As Mike pointed out, this kind of design reaches peak frustration when you're pitted against The Evil Within's bosses. By their very nature, survival horror games should have an adversarial relationship with the player, but The Evil Within withholds so much necessary information that its absence feels more like an oversight than intentional cruelty. I'm definitely on the same page as Mike when it comes to his issues with The Evil Within. Success in certain encounters isn't met with a thrill, it's met with exasperation: 'That's what I supposed to do?'" At times, The Evil Within was probably the most frustrating game I've played this year. How do you kill this boss? Does it require a ton of damage or a specific method? Are you even supposed to kill this boss instead of running? What's the specific method to kill this boss? The game won't give you hints for many of these answers, meaning you'll do something wrong - wasting ammo on a boss when you're supposed to be running or missing a key lever or switch - die, and then wait 10 to 15 seconds to try again. Most bosses kill you instantly if they catch you and The Evil Within sticks to the 'figure it out' school of design.
What we said at the timeįrom Mike Williams' review: "Expect to die a lot in The Evil Within and expect that most of those deaths will be because of one-hit kills. Here's me playing The Evil Within's first few frustrating chapters. So, was this all part of Shinji Mikami's plan, or did he simply make a wildly uneven survival horror experience? But after two fresh restarts, and burning the layout of those early segments into my memory, I finally felled chapter 3's tough-as-nails chainsaw boss, and felt that exhilarating sense of accomplishment The Evil Within had been withholding from me for hours. Prove me wrong.) I voiced my problems on Twitter, and received a mix of responses, from "stop playing and save yourself the pain" to "hang in there, it gets better!" Frankly, I didn't know who to trust. Full of trial-and-error design and an endless gauntlet of one-hit kills, these first few chapters do their best to demoralize you into submission.ĭespite my frustration, I felt the need to keep plugging away at The Evil Within, simply because it comes from the brain of Shinji Mikami, who directed Resident Evil 4: objectively, one of the best games of all time. Tango Gameworks' The Evil Within kicks off with one of the worst video game introductions I've had the displeasure of playing.
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