Hi everyone. Thank you for 1 MILLION views! I was pretty anxious through the production of this video that I would be working to create a video that no one would watch however as the weeks have rolled on the views have climbed as well as the subscribers coming from it. If you’re here to watch just this video or staying for content coming up I thank you!
Loving this channel. It's my new favorite. Huge F.E.A.R., Bioshock, T.E.W. fanatic. Excited for the Fear 3 vid next! @B4BrandossOG (do tags still work??)
This was a phenomenal labor of love for a franchise that desperately deserves it. You did excellent work, and should be proud of your effort. If you weren't aware, there's currently an Evil Within movie in development to film in and around Chicago and release for Halloween, 2025. I can't wait to hear your movie review. There was only one tiny thing I feel like you forgot: Julian Sykes. Sykes is a member of Alpha Team in the second game and a STEM programmer. He's also probably the smartest member of the group and one of the most fleshed out characters in the cast. If you save him from a horde of The Lost, he will ask you to turn on servers in The Marrow and eventually find a way out. Seb finds a pod to return to the real world, and Sykes says he has a 1 in 4 chance of getting out, then gets in the tub and disappears. Now, this terrified me more than anything else in the game. If he makes it out, that's great, but if he didn't where did he go? Limbo? Does he no longer exist? Is he trapped in some sub-STEM dimension? The implications are horrific. I know it's a minor nit pick, but this is definitely worth a talk if you decide to do a Q&A on this video, which I would totally watch. Thanks again for this video. I'm definitely going to subscribe and watch your other stuff. Keep up the good work!
My man dropping an absolute banger of an video essay but everyone's sleeping on it. On a serious note, really do appreciate these long form videos. Your use of memes isn't annoyingly in your face and your sense of humor has a personal touch to it. Dressing up as the protagonist adds a nice charm to these types of videos. I can't begin to imagine the amount of hard work and time that goes into writing, filming, and editing an video like this one.
Thanks man I really appreciate it! Yeah making this thing was a challenge and a half. Honestly I’d love all my videos to get one million billion views each but what really makes all the effort worth it are comments like these so cheers man :)
Man, who taught you to be such a betawimp? There's a thin line between a compliment and meatgagging. And you're doing the latter 🤡 What I call a "fwn" fathers worse nightmare
The Evil Within series is hands-down one of my favorite videogame franchises. Its gimmicky, its campy, the first game is ridiculously hard, and the story is hard to follow. But its a very fun series, and has a lot of deep story elements when you take the time to go through all the lore. Thank you for doing this series justice, its obvious how much time, effort and love went into this video 😊❤️
So true .I remember being so confused when playing the 1st one but I didn't even relize untill I almost finished the game because I enjoyed it so much. I ended up mostly forgiving the bad story telling since u could tell there is a great story there .lol
@@komlat253Markiplier actually got me to play this game! I was just recently married when his series of him playing it came out and me and my new wife couldn't get enough of it. We watched it all, twice, and I still bought it and played the heck out if it. Just like with RE4, Shinji knows how to make an upgrade loop that is incredibly addicting.
@@Chaz-o1z did you just watch a 3 hour Video of a game you think is trash? Or did you came here just to comment this ? Would love to know how your peoples minds work
Best part about the throwable bottles is that if you score a headshot you stun them allowing a instant kill from whatever direction if you crouch near them, if they are alerted or not
I loved learning this very early in the game. It saved me loads of ammo and it felt so gratifying pulling it off. TEW2 took it a step further by letting you instant kill from any position or after a sprint.
Nothing like coming across a multi-feature-length in depth dive from a channel I've never seen nor heard of but that's quality all the way through with some solid humor tossed in here and there to boot. I'll drop a sub and even ring the bell, friend. You've earned it. Keep up the good work.
I loved RE5... as a survival horror, if you want to qualify it that way, maybe you can say it was disappointing. But as a continuation of RE4, a game everyone loves, I thought it was great. It was a very fun game.
re5 was an amazing action game at the time it released, and is still fun today. re6 has fun gameplay but the story and enemy designs became so silly in 6 it completely ruined it.
I'm in the same boat. Calling RE5 disapointing was from a community and series POV but personally I love 5 and 6. I'll probably do a video on them one day.
The only real thing I don't like about RE5 is that the Ouroburous strain despite being cool was mainly used for 3 boss fights with the rest being plagas again.
I thought resident evil five was an awesome ass game!! But I also thought resident evil six was just phenomenally fun and bad ass and action packed goofy stupidness the whole way through… I thoroughly enjoyed 4, 5 and six, but when resident evil four came out, I did not have as much love for it as everybody else because I was skeptical that it was going to take the theories in the wrong direction.. Either way, I have all of the main line entries including revelations one and two and I enjoy and love each one of them thoroughly!! I’d be hard-pressed to pick a favorite, but being as I am 38 for me it might just be resident evil two? But I also really enjoyed the first one and the remake to the first one.. like I said, I love them all!
Like others have said already but I’ll say it again, this is hands down one of the best reviews/retrospectives I’ve ever watched, you deserve so much more views and subscribers dude. The Evil Within 2 is one my favourite horror games of all time and I’m really happy whenever I see a new video about this franchise. Hope we get The Evil Within 3 soon.
Glad the algorithm recommended me this video. I can't get enough of TEW content, and this was really fun to watch, on top of being very well-researched. Looking forward to seeing more content from you!
The lack of views definitely isn’t a lack of quality or a lack of an audience for multi hour video game retrospective videos, and this one is very well done, I just don’t think there’s enough of a evil within fandom out there, unfortunately. I love this video though and I loved the games too, so thank you for your hard work!
I actually got it recommended as someone who hadn't played the games only heard of them and it got me to play the first one and wanting to play the second one, but idk if I'm an outlier here
@caruusel The 2nd one, in my opinion, is way better. But I don't hate the first one. It's decent, 7.5/10 IMO. The 2nd one is easily a 9.5/10. Just very different genres of games.
This is my comfort video. I come back here a lot. You're really funny but really informative, and it's nice to watch and nice to have on in the background. I guess I'm just saying I really like this video.
Man, what a great retrospective for one of my favourite games. I will admit that I have a soft spot for the first one since I liked the atmosphere, gameplay and specially dialogue a lot more than the sequel. But they are both great games on their own rights. Here's hoping for The Evil Within 3.
"forget about Ruvik" ring any bells? that's the sequel telling you to forget about the original. not to mention the scene where TEW2 Sebastian shoots TEW1 Sebastian in the head. it's disgusting.
@@arsenii_yavorskyi I don’t understand how you got that from Sebastian shooting his past self. That was to represent him “letting go” of his past trauma. Dude went through HELL back in beacon, but never faced it until he had to be put through it again. Especially during the part when you go after Theadore and Sebastian is deciding to fight his fears. Fighting the monsters from the original.
I really liked evil within 2, I would be curious to see it’s gameplay updates from the second game, but they clearly looked like they ran out of story material by the end of the second game, so maybe it’s better we don’t get another game
Every year I put on my silly clown makeup and go “oh man THIS is the year we get TEW3!” It feels like an incomplete (but incredible!) trilogy. I’ve always felt like the sequel was a way of writing off Sebastian and giving him the best possible ending while also setting the ground work for something relating to Ruvik and Joseph since they both have a lot of unanswered questions. This is especially true with what Kidman says about Joseph in the sequel if you unlock every Polaroid. I am so desperate for the answers to these questions I want that game SO BADLY.
the algorithm absolutely slayed by recommending me this. such an incredible retrospective for a game series that has intrigued me for years, you're killing it
Christ I just saw this only has 5.7K views. Like, that’s a really great number, it’s just that the quality had me thinking it would be in the hundred thousands for a retrospective like this. Such a great video! I hope you have other ideas for essays or retrospectives, I look forward to whatever comes next. You are going to blow up at some point.
ruvik didn't kill Leslie he switched his personality and memories with him effectively taking Leslie's place. not seeing him show up with the new body in 2 was a little disappointing.
