Better start keeping a diary with oblique wordplay riddle bullshit and very important keywords littered throughout that leads to a secret treasure once you’ve collected every page.
It was also unskippable if you wanted to save. Not that it was terribly interesting anyway or touched on in the actual story, but you did basically have to see it.
The Stefano bits are actually pretty good, the problem is that the Stefano bits themselves are hosted within Umbrella's version of Tranquility Lane, which is neither particularly scary nor particularly interesting.
Escapist actually is almost just Yahtzee now. A lot of the other shows or people weren’t pulling a profit, so Escapist has basically laid off everyone except for Yahtzee as permanent workers.
Evil Within 2 was such a disappointing sequel. The gameplay was mediocre, the story was utter trash and there was no originality at all. I still hate it so much.
Stefano suffers from Vaas Syndrome. He's the best villain in the game, who gets killed off way too early, only to be replaced with a disappointment that the game constantly assures us is SOOOOO much eviler than anyone else.
Yeah, while the _concept_ of Theodore could actually be neat and frightening, he isn't written in a way that makes him scary or intimidating, or even really that evil, and he doesn't even have the payoff of a proper confrontation. Probably a side effect of the game's increased emphasis on Mobius, which was such a generic plot that it barely contributed to the game. In many ways, Theodore embodies my main problem with The Evil Within 1 and 2 in that for a game about exploring the conscious and unconscious minds of the insane, it's really pretty grounded and logical. Stefano and his Obscura are the highlight of 2 because they actually do distort the world without needing some McGuffin. And the Obscura is just about the only genuinely scary looking thing in the game.
I hope this doesn't keep happening in video games. I remember being genuinely confused when far cry 3 just kept going after I killed vass. Then being told "hey he wasn't the bad guy, this guy is" just left me a bit let down.
+user1point0 Stefano actually does things on screen (a lot, actually), interacts with Sebastion a lot which creates buildup and personal investment in the form of a rivalry, has a ton of lore scraps that piece together his character background to understand who he is, AND he says amusingly cocky things to make him less generically edgy and more quirkily insane. In comparison, Theodore is met once before his "fight", has no discernible background, and is basically told to be this big bad evil without much/any actual substance to build it up. Plus he came out of literally nowhere as a lazy excuse to pad on the game's runtime, when in comparison Stefano is teased from the beginning of the game as his murder porn is the literal first anomaly seen, which then more and more is found which builds up the ultimate encounter.
It seems like making a corporation the main baddie in a videogame is a bit of a misstep. You end up needing a boss to represent the corporation and it ends up usually being another guy in a suit with an uninteresting greedy personality, and the boss fight and mechanics are a total let down.
ceomyr It's dull that the corporate boss in video games always has to be a guy in a suit, I men, just look at some real corporate leaders like Steve Jobbs or Mark Zuckerberg, they don't wear suits and ties in most of the pictures I've seen, so why should their fictional evil counterparts have to? And even if the corporate villain wear suits to office, they don't have to wear them outside of it. I found it jarring in Uncharted 3 when the villain Talbot wore a suit even when climbing ancient ruins, you'd think someone with his resources would be able to afford some good outdoor wear for such occasions.
On Nightmare difficulty ammo is a commodity for sure, much more of a "survival" feeling. You want to sneak kill everything you can. And yes it can be pretty damn hard on Nightmare.
They actually DID explore the guy's tragic backstory in the first game…but only if you paid attention and collected…um…things, I think it was tapes? Like, it wasn't part of the game if you didn't look for it.
The best part of the game is easily Anima. She's completely avoidable so some people haven't even seen her. She literally terrifies me and her arc in the story has a lot of depth.
Anima is great, until you've played Fatal Frame III and realize that she's just a re-tread of Reika Kuze, without the personality and plot development to go along with her to explain why Anima is a killer soul-sucking crazy ghost lady that you must hide from, to begin with. I strongly recommend picking up a PS2 off Amazon or out of a pawn shop or something at some point, and playing that particular title, because that's basically where Shinji Mikami pulled the idea of a noisy mental lady-ghost that lures you into a dream world and kills with a touch, and the hiding segments in that bare a strong parallel to the Anima segments of The Evil Within 2. The exception being that Reika is the final boss of her particular title, and gets the majority of the plot devoted to why she's gone nutters, rather than being a re-occuring side-encounter. Also, I wish the saw-blade body-parts ogre-lady had been kept as an invincible threat that was part of the larger plot, rather than being demoted to an expendable elite enemy that there are multiple instances of, midway in. It really sucks, because they spent so much time building up her appearance at the start of the game, just to throw that all out over a mid-boss fight.
Just started playing this game recently. Yeah Anima is cool and all, but I've been having some difficulty figuring out where her challenge is supposed to come from? Every time I have encountered her she kinda just wanders around and never knows where I am, I walk a block or two away and she's gone. She's cool, but overall she doesn't really do much aside from make me take a jog
@@perryborn2777 The challenge is from escaping without being seen. If she spots you AT ALL, which she can easily do if you're in an enclosed space, as she can walk through walls, (luckily, she emits static near her location, which you can easily see, even through walls) you're doomed, as she will quickly dash towards Sebastian at a speed higher than he can sprint at, and will grab him and suck his life out, which not even the Bottle Break skill (makes Sebastian automatically use a bottle, if he has any, to avoid damage from grabs) will save him from. The reason I'm pointing this out is because The Lament also has a one hit kill grab (it gives Sebastian an acid shower), but unlike Anima, he can save himself if he has the skill and a bottle on him.
