antagonist of TEW3?

[@Chef.Sinatra]

@@Dukesparrow1999 I mean he's not dead and Oda still missing, so yeah

[@BIOJECT]

lets hope it's not like the second game which was horrible.

[@tonygonk]

One thing I vaguely remember in this game is if you wait around for awhile in the rain at the beginning, Kidman’s shirt gets wet. Very classy stuff

[@jacobpetrelle9371]

The Evil Within is one of my favorite game series ever. I think you really hit on the head a lot of the problems the first title has, though I love the story and it's approach to horror/action, even with all its many, many flaws lol. Def subscribing! Happy Halloween 🎃

[@symbiote3220]

Shes a cynical pos

[@InfiniteGatsu]

my main issue is later in the game it just becomes unfair especially in the water section!

[@symbiote3220]

@@InfiniteGatsu thats a skill issue

[@InfiniteGatsu]

@@symbiote3220 nah just annoying but what the 2nd half of a game is usually the weaker half anyway

[@willellis8041]

I do really love the evil within series. I alway advocate for EW2 being one of the most underrated games of last gen. The mix of semi open world, stealth, and item gathering was addictive. Wish more games would take this influence and run with it.

[@Lagoon243]

Oh yeah and I don’t like 1 but it somehow made me appreciate it more when 2 would do a call back to it. 2 was shockingly good and I think it’s a shame that it was often over looked.

[@arkauthor]

I always find this game so much better then the second one. Probabably how insane everything is.

[@mayonnaise3959]

Tew 2 is great

[@janmalawski4339]

This. TEW2 is clearly more polished compared to first game but it lost it's charm.

[@janmalawski4339]

Not saying TEW2 is bad of course

[@joshuaweston6531]

Tough to say, but both are very underappreciated in my book!

[@holymemoly3833]

me too

[@coolwolf506]

I disagree with 14:00 on the subject of ammo. I always ALWAYS had ammo on me no matter what and the game does reward you if you play smart ie, throwing bottles at enemies heads to stun them for a insta kill, stealth killing enemies, light a good match to kill a group of enemies, all of those conserve ammo and can reward more ammo if you are low. You will always have enough ammo to get past a section in the game. Hell I felt as if I had too much ammo to spare at some points because of how many things I did to minamize ammo consumption using the actions as I stated above and I played through the game multiple times on hard and akuma. I honestly dont get how so many people had problems with the ammo system.

[@fastwing3295]

They forgot what game they were playing and went Rambo style.

[@coolwolf506]

@@fastwing3295 Exactly, they either went rambo style or are very bad at aiming and miss shots. They could use bottles, melee weapons, stealth, good match strike, so much to conserve ammo because thats what I did and always had ammo left over for when I needed it.

[@coolwolf506]

@@fastwing3295 Hell the crossbow alone is the main reason you can have too much ammo because some of the bolts can just kill entire groups of enemies. I dont understand the problem of "forcing" the player to upgrade ammo capacity, that seems more like the person playing doesnt utilize the environment to their advantage fully. I even tried to not use the crossbow as much because I felt like it was a crutch in some cases and made certain sections a bit too easy

[@unshackledmind7863]

I can tell from this video that she's not very good at the game and didn't understand how to utilize the games many different mechanics.

[@Lin_Eileen]

Yeah to me it felt like it was an interesting system because you start off really limited in what you can carry and have to work to conserve your ammo but then you find out that if you invest some green gel you can increase your carrying capacity but at the cost of not being able to get other vital upgrades like sprint out time, syringe recovery, guns & crossbow etc. for more time it creates such interesting decisions when I played. I found I was pretty good at managing my ammo by using stealth and fire or crossbow combos in combat as often as I could, so I opted to not upgrade the carrying capacity as much instead getting sprint time so I can better outrun or escape and hide from enemies, syringe recovery, and upgrading my weapons. When the game started to get more difficult in it's encounters later on I shifted my priorities to being able to carry some more ammo because to max out the sprint time to 10s and get the increased stamina recovery buff it was SO MUCH green gel that I decided not to and leave my sprint time at 8s cause it felt good enough. All these decisions you make ultimately cost you the green gel you get from exploring the environment or killing enemies the stronger the enemy the more gel you get but that will use up your resources to kill it.... everything ties together so seamlessly all the mechanics in this matter everything you do adds up to make an awesome truly survival focused experience.

[@covertjellybaby9906]

I absolutely love this game. It feels like a collage of different inspirations that breathe life into it. I actively pointed and called out various design and mechanical choices that felt familiar to me. It was excellent, it's a shame it doesn't run particularly well, especially on PS4 (where I played it). Other than that, brilliant experience

[@SmokeBawls]

Anson Mount was awesome as Sebastian.

[@EinfachVille]

The Evil Within is a very underrated game.

[@Mindwalker030]

It literally is not

[@EinfachVille]

@@Mindwalker030 It is, have you ever seen one of the very big KZbinrs or Streamers play it?

[@ChaseSchleich]

I love it. I just wish the camera didn't feel so.... janky. It makes me motion sick. It's the only 3rd person game that does that. They fixed that issue in the sequel though.

[@Mindwalker030]

@@EinfachVille That's because it's not that good. Thus it's not underrated.