In my head I had a crazy theory that Kidman was Sebastians daughter, and that she has been missing for 20 years and she was raised INSIDE of Stem. but the second game removed any chance of that but I think it would have been an insane twist.
Dude. Just got through this video in one sitting as I worked today and you instantly deserved a sub from me. I'm not one of those "How haven't you reached a mil subs yet?" people mostly cause I suppose we can all agree it's cause of the algorhythm, but I'm certainly happy it lead me to you cause it certainly made my day. Now, on the topic of Joseph being the protagonist of TEW3, I'd say it's a *great* idea. Seb's story is pretty much closed at this point. He's happy to have his daughter back and start a new life... Altho I'm not quite sure if it's good for it to be set outside of STEM entirely this time. Maybe you can use some strange form of PTSD as a catalyst for 3's story and have The Haunted and other freaks of nature appear as apparitions, but all those nonsensical changes in the environment followed with monsters 5 times larger than you would be nigh impossible to explain if the game took place in the real world instead of STEM. Either way, fantastic video. Looking forward on future stuff, no matter the length
Thank you yeah it was a struggle but honestly the feeling of looking at a completed video is something else. Doing these let’s me really say my peace on these games and as someone who gets pretty obsessed with these worlds it’s amazing to just feel like “Yeah I think I’m done with this game now” after a finishing a video.
@@frauleinhohenzollern You’re kind of implying here that since there are a lot of people doing a thing that no individuals have anything unique to offer. It’s like saying there’s a lot of rock bands and that makes all rock bands boring. I’d say if you’re either tired of this content or not interested in it then it’s either not for you or you should take a breather from watching it for a while.
A lot of times with big channels it doesn't even cross my mind to comment or like the videos. Not because they don't deserve it, but because I figure they already have so much it won't make much difference That's what I was thinking halfway through this video until I realized that you're a pretty small (though a few thousand is nothing to scoff at) channel Pretty shocking. This video is super well done. Definitely got a new subscriber from me
Thank you. I’ve always assumed that as long as my quality stays high then eventually I’ll rise to a level that’s reflective of it. But until then I just gotta keep it up and people like you make it a lot easier :)
@@Abe_linc it’s in one of the news paper/notes , Laura was in a vegetative state at the hospital, but the doctor decided to tell the family that she died , which she later did.
havent watched full video and i dont know if i find time to finish it but still want to appreciate small channels like you producing quality content like this, keep up the good work!
the pacing in the video is excellent and so addictive, now im sure i will finish it, real good job on this one - it's same quality as million sub channels if not better!
Never played Evil Within but this was a fun watch. I enjoy the super long passionate video essays and you could definitely feel the passion you have for EW1 and EW2 through the vid. Good watch! 😁
Not gonna lie, my wife was watching me play 1 and 2 and she was into the story with me and when Kidman said "there's a third choice" I yelled out "Fuck you, that's my choice!" That little sync up in dialogue felt pretty good because we were both really hype and started laughing as it happened.
Hoping that one day this video will pop off, cuz DANG, i could really tell how much you love this series with the amount of effort you put into this (also by making sure you got footage of you killing the Sebastian and Joseph duo in the DLC. I can imagine the rage). I only knew about the original Evil Within and liked it okay, but i felt like it had wasted potential with the stuff you mentioned (plot coherency being the biggest one). So it makes me elated that Evil Within 2 was an improvement overall (and low key makes me wanna buy/play it). But i thoroughly enjoyed the deep dive, man! Don’t ever worry about a video being “too long” if it’s something you’re genuinely passionate about, cuz i was so engrossed that the three hours just flew by. Excited for whatever you’re gonna make next! (Also my vote is the Lego Atlantis lore I’m just saying)
WHAT. A. VIDEO. That was fantastic, couldn't get enough of it ! Thanks for your work. Can't imagine the amount of effort and time you put in this video ! It was perfect !
I have watched let’s plays of this game multiple times and I still did not fully understand the Ruvik shit until you explained it (so well, btw!!!). Thank you for this excellent retrospective! Subscribed!
Yeah but M$ owns Bethesda and the game would probably be woke and not up to standards, like all of M$'s other recent trash. Is Shinji even at Tango anymore?
@@TexasHollowEarth Shinji left, I believe. Apparently Microsoft was close to cancelling Hi-Fi Rush so I don't really blame him for not wanting to be involved if that's the case.
i really enjoyed this video!! i’ve never heard about the Evil Within franchise before but i’m glad this was my introduction. the pacing and editing in this video is very well done and i can’t even imagine the effort that was put into this!! i’m excited to see more from this channel
what an amazing video, watched the whole thing. The Evil Within will always have a special place in my heart, it was such a fun time when it first came out too. maybe one day we'll see it again, who knows!
Absolutely adored Evil Within 1. Bought the art book and everything. The story was sick if you gave it time, the atmosphere and graphical fidelity was and still is incredible. Another game that gets undue and uncalled for hate. Such a shame. At least many gave the second a crack despite it being less focussed in alot of areas.
This is a great video but i personally disagree a little with a few things. In the first game Sebastian just sort of ending up in random areas makes sense with what stem is and i really enjoy the surrealism of it, it makes it feel like a dream. If anything evil within doesnt do enough with what stem is. Conceptually you can do just about anything with it. I dont think evil within 3 should drop stem. Its been awhile but if i remember correctly the dialouge about Joseph being alive i think implied he was still in Stem. The way i see Stem is like a brain with there being a conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. I figured joseph and myra were stuck somewhere in the sub or unconscious. I think that could be a really interesting setting for a game. I will say I am completely biased though I fucking LOVE surrealism and want more surrealist games
Y'know what? I thought this was just going to be good background noise, as I've already listened to a few several hour long videos on the two games and the DLC. I ended up dropping what I was doing to just watch directly. Thank you for all the hard work you did, this was pretty darn good.
Well done restrospective, i played the 1st evil within 1 after 2, and 2nd game genuinelly is one of my all time favorites, the gameplay just hits the right notes, i love the music, and little hiccups here and there dialog vise, i have nothing but fond memories, was a blast to achiveement hunt to 100%, you earned my sub sir.
Thanks. Happy to have you onboard! The second game is really what made me take a second look at the first and really I think they tie together in a fantastic package. Btw. Do you have any game requests for me to cover? I've got a list to work through right now but It never hurts to have another one in the bank :)
Just wanted to thank you for a video full of fantastic entertainment and information. You always make extremely enjoyable and high quality videoes. You deserve so many views and I will definitely continue staying with your channel
I honestly love the chapter where you go to Ruvik's mansion. Every time the screen turned blue and made that weird noise, my anxiety started going through the roof!
Had to pause after the colored box shooting sequence because gamers: we all felt that in that moment. The frustration, the boredom, the anger and the absolute high after finally being done with it. 15 Joseph's/10
FINALLY getting around to watching this video and holy shit we had the same introduction to the series... children freaked out but immediately fascinated by seeing the game at EB rise up
@@B4BrandossOG hell yeah! enjoying this a lot, you clearly put a lot of work into it and it's fantastic to hear someone delve deeply into the lore that's so damn underdiscussed!
Played the first evil within because my dad had a game informer magazine and the art looked cool and gruesome. Played it and enjoyed it mostly. Years later when I was 18 or 19 I went to gamestop and saw the second one. I was very very pleased with the gameplay! Started my first playthrough on the hard difficulty and I LOVED IT. That first major zone took me hours but by the end of the game I was a monster. I still remember I had the windows open on a summer night and was stealth killing those foggy crying guys twice just to save ammo. Great vid by the way! Subbed.
