Giant Bomb recently sat down in a brief interview with Shinji Mikami, the creator of the Resident Evil series and father of the survival horror genre, to discuss the latest news on his upcoming new survival horror game The Evil Within. Mikami shared his thoughts on the definition of survival horror, the iconic influences that helped him in creating scary moments for his well-renowned games, and the differences between Western and Japanese game developers
The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.
An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.
I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.
Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.
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This would be a dream come true if they pull it off.
I’d love it if it started out in a mansion then once you got out of the first chapter or so it would open up into the small mountain town we can explore freely, similar to The Evil Within 2 hub levels.
Sending Chris to Silent Hill to atone for punching that boulder would be great.