@@ethanedwards3357 I beat the game a couple days after that comment. Only trouble she gave me was back in one of the asylum sequences. Every other time I just walked away
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't mention Anima, she was probably the scariest part of the game well up until the third encounter when I found out you could literally sprint past her
"Rescuing princess with the tacit understanding that they'll handle scepter and orbs in gratitude." Okay if I can say that sentence once in my life to someone as a joke, then I'll die happy.
And in the last three sentences, Yahtzee invents a better game. A bright, colorful happy world full of random death traps and monsters because you're in a kid's mind and their sense of fun and play is gumdrops and twisted mounds of flesh.
I mean, blob monster and ghost lady are both pretty generic monster designs in horror too. Obscura is probably the only enemy with a really unique design.
Thesaurus Rex - Bukkake-kun generic? I can't think of anything quite like it. The sound it makes also contributes a lot to its presence. Unfortunately it isn't used to its full potential after the first encounter - which is awesome.
I would recommend playing this on nightmare difficulty the first time through to get a real survival horror experience. I haven't played it on the easier modes yet, but I really enjoyed the challange in nightmare mode.
Jinchyn people bitched that the first one was too hard on Normal. So this time Normal is kinda easy and Casual is SUPER easy while Nightmare is closer to Survival difficulty from the first game. They tell you the difference beside each difficulty if I remember correctly, so it's really up to the player to choose their challenge I guess.
Also, I agree on Nightmare being peoples first time. That's what I did. I scavenged every corner of the map to get ammo and gel and everything. Took me way longer to beat it my first time. Then had people on Casual that beat it in 6 hours or less and say it's too easy then say how the game was terrible. Even the damage the most basic enemies give you is way more in Nightmare. Those demon dog bitches and the stabby witch are downright fucking terrifying in nightmare. Maybe 2 hit kills.
Nightmare is good if you like it to be more difficult. When Yahtzee said he got ammo, resources etc. thrown at him from every corner, I just thought that he probably would have enjoyed it more on a higher difficulty. There, he would have really had to scavenge and actually get those upgrades and think before barging into the room and shooting at things because you could get killed after like 2 hits. No use crying over spilled milk but still...if you don't like easy games, don't play this game on casual/normal.
2:26 I imagine its some bonkers matrix clause where their sentience gets stuck in the mainframe and the fate of their body is inconsequential unless somebody decides to download the corrupted minds back into who-knows-who's bodies. I'm very sure the reason you didn't see many more tubs or people in tubs in the opening because the 'icepick' method was already addressed, but it didn't matter and nobody noticed how little it mattered because shit went dark and the bodies just went braindead for some 'mysterious reason'.
It most certainly is. There was a variety of environments and enemies that made it feel like being in the mind of a mad man. Everything had a mix between medieval and industry that made it look like it was in constant agony. In this game, however, we just get resident evil style zombies. The Oculus and Myra were pretty cool, but I can tell that the creativity was not focused on what ended up being most of the game. And it sucks cause the visual style and atmosphere are no small part of what I loved about the first game
Heretical Cuttlefish ikr, shinji mikami made evil within 1's environments terrifying but beautiful, it was a great game but mikami didn't work on the second one so it kind of lags behind in atmosphere and environment.
While everything about Sebastian seems to be coincidences, if you pay attention you'll that every "coincdence" besides Lily being kidnapped basically all stem from her being kidnapped in the first place.
My first playthrough was on survival and I walked away thinking "damn, that was too easy! I only died three times!" Now I'm doing my second playthrough on Nightmare. I take back my previous criticism I was disappointed in the lack of variety though. The first game had so much more in regards to enemies. It felt like being in the mind of a mad man, whereas this one felt more like Resident Evil with magic going on
A few years ago we had games with pretty girls as secondary (or main) characters or as the character you're supposed to save in order for me to feel I have a pretty girlfriend. Now we have games about dads protecting their children so that I can feel I'm a good father. Yay for being part of the age group! \ o /
I've been watching a playthrough of this, and I could maybe forgive a lot of its uninspired level design which makes the game little more than a supernatural Resident Evil; but the utterly stupid, cliché, clumsy, hackneyed, exposition-overload of a narrative and dialogue, makes it nigh-unbearable to me. Fun gameplay to watch, but a chore to listen to.
You shouldn't, because Yahtzee basically just said you're the kind of man women fantasize about. Even if you're a gay dad, that should make you smirk and roll your eyes smugly.
Sebastian did have a tragic backstory told through random diaries strewn about near the save points in the first game. I can't remember what it was exactly, but it did have something to do with his daughter or something. The plot was pretty unimportant, the big part of the game was getting to play the spiritual sequel to Resident Evil 4, except you can move and aim at the same time.