[@diegosoriano2492]

@@Mindwalker030 the second one is very underrated, the evil within 2 is the best game for me I seen popular youtubers Play and so as the first one but the fact it made a quarter of sales then the first one, like wtf it made so fucking little that literally it will never have a third part

[@DerpyDerpums]

It's a crime that we will never get an EW3...

[@johnap1988]

The game was amazing. I loved it. It was a big puzzle itself and I enjoyed wondering what in the hell was going on. I loved the mystery to it all and the horror.

[@TheScotchaholic]

And, the big reveal to the mystery as one goes along, is that all the twisted imagery and stuff going on that seems supernatural is actually sci-fi based horror via technology of the STEM device, a matrix like artificial world comprised of many people's memories and nightmares - People that are controlled by one "master mind" whether for good or bad aka Ruvik. TEW has a really wild world premise, that basically gave fans of Resident Evil and Silent Hill series a mixed dose of psychological/supernatural/body horror all under the sci-fi based umbrella. Using technology as a form of control of the masses....

[@ultimablackmage]

I loved the first game of The Evil Within franchise. The world being the fractured psyche of a man was so cool & the visuals were just so... horrific! The gameplay to me felt like Resident Evil 4 & Metal Gear Solid's love child with stealth always being a great option, but being able to competently fight back.

[@thequestion2859]

This is the first survival horror game I ever played in my early teen years, and it's what got me into the genre. I owe my love of Resident Evil to this game

[@mr.arbiter996]

The Evil Within 1 has to be my favorite game

[@lucasdevil]

"why cant he run longer" mate did you see how much he drinks and smoke

[@heavymetalwarrior1]

I gotta say it makes me unreasonably happy to find someone as versed in the genre as you calling out the "hide-n-seek horror" fad as the nonsense it is. What's essential to engaging survival horror is ***surviving*** by whatever means you can, be it hiding, fighting or running.

[@meatgothball]

"fad" lol

[@hgxz1868]

Personally this game is a masterpiece

[@danilovertuan]

also I realy liked!

[@sage9498]

Y'all through around the word masterpiece too easily

[@rafogameplays3321]

@@sage9498 There clearly says "personally". Seems like reading isn't that easy for you.

[@sage9498]

@@rafogameplays3321 nono i understand that don't worry ☺️ i just don't understand how one could call such a game a masterpiece

[@pun7659]

@@sage9498 it's because it is. Learn to read. Usually the word personally means personally. Who made you gatekeeper of the word masterpiece

[@rochlum]

God I cant wait to see how to like the weapons in Evil within 2. FLAMETHROWER was the most jarring weapon Ive experienced in a game in a while

[@Suprstitious]

I have 100 hours on this game, there’s something about this game that just brings you back and the executioner dlc is the cherry on top

[@sergiofrazier4604]

The Evil Within 2 had better gameplay but the OG had a better story and atmosphere IMO. Thank you for covering this game.

[@tarkovsky97]

She shouldn't have. I'd rather watch somebody elses video about it who actually understand the game they had to PAY for without worrying it would ruin their brand. ☺️

[@residentevilclone]

@@tarkovsky97 lmao what in the world? This is probably the most in line with my opinion review I’ve heard on Evil Within. It was marketed as something it only pretended to be for maybe 10-15% of the playtime. There were a lot of good ideas and great designs, but it was horribly unpolished and uneven.

[@tarkovsky97]

@@residentevilclone it literally isn't what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 suzis worst review ever this is the reason i stopped following her opinion like a sheep, maybe you should too

[@paso6234]

pls watch some tew 1 speedruns and watch people playing it on highest difficulty and then come back and tell me the 2nd one has the better gameplay

[@sergiofrazier4604]

@@paso6234 But I'm not a speedrunner even though I enjoy watching those.

[@leewalker23]

I didn't say TEW 2 is bad but I was more afraid playing TEW 1 than TEW 2. Sure they refined the mechanism a lot in TEW 2 but there's always something in TEW 1 that makes me extremely scared.

[@NeoLotex]

For me the most important factor was that I couldn't just run away a bit and then approach the secton anew, because you can't just easily go back into stealth mode + there was no noteworthy stealth to begin with. Sure you can approach certain situation (the carousel for example) with stealth, but it was rarely easy and once you mess up you were often forced into combat unless you reload your save.

[@shockshow9823]

TEW2 has grate gameplay and ots flashed out but TEW 1 has atmosphere and charm

[@leewalker23]

@@shockshow9823 you're right, I really wish they would remake The Evil Within 1 like how they did with The Last of us. New graphic, mechanics to give it a modern look & feel.

[@theredoctopus3196]

Its because actually tew1 does have the better mechanics and a better approach to horror

[@leewalker23]

@@theredoctopus3196 better mechanic ? Definitely not, movements were clunky but better approach to horror ? Definitely yes! Especially when you're thrown into a horror that you couldn't understand at first.

[@TheHeadlessCreator]

One of the only videos I disagree with you on. This game is so good. The gameplay is solid, story is solid, the survival horror aspect is solid. Everything is solid in my opinion.

[@jaime_1660]

Waiting for The Evil Within 2 video! I really enjoy your videos, Suzi.

[@igormacielalves5187]

17:29 Interestingly enough, Sebastian being so un"athletic" is consistent with the game's lore, since at some point after the tragedies that occurred in his life he becomes a smoker and an alcoholic, so at least it makes sense that he's not at his best shape

[@longshotomega4258]

One of my major disappointments with this game is realizing that I wasn't the only one funny enough to call it the "brain juice."

