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Evil Within Review and Explanation (and rant.. and fangirlisms)

Holy duck I’m alive!

I’ve been selling my soul to two jobs for the past 4 months. finally got rid of one, only to realize I’ve destroyed my body.

Then I sold my soul (waiting for Sundays) to play Evil Within.

Gonna waste time and review it whilst I wait for the new year. IT WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. YOU ARE WARNED. IF YOU CLICK PAST THIS POINT, BE PREPARED. K? K. ALSO. I own none of these gifs. They’re all from The Evil Within created by Shinji Mikami annnnd the gifs were created by direhard fans who appreciate the game as much as I do

Well, 20 hours.. avoiding tumblr, Google, and YouTube like the plague because the art book already spoiled what the boss looked like and the “recommended” videos to me was like “Hey! RUVIK FINAL BOSS” I was like, goddamnit.. and 108 deaths later (thanks to Ruvik and keeper and Laura.. a lot. :l) ON CASUAL. WOO. (I suck.) Gameplay: 8/10

Story: 9/10

Plot: 7/10

I’ll consider heightening this once a sequel has been confirmed. There was so many unanswered questions it was almost painful >:C But overall it was a great game, contrary to what the Internet accused it as glorified deadspace/residentevil/outlast/silenthill garbage. Uhm no. I’ll have to top this over Resident Evil in my own opinion. This has one go, the first is normally a rough start for most games or is the best and the rest is downhill, they need to feel out their audiences. Considering Resident Evil has.. 6 and then some.. Silent Hill has too many to count and a Norman Reedus coming in 2015.. Dead space .. can’t judge. never played it. Didn’t feel the urge to.

Overall: 9/10

I’ll have to start as this, the game overall. The concept and everything is incredible. I love the idea of it in its entirety.(Considering, I love inception and Limitless and butterfly-effect-esque/ripple effect movies) At first it looked like a glorified bloody game. And yes, it is /very/ bloody, but after a while that just seemed complementary with The Evil Within. It had such a dark allure to it, that’s really the best way I can put it. (Or maybe Ruvik did does. /cough) The adventure with learning about everything. Piecing the puzzles together (most were very easy, a little pathetic). Overall getting so outrageously pent up with adrenaline and fear and extremely bad decision-making because panic-induced running, it was overall very well put together. The beginning of the game had me scared. It just plummeted you into the action immediately. Here’s your quick tutorial, learn as these creature(s) are hell-bent on killing you.. in one hit.

Considering I got the game on PC.. for free, then I went and bought it full price on the PS3, then the art book, and I’ll be snagging the DLC for it later, because why not. I’d say it was a 60.00 well spent. Some games definitely aren’t worth the 60. I would say, because I love the mind-boggling aspects of TEW it was well worth it. Though half the internet is too busy hating it because it left questions, or too busy comparing it. Sorry, if it had a non-anticlimactic ending, I’d want to commit murder. If it ended with us just getting shot. Or everyone dead. That’s not how you end a game, that’s how you virtually kill the player’s mentality. But this one.. it could have been better but at the same it was amazing. More on that later. The first half of the game was incredible, we had Sadist and the Keeper and Laura (god help me her chasing me with her nearly invincible health was not my cup of tea) Ruvik’s horrible game of tag, couple of those mini bosses who I can’t even recall their names but went down quickly. It was nice, but at the same time by the 2nd half of the game, after the player has began to expect the scenarios, It would have been nice for them to switch it up. Just recycling the bosses made sense, because it was all what haunted Ruvik, but at the same time it was like “cmooooon.” Keeper v2, or Sadist v2, Something new. It almost seemed to lack action because everything was expected.. to an extent. The adventure picked up in the second half. Alas, chasing after Leslie or Joseph or Kidman was inevitable. Frankly I wish Ruvik woulda just killed off Kidman in the bus, buuuuut, Ohwell. Getting close and closer to the end everything got pretty twisted. But the “brain goo” aka green gel vending machines were just mean >:C I was like “amagawd! Christmas! yay! more goo! OH SHIT A BOMB RUU— *explode*” I’ve walked into my fair share of traps.. and trip wires.. and bombs.. and keeper traps.. and snipers. :l Not cool. Not cool at all.

