Stalked by the malevolent spirit Ruvik, Sebastian must fight his way through nightmarish visions and defeat hideous creatures as he tries to discover the truth behind the evil at work. Arriving to discover dozens dead, he is drawn into a nightmarish world that crisscrosses fantasy and reality. The story follows Police Sargent Sebastian Castellanos as he investigates a disturbance at Beacon Mental Hospital. Early scenes from both titles are almost identical, taking place in a similarly ravaged villages filled with twisted human opponents, a chainsaw wielding mad man, and peculiar puzzles. Nowhere is this clearer than when comparing The Evil Within to Resident Evil 4 (another Mikami title). It is no real surprise that The Evil Within takes inspiration from Japan’s survival horror titles - after all the game’s director, Shinji Mikami, is responsible for some of the genre's most seminal moments.
