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Shinji Mikami's THE EVIL WITHIN |OT| Where's everyone going? Tango?
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Appollowexx
Member
If people were to rank chapters best to worst what would your thoughts be? I'm up to chapter 11 and just wondering if I've still got some decent ones left.
I really enjoyed 5,6 and 7 - the pacing, locations and overall tone of the game during those stages was fantastic. I've enjoyed most of my time with the game to be honest, although chapter 1 and 9 were the low points.
I really enjoyed 5,6 and 7 - the pacing, locations and overall tone of the game during those stages was fantastic. I've enjoyed most of my time with the game to be honest, although chapter 1 and 9 were the low points.
Onlythisfar41
Neo Member
So im playing a Nightmare run
i had no idea they would add new enemies to levels. I just finished chapter 3 and I was shocked to see the hooded screaming enemies that one hit kill you. Made it much tougher but still just as fun
I actually kinda enjoyed chapter 9. Although my favorites would be from 4-6. I think the game really starts going downhill starting from chapter 11. I would say chapter 15 is the worst in my opinion.
Just finished chapter 9 . Surprised to see so many people here had problems with it. All you have to do is run around until he bails out? Overall awesome chapter, love the fact that it felt random when he appeared, which made it feel unscripted and scary as fuck. I'm maxed out on bullets at this point from using so much melee. Wish there was a more difficult mode to start out on
thats the problem. Everytime i run away he seems to teleport rigjt in front of me
Weird that he doesn't disappear? Did you try hiding? Good thing is he appears only once in the room you're in usually.
Somnium986
Member
From reading some posts here, it seems everyone is having different experiences with it.
It seems like it's the only chapter that's randomized. I myself had a quite different experience my 2nd time around.
i'm on stuck on the building on fire while a lot of haunted attacks you while joseph is open those fucking doors, and i'm hating the "sneak kills" animations, i mean, why the fuck does sebastian take so long to be able to move again?! and even worst the other haunted can attack you and grab you while you are trapped on that freaking animation!
AndyMoogle
Member
Don't run, walk away from him. If he's getting to close, then you run for like 1-2 seconds. As long as you don't get too far away from him, he won't teleport.
-MD-
Member
If you stay within like 10 feet of him he'll just follow you and never teleport.
My Chapter 9 experience:
Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room.
Just a fucking annoying, frustrating experience.
Chapter 9 is where this game started going to shit for me. Before that it was aces, warts and all. I just reached CH9 on NG+ and I'm dreading it cuz my gear isn't going to do anything for me.
Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room. Get one hit killed. Reload save. Dude's gone from the room I just died in. Go back to save room. Go to new room.
Just a fucking annoying, frustrating experience.
Chapter 9 is where this game started going to shit for me. Before that it was aces, warts and all. I just reached CH9 on NG+ and I'm dreading it cuz my gear isn't going to do anything for me.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Yep exactly. Sometimes he spawns behind you and there's no way out (room with only one door for example). This is flawed game design.
-MD-
Member
Damn, I died once on chapter 9 because he teleported on me, once I realized running away causes him to teleport I never did it again and he was never a threat.
-COOLIO-
The Everyman
the random spawns in chapter 9 is definitely not a fun thing.
Audioboxer
Member
I'm having a stupid moment.
Seem to be stuck, right pathway from the section in chapter 7 where you have to insert 3 stone pieces. Done the left pathway. No idea what to do on the right pathway once the metal spikes fall behind you and block you from backtracking.
Seem to be stuck, right pathway from the section in chapter 7 where you have to insert 3 stone pieces. Done the left pathway. No idea what to do on the right pathway once the metal spikes fall behind you and block you from backtracking.
Shoot the two valves in front of you to make the ceiling drop. I think.
keep playing with the levers.
Check out the height of the platforms and the slashes on the numbers on the wall. Mr whiny pants will give you a verbal clue when your right.
Edit nvm. Wrong part!
Sanctuary
Member
Wow. After finishing the pure hell that was Akumu, I decided to drop back down to Survival to finish up some random achievements. Normally I couldn't care less about achievements with any game, but I figured why not since most of them were not obnoxious and I was planning on at least doing the no upgrade run before shelving the game. Busting the heads of Haunted wide open with a single melee attack is so cathartic. It actually feels like vaccation mode. Plus, there are a few keys that I saw, but the game decided against letting me grab them for various reasons that I'm going back to get.
Anyway, I've learned a few things that I didn't realize during my first playthrough, and didn't feel like experimenting with during Akumu.
1. Now I get why some people are saying how "difficult" stealth is in Nightmare/Akumu. When I dropped it back down to Survival, it seemed like everything was moving in slow motion, and enemy awareness is pathetic. You can literally walk until you're a few feet behind an enemy before needing to go into stealth crouch so that they don't hear you. During my first playthrough I must have just been overcompensating big time, because Akumu felt mostly the same.
