The Evil Within 2

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8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2245 Ratings

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  1. GilsonHlatki
    Jun 6, 2023
    4
    Jogo fraco, sem ritmo e com vilões chatos, nada carismáticos, não se comparam nem um pouco com o jogo anterior
  2. HonestReviews66
    May 24, 2023
    0
    Played this back in the day when it came out, and played it again recently (after replaying The Evil Within One) after it came out and PlayStation Plus. I appreciate that they took the time to release an update which improved the resolution and frame rate. Other than that, I hate this game. Not because it's a terrible game in its own right per se. But having replayed the original EvilPlayed this back in the day when it came out, and played it again recently (after replaying The Evil Within One) after it came out and PlayStation Plus. I appreciate that they took the time to release an update which improved the resolution and frame rate. Other than that, I hate this game. Not because it's a terrible game in its own right per se. But having replayed the original Evil Within, which I thought was a stellar game even by today's standards, I simply wanted 'more of the same but a little bit better,' which is what any good sequel should be for any movie or game. However, has has been stated in numerous reviews this game has a new director. Unfortunately he has thrown 90% of the original Evil Within into the trash can and this game is only 'The Evil Within' by name, but not by nature. Everything is different. It's now an open world game. Writing this in 2023, I'm bored of open world games. The original was a masterpiece. This is just another average game. Not scary at all, not exciting (a lot of walking around and collecting stuff), no super memorable bosses or bad guys. It basically becomes a case of following the icons on a map, much like most modern ubisoft games, and exploring houses along the way if you wish to. I don't. A massive disappointment.… Expand
  3. Leonhalt
    Jul 24, 2022
    0
    The worst sequel I've ever played. The story is just boring and not related to the first game at all. Even Sebastian is so different from the first game. The villains are all weak and boring. The gameplay lacks qualities. Such a disappointment.
  4. TheGame_Reviews
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    Very cheap sequel to one one of the best modern horror games (The Evil Within). I have almost never (thanks to last of us part II) been so disappointed in a part 2 of any video game. I wouldn't even call this a horror game, because it's simply not scary. All the cool different locations that you visited in first game are gone and now you are in boring semi-open world map, trying to hideVery cheap sequel to one one of the best modern horror games (The Evil Within). I have almost never (thanks to last of us part II) been so disappointed in a part 2 of any video game. I wouldn't even call this a horror game, because it's simply not scary. All the cool different locations that you visited in first game are gone and now you are in boring semi-open world map, trying to hide from some random monsters that roam around. Hopefully The Evil Within 3 (if it ever happens) will be way more like first game. As of right now i'm just ignoring the fact that this second game exists and just playing The Evil Within 1, while waiting for true sequel for that game.… Expand
  5. HioriK
    Feb 1, 2022
    0
    Sadly, this game is not as fun or interesting as the first game. We can clearly feel that they ran out of time, money and ideas in the development.
  6. Never342
    Jan 15, 2022
    0
    The first game was way better in terms of story, atmosphere and enemy designs. The story of this game is terrible, it retcons the first game so much. Some main characters from TEW1 are not even mentioned, which is so weird and unsatisfying. Save your daughter storyline is really lazy and boring. It’s like a cliche movie from 80s. None of the antagonists in this game have interestingThe first game was way better in terms of story, atmosphere and enemy designs. The story of this game is terrible, it retcons the first game so much. Some main characters from TEW1 are not even mentioned, which is so weird and unsatisfying. Save your daughter storyline is really lazy and boring. It’s like a cliche movie from 80s. None of the antagonists in this game have interesting backstory like Ruvik. And it really offended me that TEW2 treated almost all of women characters so badly. Buy The Evil Within 1 instead.… Expand
  7. LegoBatman
    Dec 12, 2021
    0
    It's simply bad, way worse than first game, idk what happened, but this is pure action. If first game was like RE4, then this game is like RE6.
  8. Cool_Gamer99
    Dec 12, 2021
    0
    Way worse than first game. I have finished first game over 10 times, but could hardly push myself to finish second game. It was so boring. All the horror elements were gone, semi-open world was awful idea, unique locations from first game was way better. It's so obvious that this game had different director. Hopefully Evil Within 3 will be better (if they even make it).
  9. Deux67xues
    Dec 6, 2021
    0
    Seriously, this game is a really bad sequel... The first game had such a good foundation for the future of this franchise and like, Evil Within 2 just threw it into the trash can.
  10. Halo4Forever
    Nov 30, 2021
    0
    Worse than first game in every way possible, only people who like this are people who actually don't like horror.
  11. Electrosw
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    This game is a downgrade from the first one in every way. Like a weaker sequel of Silent Hill Downpour. The “open” map wasn’t well made. The writing was one of the worst ones I’ve seen in video games.
  12. beautifulforest
    Oct 11, 2021
    0
    + smoother gameplay than 1.

