It's fine for what it tries to achieve but every beat, from gameplay to story, just makes me think of better games I wish I was (re)playing instead. As with the first game, what lacks in The Evil Within is any sort of identity, something that grabs the players during gameplay and something that haunts them after they've experienced it, something that, it needs to be said, makes you say "there's an evil within too". Instead it all comes off as a sanitized, no-risk, cookie cutter product that doesn't fully commit to anything in particular.