The Evil Within 2

[Zombra]

Nobody is a fan of combat in original SH or RE

I may be the one person on the Codex who appreciated the combat in Silent Hill. When the developers said it was a deliberate design decision to make Harry Mason awkward in combat because he isn't a highly trained space marine, I was all in. Played through that lens, the combat is excellent.

Anyway, konsensus is that Evil Within 1 wasn't worth playing. This thread seems generally down on the sequel as well - am I wrong or is Evil Within 2 equally ignorable?

 

[Sunri]

Nobody is a fan of combat in original SH or RE

I may be the one person on the Codex who appreciated the combat in Silent Hill. When the developers said it was a deliberate design decision to make Harry Mason awkward in combat because he isn't a highly trained space marine, I was all in. Played through that lens, the combat is excellent.

Anyway, konsensus is that Evil Within 1 wasn't worth playing. This thread seems generally down on the sequel as well - am I wrong or is Evil Within 2 equally ignorable?

If you didn't like the first part you won't like second it's worse in every aspect and I agree that sh combat is good it's horror game not a shooter

 

[Wunderbar]

Nobody is a fan of combat in original SH or RE

I may be the one person on the Codex who appreciated the combat in Silent Hill. When the developers said it was a deliberate design decision to make Harry Mason awkward in combat because he isn't a highly trained space marine, I was all in. Played through that lens, the combat is excellent.

Anyway, konsensus is that Evil Within 1 wasn't worth playing. This thread seems generally down on the sequel as well - am I wrong or is Evil Within 2 equally ignorable?

TEW1 is not a good game, but it's worth checking out on a sale just to see what kind of trainwreck it was.
TEW2 is a competently made and polished game, but it is also kinda soulless and uninspired. Very similar to "Sony's formulaic cinematic experiences™" like TLOU/god of war/biker vs zombies/etc, except with worse production values.

 

[Sunri]

Nobody is a fan of combat in original SH or RE

I may be the one person on the Codex who appreciated the combat in Silent Hill. When the developers said it was a deliberate design decision to make Harry Mason awkward in combat because he isn't a highly trained space marine, I was all in. Played through that lens, the combat is excellent.

Anyway, konsensus is that Evil Within 1 wasn't worth playing. This thread seems generally down on the sequel as well - am I wrong or is Evil Within 2 equally ignorable?

TEW1 is not a good game, but it's worth checking out on a sale just to see what kind of trainwreck it was.
TEW2 is a competently made and polished game, but it is also kinda soulless and uninspired. Very similar to "Sony's formulaic cinematic experiences™" like TLOU/god of war/biker vs zombies/etc, except with worse production values.

TEW1 had at least had a good atmosphere and story, what did tew2 have? spammable sneak attacks shitty town and gay ass bosses

 

[Wunderbar]

TEW1 had at least had a good story

what did tew2 have? spammable sneak attacks shitty town and gay ass bosses

it wasn't as janky, and its level design had cohesiveness and flow.

 

[Sunri]

TEW1 had at least had a good story

what did tew2 have? spammable sneak attacks shitty town and gay ass bosses

it wasn't as janky, and its level design had cohesiveness and flow.

That's not a positive in a horror game and the story had a good premise they fucked it up, but at least there was a chance for a good story before the dlc.

 

[Riskbreaker]

TEW has some excellent environmental art and is worth playing thru at least once as the first time you play it, even tho you'll have some rough idea of what is going on early on, it does manage to play with you and provide some promising red herrings... 'till you play to the end and see that it's really just poorly cobbled together writing.
So it's a visually enjoyable nightmare that at times tricks you into thinking it more than it is. And the gameplay is inoffensive RE4-like with some annoying bits here and there.

The sequel is visually utterly sterile and bland, its writing is horrid and you've no illusions as to it, there is no mystery or promise that you might feel early on in TEW1. It tries to be a homage to SH1 with the setting and the protagonist's motivation but evoking that comparison only hurts it.
It plays more smoothly.

 

[Terenty]

TEW1 is cool and worth playing, TEW2 is a complete joke

 

[Perkel]

I didn't like TEW because it tried to take itself seriously which can't work with its theme.

RE works because it is cheesy from start and doesn't take itself seriously.

SH works because devs put work from start to be serious and they created game with it in mind.

TEW is like watching cheesy slasher movie where developers expect you to give crap about story and characters.

 

[Nikanuur]

I enjoyed the game for what it was. Sure, the 'sneak and backstab everything and save ammo for later' isn't a playstyle for everyone, and tbh, I agree that it was kind of cheezy. But I actually liked it because of this. I don't care for stealth in games in general, so if it were just a little bit more realistic, I would have probably not enjoyed the game all that much, eheh. Bonus points for the neat upgrading system, which brought some RPG elements into this survival horror, and for the hillarious pun from the main protagonist after he (I) finished the shooting gallery.

I found the story not reaching any special highs, but it had bright moments, and it was at least original. I didn't care much for the main protagonist or Myra; they seemed a little too much one-dimensional, but I found some other characters likable. The badass chick Kidman was really alright, the IT-dude-with-some-spine Sykes was a cool, friendly face to return to from all that chaos and weirdos outside, and the sleazy, 'realistic' philosophy of the weasel O'Neal was fun to listen to, right until the end, when he sort of got what he deserved. The penultimate 'romantic' cutscene seemed unnecessarily overdone and strangely shallow to me, but otherwise the writing throughout the game was not overdone, was good or funny enough, and it made sense.

I will take the liberty to criticize most of the posts about writing in this thread. They seem to be the standard, stereotypical complaints from someone who expects HUGO writing in any gig, and anything even half-step below that is immediately total, utter trash for them.

For the sale's price of 4 EUR and some 40 odd hours of gameplay, it was a steal.

 

[United Nations]

Playing TEW2 for the first time ATM.

EXTREMELY polished and cinematic experience compared to the indie games I typically play.

Compared to RE7, TEW2 is the better of the two games.

Difficulty is set to nightmare, and there is barely any ammo at all, Im running through levels and skipping mobs because of this.

Can't stand the cinematic cutscenes and QTE's.

Not scary, but RE7 wasn't either... RE7 fell apart right after the first boss (that was the only mildly creepy encounter).