    - boring antagonists. - worse level design than 1. - too stealth heavy. - horrible scripts and voice acting. - doesn't follow up the first game's storyline. - Sebastian being a whiny bastard, who doesn't really care about anyone. - tropy, male-centric, terrible writing that white American dudes would love. Seriously, overprotective and selfless mother    + smoother gameplay than 1.

    - boring antagonists.
    - worse level design than 1.
    - too stealth heavy.
    - horrible scripts and voice acting.
    - doesn't follow up the first game's storyline.
    - Sebastian being a whiny bastard, who doesn't really care about anyone.
    - tropy, male-centric, terrible writing that white American dudes would love. Seriously, overprotective and selfless mother figure of Myra was really outdated I can't believe this came out in 2017.
    - overall really really soulless.    … Expand
  13. houxh
    Oct 6, 2021
    0
    Loved the first game, hated this game. The first one had better bosses, story and overall environment. In this game everything feels like a toned down version of the first one. part 2 is not even survival horror, it's just a generic action game.

    I've seen someone says this game is rather like a fan-fiction than a sequel, and sadly it's true.
  14. nanakobagu53
    Oct 1, 2021
    0
    I think most of the people who loved the first game would hate this game. Both the gameplay and story were worse than the original. They did very weird characterization of Sebastian in this game, he doesn’t feel like human or the same person as the first game.
  15. 02450ephiz
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    One of the worst games of last gen, this game changed so much from the first game in the worst way, which is why this game didn't sell well. It's less stressful than the first game, that is good I guess, but any other aspects of this game is such a letdown from the first game. The gameplay is like The Last of Us but terrible, the story is like a bad Hollywood movie and none of theOne of the worst games of last gen, this game changed so much from the first game in the worst way, which is why this game didn't sell well. It's less stressful than the first game, that is good I guess, but any other aspects of this game is such a letdown from the first game. The gameplay is like The Last of Us but terrible, the story is like a bad Hollywood movie and none of the characters are interesting.… Expand
  16. Nighy
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    I think this game takes itself too seriously. where should I start… well, the first problem is the protagonist. It feels like they wanted to give Seb more personality than the first game, but they definitely failed to do that. EW2 Seb is just a garbage character, who isn't very realistic and feels like anime in a bad way. I cringed at some of his overacting and cheesy lines. And he isn'tI think this game takes itself too seriously. where should I start… well, the first problem is the protagonist. It feels like they wanted to give Seb more personality than the first game, but they definitely failed to do that. EW2 Seb is just a garbage character, who isn't very realistic and feels like anime in a bad way. I cringed at some of his overacting and cheesy lines. And he isn't even good as a sad-dad protag. I feel that devs emphasized his sad-dadness in this game to make him more human and to make players be sorry for him(I remember one of the developers in tango proudly tweeted like "This game's Sebastian is daddy Sebastian!" on twitter before the game was released), but he isn't really a good dad in this game. His character is very poorly written and poorly developed. This game's Sebastian enjoys shooting game while he searches for his daughter, he is such type of dad. Despite that the devs tries really hard to show us some emotional moments between him and his daughter. I was like just no. I don't care about Sebastian as a dad. I don't care about Lily, who is also poorly-written. Seriously **** The Evil Within 2, I don't care for you at all. Give us back the great first game. Just bring back Ruvik, Leslie and Joseph. Don't ever abandon your own game and characters again.… Expand
  17. 158_cogi_to_
    Sep 15, 2021
    0
    complete mess of a game. the story and the pacing is all over the place, the characters are utter trash and the open-world section is completely meaningless. I tried to like it cuz I loved the first game, but just couldn't. disappointing really.
  18. luminous15cf
    Jul 24, 2021
    0
    Well…this game is a very disappointing sequel isn't it? First of all, why this game's Sebastian feels like a completely different person from the TEW1? Not only does he looks like a younger brother to TEW1 Seb, TEW2 Seb has such weak and terrible personality compared to the first game. For example, in this game Sebastian only cares about Lily, who is a very poorly-written daughter of him.Well…this game is a very disappointing sequel isn't it? First of all, why this game's Sebastian feels like a completely different person from the TEW1? Not only does he looks like a younger brother to TEW1 Seb, TEW2 Seb has such weak and terrible personality compared to the first game. For example, in this game Sebastian only cares about Lily, who is a very poorly-written daughter of him. Except Lily, he literally leave all the people to die, including Myra, who is also poorly-written wife of him. It feels like they intendedly made Sebastian into a SAD DILF and emphasized his daddy aspect in this game, to get sympathy from players, but like… no? Like why should I care about such **** daddy character, who doesn't care about people around him? I couldn't care for him at all, I even ended up hating TEW2 Sebastian. He is supposed to be a likable dad character, maybe, but no he was just cruel, weak, whiny and weird character.

