If you played Evil Within, you'll know that Sebastian's detective friends, Joseph and Kidman go missing quite often, this content tells Kidman's story.
Only two chapters long, the story starts with Kidman getting her briefing from the Mobius company, who want Leslie, as their new STEM project. Kidman's goals our different to Sebastian and Joseph's when they go to investigate the murder. The story starts from the beginning of Evil Within and spans the majority of the story.
The story intertwines with the original game and a lot of scenes will be familiar with you and you'll even cross paths with many faces you've seen before. The game is more stealthy too, in fact you don't even have a weapon and you have health you can only regenerate by standing still. You have to sneak and hide to manoeuvre through enemies, you can even lure enemies by whistling, but I didn't use it much, mainly because the one time I did, the Haunted came right to me and killed me.
The whole time it was dark, you couldn't see much but your torch was very handy. There was a cool way to dispose of enemies, by locking them in rooms, but it wasn't utilised much. The invisible enemies from the original game appear too, but your torch lights them up, so they're a lot more bearable this time.
The best part for me, was The Shade, or the Light Lady, as I called her. She was literally a tall pair of woman's legs in high heels, dressed in a sort of cloak and a spotlight acting as her head, if you were caught in her headlights, run for your life. She was well designed as creepy as fuck. She knew your name and muttered it as she looked for you, hearing her high heels slapping the ground and getting louder as she neared you. It was a panic attack waiting to happen.
Well designed, with new creepy creatures and new locations. Can't forget a new character to play as. It's great how we learn much more from the original story and get more depth.
2.9/5
The Evil Within: The Consequence
Part two of Kidman's story in the Evil Within concludes in another two chapter DLC.
There's not much else to go on here really, much of the same and lots of tie ins. One of the main things, is you lose your torch, and you're armed with flares. Flares can be thrown ahead of you to light up the rooms ahead. You can only have three active flares at a time.
The are some great sections including a running section where you're chased by a dark figure, stealth sections through groups of enemies that are blind but will come running if you make too much noise, an intense boss fight, a fight against two colones of Kidman and a final boss. Sound good?
One thing I have to talk about is the boss fight with the Light Lady. She was the best thing about it and the boss fight was so disappointing. It was super intense hiding from her as she stalked the room for you, but she died in three headshots. Come on, really? If you haven't seen the hidden Easter egg off the Light Lady and the Haunted having a secret rave party, you really need to YouTube it, it's fantastic.
Overall it was a good piece of content, just the disappointing/easy boss fights weakened it. Worth picking up for the cheap price it's valued at now.
3/5
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