We found it pretty strange that Ruvik wasn’t around when Leslie was.. like ever. So we began to assume Leslie was Ruvik. Alas that kinda wasn’t the case but still, grunt.

All in all, I began having extreme wounded puppy syndrome for Ruvik, the more the story continued the poor horror that kid/boy/man went through is absurd. It shows the nightmares that goes on in someone’s head. Quite literally. At first when he murdered his parents I was like yeah he’s just psychotic. Typical baddie. Then you learned how he was imprisoned in the basement by his dad.. virtually burned alive while his sister sacrificed herself to save him, the last thing you heard from your sister is a blood curdling scream, the villagers who just burned down the barn with no shame. The doctor who stole Ruvik’s invention in its entirety and him / his humanity and his life(?)… so when the doctor died… I might have cheered. might. Did. Clearly his pathetic coaxing didn’t help Leslie in the long run. LOL. Hearing Ruvik’s recordings were just bone chilling. For what everything’s worth, I believe that everything he did (whether it was to Sebastian and co for a reason) was relatively justified. But that’s just me! Wounded puppy syndrome 101. I’d go up and hug him, then get blasted like a water balloon. Somehow Shinji made a 30-something year old man burned alive become one of the most alluring and fascinating people in a very bloody game (whilst most fangirls possiblyincludingmyself find him sexy).. is magical. (Whilst tumblr took him and Sebastian a turn for the worst, One of the many I so didn’t need to see, in PG and R images.) unf.

By nearing the end, Kidman obviously knew something Sebastian and ALL the players didn’t. Because she was on a hell-bent mission to kill Leslie for some undisclosed reason that meant “He can’t have Leslie” Well okay, they’re compatible and all but how do we get out if he doesn’t get Leslie. The world will fall apart if he’s not in it soooo… Hell, how did we get in — in the first place? I figured Ruvik’s hold on the area around him was only so strong. He was able to kill all the people inside because he was located inside, the detectives were stupid enough to come inside (Assuming Kidman too) So that’s how Seb and co got captured. Thrown in the tub with Leslie, yadder yadder, doctor too I’m sure. Connolly probably came in to investigate where the hell everyone was. Sebastian’s whole “escape” wasn’t an escape.. That was Ruvik’s world already (cause obviously the world wouldn’t be exploding seconds later). Everything after the beginning was in his world… including the world falling apart. They didn’t actually leave the hospital. Only places they got to “go” were places Ruvik was accustomed to. Hospital. Church. Mansion. Barn. Underground basementesque. Then into his head. The whole save point room, I’m not sure what correlation that had, maybe just a point to the real world, you got to see everyone going missing in the tub/ in Ruvik’s life. Sebastian, Leslie, Doctor, Joseph, Kidman, Connolly, etc. Never really learned the purpose of the nurse. Art book said she was supposed to be a weapons dealer, that would have been neat but horrible. But after a while she disappeared and Ruvik lurked, or made his appearance in what Sebastian assumed he was safe in? LOL. The big bad brain reared its.. head (lol) quite often in the beginning but nobody understood its importance until we realized that was ultimately what was left of Ruvik after the doctor was done with him. Leslie’s desperation to go home the entire game was sad, but really freakin’ annoying at the same time. It didn’t really seem justified just further increased he was demented. Kidman was already on some secret mission inside a mission so whatever the hell was that, ticked me off a bit. The game was about 20-40 hours depending on your adventuring, ability to play, and difficulty. I really wish we would be able to get more on Ruvik, because god everyone knows that’s the favorite character, let’s be done with it and spoil it. Because sorry, if Ruvik gets to have the appearance of Leslie in TEW2 I’m gonna be severely upset. The creepy cracked teeth, and dumb expression so isn’t Ruvik. But ultimately his “brain” is in Leslie. If he was able to create all of that in a fantasy/psychological world and now he’s in the real world? God help us all. lmfao. That excites me. Let’s hope he’ll mutilate himself so he doesn’t look like Leslie. >__>