Yah... The enemy variety seemed limited here. The 1st Evil within had all sorts of freaky monsters. In this one though, they re-used the same movement and attack animations for 3 different enemy types I think, or more. The basic zombie, the firey-hell-monster, and the white-cum-monster at the end. And not a whole lot of interesting bosses either... Kinda disappointing. There was that one fight with Northernlion though. Oh wait, I mean O'Neal. (Get it? Cuz he's bald)
Yahtzee just accidentally revealed he played the game on Survival difficulty. I mean, I guess he doesn't have the time, but if you play the game, do it on Nightmare difficulty.
agreed, sounds like Yahtzee played this shit on casual, cos in that shit you get overpowered in like... 10min of playing... sucks ass, all difficulties suck ass aside from the 2 hardest ones
Yeah the files tell a lot of the story. Just like how the first game talked a lot about Lily and the fire if he actually cared to read the pickups. But most people don't so I don't blame him. But this is one of those series where reading the extras fills you in a lot more than forced cutscenes ever will. Plus on Nightmare it is more tense as you said. Scavenging for ammo actually makes it way more tense.
Do the enemies not jerk around unpredictably on that difficulty? The inability to understand how a game object is going to act generally makes interaction with it unpleasant
Tom Jackal they're pretty predictable. At least to me. They always walk a certain path, look both ways a few times while tweaking like a crackhead, then turn around. But those flamethrower guys almost always get me cause they seem erratic.
They did mention Sebastian's backstory in the first game, in optional collectables. It mentioned all this. But it's still a shit game. Because his backstory means nothing.
2:36 wasn't there like, a 75% chance of him not even getting out, plus why would Mobius shoot Sykes, he was working for him and HE tracked THEM down to work for them
Sebastian's backstory comes up in some boring notes that you periodically find in the first one, which I played like two weeks ago because I made a big mistake. I should have listened to you. It's definitely in there, but I can definitely understand how you could miss it, considering that it's a tacked on aside that slows down the momentum of the game to even look at.
mozxz You've still got to wait for the review of Mario Odyssey here, which actually was uploaded to The Escapist website last Wednesday. TH-cam's a week behind.
The first game was actually fantastic. I don't usually like horror games but I absolutely loved The evil within and I recommend it to everyone especially now since it's on sale on playstation store!
BeThomsen Mechanically it's not great .. but it is very enjoyable. The story is good if you fully take time to understand it aswell. I guess the japaneese way of storytelling is very different and most people wouldn't follow along so to speak.
The gameplay was just horrible and the story was not 'good' enough to waste your time in it. Its alright if you enjoyed it but its far far far way from being fantastic
Think in demographics, gamers have grown up and have families now. Saving the princess from the dragon is a childhood fantasy, saving your own child from a corporation is a grown up fantasy.
I wonder what Yahtzee is gonna do after Escapist goes bankrupt? If it ever does. I've always assumed he mistakenly signed a life-long contract to work for them, and that's why he's stayed this long. So, what is he going to do once his jailer finally lets him run free?
It actually seems like the hairy dad thing is still a male fantasy -- it's just that all the game devs who used to make "save the princess" games are now having children, and so that's what they're making games about.
Man I loved the first game. Hated the second. Imagine taking everything unique in a title, ripping it out, and thinking "let me make this as generic as possible". Essentially that's what happened with TEW2. Shame, because I was really looking forward to it.
I mostly disagree with this, in my opinion, The Evil Within 2 was superior in every aspect including monster design, sound, visuals story and music. Oh well, to each its own I guess.
Seb's backstory was illustrated through Notes found in each save room throughout the first game, which was often needed to activate the mirror to save.
Here's how it works: the game will always be a little better than Yahtzee makes out, but it will always be a LOT WORSE than what "specialized" reviewers at IGN et al say...
Man, I had a ton of problems with keeping my supplies at a manageable level in this game. Hell, about the last third of the game I basically never had healing items, and burned the ones I picked up instantly because I needed the health, and there weren't any coffee pots available. Nightmare mode was quite a bit harder than the game suggested.
Wait okay I thought that The Evil Within 1's locations were messed up because it was in the mind of an insane psycho, right? This has probably triggered someone who will never let me hear the end of this.
I am getting sick of all of these "Yummy Hairy Dad Games". I don't even know why they started taking off. Was it because The Last of Us was such a huge success?
Most of the points are somewhat solid, but i disagree with survival elements. Specifically the amount of resources. If you played the game the first time on hardest difficulty, it really is difficult to maintain ammo and supplies, it becomes survival horror.. Lower difficulties, or even second run of the game on the hardest one can be more forgiving tho.
After so many years of watching Zero Punctuation, I believe since I discovered what Steam was back in the day, I still can't tell if he 'liked it or not'
Fun game to play *watch zero punctuation without sound* It's as simple as sounds watch any episode without sound and try to figure out what's going on in this episode It really something
I completely agree with all of Yahtzee's criticisms of the first game, yet I still enjoyed it a fair bit. If you don't teat it like a horror game, and instead just think of it as a third-person shooter with a lot of gore and a batshit insane plot then it's not a bad game. This one looks a lot more polished, and has an even more ridiculous plot, but the open world makes it a bit bland. Still, I was surprised by how much I liked the first one so I will probably pick up the sequel when it goes on sale.
