{"id":11248,"date":"2017-10-02T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.prod.gmgfarm.net\/?p=11248"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:04:48","slug":"evil-within-2-horror-game-non-horror-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vpce-0921aaf1c67156043-4t1vg0wq.vpce-svc-0cf8d5d00172470c2.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com\/evil-within-2-horror-game-non-horror-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Within 2: A Horror Game For Non-horror Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main surprise in The Evil Within 2<\/a> comes when you\u2019re creeping around the swamp coloured fog, scooping up supplies with one arm and slowly opening doors, only to be swallowed by a tirade of darkness. It comes when you sight a monster, devouring a corpse on the other side of barbed wire and when you sneak up and put a bullet through its skull, it comes when you feel completely in control.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an absolute lover of the horror\/thriller genre, there\u2019s nothing better than curling up with a good Stephen King or hiding behind one extended arms whilst trying to watch It Follows. I just kinda wish, I was better with horror. The thing is, I\u2019m too scared. Horror games are undeniably beautiful, is that a strange word to describe them as, beautiful? Because I get swept up in the fear of horror media, I\u2019m not talking about Saw or Hostel, the relentless bloody horrors, I\u2019m talking about the haunting and ghostly demeanour of The Others, the dark and sketchy art in Babadook, the subtly impending horror in Village of the Damned and the raw, explosive horror in The Fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, when it comes to horror games, I enjoy silently moving between puzzles, or the jolting scares that creep from unknown crevasses of games, not horror that relies on the gore, the guts, the dread. It\u2019s games such as We Happy Few, Hello Neighbor, even as far as The Last of Us, when you\u2019re aware of death, but it\u2019s never quite as obvious and bleak as Slenderman looming in the distance, or crouching under a table in Outlast. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Evil Within 2 is undoubtedly a horror game, but from someone who threw the controller while playing PT, or screamed relentlessly whilst wading through the asylum in Outlast, it\u2019s more than that. Here\u2019s why.<\/span><\/p>\n