What a massive missed opportunity to not instead have 2 sebastians walk out as the final boss for the keeper in reference to the 2 keepers at the end of the maingame
It's some of the hardest cope I've ever huffed but I like to think of Sebastion's stamina as a representation of his mental state whenever he's entered into STEM. In the first game, he's kinda like, barely got anything going for him- Wife gone, daughter gone, reported to IA by his best friend. The ONLY good thing is that he's starting to mend the bridge with Joseph and Kidman is like, a sort of protoge. I can't imagine his mental state is very good going into the first game. At best, he's just going through the motions. And then in the second game, right before he's put back in, he's given the brightest, shiniest beacon of hope. "Hey lmaooo that whole daughter death thing? We got your ass good. She's still alive, but we need you to get her back." Imagine that, THE thing that ruined his life, and he's given a second chance to fix it. I doubt he really trusts mobios to let him get away from it all afterwards, but I think he'd be willing to go through it all for just the chance to save Lily. So like, his mental still probably isn't GREAT, but he's just been given the best bait of his life, and I imagine that really puts a lot off focus into his mind. Thank you for coming to today's discussion.
frickin LOVE the evil within and it's at times goofiness and I'm so happy someone covered it all in a way that is super entertaining to watch, I hope this video blows up someday!
God damn, 1:25:53 just made me bray like a fkn donkey 😂 I thought the part with: "...it's NOT. You fuckin _know_ that!" got me good but then that "ew!" just did me all the way in. So happy to have found your channel and I can't wait to see when the masses do too and punt it straight into the stratosphere because this.shit.is.gooood.
I enjoy the randomness and jarring change to scenery. Reminds me of what it’s like being in a dream. When I think about my dreams, I never remember how I got to point A to B. Even if it’s the slightest change from the kitchen to the bathroom of my house. I don’t remember walking or opening a door. I’d just be standing in front of the mirror in a second.
It's a rainy day and I'm working from home and the YT algorithm gifts me with a +3hr video essay on one of my favorite games I played as a teen, hell yes! (how Sebastian would say it after good score in the shooting range) Edit: Now that I've watched the entire video I am so happy to see some love given to this franchise after Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have discarded it. When you mentioned Resident Evil Allusions/References in TEW I can't believe you didn't mention the shot of Haunted Connoley turning around like the very first zombie in RE. But no When you were talking about the potential for TEW3 I thought for sure you'd mention Sykes and if he escaped STEM or descended even further. Whatever direction they take next if TEW3 gets made will for sure focus more on STEM. If Alan Wake can get a sequel after this long then so can TEW. Either way great video!
i love the original, hate part 2. it ruined everything that made the original special. the original had a better story, better characters, better villain, better environments, and way better boss fights. i never understood how people could say 2 improves on the original in every way. i lost interest in this video after 2 minutes, i have no interest in listening to someone try to convince me 2 is better in every possible way when i will never believe that. i have played through the first game at least 10 times, and it never gets old for me. i played through 2 once, years ago, and never once had the urge to replay it. i would love nothing more than to have 2 the evil within games to replay instead of 1, but 2 is just not replayable to me in the slightest. nothing about it keeps me hooked like everything about the original does.
When Sebastian stomped on the brain at the end evil within one my thermos irl fell on me. His kick was so powerful it made its way out of my phone and shook my thermos
Hey man, great vid! I can't say I agree with all of your points (I like the first game more and those filler levels, although very accurately named, were still fun for me to play), but this was incredibly thorough and you really cleared up the story of the 1st game for me. I couldn't complete TEW 1.5 because, as you said, the gameplay was bad lol. Anyway cheers bro, this was 3 hours well spent!
Thanks for watching broski. One of my favourite parts of doing TH-cam is seeing others opinions on the games I cover. It’s a cool reminder that games mean different things to different people. So it’s fine that you don’t agree with my thoughts on the first one since that means you see something within it that I maybe don’t. Which I find pretty exciting. No matter how in-depth I go on games there can always be another angle to them. Anyways thx for watching again. Glad I was able to give you some more insight into the world.
While I don't agree with all of your points, the shooting gallery minigame one especially, it was insanely easy for me, I do like your way of interpretation and explaining you did throughout, loved every second of it, thanks, subscribed, checking your other content.
God, I think this is gonna be one of my favorite videos of all time! Evil within is literally like my favorite series! One my favorite references to resident evil. What is the scene where the cop was eating the guy because that was a reference to the very first resident evil zombie And of course, another favorite reference I like is the one from silent hill, which is literally just how the keeper literally almost similar to pyramid head.
Also, if you’re wondering how to counter the invisible haunted, actually think it has something to do with the light I think of your stance going to put the light on it you’ll actually see it I remember doing that at some point it actually worked. I don’t think you need to stand still, but it helps. Also, the crossbow has this interesting fact that if you pre-order the game, you got two extra powers for the crossbow, poison and fire I remember getting in my Xbox but ever since then I never got it again it was really fun to experiment with too.
Outstanding video. I would like to commend you for the sheer effort you put into this video especially that this is no longer monetized to show a moment so important to Seb's arc. I am so happy someone finally went so in-depth to this franchise I grew up with. To me, the second really brought everything together where I thought the original's story was just nonsensical without the Kidman DLC. Looking forward to future videos my dude, you won a subscriber here.
Yooo, so glad TH-cam put this in my recommended, absolute banger. Hope that means you've been blessed by the algorithm overlords, you certainly deserve it
I get people's issues with the first one. The horror elements were solid but the actual gameplay flipflops between being vaguely passable and an awkward slog. EW2 is just outright good. I dunno why people don't like it. It's a little less scary I guess, but the gameplay loop is great and fixes all the problems the original had.
Please make more content on whatever it is, this the evil within was everything and beyond I could ask for as a retrospective this by far is the best content on TH-cam there is
I absolutely loved the evil within when I first got it and played it for the first time!! And then a couple years later when the evil within two came out, I thought it was amazing as well even though it wasn’t as hard core, it was still an amazingly scary game! I still got my fingers crossed for a third one…
it's a shame im just now seeing this!!! this video is awesome already, im really picky with people's speaking inflections and tones and whatnot and i really enjoy yours!!