[@wood1066]

Completely disagree with this review, but hey different strokes.

[@Mr.Honest247]

No, it’s not different strokes, it’s haters that hate on this have bad taste and being incapable of recognizing substance! I’m TIRED of everything being “opinion,” I truly believe there is such a thing as true classics otherwise no one will ever remember them in 10-20 years time!!! The fact that they’re remembered means something that people don’t wanna give credit to!!! I know the definition of greatness and this isn’t mere opinion, I understand the formula!!! And The Evil Within 1 HAS that formula!!! It excels in all the right ways while half assing in the less meaningful areas but people with bad taste naturally focus on those unimportant areas because their personality is an equivalent of that pretentiousness so they only seek what they already are and they LASER FOCUS on that overlooking and undervaluing THE ACTUAL IMPORTANT PARTS because that’s not who they are as a person!!! Like attracts like!!! I have no patience or mercy on haters of TRUE QUALITY!!!

[@nomad_89]

@@Mr.Honest247 ok grandpa let's get you to bed

[@joshgroban5291]

@@Mr.Honest247 c'mon grandpa, phaidon is right. It's time to take your pills

[@debashisprasadjena5075]

@@Mr.Honest247 in my opinion the evil within is a good game but not a great game when it comes to incorporate survival horror elements. I think they totally destroyed this franchise in part 2 this franchise had the potential to be a good survival horror franchise.

[@coolwolf506]

Same I disagreed with a lot of her points in the video, such ammo, animations, and how certain enemies can one shot you if they land a certain hit and much more. I honestly loved when the game threw enemies that can one shot you, made it more stress inducing and fun.

[@nikkis.2066]

Great stuff bit fully disagree on many points made here. I'd say it trips up the end levels and some technical issues but everything else I enjoyed. I dunno, you like what you like but its funny how so many see things differently. I'm also not the biggest fan of Horror games where you are ALWAYS helpless. I do own quite a few because there are things I REALLY like in those games and still enjoy them, but I def prefer Survival Horror that allows you fleeting moments of safety & power but that at a moment's notice you could lose all of it. Evil Within is a favorite of mine, there's just some really great moments of atmosphere, tension, a intriguing & semi confusing story to glow through and imo, a great voice acting job from Anson Mount as Sebastian Castellanos. I love a lot of the levels, the weapons and upgrade system just hit like a really good meal. It had some issues for sure, but it was a more than welcomed entry to the Horror genre.

[@jiririnagl302]

Amen .

[@jacobreeves3110]

The RPG elements of this game is why I love it!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I LOVED the first evil with-in game.

[@ashamedmadman996]

Wtf, this game was so good and still is…

[@mayonnaise3959]

It’s not

[@Legion849]

It's really not It's rough around the edges. Take off the nostalgia goggles it doesn't take a genius to see why TEW didn't become a franchise

[@mayonnaise3959]

@@Legion849 I don’t think it should’ve honestly. The second one was a really good game and ended on a good note for the games

[@TheREALHugo4]

What a classic it was. Evil Within 1.

[@astrorobert7]

Anson Mount did a perfect performance for Sebastien, to bad he didn't make it for the sequel

[@JF59122]

Sebastian's face 90% of the game: 🗿

[@dart1250]

I like both games but I liked the first one more for the environments of several of the chapters and how mysterious the story becomes. I liked the sequel a lot in gameplay spectrum because it looks like RE3, but the story drama is very weak.

[@diegosoriano2492]

Wait what are we talking about the right one, Evil within 2 had a better story drama than the first one, sebastion has his daughter to save, while dealing enemies to protect her from psychos trying to use her, than we have is wife that has a very tragic ending. Then we have Kidman where we are able to understand what kind of person she is when you get closer to the ending. Especially the morbuis team that you meet, and Kidman partner. EW2 has better storyline, characters graphics, scares, enemies etc. They approve everything they got, but just sucks that they made only a quarter from the first one

[@dart1250]

@@diegosoriano2492 IMO the gameplay and graphics was much better in TEW2 but the story was just "I'm going to save my child" now in TEW1 I felt more intrigued.

[@playniohgames8635]

@@diegosoriano2492 TEW2 story was just full of cliche. The Castellanos family consisted of tropes. The sad dad who doesn’t have personality, the mom who sacrifices herself for her family(the problematic representation of a woman character yeah), and the mcguffin daughter. It wasn’t impressive at all, it was just a lazy writing. Mobius members were all one-dimensional and all the antagonists lacked backstory. The “drama” was just a cheap melodrama that anyone can write in 5 minutes. TEW1 story wasn’t perfect but it was much much better than 2. Also Kidman’s character was developed very well in the first game DLCs. TEW2 didn’t have character development for any character.

[@TheChriskilla100]

@@playniohgames8635 Jesus H Christ, I seriously thought I was the only one who thought the story drama in the TEW2 is terribly weak sauce. The gameplay is "better", but it lacks so much soul artistically.

[@playniohgames8635]

@@TheChriskilla100 I think most people think that the story in 2 is definitely weak. Seriously TEW2 had one of the most generic stories I’ve seen in video games.