2. Almost all of the dial bombs on Surivial or below are a joke after getting used to Nightmare/Akumu timings.
3. During my first Survival run, I thought there was only one way to get
to activate in
. Then, when I played it on Akumu I noticed there was another way. I thought maybe I simply missed it on Survival, but that wasn't it. He does have a secondary way to activate that doesn't happen below Nightmare.
4. You can hurt him with burning hay stacks. You can shove them to the top of the ladder he climbs and light them when he's near the top. No idea how much damage it actually does, but I found it interesting regardless.
5. Burn the "obvious" hay stacks. I missed a whole lot of keys during my first two playthroughs, and I figured that a lot of them had to be hiding behind other objects and not simply sitting in plain sight. You'll find some behind boxes you smash as well as hay stacks. I'm not using any kind of guide for collectible locations, and I have all but one recorded message and I'm missing about 20 keys still. Some can be gained through the lockers themselves, but I'm not sure if it's more than one. That's all I've found so far.
6.
is a cheap bastard, and now I understand all of the bitching about
. While it's extremely rare for this to happen, I've seen him teleport directly in front of me as some others have claimed, but this was after he had already appeared elsewhere and had been walking a bit. Not that it makes it any better, but something even worse happened an hour ago. As soon as the very first blue pulse happened, before I even had a chance to see where he was so I could start moving, he was directly in front of me and killed me. That's the kind of shit that needs to be patched out.
You can one-shot them with a match on a corpse (difficult to set up) or one of the torches that a haunted carries. As soon as I entered that level and saw what had spawned, I let torches lie on the ground until I had use for them.
After many hours you kind of forget about it, unless focusing on it. It's one thing a lot of people were commenting on before the game launched. It does look really bad. He's filled with helium and has springs on his feet. Which is ironic since he controls like he has Jupiter's gravity pulling against him.
Anyway, I've learned a few things that I didn't realize during my first playthrough, and didn't feel like experimenting with during Akumu.
1. Now I get why some people are saying how "difficult" stealth is in Nightmare/Akumu. When I dropped it back down to Survival, it seemed like everything was moving in slow motion, and enemy awareness is pathetic. You can literally walk until you're a few feet behind an enemy before needing to go into stealth crouch so that they don't hear you. During my first playthrough I must have just been overcompensating big time, because Akumu felt mostly the same.
2. Almost all of the dial bombs on Surivial or below are a joke after getting used to Nightmare/Akumu timings.
3. During my first Survival run, I thought there was only one way to get
Mr Chainsaw
chapter 3
4. You can hurt him with burning hay stacks. You can shove them to the top of the ladder he climbs and light them when he's near the top. No idea how much damage it actually does, but I found it interesting regardless.
5. Burn the "obvious" hay stacks. I missed a whole lot of keys during my first two playthroughs, and I figured that a lot of them had to be hiding behind other objects and not simply sitting in plain sight. You'll find some behind boxes you smash as well as hay stacks. I'm not using any kind of guide for collectible locations, and I have all but one recorded message and I'm missing about 20 keys still. Some can be gained through the lockers themselves, but I'm not sure if it's more than one. That's all I've found so far.
6.
Ruvik
chapter 9
You can one-shot them with a match on a corpse (difficult to set up) or one of the torches that a haunted carries. As soon as I entered that level and saw what had spawned, I let torches lie on the ground until I had use for them.
After many hours you kind of forget about it, unless focusing on it. It's one thing a lot of people were commenting on before the game launched. It does look really bad. He's filled with helium and has springs on his feet. Which is ironic since he controls like he has Jupiter's gravity pulling against him.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
I'm thinking of just not finishing this game.
I tend to finish almost all the games I buy, but up to chapter 7 most of this game have felt like a chore. Everything that potentially could have been good is bogged down by poor design choices or clumsiness. Considering what I'm reading here about later parts of the game, well, suffice to say that it doesn't make me excited about what's left.
Oh, the boss in chapter 7?
The only thing that might make me play through this game is sheer stubbornness.
I tend to finish almost all the games I buy, but up to chapter 7 most of this game have felt like a chore. Everything that potentially could have been good is bogged down by poor design choices or clumsiness. Considering what I'm reading here about later parts of the game, well, suffice to say that it doesn't make me excited about what's left.
Oh, the boss in chapter 7?
Played him a few times and died due to a lack of ammo and he always kept reappearing. Just read that there's a ladder somewhere which you should climb. Didn't see it. That made me even more annoyed.
The only thing that might make me play through this game is sheer stubbornness.
-MD-
Member
Can you drop the difficulty down to casual?