Man this is a great fucking essay on this franchise. I feel like not a lot of people go deeper into the story of TEW taking everything into consideration, and even more so now years later when the fans of these games have reduced, so it was pretty satisfying seeing a video truly dedicated into analysing the story and the gameplay as well. I could only find people either complaining about the first game and praising the second or people complaining about the second game and praising the first without giving them both the fair credit of what they bring to the table, each with their own pros and cons but still standing strong by themselves. TEW was one of my first survival horror games that I played, but I also left it behind half way through the first game and only recently I picked it up again lmao. I'm glad that I did that now, because I can see the charm this franchise has even with all its flaws and quirkiness. To me, going through these games felt like deciphering a love letter to not only the classic survival horror games, but to the whole genre in general with its references to horror movies and maybe books as well (for example, I could see some of its campiness coming straight from the famous soap movies "Saw" or the fact that Ruvik's brain was trapped in a machine simulating a body that kept him alive but made him incapable to move in a quite "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" fashion). The whole Mobius thing continuing up to the second game could be inspired from 1984 as well (it was funny seeing you confuse "O'Neal" with "O'Brien" too 😭), but maybe I'm just associating things that could be connected by mere coincidence. There's some things that you said in the first two parts that left me confused though. When you're explaining Ruvik's background in around 30:07, you express that he created STEM in order to access his own mind and bring Laura back, but I don't know if this is what he aimed to do at first. There was a newspaper in the game that said that Laura had survived the fire but was in a vegetative state and Ruben's father kept that information from him, so Ruben thought she was dead until he discovers this after killing his parents. He had been experimenting before when he was a child, seeking for animal's fear or some freaky shit like that, but I think he developed STEM when he found out his sister was still alive and tried to bring her back through that, even if she passed away later on. It is stated that he had a complicated relationship with his father too like you said, and if I remember correctly it was because his father envied the close relationship Ruben had with Laura...? And after the fire he locked him up because he was embarrassed of him...? Man this family. Anyways. I'm not certain about this but that is what I gathered. There's something about the posters that I agree it's strange. At first I believed that Joseph's poster was there because time in STEM is weird and maybe it showed the consequence of him disappearing in the real world after all those events? Maybe the twisted time in STEM connected Sebastian shooting himself in the first game with the future where Sebastian of the second game shooted his past Sebastian (woah). But this was bonkers. Sebastian shooting his past self was purely symbolic. The time thingy is barely used as a plot line and it's just mentioned. It makes less sense when you see Sebastian's missing poster too. Then I thought it was just to show all the people who was connected in the STEM and it was just a funny way to say this is how they would end up in the real world if they stayed trapped in there. It's still weird seeing the mix up between real missing people and the cast that was in the STEM for... 37 minutes? Damn. Another thing is that in 1:01:44, you say that the massacre in Beacon Hospital wasn't exclusive to STEM, but wasn't the massacre staged by Mobius instead of one of Ruvik's doings? I remember the Administrator telling Kidman something about this before she was injected with some liquid at the beginning of her DLC, and this was done so she could take Leslie in the middle of that investigation, or so was the plan told to her. But it's still strange when the first thing we see is Ruvik killing the cops and we assume this was all his doing. Also, Marcelo's smug attitude when he lets Mobius take Ruben away could be seen as strange, but to defend that a bit he did clarify in his voice messages that he thought Mobius would take Ruben in order to fix STEM and not to tear him apart and take his brain... which is actually foolish if you think about it. He was working with a shady organization and suddenly he didn't think that could've happened. Wow. Instances like these makes me feel better about joking with Marcelo's name in spanish (we joke around with this name and rhyme "Marcelo agachate y conocelo", which literally would mean "Marcelo get down and meet it" - basically Marcelo suck a dick), he's a bit dumb. I could understand if he felt quite close to Ruvik since he was the one who accepted him and followed him through his experiments and was shocked to see him like that, but having zero awareness of the outcome when he was messing with Mobius... well. Either way, whether there's some points I agree or not, this video took me on a rollercoaster and made me appreciate the games more. I loved what you said about Sebastian and Kidman's relationship being similar to one of a father and daughter, which I haven't considered before even when appreciating the bond they formed at the end of TEW 2. It also felt disappointing seeing no symbolism for the monsters even though I loved their designs, specially Myra. Maybe they were trying to make a call-back to Ruvik with her clothes or maybe even making her some sort of "Virgin Mary", but it only made things a bit confusing. I hope we can see TEW 3 soon. Just by seeing everyone fantasizing about it you can notice there's so much they can do and improve with this potential game that would establish it as a solid horror franchise. Will Ruvik come back as Leslie and complete its "revenge" to the world? What was that limbo mentioned in Syke's substory? Did Syke ever make it out alive in the real world or did he end up trapped? Could Joseph be trapped in the STEM as well? What about "the lost"? Why were the people inside the STEM beginning to change this time? And so on. Anyways, sorry for the long comment. I got a bit excited when seeing this video in the morning and now I'm writing this at night after having many thoughts about it. TEW has many details that is possible to talk forever about them, I even discovered a couple more things thanks to this video. Great job in piercing a lot of it together and making a coherent video man, I really liked your insights about the story and the gameplay. Keep it up 😁😁
I couldn't believe it when I saw you have "only" 5k+ subscribers (which is a lot, but still). The quality of this video is amazing, it's funny and at the memes are few and hilarious :) The first game has a special place in my heart. Never played it myself but a friend of mine and her sister were absolute HARDCORE fans of this game and I spent whole nights at their place watching them play while drawing, drinking coke and talking about the lore. There are way too few new IPs these days that manage to get me excited anymore. And with all the obvious flaws with the gameplay, the lore and everything, or maybe even because of these campy flaws, it was just so refreshing and fun to get to know the lore, watch lets players play through it and read about theories online.
I remember being able to hide from Ruvik on my first playthrough under the dining room table and in one of the bedroom closets. I assume it's difficulty level that will determine whether he finds you or not. But I would always just loop him in the main hall in subsequent playthroughs when he spawned.
Same I thought 2 was an improvement in almost every aspect and Sebastian felt more like a hunter while still being completely vulnerable. Part 1 was great too though.
Hey Brando, loving these long retrospective vids. Keep em coming! A tip for the invisible enemies that I learned from a playthrough vid, use a flash bolt on them to make them visible and vulnerable to an execution.
👏🏻Standing Ovations👏🏻 for this absolutely amazing piece of content you made about a really great game "series" - appreciated the time and work you must've put into this and it's definetely worth a sub,if not even more. Thank you a lot for this 3 hours 16 minutes masterpiece🤘🏻🎩🍻cheers,good sir...
Awe love you too best three hours I spent in a long time, and honestly a Joseph EW3 would be stellar, I bought both games but never finished them, just like I slept so hard on the Mass Effect series but I think I'll be checking in at old Beacon Hill real soon
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Hi everyone. Thank you for 1 MILLION views!
I was pretty anxious through the production of this video that I would be working to create a video that no one would watch however as the weeks have rolled on the views have climbed as well as the subscribers coming from it.
If you’re here to watch just this video or staying for content coming up I thank you!
I enjoyed this. Well done, this was actually well researched, thought out, and presented. Keep at it. You definitely have a skill for it!
I always like your review's and some times I watch it while Im working. and Im buying evil within because your review...
Your videos are awesome man
Loving this channel. It's my new favorite. Huge F.E.A.R., Bioshock, T.E.W. fanatic. Excited for the Fear 3 vid next! @B4BrandossOG (do tags still work??)
This was a phenomenal labor of love for a franchise that desperately deserves it. You did excellent work, and should be proud of your effort. If you weren't aware, there's currently an Evil Within movie in development to film in and around Chicago and release for Halloween, 2025. I can't wait to hear your movie review.
There was only one tiny thing I feel like you forgot: Julian Sykes. Sykes is a member of Alpha Team in the second game and a STEM programmer. He's also probably the smartest member of the group and one of the most fleshed out characters in the cast. If you save him from a horde of The Lost, he will ask you to turn on servers in The Marrow and eventually find a way out. Seb finds a pod to return to the real world, and Sykes says he has a 1 in 4 chance of getting out, then gets in the tub and disappears.
Now, this terrified me more than anything else in the game. If he makes it out, that's great, but if he didn't where did he go? Limbo? Does he no longer exist? Is he trapped in some sub-STEM dimension? The implications are horrific.
I know it's a minor nit pick, but this is definitely worth a talk if you decide to do a Q&A on this video, which I would totally watch. Thanks again for this video. I'm definitely going to subscribe and watch your other stuff. Keep up the good work!
My man dropping an absolute banger of an video essay but everyone's sleeping on it.
On a serious note, really do appreciate these long form videos. Your use of memes isn't annoyingly in your face and your sense of humor has a personal touch to it. Dressing up as the protagonist adds a nice charm to these types of videos.
I can't begin to imagine the amount of hard work and time that goes into writing, filming, and editing an video like this one.
Thanks man I really appreciate it!
Yeah making this thing was a challenge and a half. Honestly I’d love all my videos to get one million billion views each but what really makes all the effort worth it are comments like these so cheers man :)
Man, who taught you to be such a betawimp? There's a thin line between a compliment and meatgagging. And you're doing the latter 🤡
What I call a "fwn" fathers worse nightmare
So...
They are acting the same as the general populace did to TEW2? XD
The Evil Within series is hands-down one of my favorite videogame franchises. Its gimmicky, its campy, the first game is ridiculously hard, and the story is hard to follow. But its a very fun series, and has a lot of deep story elements when you take the time to go through all the lore.
Thank you for doing this series justice, its obvious how much time, effort and love went into this video 😊❤️
So true .I remember being so confused when playing the 1st one but I didn't even relize untill I almost finished the game because I enjoyed it so much. I ended up mostly forgiving the bad story telling since u could tell there is a great story there .lol
I hate this game. Not many options, combat is clunky. Story fucking sucks.... but hey if ur simple then it might be just for yoy
@@Chaz-o1zah so thats why you came over LMAO
@@Chaz-o1zWait, why are you watching a 3 hour video on it then?
@@komlat253Markiplier actually got me to play this game! I was just recently married when his series of him playing it came out and me and my new wife couldn't get enough of it. We watched it all, twice, and I still bought it and played the heck out if it. Just like with RE4, Shinji knows how to make an upgrade loop that is incredibly addicting.