[@TonyG0317]

Wow, I love your content and this is actually the first time I disagree with you. I genuinely though you were going to praise it but nope haha and it is so nice to see someone's different take on a game you absolutely loved. Actually, I agree with you on one thing: I finished this game like 3 more times in a row after finishing it for the first time, but not 80+ times like I did with RE4 :D

[@bernardorodrigues7048]

its really fun to see diifferent prespectives, for example i like re4 but i played only one time , the game is way to long for me, although i love watching videos of and about re4

[@5000Seabass]

She praised lots of parts of it, but just because you like the style and story, does not mean it is a well designed game.

[@malbasedvalentine3210]

The gameplay to me is mostly the problem. Too many hinderances for the sake of making it “difficult”. I also think the environments can be pretty bland at times, and the enemies are a bit to quick for how stiff your main character moves, which is the problem with resident evil 2 remake, which 3 makes up for it with the dodge. However, there are certainly good qualities that make it creative.

[@pun7659]

@@5000Seabass doesn't mean it's not to you. Who makes you the gatekeeper of a well designed game if he thinks it's was then it was if you don't the you don't tr

[@Lin_Eileen]

@@5000Seabass I liked the style and story as well as the games mechanics because it's a very well designed game objectively. This is a masterpiece it completely inspired the current new generation of survival horror while doing a ton of things actually better than both it's predecessors and successors.

[@HeavenOrHeavymachinegun]

17:20 Yeah, about that... I guess Sebastian is lacking a lot of health due to how much cigarettes and alchool he got before he got inside this hellhole they threw him in. Sprinting or doing particular cardio activities might be too difficult for him, and that usually makes me think how he threw his health away in the last few years. Who knows the plot about Sebastian background knows already what I'm talking about. -ZLL

[@brunocar02]

Kidman in the DLC also cant run for shit :P

[@Choreza]

​@@brunocar02Because she wears earplugs, jeans and is lazy

[@jamesshipley9164]

Loved the first one, replayed it several times. It's a bit rough around the edges in places, but it's one excellent setpiece after another that doesn't apologize for being a nasty horror game. I didn't really master the mechanics until my second playthrough but it has a lot of depth and combat is really satisfying. The sequel has more polish but felt really watered down and generic in comparison. Like a PG-13 followup to an R-rated cult classic. If you play it expecting classic PSX survival horror, it isn't that. But as an alternate universe RE5, or "what if we made RE4 but went all in on the horror elements", it's excellent.

[@unshackledmind7863]

Excellent comment, I agree with every single point you made here, and I also adore this game.

[@jamess854]

The second one was like a straight to VHS movie.

[@CayeDaws]

I really disagree, the first one to me felt way more generic and very dated, somehow feeling more outdated than re4.

[@jamess854]

@@CayeDaws The dated feeling was a deliberate design choice. You can find interviews where they (Tango) speak about how they tried to essentially make the game a tribute to classics survival horror in terms of mechanics and design.

[@matman000000]

@@jamess854 But it's nothing like classic survival horror. It references RE and RE4, but that's about it. Combat, setpieces, level design, it's all an action game disguised as survival horror. The last few levels play like Gears of War.

[@brunocar02]

Fun fact about the knife, the 2 major differences in the guns that we see in the early builds when the game was just starting to get shown are that the crossbow bolts used the be grenades (which explains why there is only one type of grenade and its just sorta there) and the knife used to be a weapon with its on weapon slot, it even had a weapon wheel icon and everything. My guess is that they decided it either was too OP or too useless to be its own weapon slot and made punching its own thing instead.

[@batatinhacomics]

I love The Evil Within. It's so much better than the second game (which I'm replaying right now). I wish if there's a third game in the future, they look to the first one for inspiration. Out with the open world segments, in with the crazy settings and linear storytelling.

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed.

[@Ytnzy250]

Urah! 😁

[@Streifen1911]

ExactLy!

[@dynamicender]

and I want to actually know what happens to Joseph I mean in the first game after you complete the Kidman dlcs it's implyed he's dead since Mobius agents just drag his limp body away but in the second it's revealed he's somehow still alive but you don't actually know what happens to him also the fact he's alive should be impossible considering Connolly and Dr hemenez went brain dead when they died in stem once but Joseph dies twice and still lives

[@noobsaibot8844]

I would like a 3rd game too but I think the 2nd had a good ending if they wanted to end the series there. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@trcsonic]

The Evil Within is what Revelations 2 should have been. Revelations 2 suffers from enemies made of sponge that show no reaction to being shot and there are no dismemberments. It's like you're shooting a pile of concrete.

[@gryffehondor4236]

Yeah, but Revelations 2 is also a PS Vita game (ported as is to other supports). Complaining that it has no dismemberment is like complaining a gameboy title has no 3D graphics : yeah, it's a valid criticism in a vacuum, but also understand it's not happening in any conceivable reality.

[@nydalitecrafter]

@@gryffehondor4236 I’d partially agree but I’m pretty confident Revelations 2 was ported from consoles to the Vita, not the other way around. Frima Studios developed the Vita port. Which means it was essentially developed as a console game first and the handheld port came second. Plus while I do agree that you shouldn’t expect next gen visuals on a handheld, I do think it is still completely fair to criticise a game for certain visual issues like a lack of feedback to damage even when taking into consideration weaker hardware such as that of a handheld. You can make a game with pixel art (e.g Hotline Miami) still feel more impactful than some big budget games with filters, effects (like shaking the screen) and animations.

