The Evil Within (PC, PS3/4, Xbox/360)

Got through the end of chapter 3 last night. First thing I learned: don't play a game like this right after Bayonetta 2. Even if you love survival horror, it will feel like the slowest, most boring piece of crap in the world in comparison.

I... guess I'm liking it so far? Maybe? I'll echo the sentiments that it's Resident Evil 4-2, which is cool I suppose. But also not cool at times when you sit there pointing out what other horror franchise various elements directly came from. I think the problem I'm having is that the game has no concern whatsoever for you having any attachment to or understanding of what's going on. You're detective dude, and here's another detective dude, and here's detective lady who is wearing a white shirt out in the rain. Spooky hospital, on no dead people, creepy guy, you're sneaking around scary big man, you're sneaking around a scary big man again, now the world is ending, now you're in a field burning guys, and you have no reason at all to care what or why this all is.

It feels (so far) like a game an eight-year-old boy would make, where he's like, "Oh, this will happen, and then suddenly this happens, and then I like this so I'll put this in the game, and then this other scary thing happens!"

As a game, period, it's completely competent so far, challenging in a not not enjoyable way, and feels like an interesting mix of old + new. However, I'm also getting this worry deep inside that this may turn out to be another example of why Japanese developers are losing me as a fan more and more. I hate to say it, but if this were done by a Western team instead, I could see myself having more fun at this point.

When did I start preferring Western games to Japanese games? Part of me hates what I've become.

I watched you play this for a short while last night, and I thought I missed something because the world was falling into a giant pit, and I didn't know any of the characters.

I don't believe this game is any good.

I believe you.

Finished it. I have no idea what the fuck happens with the story after the 13 hours it took. The game turns into RE 5 at the end with more shooting and turret sections. You even get to kill the final boss like re5! Even some of the last set pieces were lame. Outside, daylight, on a highway? Dumb. Still, I had fun and it's really worth checking out just to see some of the levels.

I just finished Chapter 1, so these are very early impressions. I was surprised by just how thick the letterbox bars are, but once gameplay starts, I didn't notice them at all. I'll bet a multi-monitor setup would be the shit for this. The game is tough, and there appears to be an unlockable higher difficulty (pet peeve alert) as well. The difficulty comes from something that shidoshi might have been talking about. Japanese games tend to be more rigid and require precision, whereas western games tend to give the player more freedom to come up with a creative solution, even if it's more haphazard. Playing this right after Alien really helps juxtapose the two styles.

I just got to Chapter 11 yesterday. Damn, chapter 10 was a bitch! haha....so far, for me, the majority of my hundreds of deaths have come from Chapter 6 and 10.

Boy Chapter 10 will not forever piss me off. I ended up glitching the game, so that if I beat a certain boss, it wouldn't let me continue on to the next area. I had to go the beating-but-not-beating-them route. And if it takes you a while to really grasp the concept of that fight, it's such a pain in the ass.

Being obtuse + doubling-down on bosses who can one-hit kill you isn't a good combination, unless your name is ______ Souls and you come from a developer who actually knows how to pull it off.

Are you talking about the double scraper guys?

Was there a special way to beat them? It seemed like maybe there was, or some way to stun them long enough to pull what you need to, but I just used a lot of firepower.

Maybe I'm not thinking of the right boss, I'm not done with chapter 10 myself.

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Originally Posted by Tain

Are you talking about the double scraper guys?

Was there a special way to beat them? It seemed like maybe there was, or some way to stun them long enough to pull what you need to, but I just used a lot of firepower.

Maybe I'm not thinking of the right chapter/boss, I'm on chapter 10 or 11 myself.

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On the double scraper guys, I somehow got them to chase me into a hallway and I was able to keep firing explosive bolts that would damage both of them at the same time. So, getting them stuck close to each other definitely helps.

And, Tain you'll definitely know when you get to Chapter 11, because after the double scraper guys, you have to fight spider bitch from Chapter 4/5 again...and after that you get another gigantic boss, with two forms, in a parking garage area. You will definitely feel like you've accomplished a great deal just getting through that Chapter.

Also, here is the strategy I used on the final chapter 10 boss in the parking garage. For the first form, I started off with my shotgun and blasted the fucker in his eye. This stuns him, and I used that time to unload all of my shotgun rounds into him. The reason I used shotgun rounds instead of bolts for the first form, is because I realized you keep getting shotgun/handgun ammo in the two storage rooms that you can hide in, at either end of the parking garage. Plus, when that bitch hits it's second form, it's way faster and just one hit kills you to death. Therefore, I just pumped all my ammo into him during the first form, and then just ran around the garage like an idiot during the second form, until I had the entire length of the garage between it and me and just hit him with a barrage of bolts and grenades. Of course, I died about 20 times before I could pull this off successfully, and that's after dying another 20 times on spider bitch part 2.Did anybody have a better strategy? Because CH 10 makes me not want to play through the game a second time. lol.