"Hey Shinji, what genre of horror is Evil Within?"
"Yes"
Game is trash
Your opinion. Bad opinion, but your opinion nonetheless. @@Chaz-o1z
@@Chaz-o1zno one cares
@@Chaz-o1z did you just watch a 3 hour Video of a game you think is trash? Or did you came here just to comment this ? Would love to know how your peoples minds work
@@jealou4088 still trash.
Getting to the end of this video today when you were talking about The Evil Within 3 almost made me cry...
Best part about the throwable bottles is that if you score a headshot you stun them allowing a instant kill from whatever direction if you crouch near them, if they are alerted or not
I loved learning this very early in the game. It saved me loads of ammo and it felt so gratifying pulling it off. TEW2 took it a step further by letting you instant kill from any position or after a sprint.
Nothing like coming across a multi-feature-length in depth dive from a channel I've never seen nor heard of but that's quality all the way through with some solid humor tossed in here and there to boot. I'll drop a sub and even ring the bell, friend. You've earned it. Keep up the good work.
I loved RE5... as a survival horror, if you want to qualify it that way, maybe you can say it was disappointing. But as a continuation of RE4, a game everyone loves, I thought it was great. It was a very fun game.
re5 was an amazing action game at the time it released, and is still fun today. re6 has fun gameplay but the story and enemy designs became so silly in 6 it completely ruined it.
I'm in the same boat. Calling RE5 disapointing was from a community and series POV but personally I love 5 and 6. I'll probably do a video on them one day.
The only real thing I don't like about RE5 is that the Ouroburous strain despite being cool was mainly used for 3 boss fights with the rest being plagas again.
@@B4BrandossOGThat would be awesome, definitely would watch
I thought resident evil five was an awesome ass game!!
But I also thought resident evil six was just phenomenally fun and bad ass and action packed goofy stupidness the whole way through… I thoroughly enjoyed 4, 5 and six, but when resident evil four came out, I did not have as much love for it as everybody else because I was skeptical that it was going to take the theories in the wrong direction..
Either way, I have all of the main line entries including revelations one and two and I enjoy and love each one of them thoroughly!!
I’d be hard-pressed to pick a favorite, but being as I am 38 for me it might just be resident evil two? But I also really enjoyed the first one and the remake to the first one.. like I said, I love them all!
Like others have said already but I’ll say it again, this is hands down one of the best reviews/retrospectives I’ve ever watched, you deserve so much more views and subscribers dude.
The Evil Within 2 is one my favourite horror games of all time and I’m really happy whenever I see a new video about this franchise.
Hope we get The Evil Within 3 soon.
The views and subs will come in time but I gotta keep making good stuff before that happens.
Glad you enjoyed the video :)
They've hinted at it last year so I believe it will happen very soon (this year hopefully)
Glad the algorithm recommended me this video. I can't get enough of TEW content, and this was really fun to watch, on top of being very well-researched. Looking forward to seeing more content from you!
💯. Love TEW
The lack of views definitely isn’t a lack of quality or a lack of an audience for multi hour video game retrospective videos, and this one is very well done, I just don’t think there’s enough of a evil within fandom out there, unfortunately. I love this video though and I loved the games too, so thank you for your hard work!
I actually got it recommended as someone who hadn't played the games only heard of them and it got me to play the first one and wanting to play the second one, but idk if I'm an outlier here
There are dozens of us!
@caruusel The 2nd one, in my opinion, is way better. But I don't hate the first one. It's decent, 7.5/10 IMO. The 2nd one is easily a 9.5/10. Just very different genres of games.
This is my comfort video. I come back here a lot. You're really funny but really informative, and it's nice to watch and nice to have on in the background. I guess I'm just saying I really like this video.
Man, what a great retrospective for one of my favourite games. I will admit that I have a soft spot for the first one since I liked the atmosphere, gameplay and specially dialogue a lot more than the sequel. But they are both great games on their own rights. Here's hoping for The Evil Within 3.
"forget about Ruvik" ring any bells? that's the sequel telling you to forget about the original. not to mention the scene where TEW2 Sebastian shoots TEW1 Sebastian in the head. it's disgusting.
@@arsenii_yavorskyi I don’t understand how you got that from Sebastian shooting his past self. That was to represent him “letting go” of his past trauma. Dude went through HELL back in beacon, but never faced it until he had to be put through it again. Especially during the part when you go after Theadore and Sebastian is deciding to fight his fears. Fighting the monsters from the original.
I really liked evil within 2, I would be curious to see it’s gameplay updates from the second game, but they clearly looked like they ran out of story material by the end of the second game, so maybe it’s better we don’t get another game
These are my exact thoughts about this series. Did we just become best friends?
@@arsenii_yavorskyi how tf did you even manage to be so wrong ?
Every year I put on my silly clown makeup and go “oh man THIS is the year we get TEW3!” It feels like an incomplete (but incredible!) trilogy. I’ve always felt like the sequel was a way of writing off Sebastian and giving him the best possible ending while also setting the ground work for something relating to Ruvik and Joseph since they both have a lot of unanswered questions. This is especially true with what Kidman says about Joseph in the sequel if you unlock every Polaroid. I am so desperate for the answers to these questions I want that game SO BADLY.
Oh boy gets 2 sentence of a shot out in the sequel. We really need to know what's up with him in a 3rd one omg .
Well with Tango Gameworks being shut down, I can sadly say that we’ll most likely never get another Evil Within game
It's always possible the rights for it could be bought, isnt it?
@@Simply_better22343Microsoft owns it. They bought Bethesda. They just shut down the studio for no reason whatsoever.
@@redtail564not no reason, Ghostwire didn’t do well. They could have another studio make it
They were saved
the algorithm absolutely slayed by recommending me this. such an incredible retrospective for a game series that has intrigued me for years, you're killing it
Christ I just saw this only has 5.7K views. Like, that’s a really great number, it’s just that the quality had me thinking it would be in the hundred thousands for a retrospective like this. Such a great video! I hope you have other ideas for essays or retrospectives, I look forward to whatever comes next. You are going to blow up at some point.
Watching this days after Tango closes :(
Fuckin sucks man. I just want a game with kidman teaming up with joseph to fight ruvik.
ruvik didn't kill Leslie he switched his personality and memories with him effectively taking Leslie's place. not seeing him show up with the new body in 2 was a little disappointing.
I mean I wouldn't be surprised if ever a part 3 happens does he appear, I honestly think Joseph would make a good main character
If you think about it, Sebastian kills Leslie because he crushes Ruviks brain.
@lunanyx8592 that is the implication which is kinda fucked up.
@@Kierawolf Kidman tells Leslie that he didn't deserve this. If Seb really does kill Leslie, Kidman's words are even more tragic.
In my head I had a crazy theory that Kidman was Sebastians daughter, and that she has been missing for 20 years and she was raised INSIDE of Stem. but the second game removed any chance of that but I think it would have been an insane twist.
Criminally underrated channel!! A fantastic video man, glad to have found you!
Dude.
Just got through this video in one sitting as I worked today and you instantly deserved a sub from me.
I'm not one of those "How haven't you reached a mil subs yet?" people mostly cause I suppose we can all agree it's cause of the algorhythm, but I'm certainly happy it lead me to you cause it certainly made my day.
Now, on the topic of Joseph being the protagonist of TEW3, I'd say it's a *great* idea. Seb's story is pretty much closed at this point. He's happy to have his daughter back and start a new life... Altho I'm not quite sure if it's good for it to be set outside of STEM entirely this time. Maybe you can use some strange form of PTSD as a catalyst for 3's story and have The Haunted and other freaks of nature appear as apparitions, but all those nonsensical changes in the environment followed with monsters 5 times larger than you would be nigh impossible to explain if the game took place in the real world instead of STEM.
Either way, fantastic video. Looking forward on future stuff, no matter the length
Man hopes this blows up Like your other videos, this was so well made and was a joy to watch
My youtube recommendations have been full of small channels like yourself dropoing banger videos. I'm all for it. Keep up the great work
Such a well done retrospective! Must have taken you forever to write and edit this. You deserve so many more views for this!