What about the Camera Monster? The Magma Enemies? The Ghost Girl that haunts you everywhere you go? Those are some relatively creative creatures. At least, more creative than the generic Zombies.
He did have a tragic backstory told completely through collectible text dumps.
I hope that's how children will learn about my horrible life.
Better start keeping a diary with oblique wordplay riddle bullshit and very important keywords littered throughout that leads to a secret treasure once you’ve collected every page.
@@jacobschott6955 And then go to the office one morning and hide singular pages of the diary everywhere.
and once you collect all the pages and join the first letters of every sentece you get the URL that is just a rickroll
It was also unskippable if you wanted to save.
Not that it was terribly interesting anyway or touched on in the actual story, but you did basically have to see it.
A nightmarish candyland-esque hellscape imagined by his daughter *_would_* have been more interesting.
The Stefano bits are actually pretty good, the problem is that the Stefano bits themselves are hosted within Umbrella's version of Tranquility Lane, which is neither particularly scary nor particularly interesting.
cant wait for The Evil Within 3: The Evil is also on the outside this time
The Evil Within 3: Evil needs to go deeper within.
The Evil Within: 3viler-ler.
Mitch Collins, The evil within 3: We found a bit of evil with the lint.
The Evil Within 3: The real evil was in the friends we made along the way.
The evil kn3vle
“No way, it’s fucking evil out there.”
“That may be, but there’s Evil Within, too.”
*stares at camera*
Yahtzee. Single-handedly keeping the Escapists youtube channel afloat.
Of course he's doing it single-handedly. He has to use one hand to wank
Max J choice
Escapists has other people? You lie. You're a lier. Stop lying lier. Jim left years ago.
It's literal now. Have you seen the notice the Escapist mods put out?
Escapist actually is almost just Yahtzee now. A lot of the other shows or people weren’t pulling a profit, so Escapist has basically laid off everyone except for Yahtzee as permanent workers.
Evil Within 2 was such a disappointing sequel. The gameplay was mediocre, the story was utter trash and there was no originality at all. I still hate it so much.
Stefano suffers from Vaas Syndrome. He's the best villain in the game, who gets killed off way too early, only to be replaced with a disappointment that the game constantly assures us is SOOOOO much eviler than anyone else.
Yeah, while the _concept_ of Theodore could actually be neat and frightening, he isn't written in a way that makes him scary or intimidating, or even really that evil, and he doesn't even have the payoff of a proper confrontation. Probably a side effect of the game's increased emphasis on Mobius, which was such a generic plot that it barely contributed to the game. In many ways, Theodore embodies my main problem with The Evil Within 1 and 2 in that for a game about exploring the conscious and unconscious minds of the insane, it's really pretty grounded and logical. Stefano and his Obscura are the highlight of 2 because they actually do distort the world without needing some McGuffin. And the Obscura is just about the only genuinely scary looking thing in the game.
I hope this doesn't keep happening in video games.
I remember being genuinely confused when far cry 3 just kept going after I killed vass. Then being told "hey he wasn't the bad guy, this guy is" just left me a bit let down.
Comparing him to Theodore.
+user1point0
Stefano actually does things on screen (a lot, actually), interacts with Sebastion a lot which creates buildup and personal investment in the form of a rivalry, has a ton of lore scraps that piece together his character background to understand who he is, AND he says amusingly cocky things to make him less generically edgy and more quirkily insane.
In comparison, Theodore is met once before his "fight", has no discernible background, and is basically told to be this big bad evil without much/any actual substance to build it up. Plus he came out of literally nowhere as a lazy excuse to pad on the game's runtime, when in comparison Stefano is teased from the beginning of the game as his murder porn is the literal first anomaly seen, which then more and more is found which builds up the ultimate encounter.
The Evil Within 2: Dream Daddy
Oh god...
FUCK
Hawt
I'll play. Get me that distressed lonely detective ass.
*Woah there*
The Evil Within 2: The Withining
The evil within 2: eviler and deeper withiner
The evil within 2: electric evil aloo.
The Evil Within 2: The Revelationing
The Evil Within 2: Within Harder
The Evil Within 2: Evil Reloaded
It's always a good day when I wake up to another installment of 'Yahtzee ruins another companies retirement plans' being let loose on the world.
OathKeeper Prepare your hats
Yeah because his review is severely dampening their sales 😂😂 but yes, it was funny
Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, teeheehee!!!!
That's my favorite jingle, from now until the heat death of the universe.
th-cam.com/video/LQiyLA7YCnI/w-d-xo.html
Zero Punctuation is a dangerous thing to discover when you have something important to do with a close deadline.
