Evil Inside: Stupid game with terrible controls

Every now an then i buy a game for next to zero money and after playing it for just a little while I end up wishing I had instead gotten a pirate version of the game instead of paying for it.

This is the major reason why I do pirate games first before trying them because there is some real garbage out there that the creators are able to make a pretty nice looking trailer but in the end the game is a piece of crap that stops being interesting and just becomes tedious and stupid after playing it for just a little while.

This is what happened with Evil Inside

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From the offset it looks like it is going to be an interesting and scary game where you are in a Resident Evil type environment looking for clues and exploring some sort of massive or at least reasonably sized house or mansion. Instead, what we get is the same sequence of rooms that somehow manage to change each "day" that you go through them. You'll reach some point in the stage and then whammo... you are just back at the start and you go through the entire house again, which at the point where I quite was just a couple of rooms a hallway, and some sort of garage type area in the back of the house.

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It looks spooky enough and it would be if it weren't for the fact that I have already gone down this hallway dozens of times, looking at everything in the hopes that a circle icon was going to pop up indicating that there is something that I can now interact with that I couldn't do so with before.

There is no logic behind when you can interact with stuff and when you can't because the same items for the most part are in view the entire time that you are running through the hallways. So basically you just have to run around and look at EVERYTHING and then hope that one of these items is going to be something you can actually touch this time. It's a stupid!

To make matters worse the controls are terrible. You "look around" with one of the sticks and it's almost like they simply didn't give a shit because the default speed at which touching the stick makes you look around is waaay too fucking fast. I had to go into the option to make this slow to a point where it was actually usable. If any person were to turn their head that fast in real life a neck-injury would be imminent.

Also, the default walking speed is extremely slow and I can't think of any reason why this would be what they would do. There is a run button and I ended up using it basically the entire time.

To the best of my ability to tell this is some sort of creepy puzzle game and the answers to the puzzles lie around you in the various rooms that you have access to but the puzzles get really convoluted really quickly.

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_{This isn't the answer by the way}

It was only on day or phase 3, I honestly don't remember what it is called and I am not going to go back and look, that i encountered a padlock which was one of only 2 things that I could possibly interact with. The other was a drawing with a bunch of numbers and crazy lines on it. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what this was and found myself looking online for the answer and I hate it when I have to do that, especially so early in a game.

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The answer came from this drawing and by following the lines in the drawing. I mean, it was obvious that this is where the combination was going to come from when I was playing since it was the only other thing that you could interact with at all on the stage. But you had to flip the image just so in order to see it and of course, since the controls are friggin terrible, mostly you just ended up flipping it madly in all directions. Then, you need to have pretty amazing eyesight to see where the lines are actually going. On my 50 inch TV sitting at a normal distance from it trying to play this I nearly lost my damn mind. On a PC monitor sitting entirely too close to the screen you could probably figure it out.

I can only presume that the puzzles get more convoluted from this point forward and no thanks is the answer I had for this game at that point. I remember the days of MYST and how maddening all of that was and I am not interested in doing through puzzles like that again nor am I interested in feeling compelled to check the internet for a walk through every time there is another stupid puzzle.

I understand now why this game was so cheap, because it sucks. It may have been ok on PC but on PS4, it's terribly, clunky, slow, and boring. Stay away from this title even if it is free.