There are thousands of channels all talking about video games. It gets old.
Thank you yeah it was a struggle but honestly the feeling of looking at a completed video is something else. Doing these let’s me really say my peace on these games and as someone who gets pretty obsessed with these worlds it’s amazing to just feel like “Yeah I think I’m done with this game now” after a finishing a video.
@@frauleinhohenzollern You’re kind of implying here that since there are a lot of people doing a thing that no individuals have anything unique to offer. It’s like saying there’s a lot of rock bands and that makes all rock bands boring.
I’d say if you’re either tired of this content or not interested in it then it’s either not for you or you should take a breather from watching it for a while.
A lot of times with big channels it doesn't even cross my mind to comment or like the videos. Not because they don't deserve it, but because I figure they already have so much it won't make much difference
That's what I was thinking halfway through this video until I realized that you're a pretty small (though a few thousand is nothing to scoff at) channel
Pretty shocking. This video is super well done. Definitely got a new subscriber from me
Thank you. I’ve always assumed that as long as my quality stays high then eventually I’ll rise to a level that’s reflective of it. But until then I just gotta keep it up and people like you make it a lot easier :)
Wow! I've always been looking for like a proper documentary style video for this game, this suffices my quench for the same. Thanks mate!
Just a bit of info my man , Laura actually survived the Barn fire , she only died later, however Ruvik never found out.
Also awesome video bro 👍👍
Where does it mention that?
@@Abe_linc it’s in one of the news paper/notes , Laura was in a vegetative state at the hospital, but the doctor decided to tell the family that she died , which she later did.
havent watched full video and i dont know if i find time to finish it but still want to appreciate small channels like you producing quality content like this, keep up the good work!
the pacing in the video is excellent and so addictive, now im sure i will finish it, real good job on this one - it's same quality as million sub channels if not better!
Never played Evil Within but this was a fun watch. I enjoy the super long passionate video essays and you could definitely feel the passion you have for EW1 and EW2 through the vid. Good watch! 😁
Not gonna lie, my wife was watching me play 1 and 2 and she was into the story with me and when Kidman said "there's a third choice" I yelled out "Fuck you, that's my choice!" That little sync up in dialogue felt pretty good because we were both really hype and started laughing as it happened.
and then she went off to play with Tyrone
Hoping that one day this video will pop off, cuz DANG, i could really tell how much you love this series with the amount of effort you put into this (also by making sure you got footage of you killing the Sebastian and Joseph duo in the DLC. I can imagine the rage). I only knew about the original Evil Within and liked it okay, but i felt like it had wasted potential with the stuff you mentioned (plot coherency being the biggest one). So it makes me elated that Evil Within 2 was an improvement overall (and low key makes me wanna buy/play it). But i thoroughly enjoyed the deep dive, man! Don’t ever worry about a video being “too long” if it’s something you’re genuinely passionate about, cuz i was so engrossed that the three hours just flew by. Excited for whatever you’re gonna make next!
(Also my vote is the Lego Atlantis lore I’m just saying)
i could never get through the evil within so this was so awesome! can’t wait to see more from you in the future!
Its a fine game to witness third hand.. but slogging through it yourself and you can feel the mechanics grind at you.
WE NEED A EVIL WITHIN 3 I NEED IT
Absolutely agree love the series and the safe head guy
Honestly... I wish he'd saved his wife too.
Bad news, Microsoft closed down the studio that made those games.
@@bijfelix8343 I know what a sad day
Video game crash part 2 is coming so we are just going to miss out on so much shit now.
WHAT. A. VIDEO.
That was fantastic, couldn't get enough of it !
Thanks for your work. Can't imagine the amount of effort and time you put in this video ! It was perfect !
I have watched let’s plays of this game multiple times and I still did not fully understand the Ruvik shit until you explained it (so well, btw!!!). Thank you for this excellent retrospective! Subscribed!
"he eat that shit for breakfast!" so damn glad that my boy Joseph is honored like this
these are my absolute favorite types of videos, and you did it so well and comprehensively out of a notoriously comprehensive game
55:42 If I had a nickel for every time that Sebastian teleported, I'd have two nickels. Which is not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I hope Tango is able to go back to this series one day. I'm terrible at playing it but I am quite fond of it for what it does
Yeah but M$ owns Bethesda and the game would probably be woke and not up to standards, like all of M$'s other recent trash. Is Shinji even at Tango anymore?
@@TexasHollowEarthYou don't know what "woke" means.
@@TexasHollowEarth Shinji left, I believe. Apparently Microsoft was close to cancelling Hi-Fi Rush so I don't really blame him for not wanting to be involved if that's the case.
@@TexasHollowEarth
And you are right. Microsoft literally killed Tango Gameworks.
@@Brianna_Q And you do?
This was a delightful retrospective on a game I've never played. I'm a Joseph stan now. Thank you 😌
Ive never seen even a photo of these games before, I woke up and this was playing, and now i love the evil within
Damn, TH-cam is brutal to recommended this to me after Tango's closure. Would have loved Evil Within 3, sad we will never see it now.
I just finished this game and I absolutely adore it despite its flaws. Huge props to you for putting this insane amount of effort into this vid 🙌🏻
i really enjoyed this video!! i’ve never heard about the Evil Within franchise before but i’m glad this was my introduction. the pacing and editing in this video is very well done and i can’t even imagine the effort that was put into this!! i’m excited to see more from this channel
what an amazing video, watched the whole thing. The Evil Within will always have a special place in my heart, it was such a fun time when it first came out too. maybe one day we'll see it again, who knows!
Absolutely adored Evil Within 1. Bought the art book and everything. The story was sick if you gave it time, the atmosphere and graphical fidelity was and still is incredible.
Another game that gets undue and uncalled for hate.
Such a shame. At least many gave the second a crack despite it being less focussed in alot of areas.
I've seen a few reviews / retrospectives on this series, and I really enjoyed hearing your perspective on it. This must've taken forever. Great work!
dude, that editing in the running sequence at the end of Evil Within 2 was beautiful. excellent job there :)
This is a great video but i personally disagree a little with a few things.
In the first game Sebastian just sort of ending up in random areas makes sense with what stem is and i really enjoy the surrealism of it, it makes it feel like a dream. If anything evil within doesnt do enough with what stem is. Conceptually you can do just about anything with it.
I dont think evil within 3 should drop stem. Its been awhile but if i remember correctly the dialouge about Joseph being alive i think implied he was still in Stem.
The way i see Stem is like a brain with there being a conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. I figured joseph and myra were stuck somewhere in the sub or unconscious.
I think that could be a really interesting setting for a game.
I will say I am completely biased though I fucking LOVE surrealism and want more surrealist games
Y'know what? I thought this was just going to be good background noise, as I've already listened to a few several hour long videos on the two games and the DLC. I ended up dropping what I was doing to just watch directly. Thank you for all the hard work you did, this was pretty darn good.
Well done restrospective, i played the 1st evil within 1 after 2, and 2nd game genuinelly is one of my all time favorites, the gameplay just hits the right notes, i love the music, and little hiccups here and there dialog vise, i have nothing but fond memories, was a blast to achiveement hunt to 100%, you earned my sub sir.
Agreed
Thanks. Happy to have you onboard! The second game is really what made me take a second look at the first and really I think they tie together in a fantastic package.
Btw. Do you have any game requests for me to cover? I've got a list to work through right now but It never hurts to have another one in the bank :)
Just wanted to thank you for a video full of fantastic entertainment and information. You always make extremely enjoyable and high quality videoes. You deserve so many views and I will definitely continue staying with your channel
I honestly love the chapter where you go to Ruvik's mansion. Every time the screen turned blue and made that weird noise, my anxiety started going through the roof!
Had to pause after the colored box shooting sequence because gamers: we all felt that in that moment. The frustration, the boredom, the anger and the absolute high after finally being done with it.