[@cappedminer369]

resident evil is not dead space. dismemberment wasn't a part of it's formula

[@uhoh6706]

@@cappedminer369 The series definitely does have a history of limb destruction all the way back from the original game however, heck even in the first three you can blow up half of a zombie with explosives and they went through the effort of animating that instead of just having them fall down. While you are right about the fact that the gameplay was definitely not designed around the idea dismemberment, there are elements of it already there that can be used

[@Mr.Honest247]

Yeah I hated those Revelation games… absolutely overrated trash.

[@m3m3ntoo76]

To me the true nightmare of this game was Laura's fight design. I'm pretty good at games in general and I have an excellent game sense, but Laura felt so punishing for no reason. Sure she is an abomination of Ruvik's mind, so she should be terrifying indeed, but having a chase scene which holds for like 3-5 minutes and if by any mistake you get caught you die instantly, well HAVE FUN repeating that again.

[@dami_mage]

Yeah. I feel like people that love this game really fail to see the many flaws it has. Clunky gameplay, the storytelling is confusing just for the sake of being confusing, too many trial-and-error moments, questionable mechanics. This game has A LOT of charm, everything that Mikami touches has an undeniable charm, but I believe that most people that love TEW are not realistic

[@Legion849]

​@@dami_mage People have nostalgia goggles on they can't and are unwilling to see criticism. TEW is terrible with its combat the clunky controls and the slow movement coupled with the lack of an inventory system and you have a half-baked game with good concept but terrible execution. Most people are willing to look over it

[@dami_mage]

@@Legion849 I wholeheartedly agree

[@tofu_it981]

One of the best survival horrors of all time

[@Andygb78]

Not really.

[@tofu_it981]

@@Andygb78 zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@moonstruum327]

you clearly have no idea what survival horror is.

[@tofu_it981]

@@moonstruum327 ROTFL

[@fohb7291]

​@@moonstruum327do you survive? Yes. Is it horror? Yes. Then, it is a survival horror game

[@loli-knightxardej2252]

Fun video like usual, but I've got a question for you- in your mind what counts as survival horror? Because this kind of just reminds me of another Avalanche Reviews case of "I have a VERY specific list of qualifiers for what makes something survival horror". TEW1 requires more resource management and mechanical mastery than most other games in the genre (Resident Evil and Silent Hill included), especially the higher difficulties. Pair that up with the general aesthetic and atmosphere and you have a better survival horror experience than most (again, especially on higher difficulties). The high concentration of combat doesn't really change any of that. The story is also inherently psychological in nature and easily digestible by time you beat the game, so I don't see the problem here either. But yeah, honestly this just sounds like the game isn't for you more than it not being survival horror.

[@AngryCosmonaut]

My opinion is this: Survival Horror isn't a genre, it's a capcom marketing tool. I consider even the classic RE games to be action horror games. Even the newer fps ones, which take control away from the player far too often thereby negating one of the greatest strengths of being first person, have tried to entice the people back to RE who shunned it as being tooactiony with the words survival horror. Survival Horror is just a nonsense term they slapped on the back of the box, not a design ethos.

[@redplanet667]

For it to be survival horror the player must be rewarded for avoiding combat and punished for engaging in it, for example RE4 is not survival horror because of the item drops, RE7 has no item drops so engaging in combat will cost you rather than reward you, also there must not be any areas where all enemies must be killed in order to clear the level other than boss fights of course, avoiding combat must always be an option, that's my honest opinion on the most important factor in defining something as survival horror

[@homeoessential2741]

@@redplanet667 Good take👍

[@RickyForITZY]

@@redplanet667 I hate when people use the higher difficulty settings as an argument the game is survival horror due to things like resource managing, if it was survival horror because of things like resource management it wouldn't be just in higher difficulties but actually always be of that genre. I think this confuses people to where they mistakenly think something now magically becomes survival horror based on the difficulty when it's just meant to be harder not meant to become a different genre.

[@Sigurjon96]

"Beautiful masterpiece."

[@reniecoffey]

When I first played evil within I essentially was constantly shouting at Sebastian because of his low stamina and the clunkiness of the game. I loved it.

[@BeerHombre]

Lol that's why I absolutely hated the game and I hate myself for forcing myself to complete it despite me wanting to throw my pc out every 10 minutes because of the jank of the game.

[@Legion849]

That's why I quit playing the game. I hated the game and I don't have the time to deal with the jank and the terrible controls.

[@kingcyclops4079]

I really like evil within one. It’s not an effective horror game but it’s a really good action. Fighting enemies while juggling limited resources and barely avoiding attacks is challenging and rewarding after managing to win. The parts of the game where you have to fight waves of enemies is the best the game has to offer.

[@albertozalon8477]

Its stress inducing.

[@RonaldMcreepy]

tbh it was actually pretty good w the horror

[@okami7847]

I don't like how so many people here who disagree with this video, aren't clarifying what they disagree with.

[@McNubbys]

Ironically, what brought me back to this genre was Subnautica lol🤣

[@deviantarsenal]

I just recently went back through this game and actually played it all the way through and really enjoyed it! You do have some good arguments, like the ammo situation. I had to spend most of my green goo on increasing my life bar because it was so easy to get killed. Once I got a few levels in life, I started adding to my handgun, shotgun, and rifle. I did enjoy the boss fights. Some were much better than others but they were all pretty fun. I played through the entire game and didn't know about the flash rounds giving you a free knife kill lol.