The DLC is apparently about Kidman’s back-story and the Keeper. The Keeper.. no idea how that’ll help us, escape Ruvik’s loathing that his safe was stolen. Kidman lets hope that has some answers. secretive bitch. >:C I haven’t boughten it or played it but there needed to be more Ruvik story, or story on the correlation of Sebastian’s wife / daughter. Or Ruvik’s family. Something, I get it was survival horror but the story was minimal. It was just run for your life by these repeated offender bosses annnnnd.. chase after everyone, occasionally run into Ruvik who patronizes you.

Kidman shoots Joseph but his body isn’t noted in the tub at the ending or in the final count by Kidman. you dont /see/ or /hear/ about Joseph. Seb is convinced he’d dead (he was a pro at getting shot. Often..) , Ruvik’s creature kills the doctor via stomping, memories show the doctor and his little FBI patrol taking Ruvik. They couldn’t complete it without him, well, his brain was him. Poor Ruvik became a brain with no “husk” as he so nicely put it. In the memories of Sebastian after seeing Ruvik get taken away he is facing a body that is hardly awake / can’t see and he shoots it. Not sure who the correlation of that is behind. The body begins to panic. Unanswered Question. Never knew who our little guide was in the cell telling us we’re totally fucked cause Ruvik is a psychological basket case badass. Unanswered question.

When Leslie guides you through the falling hospital.. his voice is changed, it’s no longer high pitched and whiny — it’s more monotone and relatively irritated. After doomsday falling (we die from monsters and gunshots but not from falling hundreds of thousands of feet or being impaled, or a chainsaw to the leg, horror game logic) we find Leslie staring at the rain. Putting all my money on by that point in the game Ruvik and Leslie are already one.

Somehow Leslie managed not to die via Kidman (I’m sure with Ruvik’s help somehow) and is feeling the rain on ‘his’ skin. Ruvik doesn’t have a body, he’s a brain, which sure comes all inclusive with sensory and emotions but not with actual skin. Plus his is a little burned. Not too sure how much he can actually feel at this point. He doesn’t say anything to Sebastian and just walks inside, which is very unlike Leslie. He doesn’t run into the building or do anything.. just does a VERY Ruvik like turn. Body turn lead last. Even his posture regular Leslie even at the last bit has a stooped posture and is always clasping his hands, but the “Leslie” that left the hospital and walked into the building had hands at their side and walked with no slouch, sure I could just be over critiquing it because I’m hell-bent on that option but hey. Humor it.

After we chase Leslie into the building, the ripples come through the building like it does with Ruvik, but nobody is to be seen (Leslie is a ninja suddenly?) Then Ruvik comes out with his original cut scene, slaying police that aren’t even there. (there also was never any dead bodies on the floor to begin with.. so where were they?) Ruvik obviously has a wicked cleaning crew.

Ruvik chokes Sebastian, Seb had a perfectly working hand. I don’t see why he didn’t kick or punch him, but no he had to light the poor guy on fire.. again. Nobody tried to reason with him? C’mon. What’s the worst that can happen, you’re already in a tub and in his head. Only sometimes his touch makes you explode like a water balloon, other times he’s just fucking with you. Sooooo.. lol. Hearing Ruvik scream three times this game was just sad :c

Right after the hellish abyss of boss fight oramas and eyeballs.. everywhere, we walk through the eyeballs of Ruvik.. pretty much convinced Ruvik has left the building by now, we saw the final of it by looking into his eyes. A glimpse into his brain and his demons.