Now I want a horror game based in a gingerbread town full of psycho gingerbread men.
careful, that's starting to sound like Ninjabread Man
It seems like making a corporation the main baddie in a videogame is a bit of a misstep. You end up needing a boss to represent the corporation and it ends up usually being another guy in a suit with an uninteresting greedy personality, and the boss fight and mechanics are a total let down.
ceomyr the only time I've seen evil corporations work is in Resident Evil
it's not a problem if you make it mean something.
ceomyr
It's dull that the corporate boss in video games always has to be a guy in a suit, I men, just look at some real corporate leaders like Steve Jobbs or Mark Zuckerberg, they don't wear suits and ties in most of the pictures I've seen, so why should their fictional evil counterparts have to?
And even if the corporate villain wear suits to office, they don't have to wear them outside of it. I found it jarring in Uncharted 3 when the villain Talbot wore a suit even when climbing ancient ruins, you'd think someone with his resources would be able to afford some good outdoor wear for such occasions.
The evil without... um...
Aaron Teitelbaum The Evil Without Excitement.
+ItsDaKoolaidDude
Meh, one of my favorite games this year. Sucks to be you I guess_
+Damn Slam
Well if TEW2 is considered garbage by *sheep* that take Yahtzee seriously. .
The Evil Without Car Insurance
It's his opinion
On Nightmare difficulty ammo is a commodity for sure, much more of a "survival" feeling. You want to sneak kill everything you can. And yes it can be pretty damn hard on Nightmare.
They actually DID explore the guy's tragic backstory in the first game…but only if you paid attention and collected…um…things, I think it was tapes? Like, it wasn't part of the game if you didn't look for it.
Everytime you entered a saferoom you got a free collectible explaining his backstory.
I do not see what the problem was.
"random documents and audio logs"
The best part of the game is easily Anima. She's completely avoidable so some people haven't even seen her. She literally terrifies me and her arc in the story has a lot of depth.
justaspeck21 My favorite part as well, the first time I saw her, she terrified me
Anima is great, until you've played Fatal Frame III and realize that she's just a re-tread of Reika Kuze, without the personality and plot development to go along with her to explain why Anima is a killer soul-sucking crazy ghost lady that you must hide from, to begin with. I strongly recommend picking up a PS2 off Amazon or out of a pawn shop or something at some point, and playing that particular title, because that's basically where Shinji Mikami pulled the idea of a noisy mental lady-ghost that lures you into a dream world and kills with a touch, and the hiding segments in that bare a strong parallel to the Anima segments of The Evil Within 2. The exception being that Reika is the final boss of her particular title, and gets the majority of the plot devoted to why she's gone nutters, rather than being a re-occuring side-encounter.
Also, I wish the saw-blade body-parts ogre-lady had been kept as an invincible threat that was part of the larger plot, rather than being demoted to an expendable elite enemy that there are multiple instances of, midway in. It really sucks, because they spent so much time building up her appearance at the start of the game, just to throw that all out over a mid-boss fight.
Just started playing this game recently. Yeah Anima is cool and all, but I've been having some difficulty figuring out where her challenge is supposed to come from? Every time I have encountered her she kinda just wanders around and never knows where I am, I walk a block or two away and she's gone. She's cool, but overall she doesn't really do much aside from make me take a jog
@@perryborn2777 The challenge is from escaping without being seen. If she spots you AT ALL, which she can easily do if you're in an enclosed space, as she can walk through walls, (luckily, she emits static near her location, which you can easily see, even through walls) you're doomed, as she will quickly dash towards Sebastian at a speed higher than he can sprint at, and will grab him and suck his life out, which not even the Bottle Break skill (makes Sebastian automatically use a bottle, if he has any, to avoid damage from grabs) will save him from. The reason I'm pointing this out is because The Lament also has a one hit kill grab (it gives Sebastian an acid shower), but unlike Anima, he can save himself if he has the skill and a bottle on him.
@@ethanedwards3357 I beat the game a couple days after that comment. Only trouble she gave me was back in one of the asylum sequences. Every other time I just walked away
I'm surprised Yahtzee didn't mention Anima, she was probably the scariest part of the game well up until the third encounter when I found out you could literally sprint past her
The bosses in this game are a huge disappointment compared to the 1st game. The game is waaay shorter too.
"Rescuing princess with the tacit understanding that they'll handle scepter and orbs in gratitude."
Okay if I can say that sentence once in my life to someone as a joke, then I'll die happy.
0:57 "pffft! Well, obviously"
That's my favourite facial expression from all of ZP now.
This game felt as generic as far cry and it's villains. The first game at least had well constructed levels and creative looking monsters.
And in the last three sentences, Yahtzee invents a better game. A bright, colorful happy world full of random death traps and monsters because you're in a kid's mind and their sense of fun and play is gumdrops and twisted mounds of flesh.
Chomp chomp yum yum
Evil corporation's name EA
"okay, we have our evil virtual world all set up inside the little girl's head. Now to add loot boxes."
Yahtzee, you purposefully left out Obscura and the Bukkake Monster to prove your point about monster design, didn't you?
Luckee Strikee don't forget anima!
John Franco - She's too cute to be considered scary.
