The horror genre is very, very subjective. Something that’s horrifying for one person may be be hilarious to another. Overall, finding things that scare everyone is difficult and no one has ever gotten it completely right.
However, a team should strive to create a creepy experience with deep atmosphere, and should work to put players in situations where everything comes together just right, to have them breathing slowly in their chair in suspense of the moments to come.
Does The Evil Within do that? Well, let’s just say the only thing creepy about this game is how excited we were for it.
The Evil Within was spawned in the mind of Shinji Mikami. The music composition is done by Masafumi Takada, and the publisher of the title is Bethesda. What a mix. Shinji Mikami, the father of Resident Evil, a man who composed music for Smash Bros, and Kid Icarus: Uprising, along with Bethesda, the studio that brought us Skyrim.
When you hear Bethesda is making a game, you come to expect a high quality product, something that we’ll be able to sink their teeth into and enjoy throughout. That is not the case here. The Evil Within unfortunately comes up short time and time again.