Pause,

Right about after this part. How many of you knew the end was near and started panicing like crazy because you had like 4 bullets and some agony bullets. I SURE AS HELL WAS. I scoured the ground like a beast looking for ANYTHING. Walking into the end boss with two pistol bullets and 1 harpoon. LEEEROOOOY.

Continue.

Seb looks at all (12?) tubs. Most being empty, but only six or seven occupied. Joseph, Kidman, Leslie, Connolly, Doctor, Seb of the 12. Kidman is a backwards bitch and I really wish Ruvik would have gruesomely killed her, but alas, he didn’t. Leslie is back to his old self (maybe he’ll be bipolar / identities disordered. bwahha. fitting) How the hell is Kidman unaffected by the ringing, she’s in the tub, she is no different.. I think, but he never turned / got close to / apparently entirely unaffected by Ruvik. Unanswered question.

Ruvik turning Leslie into liquid… Starting with that, first off. Leslie has been a giant pansy the ENTIRE game, but he stares at Ruvik dead on and is perfectly CALM? Calling bullshit right there, even if their brains are synchronized or compatible or whatever! That might have been symbolic of Ruvik leaving the building or machine. Plus the brain-machine/giant-Ruvik-brain screamed. Ruvik just stood there as the brain freaked out. But Kidman disappears. Seb skydives out of a building (and actually screams?) Very narrowly dodge barbed wire.. and then plop onto a brain. Not sure how purposeful this is. Brains everywhere. In barbed wire. Brain explodes.. creepy giant creature with bodies and Ruvik along with it. That had a stylish brain inside of it too. along with chains and braces and a weird pregnant belly thing. First Ruvik was the brain with creepy laura claws around him then he was in its mouth.. thing. possibly symbolic that Ruvik is a prisoner in his own mind.

But honestly no idea. It took a while for me to mill over this in an entirety. Definitely in Sebastian’s fantasy world by the end. Managed to survive ALL those falls and hits, and hey look a car with a machine-gun strapped to the back. Lucky us! Fire like a madman, only to get impaled by a barbed wire. How cliché. LOL. (first I was like, is this supposed to happen? did I not fire accurately enough..?) Then hey look! Rocket launcher! Easypeasy rocket launcher bit. How fortunate it’s nice and loaded.

anticlimactic one shot kills the “Ruvik” yeah whatever. 1st wakeup, we wake up under the glass panels that we saw ourselves in.. tear whatever the fuck is in the back of our head.. out. Clobber out of the machine, painfully hard. I like how the mutant machine.. thing.. has just regular plugs plugged into it.

Made me giggle after rewatching it. Ruvik constantly telling everyone (or just seb) “I created this world, you cannot keep me here” after he is out of the tub, I think is more of a statement than a threat now. Assuming Ruvik is gone by now. There’s nothing to keep here, which is why he was able to escape his “world” unharmed. and “destroy” Ruvik and his brain.

Kidman is alive and perfectly well as she stands by us as we start to awake. People like the CDC are patrolling around us and vital signs are hooked up to us. Kidman tells us to hush. She tells (gasp) Save point lady(!) to leave that one, and those two.

Which two? Assuming Connolly and doctor Jimenez are dead, and she claimed that Seb was dead too … to cover for him? I’m not sure where this went. She told them we were dead “They’re not going anywhere.” “No one can.” Last part made me confused further.

When we wake up a third time, the tub this time is filled with water. Even though when we briefly saw Seb in an empty tub plus the place was lit up like the forth of july.. and now it’s dark, nothings attached no signs of life in the hospital. We see Connolly, he’s very much dead. Jimenez's face is frozen in a state of immense pain (good for you, asshole >:C ) But the glass we broke.. in the previous wakeup sequence.. is fully intact, everything still attached. But the brain is gone.

