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Evil Inside
Evil Inside is a first-person psychological horror game. After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, Mark decides to contact her using the Spiritual board. But it fades away, and here is when all begins... Mark will face his greatest fears to discover the truth.
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Evil Inside Reviews
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Did I enjoy being scared? Yeah, I did. I don’t understand people who watch a horror movie, laugh at it the whole time, and then talk about how the movie just wasn’t scary. If you allow yourself to be scared, this game creates some reliable tension. Unfortunately, the entire premise is essentially the theft of what Hideo Kojima’s team created, and nothing is built on top of that. As if the mind-shatteringly awful ending wasn’t bad enough, the final achievement is titled “See the names of Gods.” This is awarded for seeing the credits. I’m just going to leave that there and let you…
So, should you buy Evil Inside? Probably not unless you’re really desperate to be reminded of P.T., or truly love jump scares. Though even then, the fact that it’s only an hour long should make you think twice. On the balance of things it’s not a terrible horror game, but it brings nothing new to the table at all. It tries to mimic P.T. but is inferior to it in pretty much every way. Even worse, you have to pay for the pleasure.
Another jumpscare conveyor belt.As horror games have done before, P.T. became a special streaming phenomenon of filmed psychological scares and parasocial Easter egg [...]
You can finish Evil Inside in one sitting, in less than an hour, and that combined with the fact that none of what it does is worth a lot of praise means that spending money on the game isn't something that anyone should do.
Despite not even being a full-fledged game, one could say that Hideo Kojima’s P.T. was the single most influential horror game of the previous generation of gaming, as well as recent memory in general. It’s arguably more important to the industry than one of its main sources of inspiration, the Amnesia games. Its sudden cancellation has inspired many studios to come up with spiritual successors to try to recapture its magic. Evil Inside is one of these games. Let’s see if it succeeded a...