

To that end, it’s worth exercising restraint. Most enemies pose a fatal threat to him and some monsters can kill him in a heartbeat. In The Evil Within your character – the bizarrely named Sebastian Castellanos – is as fragile as Ming Dynasty porcelain. Patience isn’t just a virtue – it’s a survival traitįor all players used to hurtling into the action, guns blazing, we have a tip for you: do not buy this game. If you don’t, we have no sympathy for you. Take advantage of this, especially if you’ve just completed a rather eye-watering section of difficulty.

The Evil Within isn’t completely heartless it’ll toss out a tone or piece of music notifying the player when a save point is in their vicinity. It doesn’t give a hoot about how frayed your nerve endings are – it will dump you back into earlier stages of the game if you don’t bother to save your progress. It doesn’t care if you’ve spent the better part of an hour lurching through the horrible environment it encases. The Evil Within is an unforgiving survival horror. Survival horror novices may find The Evil Within hard going, so here, we present a list of tips to stay alive: Save well, save often Take a look at our The Evil Within review for the full verdict on what we thought of Bethesda’s survival horror. To wit, it operates a little differently from your average horror game – and it’s poles apart from the last few Resident Evil games, which have turned all Third-Person-Shooter on us. The Evil Within is Shinji Mikami’s return to the genre he helped popularize with his work on the Resident Evil franchise: Survival Horror. 10 Tips for Staying Alive in The Evil Within