15 Joseph's/10
how the hell do you have only 15k subs, this content is immaculate
FINALLY getting around to watching this video and holy shit we had the same introduction to the series... children freaked out but immediately fascinated by seeing the game at EB rise up
okay dead silent study hall and i have to bite back laughter holy shit you're funny
@@glitchygutz Haha yeah honestly most the stuff that terrified me as a kid is now some of my favourite media. Thanks for watching the video man.
@@B4BrandossOG hell yeah! enjoying this a lot, you clearly put a lot of work into it and it's fantastic to hear someone delve deeply into the lore that's so damn underdiscussed!
Excellent video on one of my favorite games man you definitely deserve more subs especially for this amount of effort
Came for the evil within, subscribed just to get you to your lego power miners goal because of how excited you were about it
Crazy the fact the nurse was a real person the entire time.
Thanks for reminding me about this game. It brought back some fond memories of mine.
Played the first evil within because my dad had a game informer magazine and the art looked cool and gruesome. Played it and enjoyed it mostly. Years later when I was 18 or 19 I went to gamestop and saw the second one. I was very very pleased with the gameplay! Started my first playthrough on the hard difficulty and I LOVED IT. That first major zone took me hours but by the end of the game I was a monster. I still remember I had the windows open on a summer night and was stealth killing those foggy crying guys twice just to save ammo. Great vid by the way! Subbed.
What a massive missed opportunity to not instead have 2 sebastians walk out as the final boss for the keeper in reference to the 2 keepers at the end of the maingame
This hits harder after the closure news
It's some of the hardest cope I've ever huffed but I like to think of Sebastion's stamina as a representation of his mental state whenever he's entered into STEM.
In the first game, he's kinda like, barely got anything going for him-
Wife gone, daughter gone, reported to IA by his best friend.
The ONLY good thing is that he's starting to mend the bridge with Joseph and Kidman is like, a sort of protoge.
I can't imagine his mental state is very good going into the first game. At best, he's just going through the motions.
And then in the second game, right before he's put back in, he's given the brightest, shiniest beacon of hope.
"Hey lmaooo that whole daughter death thing? We got your ass good. She's still alive, but we need you to get her back."
Imagine that, THE thing that ruined his life, and he's given a second chance to fix it.
I doubt he really trusts mobios to let him get away from it all afterwards, but I think he'd be willing to go through it all for just the chance to save Lily.
So like, his mental still probably isn't GREAT, but he's just been given the best bait of his life, and I imagine that really puts a lot off focus into his mind.
Thank you for coming to today's discussion.
ALSO GOOD VID IM SORRY THE AUTISM TOOK HOLD
A 3 hour video of my favorite horror game series? Subscribed just for that
Thanks! That officially makes you my 8000th Subscriber!
I loved the Evil Within! I’m on my second rewatch of this video, you did an amazing job covering the series
frickin LOVE the evil within and it's at times goofiness and I'm so happy someone covered it all in a way that is super entertaining to watch, I hope this video blows up someday!
God damn, 1:25:53 just made me bray like a fkn donkey 😂
I thought the part with: "...it's NOT. You fuckin _know_ that!" got me good but then that "ew!" just did me all the way in.
So happy to have found your channel and I can't wait to see when the masses do too and punt it straight into the stratosphere because this.shit.is.gooood.
I enjoy the randomness and jarring change to scenery. Reminds me of what it’s like being in a dream. When I think about my dreams, I never remember how I got to point A to B. Even if it’s the slightest change from the kitchen to the bathroom of my house. I don’t remember walking or opening a door. I’d just be standing in front of the mirror in a second.
The first evil within always will be a wonderful game to me
This is my favorite kind of content, great video man
It's a rainy day and I'm working from home and the YT algorithm gifts me with a +3hr video essay on one of my favorite games I played as a teen, hell yes! (how Sebastian would say it after good score in the shooting range)
Edit: Now that I've watched the entire video I am so happy to see some love given to this franchise after Bethesda and Tango Gameworks have discarded it. When you mentioned Resident Evil Allusions/References in TEW I can't believe you didn't mention the shot of Haunted Connoley turning around like the very first zombie in RE. But no When you were talking about the potential for TEW3 I thought for sure you'd mention Sykes and if he escaped STEM or descended even further. Whatever direction they take next if TEW3 gets made will for sure focus more on STEM. If Alan Wake can get a sequel after this long then so can TEW. Either way great video!
Hell yeah, my night just got a whole lot better! Love these longer videos
I really loved this! These games have always been special to me, flaws and all. Excellent deep dive and I will definitely check out your other content
i love the original, hate part 2. it ruined everything that made the original special. the original had a better story, better characters, better villain, better environments, and way better boss fights.
i never understood how people could say 2 improves on the original in every way. i lost interest in this video after 2 minutes, i have no interest in listening to someone try to convince me 2 is better in every possible way when i will never believe that.
i have played through the first game at least 10 times, and it never gets old for me. i played through 2 once, years ago, and never once had the urge to replay it. i would love nothing more than to have 2 the evil within games to replay instead of 1, but 2 is just not replayable to me in the slightest. nothing about it keeps me hooked like everything about the original does.
@@Jack_80 dude it does not ruin everything, your just stupendously dense
When Sebastian stomped on the brain at the end evil within one my thermos irl fell on me. His kick was so powerful it made its way out of my phone and shook my thermos
Hey man, great vid! I can't say I agree with all of your points (I like the first game more and those filler levels, although very accurately named, were still fun for me to play), but this was incredibly thorough and you really cleared up the story of the 1st game for me. I couldn't complete TEW 1.5 because, as you said, the gameplay was bad lol. Anyway cheers bro, this was 3 hours well spent!
Thanks for watching broski. One of my favourite parts of doing TH-cam is seeing others opinions on the games I cover. It’s a cool reminder that games mean different things to different people. So it’s fine that you don’t agree with my thoughts on the first one since that means you see something within it that I maybe don’t. Which I find pretty exciting. No matter how in-depth I go on games there can always be another angle to them.
Anyways thx for watching again. Glad I was able to give you some more insight into the world.
While I don't agree with all of your points, the shooting gallery minigame one especially, it was insanely easy for me, I do like your way of interpretation and explaining you did throughout, loved every second of it, thanks, subscribed, checking your other content.
God, I think this is gonna be one of my favorite videos of all time! Evil within is literally like my favorite series!
One my favorite references to resident evil. What is the scene where the cop was eating the guy because that was a reference to the very first resident evil zombie
And of course, another favorite reference I like is the one from silent hill, which is literally just how the keeper literally almost similar to pyramid head.
Also, if you’re wondering how to counter the invisible haunted, actually think it has something to do with the light I think of your stance going to put the light on it you’ll actually see it I remember doing that at some point it actually worked. I don’t think you need to stand still, but it helps.
Also, the crossbow has this interesting fact that if you pre-order the game, you got two extra powers for the crossbow, poison and fire I remember getting in my Xbox but ever since then I never got it again it was really fun to experiment with too.
that happens right at the beginning in the tent that Sebastian first comes upon
Outstanding video. I would like to commend you for the sheer effort you put into this video especially that this is no longer monetized to show a moment so important to Seb's arc. I am so happy someone finally went so in-depth to this franchise I grew up with. To me, the second really brought everything together where I thought the original's story was just nonsensical without the Kidman DLC. Looking forward to future videos my dude, you won a subscriber here.
Yooo, so glad TH-cam put this in my recommended, absolute banger. Hope that means you've been blessed by the algorithm overlords, you certainly deserve it
So glad this came up on my recs, it was an awesome video. So in-depth and funny - the memes made me laugh every time. Amazing work!
Absolutely love both games and it’s a shame people don’t like them
I get people's issues with the first one. The horror elements were solid but the actual gameplay flipflops between being vaguely passable and an awkward slog.
EW2 is just outright good. I dunno why people don't like it. It's a little less scary I guess, but the gameplay loop is great and fixes all the problems the original had.