[@gtamike_TSGK]

It's a great game and has pretty much all the features Resident Evil 4 (2004) has with added new ones. I recommend the game for people who are not casual gamers as the AI is very strong and aggressive. One of the most challenging survival horror games out there especially on the harder difficulties. If you're a pro Resident Evil 4 player you'll love this masterpiece for the gameplay, everything is out to kill you. When played with a good planned strategy you'll survive well using your weapons, tools and environment objects. The theme and atmosphere is definitely Japanese horror. The Level design and layouts are very well crafted and thought about too.

[@solweii]

While I disagree with most of your points, the video was still entertaining

[@WillEnglish]

The Evil Within is what Resident Evil 5 should have been.

[@rh4709]

RE5 is GOAT'd, nice try tho

[@4eyeT]

And yet it's aged far worse than Re4 in less time.

[@eliothsumida612]

RE5 coop is legendary

[@TheKeithvidz]

the disappoint in re5 directly contributed to me buying this game on xbox.

[@GameBeatenakaKevinS]

I think Resident Evil 5 hasn't aged that well, but damn if people didn't pull off incredible co-op combos in Mercenaries. I personally would have liked Chris and Sheva to have individual campaigns though, like Resident Evil 2.

[@revenga54]

But isn’t the lack of ammo something you want to make it harder? Hell, I beat this game without upgrades. It’s honestly a great game.

[@SicMundus-XCV]

The first Evil Within is so beautifully horrifying and tense, with such an excellent gameplay and cool Inception/Cell like Story, and superb atmosphere, that I actually think is better and scarier than RE4, and far superior to it's own sequel, and while I thought 2 was fun the aim felt way off and sadly it lacked unique new creatures/bosses, back to the first one, if you actually use the agony Crossbow you'll find out that the harpoon bolt turns into a fire bolt at level 5, when it comes to puzzles though yes, that could have been done better, for the rest just use the crossbow people, this game still holds up, one of the best and at this point a horror classic 9/10.

[@Tateshi_VR]

Still a Classic in my eyes

[@SlitWristMisfit_]

I thought this is one of best survival horror video games I've ever played.

[@Saladass-kc1hh]

Nah it's Just Beautiful not a mess.

[@supersapphire]

TEW franchise is sick, but TEW1 is goated.

[@grimai3257]

I played through this game when I was around 13 and I was so proud of myself lol. It was sort of my gateway into Resident Evil.

[@suikase1391]

I think TEW1 is much better than TEW2 because it got the better atmosphere, much more intriguing story, more challenging gameplay and better environment design.

[@szymonsobczak2307]

this

[@GoldenSorcerer]

Great video, but i disagree with every thing except the jankiness, and lack of polish here and there, i really love the story characters and ideas there and i did´t even played the DLC yet 😅

[@markcullimore1]

Suzi, it's absurd how Sebastian can only run for a certain amount of time. However, it's unintentionally realistic because Sebastian smokes and drinks. Even though Sebastian quits smoking during the events of Evil Within 1.

[@juanmarinmarin4861]

No time for a smoke while dealing with demons😂😂

[@cooknmediastudios7926]

RIP TANGO Gameworks

[@JamesWestContrastCTRL]

Definitely a rough one to watch as someone who liked the scenario and gameplay presented. I understand Suzi's take on it and her career being hugely on RE i can see where it would be tougher to forgive or enjoy without the RE branding too. But phew was rough especially enjoying the speedruns and other parts of the culture around the game haha Adore Suzi's work as always just always tough seeing your fav's not enjoy the same things.

[@symbiote3220]

Shes paid to be “the cynical rat”. A woman so tunnel visioned by the most overrated franchise she has to cry about everything she cant accomplish on the hardest diff or snag the nearest collectors

[@bantuboi3131]

"RE4 isn't survival horror" Regenerator: "excuse me?"

[@moonstruum327]

I think u have a different perception of survival horror

[@The_RedVIII]

This game is way better than you make it out to be. I'm sorry. Not saying it's a masterpiece, but I loved it back then and still think back on it fondly.

[@samspade8830]

To each their own, but the clunky and delayed controls and crappy linear story lowers the rating for me.

[@grim9464]

​@Sam Spade Whats wrong with its "crappy linear story". The story is one of the things the game is praised for. It's very interesting.

[@Xport3]

Tew is something special It literally made me shocked when I realised what was happening the whole time

[@brucew565]