Ruvik let Sebastian think he “destroyed him” but infact he told him you cannot keep him here, he created the world that everyone was captured in, and they’re gone now. Dead or only him waking up. The Leslie-Ruvik hybrid, is gone already. Ruvik stole Leslie’s “husk” and is out frolicking in the real world. I’d like to see and hope that Ruvik got to take his brain and we actually killed Leslie (like when the machine slurped him up.) And some twisted bullshit like Kidman has Ruvik’s brain isn’t true. x_x I can hope Ruvik is out in the world… with his brain. Leslie’s tub is indeed empty, random mental hospital patients are in the other tubs. He walks through the hallway that Ruvik originally killed the cops, ( as a detective, you do a horrible job seb) Giant splatter of blood in that hallway too, from when Ruvik was burned (?)

Hands down, when those doors opened I thought the ending was gonna be outlast.

Was like “I swear to god if we get shot..” now THAT would have been an ending to get enraged over.

But why when the doors opened the Ruvik screeching returned? I personally believe it was because Ruvik was in the proximity, like normally happens. Though it could be cause he was leaving the building? Or because we never actually woke up? Did we just believe we woke up?

We see ‘Leslie’ walking very calmly.. right past the hoard of police cars. More screeching then Leslie is gone. Hearing the ending music, commence the “nononononononono” cause that ending was the cockblock of the century lmao. So the questions is how did he walk right past that HOARD of cops? Is this still Sebastians fantasy world? He believes he got rescue and salvation. Also his posture is no longer slouched Leslie posture. Hoping for Ruvik’s badass return. cmooon. I’m personally convinced that is NOT leslie, Because his posture and running alone, no.

that is the leslie trot. Hands clasped, feet shuffle.

But that? That’s a walk of confidence and badassery. Let’s compare.

All in all, as long as there’s a sequel, which judging how good of a bestseller it was, I’m sure it’ll happen. I’ll just have to wait a loooooooooong couple of years. Hopes for the next game:

Longer cinematics.

More back-story. A game can have horror and have story too.

More baddies. Sure I loved the recycled baddies, but new ones would have been cool too, like in the art book!

Extra DLC, the game is still young, but they could have released so much more for this game lol

More options, the controls weren’t too bad, but glitches alas make thing a bit harder. The baddies are so giant, one wrong texture error and I’m stuck in the floor for all eternity ._.;

A ultimatum choice “To kill so-and-so or to not… or choices that can impact what ending you get.. or just something with alternate endings

Unanswered questions!:

Did Ruvik leave?

Did we actually wakeup? When Ruvik “left” it became Sebastians fantasy world. Hencewhy everything worked out to his/our favor.

Who was Kidman with and why did she join the detectives?

How exactly did Connolly die?

What was the purpose of diving into Seb’s past about his wife and daughter if it was only going to be brief.. with no answers.

Who was the nurse.. really.

Why was everyone in the mental hospital brutally murdered and why were there about 10 police cars out front when the game started.. but nobody was actually in the building except 3, that Ruvik killed.

The ending in its entirety? What’s real and what’s fake. :v

How the hell is Kidman unaffected by the ringing, she’s in the tub, she is no different.. I think, but he never turned / got close to / apparently entirely unaffected by Ruvik. Unanswered question.

Never knew who our little guide was in the cell telling us we’re totally fucked cause Ruvik is a psychological basket case badass. Unanswered question.

In the memories of Sebastian after seeing Ruvik get taken away he is facing a body that is hardly awake / can’t see and he shoots it. Not sure who the correlation of that is behind. The body begins to panic. Unanswered Question.

Why the brain machine? I get Ruvik wanted to find a sync to get out, and Leslie was “the one” but the doctor found that.. not really Ruvik.

If Ruvik has this excessive fear of fire, why was he standing on the chandelier in the church (also makes sense why burning the bodies stops them from existing / living)

To every other evil within Fangirl/fanboy out there, Thank you for ignoring the simpleminded haters out there. And thank you from me, for getting all the way down here! I’m a stickler for a good game, but Ruvik stole a portion of my brain, Time to replay ALL THE MODES. :3

<3 Plus, cmon, the last name like Victoriano? Mmmm.

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