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Instead, it’s a tool to place Sebastian into a series of increasingly terrible situations for fifteen hours. The Evil Within 2‘s story never reaches far. Strange events coincide with her disappearance, and so Sebastian must enter Union, figure out what’s going on, and bring his daughter home once and for all. He’s told, by the very people that took her, that she’s gone missing from the dream-like town of Union. This time around, Castellanos throws himself into STEM - a bathtub-like device that connects users’ minds to create something of a utopia - for the chance to rescue his kidnapped daughter. He’s gone to hell and back before, fighting the mental machinations of a psychopath during the events of the first game. The Evil Within 2 pulls Sebastian Castellanos back into chaos. There aren’t many games like this one, even though it sometimes feels like it’s all been done before. From another, it’s a remarkable mood piece that draws players in with familiarity only to subtly shift attention towards something altogether new. If you examine it from one angle, The Evil Within 2 is a strange mashup of horror’s greatest hits held together by a leash of semi-open exploration. Its DNA is muddy, mixing gameplay systems and tonal stylings with abandon. Like its predecessor, the survival horror game can’t resist nodding and emulating elements of other franchises. This allusion defines one aspect of The Evil Within 2. It’s a transient place, existing somewhere between Sebastian’s waking world and the shared reality created by connected minds at the center of The Evil Within‘s fiction.
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This location is a far cry from his previous surroundings. Black and white patterned tiling spills out beneath his feet, not unlike the Room’s chevron flooring.
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Rich, velvety curtains hang in front of him. As he wanders through darkened corridors, chasing leads in desperate hope of recovering his missing daughter, the former detective enters a room that’s best described as a stand-in for Twin Peak‘s Red Room. In one of The Evil Within 2‘s early chapters, Sebastian Castellanos stumbles onto a familiar scene.