Luckee Strikee Ehhhh to each their own
I mean, blob monster and ghost lady are both pretty generic monster designs in horror too. Obscura is probably the only enemy with a really unique design.
Thesaurus Rex - Bukkake-kun generic? I can't think of anything quite like it. The sound it makes also contributes a lot to its presence. Unfortunately it isn't used to its full potential after the first encounter - which is awesome.
I preferred the Evil Without
I would recommend playing this on nightmare difficulty the first time through to get a real survival horror experience. I haven't played it on the easier modes yet, but I really enjoyed the challange in nightmare mode.
Maybe it was a mistake not to make nightmare mode the default, because it seems objectively better from what I've heard
Jinchyn people bitched that the first one was too hard on Normal. So this time Normal is kinda easy and Casual is SUPER easy while Nightmare is closer to Survival difficulty from the first game.
They tell you the difference beside each difficulty if I remember correctly, so it's really up to the player to choose their challenge I guess.
Also, I agree on Nightmare being peoples first time. That's what I did. I scavenged every corner of the map to get ammo and gel and everything. Took me way longer to beat it my first time. Then had people on Casual that beat it in 6 hours or less and say it's too easy then say how the game was terrible.
Even the damage the most basic enemies give you is way more in Nightmare. Those demon dog bitches and the stabby witch are downright fucking terrifying in nightmare. Maybe 2 hit kills.
Nightmare is good if you like it to be more difficult. When Yahtzee said he got ammo, resources etc. thrown at him from every corner, I just thought that he probably would have enjoyed it more on a higher difficulty. There, he would have really had to scavenge and actually get those upgrades and think before barging into the room and shooting at things because you could get killed after like 2 hits. No use crying over spilled milk but still...if you don't like easy games, don't play this game on casual/normal.
It's not news that Yahtzee always plays games on easier difficulty settings and then complains that they are easy.
2:26
I imagine its some bonkers matrix clause where their sentience gets stuck in the mainframe and the fate of their body is inconsequential unless somebody decides to download the corrupted minds back into who-knows-who's bodies.
I'm very sure the reason you didn't see many more tubs or people in tubs in the opening because the 'icepick' method was already addressed, but it didn't matter and nobody noticed how little it mattered because shit went dark and the bodies just went braindead for some 'mysterious reason'.
Evil within 1 is criminally underrated
prakhar pant I very much agree with you!😊
It most certainly is. There was a variety of environments and enemies that made it feel like being in the mind of a mad man. Everything had a mix between medieval and industry that made it look like it was in constant agony. In this game, however, we just get resident evil style zombies.
The Oculus and Myra were pretty cool, but I can tell that the creativity was not focused on what ended up being most of the game. And it sucks cause the visual style and atmosphere are no small part of what I loved about the first game
Heretical Cuttlefish ikr, shinji mikami made evil within 1's environments terrifying but beautiful, it was a great game but mikami didn't work on the second one so it kind of lags behind in atmosphere and environment.
Evil Within 1 is criminally poor optimized.
While everything about Sebastian seems to be coincidences, if you pay attention you'll that every "coincdence" besides Lily being kidnapped basically all stem from her being kidnapped in the first place.
My first playthrough was on survival and I walked away thinking "damn, that was too easy! I only died three times!"
Now I'm doing my second playthrough on Nightmare. I take back my previous criticism
I was disappointed in the lack of variety though. The first game had so much more in regards to enemies. It felt like being in the mind of a mad man, whereas this one felt more like Resident Evil with magic going on
All jokes aside, the princess/damsel in distress comparison was intriguing.
The first game was much better.
A few years ago we had games with pretty girls as secondary (or main) characters or as the character you're supposed to save in order for me to feel I have a pretty girlfriend. Now we have games about dads protecting their children so that I can feel I'm a good father. Yay for being part of the age group! \ o /
At least yummy hairy dad games aren't on the up and up... well hello Resident Evil 8....
"Chomp-chomp, Yum-yum" Is also what Yahtzee says when the summer release drought ends.
I've been watching a playthrough of this, and I could maybe forgive a lot of its uninspired level design which makes the game little more than a supernatural Resident Evil; but the utterly stupid, cliché, clumsy, hackneyed, exposition-overload of a narrative and dialogue, makes it nigh-unbearable to me. Fun gameplay to watch, but a chore to listen to.
The first one was a lot better in my opinion, bosses and setpieces were more crazy and memorable.
I actually liked the 1st game way more, because it had an interesting story and a plot twist at the end, this game has a boring story and nothing new.
We're in a kids mind theres so much potential to make the gameworld weird as fuck, gingerbread only being the baseline. Wasted potential.
As a responsible dad in good shape, I take offense . . .
...on female fantasies of being responsible and shit?
You shouldn't, because Yahtzee basically just said you're the kind of man women fantasize about.
Even if you're a gay dad, that should make you smirk and roll your eyes smugly.
Good for you, man!
Sebastian did have a tragic backstory told through random diaries strewn about near the save points in the first game. I can't remember what it was exactly, but it did have something to do with his daughter or something. The plot was pretty unimportant, the big part of the game was getting to play the spiritual sequel to Resident Evil 4, except you can move and aim at the same time.