    It also felt weird that Sebastian keeps getting hurt mentally because of the fact he couldn't save Lily from the fire, even after he found out that Lily had been actually ALIVE. In the first place, the fire was apparently NOT his fault. But for some reason he keeps blaming himself, endlessly saying "It's all my fault". Like this doesn't really work as a characterization of Sebastian. It's just bad writing. It feels like devs tried to hurt Sebastian by any means, again in order to get sympathy from players, but I think they could've done better than that terrible writing.

    And other characters were also written very poorly. As I mentioned above, Lily and Myra, who are supposed to be very important characters and Sebastian's emotional motivation, don't really work as characters nor emotional hook. Both characters are unbelievably shallow and not so different from the background information, as they were in TEW1. Especially Lily, like is she really a main character? She was utterly unmemorable and I couldn't care for her during the entire playthrough. And Myra… she at least had some personality, but was really weak as a character. She is just, a very selfless mom who takes all the **** for her family. To be honest I was a bit surprised to see such old-fashioned female figure in the game from 2017. It felt like male devs wanted to make an ideal mom character for their own sake. And even though, the final boss (Myra as a monster form) is named MATRIARCH. I thought it was kinda gross way to portray a woman character. Oh and other female characters were also shallow and fell victim to the bad writing. Aside from Kidman and Tatiana, there were two female allies in this game, which itself was good I guess, but both of them just supported and died for Sebastian. It's shame that they failed to write good female characters. At least Kidman was good, but as for her characterization TEW1's DLCs were MUCH better than TEW2.

    Also this game had no memorable villains. In TEW2 players have to fight against three big villains but they were all shallow and didn't have enough backstory. First we have Stefano, a mad murderer artist (such a trope), but his motivation is nothing more than "THIS IS ART!!" and he doesn't have deep personality or backstory at all. And he just vanishes after the first act and never appear. Frankly speaking he is just meaningless to the story. I still don't understand why did I have to fight against him. And the second villain is even worse than Stefano. He is just… a black priest. That's all. He was the most meaningless character in this game, maybe. And finally we have monster-form Myra, who is just a selfless, sadly-became-a-monster-mom. Yes, tropes after tropes. Nothing was unique in this game's boss fights.