*what makes evil within 1 great* The Evil Within is more strategic than the second game. The game was able to offer players what Resident Evil has not provided for many years. The Evil Within managed to leave me in awe for the duration of my experience with the game. Tango Gameworks has created a terrifying and quirky world that focuses on scaring you as a player by presenting it with action, not just boring flicks. The most terrifying thing about The Evil Within is the design of the enemies. TEW1 is full of raw creativity, but a little bit rough around the edges. TEW offers something you can’t get anywhere else or at least something we don’t get often. TEW's combat will forever be deeper and more dynamic than the a lot of the resident evil games, however ''not as polished'' it may be. It's so extremely satisfying to see your plans work out in the first game, it's a ''real time strategic survival horror''. The combat in the game is easily up to the same high standards as past Shinji Mikami classics like Resident Evil 4 and Vanquish for me. The shooting mechanics are supremely solid, taut and visceral, and the scarcity of ammunition in the game is a welcome design decision that upholds one of the tenets of a model survival horror game: making the player feel constantly vulnerable, precarious and on the edge. The game would always compel me to extemporise combating the hellish hordes in creative and resourceful ways. Many a nail-bitingly tense moment I’d find myself down to only a few shots and would be forced to retreat and revise my approach to fighting the demons, running around biding my time to gain some semblance of leverage. With my back against the wall, the odds against me surviving the encounter dwindling, and my misteps accruing, it is testament to the game’s irreproachably tight and shrewd design that I would rarely feel cheated or discouraged by the game even after the umpteenth death. I would gradually develop a greater degree of poise and lucidity in seeing a few steps ahead of the enemies by luring them to traps; disarming certain traps to create new arrows for the Agony Crossbow; incinerating downed foes with the matches just as others are in engulfing proximity; shooting the demons in the legs and than finishing them off with matches or head stomps; and perusing the blood-soaked grounds for dropped torches and pick axes to dispatch the evil dead. Suffice to say, the dynamism, urgency and malleable nature of the combat system always delighted me in the heat of the moment. They also removed the match mechanic from TEW 1. The final boss encounter is especially visually arresting and stupendously climatic, without a shadow of a doubt one of my favourite final boss battles of all time - and certainly better than the last boss encounter in Resident Evil 4 in my opinion. Ultimately, The Evil Within is the game Resident Evil 5 should have been if you ask me. Its reverence for Resident Evil 4 and strict adherence to that game’s timeless formula is more faithful and attuned to what made it so special than Resident Evil 5 (and especially the execrable Resident Evil 6) could ever hope of understanding. They don’t make survival horror games like these anymore; gloriously old school and proud of it, and that’s a damn shame. You know a game is doing its job wonderfully well when you’re thinking of replaying it from the start way before you’ve even finished it.

[@iMoD190]

you guys are nuts. this plays like shit compared to RE4. the sequel was so well received because it actually played like a normal video game.

[@lmt9969]

Resident evil 4 is much better than the evil within 1 lol the last boss fight is literally copied from the Salazar boss fight this game is a re4 wannabe and it's trash

[@robogreek3157]

@@lmt9969 and thats an opinion... So? Your point behind wasting 2 seconds of your life is... ??

[@lmt9969]

@@robogreek3157 it's a fact the evil within 1 tried to hard to copy resident evil 4 and it was trash compared to re4

[@RedTheVariant]

listen i loved evil within. especially how the environment changes made me feel like i was dreaming

[@handsolo1076]

I've been playing survival horror since 1997: RE, & Silent Hill...blah×3. This game is the best Survival Horro of the last console generation. TEW: the dark RE4. You need to recharge your sphere Gotho.

[@raihaniqbalramadhani3607]

People has different opinion

[@handsolo1076]

@@raihaniqbalramadhani3607 I don't care. She's not God on the throne.

[@psysesto25]

It's a game to replay it, the new game+ makes it a great experience with still horror atmosphere due to no unlimited ammo, for a veteran like me it's one of the best modern, I'm playing now in nightmare mode from basic stats, and what a hell of a challenge, akumu it's nuts

[@zombiemontage]

The first one was the only game to give me some psychological effects. No other game has made me feel that way. I've played them all

[@lazyvoid7107]

?

[@aaroncls727]

I disagree with your take, I've played the TEW a few times and consider it a fascinatingly underappreciated title. Somewhat heavy on the action, but it feels quite balanced and a natural progression from the RE blueprint. Regarding the technical issues, could it be that you played an unpatched console version perhaps? I never had any of those issues on the Steam and Xpass builds.

[@iMoD190]

the game was heavily criticised for technical issues at release. I think they were actually even worse on PC. I remember the Super Best Friends Let's Play had to move to PS4 part way through after experiencing a poor frame rate and 4 separate crashes on PC.

[@ComicAcolyte]

@@iMoD190 yeah I remember that

[@athens9740]

@@iMoD190 Really? My play through of TEW1 on pc I experienced none of these problems the game ran super smooth

[@CayeDaws]

@@athens9740 when did you do your playthrough?

[@athens9740]

@@CayeDaws About two months ago

[@terriblecertainity]

despite me liking this one a lot, I never checked it's sequel due to it being open world

[@steviemac2377]

The whole sequel isn't like that though, its 2 parts but its not like some huge map where theres so much different stuff going on. You just have options to check a few buildings that offer a few quick side missions that offers more to the story and the chance to get items or weapons

[@unshackledmind7863]

The sequel sucks don't even bother. It's nothing like the first game and doesn't even continue the story from the first game

[@leonic458]

@@unshackledmind7863 pretty sure the sequel does continue the story line but in another approach, did you even read the document's in the first game and kidmin dlc? Though the second game does feel stiffy from seb running and walking is awkward and slow. But the open world is really fun and interesting yet scary

[@mehotakii6804]

@@leonic458 I’ve played all the DLCs from the first game and the second one didn’t feel like a proper sequel at all, it was very disappointing.