4:30 one to talk about creativity!
Wrote a book about Marmelade in which nothing happened and the story stops with deus ex machina!
Yah... The enemy variety seemed limited here. The 1st Evil within had all sorts of freaky monsters.
In this one though, they re-used the same movement and attack animations for 3 different enemy types I think, or more. The basic zombie, the firey-hell-monster, and the white-cum-monster at the end. And not a whole lot of interesting bosses either... Kinda disappointing.
There was that one fight with Northernlion though. Oh wait, I mean O'Neal. (Get it? Cuz he's bald)
Yahtzee just accidentally revealed he played the game on Survival difficulty. I mean, I guess he doesn't have the time, but if you play the game, do it on Nightmare difficulty.
Soooooo....Did he like it, love it, hate it, eat it? I cant tell this time around.
He seems to be nitpicky this time where last time he was more "the whole game is confusing and bad".
Playing on Nightmare difficulty instantly fixes most of the gameplay nuances listed here. FYI.
Also yeah the main ploty-plot is a bit vague but you understand everything if you dig down enough and pay close attention to the details and shit
agreed, sounds like Yahtzee played this shit on casual, cos in that shit you get overpowered in like... 10min of playing... sucks ass, all difficulties suck ass aside from the 2 hardest ones
Yeah the files tell a lot of the story. Just like how the first game talked a lot about Lily and the fire if he actually cared to read the pickups. But most people don't so I don't blame him. But this is one of those series where reading the extras fills you in a lot more than forced cutscenes ever will.
Plus on Nightmare it is more tense as you said. Scavenging for ammo actually makes it way more tense.
Do the enemies not jerk around unpredictably on that difficulty? The inability to understand how a game object is going to act generally makes interaction with it unpleasant
Tom Jackal they're pretty predictable. At least to me. They always walk a certain path, look both ways a few times while tweaking like a crackhead, then turn around. But those flamethrower guys almost always get me cause they seem erratic.
They did mention Sebastian's backstory in the first game, in optional collectables. It mentioned all this. But it's still a shit game. Because his backstory means nothing.
Seriously that's what ruined the whole story for me... oh we are using your daughter in STEM oook....
2:36 wasn't there like, a 75% chance of him not even getting out, plus why would Mobius shoot Sykes, he was working for him and HE tracked THEM down to work for them
Ngl I loved clearing the maps of enemies. It was just satisfying.
His story was talked about in the first game, it was mentioned in a lot of his journals that you find throughout the game.
I hated the plot, it was so stupid, and the characters were dumb. But the mechanics were good.
I think he played the game in casual mode. I never had more than 10 bullets and 2 healing items in my arsenal almost the whole game
AR21 he should turn it up to fucking classic mode
Sebastian's backstory comes up in some boring notes that you periodically find in the first one, which I played like two weeks ago because I made a big mistake. I should have listened to you.
It's definitely in there, but I can definitely understand how you could miss it, considering that it's a tacked on aside that slows down the momentum of the game to even look at.
Why isn't this the new Aassassins creed??
Every critic loves it,
So I'm looking forward to Crowshaw shitting all over it....
mozxz You've still got to wait for the review of Mario Odyssey here, which actually was uploaded to The Escapist website last Wednesday. TH-cam's a week behind.
Played on nightmare, bought it for 30, definitely a solid 8. Worth playing
Nightmare difficulty is the real way to play this game. Conserving ammo and doing side objectives for more supplies becomes really important.
EVIL WITHIN 2 WAS BORING... FIRST ONE WAS BETTER.
Refreshing to see someone like-minded.
The first game was actually fantastic. I don't usually like horror games but I absolutely loved The evil within and I recommend it to everyone especially now since it's on sale on playstation store!
Akeyy because the evil within and horror :D
And no, this game is deffently NOT fantastic. Its not even good
BeThomsen Mechanically it's not great .. but it is very enjoyable. The story is good if you fully take time to understand it aswell. I guess the japaneese way of storytelling is very different and most people wouldn't follow along so to speak.
BeThomsen It's much better than the first game and actually quite a good game taken by itself.
The gameplay was just horrible and the story was not 'good' enough to waste your time in it. Its alright if you enjoyed it but its far far far way from being fantastic
BeThomsen Thats completely subjective and thats just your own opinion.
Did Yahtzee just read my mind? He literally just summarized my entire experience with this game up to the bland and generic setting and plot.
The simulation is running low on OC.
To be fair the first game did briefly explore his tragic backstory.
Think in demographics, gamers have grown up and have families now. Saving the princess from the dragon is a childhood fantasy, saving your own child from a corporation is a grown up fantasy.
That implies there hasn't been any gamers since, which isn't true. I agree with Yahtzee and this is just a safer damsel in distress.
It implies no such thing. There are still kid demographic games, Princess Peach is still being rescued in Mario Odyssey which just came out.
I wonder what Yahtzee is gonna do after Escapist goes bankrupt? If it ever does. I've always assumed he mistakenly signed a life-long contract to work for them, and that's why he's stayed this long. So, what is he going to do once his jailer finally lets him run free?