    And most importantly, why this game's story is not connected to the first game at all?? In the first game, we had Ruvik, who created STEM and were well-written as a big villain. Leslie was also an important character, who has extraordinary power for STEM system. Both Mobius and Ruvik tried really hard to get Leslie. But in TEW2, both Ruvik and Leslie suddenly vanishes from the main story?? Like they never existed? It was really weird and I felt bad for them. And Joseph's absence in TEW2 was also weird. Him and Seb were portrayed as partners in crime in TEW1, but TEW2 Seb acts like he have never seen Joseph. It was sad to see him being ignored throughout the game (I know about the last slide but it's definitely not enough).

    So just for the story and characterization I have many complaints about this game, but gameplay was also disappointing in TEW2. Sure gameplay got a bit smoother than TEW1, which is an improvement I guess, but other than that… I can't say anything good about the gameplay in TEW2. The enemy AI was dumb and open-world section was just dull. It wasn't tense as the first game and it felt like I'm playing some UBI games. Don't get me wrong I like UBI games, but I don't want such gameplay in Evil Within series.

    So overall. Not recommend.    … Expand
  19. Ourflag
    May 9, 2021
    1
    Probably the worst survival-horror game on PS4. It' not scary, it's not tense. The story is so badly written and the gameplay is boring because all you have to do is stealth. And most importantly, this game doesn't feel like The Evil Within.
  20. Yakumo178
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    Evil Within 2 is a terrible game as a sequel of the Evil Within, it's unbelievably terrible as a closure to Sebastian's story, it's terrible as a family drama, it's terrible as a horror game. Literally NOTHING is good in this game.

    サイコブレイク2ほど酷い続編を自分は他に知りません。まずゲーム性はとにかく平凡、全く特徴がない。オープンワールド風になり探索の楽しさが出たかと思いきや、結局変わり映えのしない街の中をひたすらウロウロするだけですぐに飽きがくるし、だだっ広いマップは正直ホラーとは不釣り合い。終始マジで全く怖くない。    Evil Within 2 is a terrible game as a sequel of the Evil Within, it's unbelievably terrible as a closure to Sebastian's story, it's terrible as a family drama, it's terrible as a horror game. Literally NOTHING is good in this game.

    サイコブレイク2ほど酷い続編を自分は他に知りません。まずゲーム性はとにかく平凡、全く特徴がない。オープンワールド風になり探索の楽しさが出たかと思いきや、結局変わり映えのしない街の中をひたすらウロウロするだけですぐに飽きがくるし、だだっ広いマップは正直ホラーとは不釣り合い。終始マジで全く怖くない。
    何よりも残念なのはストーリー面。今作は「愛する娘を救うため、悪夢に挑め」的なクッソ陳腐な奴で、そこからもうすでに制作側のやる気の無さが感じられる。マジで最後まで陳腐なテーマの枠を出ない。しかも肝心の娘リリー・カステヤノスちゃんのキャラが信じられないくらい薄いのでどう頑張っても感情移入できない。リリーは終始いわゆる「攫われるお姫様」ポジションでしかなく、最後までプレイしても結局どんなキャラなのかよく分からず。それで最後までリリーを救うっていう目的のためだけにダルい戦闘やらされ続けるのは正直キツい。ちなみにセバスチャンのキャラは前作とそう変わらず。前作からセバスチャンのキャラ描写は何も進歩してないんじゃないかな。今作のセバスチャンはとにかく何でもかんでも口に出して喋る、ただ喋るだけ。そこに人間らしさは微塵も感じられない。あと感情の見せ方もわざとらしくて正直見ててムズムズした。サイコブレイク2の演出・セリフの事をcringeって表現してる人結構いるんでこう感じた人は俺以外にも結構いるはず。
    他のキャラクター達の描写も残念ながら全て薄い。2から出てきたキャラは全員特に個性がなく、こっちの愛着が湧く前に退場してしまう。今作からのキャラ、マジで出てきてはすぐ死んでいくので、正直クリア後に何も印象に残らない。ちなみに唯一濃いキャラかと思われたステファノ・ヴァレンティーニも、前作のルヴィクに比べたらやはりキャラとして弱いし、前半で退場してその後は全く出てこない。
    ルヴィクといえば、サイコブレイク2には驚いたことにルヴィク(レスリー)が出てこない。ちなみにジョセフも登場せず。流石にルヴィクとレスリー全く出ないとは思ってなかったんで驚いた。前作の意味は何だったの？w前作はゲーム全体通してルヴィクの物語が描かれていたのに、2でいきなりルヴィク無視してぽっと出のキャラを使った薄っぺらいドラマやり始めたのは何故？ジョセフに関しても、スライドで思わせぶりな演出が入るくせに結局それ以外は最後まで何の言及もなくて草しか生えなかった。マジで何がしたいの？2が何つーか全体的にパッとしないゲームになっちゃってて、売上あんま伸びないであろう事は最初から予想できてたんじゃないですか？それならどう考えてもリリーの話よりルヴィク/レスリーやジョセフの話をやるべきだったんじゃないの？何で前作のメインキャラクターよりも、前作でセバスチャンの手記にしか登場しなかった薄っぺらい妻子の話を優先するんでしょうか？俺には分からないです。前作で描かれたサイコブレイクの物語が文字通りブレイクしてて前作ファンとしては悲しかった。あと看護師タティアナのキャラも崩壊してて何か萎えました。そしてセバスチャンがジョセフのこと大して気にしてなさそうで違和感しかなかった。ジョセフに触れないままセバスチャンの話終わらせるの意味不明。
    あとフィナーレもマジで盛り上がりに欠けてた。正直ラスボスは最初から予想ついてたし。マイラの設定、娘を守りたいがため狂気に侵され…的な陳腐な奴で残念だった。クッソ古臭いし全く面白くない。家族の話なのに肝心の娘と妻が空虚。

