He’s now trying to contact his dead mother through an Ouija board, which, in terms of the game’s structure, materializes as you walking through his house across a bunch of different loops, each ending with finding another piece of the Ouija board, and each beginning at the beginning of the same corridor. You play as Mark, a man whose mother was supposedly murdered by his father and thrown into a well. "The similarities between the two are so blatant and so numerous that Evil Inside can feel like not just something that’s hugely influenced by P.T., but something that’s straight up ripping it off."īeing a carbon copy of P.T. would have been acceptable if Evil Inside was good at its job – P.T. is an excellent horror experience, after all – but this is a poorly made game that fails at most of what it tries to do. Hell, even its name is basically just another way of saying “Resident Evil” or “ The Evil Within“. From its narrative premise to the imagery it uses to try and scare players, from its looping claustrophobic hallway setting to even the design of the hallway, Evil Inside suffers from a crippling lack of originality. The similarities between the two are so blatant and so numerous that Evil Inside can feel like not just something that’s hugely influenced by P.T., but something that’s straight up ripping it off. To put it bluntly, this is a poorly made replica of P.T. that borrows from Hideo Kojima’s seminal horror demo liberally, but fails to do anything nearly as well as it needed to. Unfortunately, JanduSoft’s first person psychological horror game Evil Inside is one of those examples that can and should be criticized for lifting things straight out of better games. Everything’s been done before, and so what audiences expect isn’t something that’s completely new, but something that builds on things that have been done before, implements existing ideas in new ways, and puts its own unique twist on them. In games, like in any entertainment medium, it’s impossible to do something that is wholly, entirely original. But at what point does it become futile and even dangerous? That’s what Mark will have to come to grips with as he explores an ever-evolving house with dark secrets and evil entities.The criticism that a game is too similar to something that came out before it can often fall flat. Many would move heaven and earth to contact their loved ones that have passed on. It’s an interesting and sympathetic tale. Mark’s primary goal is to collect fragments of a Spiritual board in order to contact his mother Rose. It’s a concept that has shown up quite a bit in horror movies, but it’s nice to see it in video game form. He finds a Spiritual board to make contact, but as so often is the case, things take a turn for the bizarre and horrific after he embarks upon the path of reaching out to the other side. His father is the suspected culprit and that sends Mark into a tailspin of paranormal investigation about his mother’s death. Looking at the game’s official page on Steam, the story revolves around a man named Mark who’s been through the tragic passing of his mother. RELATED: Blizzard's Shadowlands From Above Shows A Daunting Peek At World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands' Maldraxxus Evil Inside is set to come out later this year and judging by this short announcement trailer, it seems teeming in chilling atmosphere that will grow darker by the minute. The first-person visuals really add to this immersive horror experience, much like elements in Hideo Kojima’s would-be P.T. There appears to be a clown hanging from the chandelier, some sort of evil entity that looks like it came straight from The Ring, and bright light behind a door at the end of the hallway. You have some classic horror tropes like flickering lights and a seemingly abandoned hallway, but then things get a little stranger the further this unknown character walks. RELATED: New Samurai Shodown Has A Free Season Pass Until June 30 $19.99 After There isn’t a soul to be found, but right away, you can tell something is off. It just received its official trailer announcement, which sees an unknown character walking through a pretty chilling house. Evil Inside is an upcoming psychological horror game with first-person visuals from the developer JanduSoft.
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