0:12 fucking hell Yahtzee how long did you spend thinking up this genius line.
It actually seems like the hairy dad thing is still a male fantasy -- it's just that all the game devs who used to make "save the princess" games are now having children, and so that's what they're making games about.
Man I loved the first game. Hated the second. Imagine taking everything unique in a title, ripping it out, and thinking "let me make this as generic as possible". Essentially that's what happened with TEW2. Shame, because I was really looking forward to it.
There was something unique in the first game? It was a complete mess of various different horror tropes.
The evil within one: not enough stuff
The evil within two: too much stuff (-bullets though you can create them)
2:21 This is actually explained in the first game, the consciousness of every subject that died connected to STEM remains trapped on the system.
Well...Spoilers for Bioshock; Infinite then...thanks for that...
"Chomp chomp nom nom"
Right well that's my next tattoo sorted. Thanks Yahtzee
2:51
WTF, YOU PICKED OKLAHOMA FOR SOMETHING!
Default game difficulty should've been Nightmare
I liked this video only because you used a map of Oklahoma City.
If you pay attention when Sebastian and Kidman at first arrive in the "plug-in" room you can see O'neal in one of those tubs
to the left.
Question: would Yahtzee actually like it if the houses were made of gingerbread?
I mostly disagree with this, in my opinion, The Evil Within 2 was superior in every aspect including monster design, sound, visuals story and music. Oh well, to each its own I guess.
It has some dumb contrivances to the plot, other than that the consensus is that it is way better.
Completely agree
Japan Step and bugs. Don't forget the hilarious bugs
I mean, it almost couldn't possibly be worse. The first one had nothing but visuals going for it.
So it's a polished turd, great
Seb's backstory was illustrated through Notes found in each save room throughout the first game, which was often needed to activate the mirror to save.
IF you never ran out of anything, you were playing on either easy or normal difficulty. Play it on nightmare and say the same thing. Then classic.
How can you make the evil mega cooperation thing work? Like how can you make a player take it serious enough?
And now I'm dead, bleh
Fucking lol
Here's how it works: the game will always be a little better than Yahtzee makes out, but it will always be a LOT WORSE than what "specialized" reviewers at IGN et al say...
Man, I had a ton of problems with keeping my supplies at a manageable level in this game. Hell, about the last third of the game I basically never had healing items, and burned the ones I picked up instantly because I needed the health, and there weren't any coffee pots available. Nightmare mode was quite a bit harder than the game suggested.
I wish this game had the town full of gingerbread houses and horrific little gingers...the horror!
Doom Gaming The evil within 2: Christmas DLC
John Franco lol! They still have time to make it for the season 👍🤣🤣
Wait okay
I thought that The Evil Within 1's locations were messed up because it was in the mind of an insane psycho, right?
This has probably triggered someone who will never let me hear the end of this.
Playing this game on nightmare changes you. Trust me, you get maybe 100 bullets throughout the whole game.
I am getting sick of all of these "Yummy Hairy Dad Games". I don't even know why they started taking off.
Was it because The Last of Us was such a huge success?
Teufeldolch yes. we don't want hot dads. we want Hottie boys.
I live in Oklahoma and I got very alarmed by the map at 2:50.
Lasagna I am in Tulsa. Seemed really random to see that.
Lawton dude here
Most of the points are somewhat solid, but i disagree with survival elements. Specifically the amount of resources. If you played the game the first time on hardest difficulty, it really is difficult to maintain ammo and supplies, it becomes survival horror.. Lower difficulties, or even second run of the game on the hardest one can be more forgiving tho.
Why is Edward Kenway the cover?
After so many years of watching Zero Punctuation, I believe since I discovered what Steam was back in the day, I still can't tell if he 'liked it or not'
I swear the first boss was straight out of Invader Zim
How?
@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 idk, I posted this 3 fuckin' years ago, back when "gen Z" wasn't even a concept.
“Yummy Hairy Dad Game” will slot nicely into the library of “Yahtzee-isms,” right along with “Spunkgargleweewee” and “Spectacle Fighter.”
Fun game to play
*watch zero punctuation without sound*
It's as simple as sounds watch any episode without sound and try to figure out what's going on in this episode It really something
This is a weird Mario odyssey review...
Thomaszeblob The review's already been uploaded to The Escapist website. TH-cam's a week behind.
I completely agree with all of Yahtzee's criticisms of the first game, yet I still enjoyed it a fair bit. If you don't teat it like a horror game, and instead just think of it as a third-person shooter with a lot of gore and a batshit insane plot then it's not a bad game.
This one looks a lot more polished, and has an even more ridiculous plot, but the open world makes it a bit bland. Still, I was surprised by how much I liked the first one so I will probably pick up the sequel when it goes on sale.
RufusOmega I personally loved the second game, I would recommend it honestly
What about the Camera Monster? The Magma Enemies? The Ghost Girl that haunts you everywhere you go? Those are some relatively creative creatures. At least, more creative than the generic Zombies.
To be fair to the God of War I would think he would always be in 'good shape.'