[@ComicAcolyte]

Yeah don't bother it was so bad and they replaced Anson Mount which sucks

[@RiyadEmeran]

My Steam Deck finally arrived last week and I found myself playing Bayonetta again for the first time in years, which in turn led me to your brilliant Bayonetta video. A quick dip into your channel brought me here - in anticipation of the Steam Deck arriving I picked up The Evil Within along with all three DLC packs for around a fiver, and it's next on my list to play - so part of me wants to watch the whole of this video, while another part wants to at least start playing the game first 🙂 I played Evil Within 2 through on Xbox One a while back and loved it, but never played the first one. So after serendipitously finding your Bayonetta video, I've now subscribed to your channel and clearly have a lot of content to work my way through. I love the combination of background info, developer insight, personal experience and comment, along with associative comparisons to other games and genres. As someone who has spent much of his career reviewing stuff, including games, it's great to find a new source of content created by someone who clearly wants to deliver something unique for their audience.

[@pabloguaramato1217]

"In a lot of ways, Evil Within is like Resident Evil for depressed people. (...) Nihilistic, gross, unfair at times, and it never really gets better." - The Sphere Hunter, 2022 That line got me. Love your content btw.

[@ahmedreda3626]

I kind of disagree with you on this one tew 1 was so great it reminded me with my times with my favorite game re4 while 2 on the other hand was a disappointing sequel 1 retained that charm of old survival genre

[@marcosdheleno]

but tew 1 nor re4 are survival horror games. they are far more action games with horror undertone.

[@NicerNine]

@@marcosdheleno Is Resident Evil 3 not survival horror? Or is it simply because the camera. This game is far more scarce with ammo than any Resident Evil has ever been and these games can actually be scary unlike pretty much every Resident Evil.

[@ahmedreda3626]

@@marcosdheleno then you missed the point of both me and her survival horror genre can be action but with limited resources with both fear and anxiety factor applied as in you can't fight your way blindly but resources management must be in order not just hide and seek genre

[@fauzanramadhan9046]

@@ahmedreda3626 even tho I like TeW 1 tone and Story, I like more polished TeW 2 gameplay

[@anukjayawardana8113]

The Evil Within is one of the best Horror games I've ever played along with the Resident Evil 2 Remake. While the story may seem a bit disappointing, The Gameplay Is Fantastic, It's Challenging with barely any resources at your disposal, Memorable Characters and we can't forget about the scariness of the game with a Lot of Jumpscares, Eerie Environments, Disturbing Scenes, Scary Enemies, Nightmare Fueled and some scenes that will haunt us for the Rest of our lives. while The Evil Within is not a perfect game and no game is perfect, not even Resident Evil 2 Remake is perfect, The Evil Within is a Very good game and a game that Bought back the survival horror genre from the brink of death after some bad horror game release. It also marks the return of the man who created Resident evil "Shinji Mikami". So I wouldn't Call The Evil Within a beautiful Mess.

[@chocolatecake7037]

The Evil Within 1 felt like a spiritual successor to RE4 and I loved that. Many RE4 fans around me liked the game as well. The second one was just a copy and paste from the last of us and ubisoft games though.

[@lmt9969]

The evil within 1 is a copy and paste of resident evil 4 and resident evil 6 + re4 is way better than the evil within 1 and 2

[@JewTube001]

@@lmt9969 RE6 sucks and it's annoying in many of the same ways, mostly how the game forgets it's a survival horror and plays out like a b-grade action movie that goes for way too long.

[@Joshua-op7uk]

@@JewTube001 whilst I agree that 6 isn’t very good TEW1 isn’t good either. This is me coming off of EW1 but I had a horrid time with it. Im moving onto 2 atm fully blind but it was such an unenjoyable experience overall.

[@hannahrisken7183]

I love evil within 1. Bought it the same year but had no content about it. Didn't see any trailers or news. I replayed a few months ago and it felt like it hasn't been updated in years. Got new weird glitches. The gas filled warehouse was missing the big monsters. You should play the dlc in French. Joseph 's laugh is great.

[@larrycopes506]

when u use a full health he stumbles around like he on drugs and he is vulnerable to enemies' attacks

[@manafon5398]

The Evil Within 1 feels like the true sequel to RE4 I always wanted and it's easily in my top 3 best Survival Horror games (with Silent hill 2 and RE1 Remake), I think you were obsessing too much trying to get a similar experience to the first 3 RE games when Mikami actually meant to make a new Survival Horror IP and continuing where he left off with RE4.

[@Plasmacat1]

This game is not survival horror. It's a shitty RE4 clunky game.

[@maverickslastoddworld6476]

Fuck that resident evil 5 was badass!

[@iMoD190]

but it plays like ass compared to RE4, for all the reasons Suzi mentioned.

[@AKAdaJoker14]

@@iMoD190 doubt

[@iMoD190]

@@AKAdaJoker14 you can see the footage. compared to its contemporaries, the controls weren't great, the frame rate was ass, and you couldn't see shit with the intense zoom and dramatic letterboxing. you're subbed to Matt from SuperBestFriendsPlay. go watch their Let's Play and see all the problems they ran into. they had to switch console part way through because the game would crash constantly.

[@Valkod23]

I'm really curious as to whether you'll do a video like this for the sequel, which I find to be full of gameplay improvements over the first.

[@chuthanhtung7787]

Thanks god TEW2 doesn't have as many bullshit moments as this one with all those traps and chase sequences, hell they even let you run from enemies most of the time and let you heal using coffee machines in safehouses