If you have any
sniper ammo he died in like 2 bullets iirc, you also only need to kill him once or twice, otherwise you can just use a freeze bolt and run.
Sanctuary
Member
Twice, and why bother using a Freeze bolt? Seems like a waste for no real reason. If you're talking about the
valve turning part, it saves your progress even if you let go to run for a bit.
-MD-
Member
Dunno that's what I remembered doing, was like a week ago but I specifically remember
dropping him a couple times with the sniper and freezing him/sprinting to the valve and turning it real fast before he could get to me.
Sanctuary
Member
You have to
kill him when he first spawns to open the way to the next area, and you have to do the same thing again when you're in the room you sealed off that he ends up spawning in. Somehow you don't know how to open the valve door back up and he does it for you. After that it's just running to the room he's smashing the valve at, running to get the new valve and waiting for him to get somewhat close before sprinting back into the room you use the valve in. If he gets too close before you're done you can simply kite him back into another room.
For a NG+ run, he takes exactly one
fully upgraded harpoon bolt and a 2/5 damage shotgun blast. Those that appear later that keep respawning in other parts of the game can die from two 4/5 magnum rounds, while those in chapter 15 require three shots of a fully upgraded magnum.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
He's not a problem, really. I was more annoyed about the fact that I had "finished" it, but didn't realize/notice that ladder part and kept on fighting.
-MD-
Member
Sanctuary
Member
I didn't notice it at first on my first run either. After I
turned the valve and stopped the gas
That's probably tied for my least favorite fight in the entire game. As annoying as it can be on Survival, it's utter bullshit on Akumu. Bear traps for miles and she moves at two or two and a half times the speed.
Man, I had a vastly different experience with this. Trust me, On your new playthrough, when the screen turns blue just look around for him then run around to the next rooms (level is designed where there are more than one thresholds per room) and then he will disappear. Nothing more to it than that. I don't eve understand how so many are struggling, the dude is walking around and you can literally run circles around him.. I don't think mikami thought anyone would be dying to this guy more than once.
The hardest part of that chapter is that God dam lock combination
Sanctuary
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135791866&postcount=12433 (point #6)
And that lock combination was one of the easiest parts of that level if you've played any of the earlier Resident Evil games. It even forces you to stare at the pictures. The document right below the lock gives you a pretty big clue too.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
If there's one thing Mikami underestimated, it's gamer's lack of skill and intelligence these days. Modern gaming has made everyone frighteningly stupid.
What? I thought it was obvious.
I just reached chapter 12 and this game is so weird in so many ways, both technically and in its gameplay, but I think I really like it overall.
jim2point0
Banned
Got to Chapter 9 and decided to not finish it. I just wasn't having fun. Also it didn't live up to the expectations of being a classic RE or SH game I expected.
CrackaF3tt
Member
Just finished chapter 10 and 11 on survival. Didnt have much trouble at all. I actually like those chapters. Not sure what everyone was having problems with.
How About No
Member
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Host Samurai
Member
On Chapter 9. Loving it so far. Most tense game since...well RE4. I love the encounters. Mikami is the master of that.
Also a good weapon for the Ch7 boss is
Also a good weapon for the Ch7 boss is
the sniper. He will go down in 2 hits and its much less risky than using the explosives as he charges toward you and killing you with your own bomb
Chapter 9 and 10 were awesome, I don't really get what people found to be so difficult about those segments or cheap. I thought the atmosphere and tension was still on point, and the fights themselves were plenty awesome.
Chapter 11 and 12 on the other hand was like lol wtf territory in terms of direction, feels like I was reliving the nightmare that was Resident Evil 6. Chapter 13 to forward is back to normal stuff right? because 11 and 12 were definitely some jump the shark type shit.
Chapter 11 and 12 on the other hand was like lol wtf territory in terms of direction, feels like I was reliving the nightmare that was Resident Evil 6. Chapter 13 to forward is back to normal stuff right? because 11 and 12 were definitely some jump the shark type shit.
Lucent
Member
Yeah 13-15 are more back to the previous chapters.
The Strokes
Banned
Did Chapter 6 just took me 2:30 hours to complete? Yes it did. Holy shit what a long Chapter. And the boss
Started playing on survival. Don't know if I should have started the game on casual.
took me like 25 minutes and a whole lot of dying to get the grip of the dog. I ended making some explosive bolts and that helped a lot
Started playing on survival. Don't know if I should have started the game on casual.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
Just finished the game, and I really liked it. That end got pretty crazy. The plot did leave me with quite a few questions.
Like why Leslie was so important? Was it cause he could leave? But so do Seb so why was it so special? Also why did Ruben change his name? was it just to be cool? How did Sebastian get into the thing in the first place? Did Ruben kill his daughter?