People didn't like it?! Wtf
Please make more content on whatever it is, this the evil within was everything and beyond I could ask for as a retrospective this by far is the best content on TH-cam there is
Thanks! I've got some stuff cooking. Any suggestions for games you would like to see covered?
I absolutely loved the evil within when I first got it and played it for the first time!!
And then a couple years later when the evil within two came out, I thought it was amazing as well even though it wasn’t as hard core, it was still an amazingly scary game!
I still got my fingers crossed for a third one…
it's a shame im just now seeing this!!!
this video is awesome already, im really picky with people's speaking inflections and tones and whatnot and i really enjoy yours!!
I remember having to play the first one again just to go back and fill in the details about the story
Man this is a great fucking essay on this franchise. I feel like not a lot of people go deeper into the story of TEW taking everything into consideration, and even more so now years later when the fans of these games have reduced, so it was pretty satisfying seeing a video truly dedicated into analysing the story and the gameplay as well. I could only find people either complaining about the first game and praising the second or people complaining about the second game and praising the first without giving them both the fair credit of what they bring to the table, each with their own pros and cons but still standing strong by themselves.
TEW was one of my first survival horror games that I played, but I also left it behind half way through the first game and only recently I picked it up again lmao. I'm glad that I did that now, because I can see the charm this franchise has even with all its flaws and quirkiness. To me, going through these games felt like deciphering a love letter to not only the classic survival horror games, but to the whole genre in general with its references to horror movies and maybe books as well (for example, I could see some of its campiness coming straight from the famous soap movies "Saw" or the fact that Ruvik's brain was trapped in a machine simulating a body that kept him alive but made him incapable to move in a quite "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" fashion). The whole Mobius thing continuing up to the second game could be inspired from 1984 as well (it was funny seeing you confuse "O'Neal" with "O'Brien" too 😭), but maybe I'm just associating things that could be connected by mere coincidence.
There's some things that you said in the first two parts that left me confused though. When you're explaining Ruvik's background in around 30:07, you express that he created STEM in order to access his own mind and bring Laura back, but I don't know if this is what he aimed to do at first. There was a newspaper in the game that said that Laura had survived the fire but was in a vegetative state and Ruben's father kept that information from him, so Ruben thought she was dead until he discovers this after killing his parents. He had been experimenting before when he was a child, seeking for animal's fear or some freaky shit like that, but I think he developed STEM when he found out his sister was still alive and tried to bring her back through that, even if she passed away later on. It is stated that he had a complicated relationship with his father too like you said, and if I remember correctly it was because his father envied the close relationship Ruben had with Laura...? And after the fire he locked him up because he was embarrassed of him...? Man this family. Anyways. I'm not certain about this but that is what I gathered.
There's something about the posters that I agree it's strange. At first I believed that Joseph's poster was there because time in STEM is weird and maybe it showed the consequence of him disappearing in the real world after all those events? Maybe the twisted time in STEM connected Sebastian shooting himself in the first game with the future where Sebastian of the second game shooted his past Sebastian (woah). But this was bonkers. Sebastian shooting his past self was purely symbolic. The time thingy is barely used as a plot line and it's just mentioned. It makes less sense when you see Sebastian's missing poster too. Then I thought it was just to show all the people who was connected in the STEM and it was just a funny way to say this is how they would end up in the real world if they stayed trapped in there. It's still weird seeing the mix up between real missing people and the cast that was in the STEM for... 37 minutes? Damn.
Another thing is that in 1:01:44, you say that the massacre in Beacon Hospital wasn't exclusive to STEM, but wasn't the massacre staged by Mobius instead of one of Ruvik's doings? I remember the Administrator telling Kidman something about this before she was injected with some liquid at the beginning of her DLC, and this was done so she could take Leslie in the middle of that investigation, or so was the plan told to her. But it's still strange when the first thing we see is Ruvik killing the cops and we assume this was all his doing.
Also, Marcelo's smug attitude when he lets Mobius take Ruben away could be seen as strange, but to defend that a bit he did clarify in his voice messages that he thought Mobius would take Ruben in order to fix STEM and not to tear him apart and take his brain... which is actually foolish if you think about it. He was working with a shady organization and suddenly he didn't think that could've happened. Wow. Instances like these makes me feel better about joking with Marcelo's name in spanish (we joke around with this name and rhyme "Marcelo agachate y conocelo", which literally would mean "Marcelo get down and meet it" - basically Marcelo suck a dick), he's a bit dumb. I could understand if he felt quite close to Ruvik since he was the one who accepted him and followed him through his experiments and was shocked to see him like that, but having zero awareness of the outcome when he was messing with Mobius... well.
Either way, whether there's some points I agree or not, this video took me on a rollercoaster and made me appreciate the games more. I loved what you said about Sebastian and Kidman's relationship being similar to one of a father and daughter, which I haven't considered before even when appreciating the bond they formed at the end of TEW 2. It also felt disappointing seeing no symbolism for the monsters even though I loved their designs, specially Myra. Maybe they were trying to make a call-back to Ruvik with her clothes or maybe even making her some sort of "Virgin Mary", but it only made things a bit confusing.
I hope we can see TEW 3 soon. Just by seeing everyone fantasizing about it you can notice there's so much they can do and improve with this potential game that would establish it as a solid horror franchise. Will Ruvik come back as Leslie and complete its "revenge" to the world? What was that limbo mentioned in Syke's substory? Did Syke ever make it out alive in the real world or did he end up trapped? Could Joseph be trapped in the STEM as well? What about "the lost"? Why were the people inside the STEM beginning to change this time? And so on.
Anyways, sorry for the long comment. I got a bit excited when seeing this video in the morning and now I'm writing this at night after having many thoughts about it. TEW has many details that is possible to talk forever about them, I even discovered a couple more things thanks to this video. Great job in piercing a lot of it together and making a coherent video man, I really liked your insights about the story and the gameplay. Keep it up 😁😁
Found you’re channel through fear retrospective now I’m hooked
I cant help it I see a long videos about games I instantly open them and like them❤ time to make my night shift sprint by thanks to your video!
I loved evil within series it was freaking fantastic in my opinion.
I absolutely love these long form reviews. If you made more I'll watch them
I couldn't believe it when I saw you have "only" 5k+ subscribers (which is a lot, but still). The quality of this video is amazing, it's funny and at the memes are few and hilarious :)
The first game has a special place in my heart. Never played it myself but a friend of mine and her sister were absolute HARDCORE fans of this game and I spent whole nights at their place watching them play while drawing, drinking coke and talking about the lore.
There are way too few new IPs these days that manage to get me excited anymore. And with all the obvious flaws with the gameplay, the lore and everything, or maybe even because of these campy flaws, it was just so refreshing and fun to get to know the lore, watch lets players play through it and read about theories online.
Dude, this video took a ton of work. Great job.
I remember being able to hide from Ruvik on my first playthrough under the dining room table and in one of the bedroom closets. I assume it's difficulty level that will determine whether he finds you or not. But I would always just loop him in the main hall in subsequent playthroughs when he spawned.
I liked your retrospective. I’m one of the people who prefer TEW2 over TEW1 but both games are great in their own ways
Same I thought 2 was an improvement in almost every aspect and Sebastian felt more like a hunter while still being completely vulnerable. Part 1 was great too though.
I don’t know anything about this game but I watched the whole thing and you got me interested in what you had to say.
Thanks I'm glad I was able to introduce you to the series!
Hey Brando, loving these long retrospective vids. Keep em coming!
A tip for the invisible enemies that I learned from a playthrough vid, use a flash bolt on them to make them visible and vulnerable to an execution.
👏🏻Standing Ovations👏🏻 for this absolutely amazing piece of content you made about a really great game "series" - appreciated the time and work you must've put into this and it's definetely worth a sub,if not even more. Thank you a lot for this 3 hours 16 minutes masterpiece🤘🏻🎩🍻cheers,good sir...
Awe love you too best three hours I spent in a long time, and honestly a Joseph EW3 would be stellar, I bought both games but never finished them, just like I slept so hard on the Mass Effect series but I think I'll be checking in at old Beacon Hill real soon