    まとめると、サイコブレイク2はサイコブレイク1の続編として最悪、セバスチャンの物語のフィナーレとして最悪、家族ドラマとして最悪、ホラゲーとしても微妙でした。俺はこんな陳腐な形でサイコブレイクシリーズが終わってしまったという悪夢に一生うなされながら生きていこうと思います。    … Expand
  21. Biizz
    Feb 20, 2021
    0
    The first game was good, but this game is not. Overall very boring and uninteresting experience. Not recommended.
  22. clairealcee77
    Feb 14, 2021
    0
    This game is much worse than the original. Honestly one of the worst video game sequels I've ever played.
  23. DeadshotAce
    Aug 26, 2019
    3
    No game should have unavoidable boss attacks. Especially when they take away half your health. And on top of that, it instantly becomes a clip of you being attacked when the boss gets near, making it feel less like a game that I can control. How does that make sense?
  24. Stampede60kk
    Feb 19, 2019
    4
    is that a joke? i played this game after re revelation, re revelation 2, evil within first one, and what i got?... silly plot that start the game.. "-oh your dother with us, bring her to us -ok!" its stupid for my opinion and it's just start. And all that main idea of the game about family and other things that boring. I just want to play Evil within part 2 dammit! after game i saw thatis that a joke? i played this game after re revelation, re revelation 2, evil within first one, and what i got?... silly plot that start the game.. "-oh your dother with us, bring her to us -ok!" its stupid for my opinion and it's just start. And all that main idea of the game about family and other things that boring. I just want to play Evil within part 2 dammit! after game i saw that main director was not japanese and understand why this game not even close to the first one.… Expand
  25. Strumbore
    May 31, 2018
    2
    TEW2 is not worth your time or money.

    Pros: realistically-modeled protagonist Cons: Myriad. The game starts poorly with the protagonist running into his burning house to try and save his doomed daughter, Lilly. Storytelling-101 reminds writers and audiences alike that you should never cold-open in the middle of a tragedy when the characters are unestablished. It turns out that this is    TEW2 is not worth your time or money.

    Pros: realistically-modeled protagonist
    Cons: Myriad. The game starts poorly with the protagonist running into his burning house to try and save his doomed daughter, Lilly. Storytelling-101 reminds writers and audiences alike that you should never cold-open in the middle of a tragedy when the characters are unestablished. It turns out that this is a nightmare our drunken, aged hero is having in a bar. Our protagonist, Sebastian Castellanos, not only looks just like the protagonist Joel from The Last of Us, but he has the same Call-to-Adventure: guilt over a dead daughter.

    Tragic deaths of wives and daughters are routinely used to kick off terrible action movies. No story should be burdened by these cliches, and god have mercy on terrible writers ripping off the least interesting premises of better stories! TEW2 doubles down on these sins by revealing that our protagonist's burn-victim daughter is in a comatose state and has been subversively used by an EVIL CORPORATION to power a virtual reality that has descended into a nightmare. This is the premise of the [also much better, despite latter entries] series, Silent Hill! The convoluted solution to this stupid problem is that the protagonist must go INCEPTION on his daughter and rescue the swat team that is trapped with her.

    There is no way to get invested in a game that rips off the dumbest parts of better games and movies. Beyond the sins of the plot, the main character suffers from Leon S. Kennedy-Syndrome, where he wonders "what the hell is going on?" every 5 minutes for the entire game. Castellanos is committed to making sure the player has no chance to wonder about the setting for themselves because he either wonders for us or another character has to explain everything.

    The gameplay is as boring as the story. Castellanos moves like a tank on a rusty swivel. With the exception of a couple of bosses, enemies are uninteresting. The player is uninvested in the characters so the stakes never feel real and fear never comes, with possible exception of a few jump scares.    … Expand
  26. Branius
    May 31, 2018
    4
    Some people may like this game but I personally hate it. I think that i good game needs to have good graphics, story and gameplay but this game has only good graphics. Story is boring and gameplay is hard and annoying. That is all I am gonna say.
  27. serlionrpg
    May 26, 2018
    0
    Not a survival horror like the first one. Just a f*cking boring endles carfting and ambush zombies torture. I cant go on. This piece of sh*t made me so mad that i wont spend any more seconds in it.
  28. naser_sadigh
    Mar 3, 2018
    0
    i really like horrible games i am big fan of evil within but part 2 was so boring what happens to this game its awful!!!
  29. coldasStone
    Feb 17, 2018
    1
    Very SUX game

    evil within 1 is Best Game of 2014
    But evil within 2 is almost worst games at 2017

    no horror no mise en scène
    and WTF open World??
    Resident evil series is not GTA
    japanese TPS game dont need Open World
    i think reason of why evil within 2 SUX
    Cos of Director
    Come Back Mikami Plz!
  30. Ghoster
    Jan 13, 2018
    4
    What happened to that game? First part was almost perfect game. All great atmosphere from first game is gone. Gameplay try to copy The Last Of Us, but it's not even close. Overall, it's not Evil Within sequel as we expected. And in top of all, you fight 2-3 bosses whole game all over again.
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#23 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2017
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#20 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2017

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 67 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 67
  3. Negative: 1 out of 67
  1. CD-Action
    Jan 10, 2018
    85
    Shinji Mikami’s philosophy is to focus on making the game’s good aspects shine even brighter instead of trying to eradicate its flaws. His latest work both benefits and suffers from that approach. The Evil Within 2 offers great exploration, but its story is laughable. It’s a thrilling shooter, but a mediocre stealth game. At the end of the day I find Mikami to be right – a game’s best moments count the most and make us turn a blind eye to its flaws. TEW2 fails to reach the level of my beloved Resident Evil 4, but in today’s circumstances a triple AAA survival horror without online components and intrusive microtransactions is a gem. [13/2017, p.72]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Dec 15, 2017
    70
    A likeable follow-up that addresses valid criticisms of its predecessor and provides gory fun, but loses a little of what made it special in the process. [Christmas 2017, p.90]
  3. IGN Japan
    Dec 14, 2017
    74
    Exploring the game's main town, which is full of monsters, new weapons and items, is a blast. New discoveries will immerse you into the gameplay, and make you forget about that daughter you have to save.
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