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** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil You need to burn enemy corpses so they stay dead.
Also, you sneak up behind a zombie-like creature eating a corpse....and the he turns his head around and gawks at the protagonist. Familiar?]]

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** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil You need to burn enemy corpses so they stay dead.
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Also, you sneak up behind a zombie-like creature eating a corpse....and the he turns his head around and gawks at the protagonist. Familiar?]]Familiar?

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** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil You need to burn enemy corpses so they stay dead.]]

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** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil You need to burn enemy corpses so they stay dead.]]dead.
Also, you sneak up behind a zombie-like creature eating a corpse....and the he turns his head around and gawks at the protagonist. Familiar?]]

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* EldritchLocation: At least part of Sebastian's adventure will take place in a mysterious reality that's accessed through a mysterious mirror...and it's unclear whether this is real, or something that's happening in Sebastian's head.

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At least part of Sebastian's adventure will take place in a mysterious reality that's accessed through a mysterious mirror...and it's unclear whether this is real, or something that's happening in Sebastian's head. Or, according to WordOfGod, in [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness someone's head that he's going through]].



* NoOSHACompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.

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* NoOSHACompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced. A JustifiedTrope, because you're going through the mind of a lunatic.
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** The name itself is a fairly clear reference to its spiritual predecessors, too (if something is "within" it can be said to ''reside'', after all).
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* CreepyChild: The boy who shows up in flashbacks, and who is probably Ruvik, seems to enjoy dissecting things a ''little'' too much.
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* BedlamHouse: The mental hospital seems to have been a front for scientists to randomly stick needles and barbed wire on test subjects.
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* ForScience:
--> '''Scientist:''' You can show me your experiments. I can show you "things".
--> '''Boy:''' You wouldn't like them. You'd think they're gross.
--> '''Scientist:''' In science, one must do any number of things a person may find... disgusting. I've done things many others would consider... distasteful.
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* MadScientist: Someone's been doing some crazy experiments with the brain.
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* NoOHSACompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.

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* NoOHSACompliance: NoOSHACompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.

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** Another example, from one of the more recent trailers: Sebastian, at one point, finds himself in a tranquil field of sunflowers, with a barn in the distance...except the sky is a stark, harsh yellow, and the barn is in complete silhouette. Clearly, something isn't normal, here.



* NoOhsaCompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.

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* NoOhsaCompliance: NoOHSACompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.
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** ControllableHelplessness: And at one point, said monster slices your leg pretty badly, forcing you to limp around as he pursues you.
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* ChainsawGood: Ha ha ha...''no.'' No, it isn't. Not when one of your ''enemies'' has it, if one of the gameplay trailers is anything to go by.


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* NoOhsaCompliance: According to one of the gameplay trailers, you'll end up being pursued by a chainsaw-wielding lunatic through a series of hallways in a butcher's factory--and one of them involved spinning grinders on either side, with no fences to prevent the careless from getting minced.
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* BodyHorror: From what we've seen so far, many of the enemies are twisted and warped in visceral ways, and they seem to favor mutilation.


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* TheDreaded: The mysterious "Ruvic," an enemy who, according to the developers, is too deadly to be fought, and must be eluded.
* EldritchLocation: At least part of Sebastian's adventure will take place in a mysterious reality that's accessed through a mysterious mirror...and it's unclear whether this is real, or something that's happening in Sebastian's head.
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** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil You need to burn enemy corpses so they stay dead.]]
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* InterfaceScrew: Using full health kits isn't recommended since they cause hallucinations... Using smaller health kits doesn't, only the large ones.
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* MarketBasedTitle: A interesting Japanese example, as game will be called by the still-technically-English name "Psychobreak" over in Nippon.

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* MarketBasedTitle: A interesting Japanese example, as game will be called by the still-technically-English name "Psychobreak" over in Nippon.Japan.
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The story is that a detective, [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos]], who investigates something going on in a [[AbandonedHospital mental hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Julie "Kid" Kidman. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.

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The story is that about a detective, [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos]], who investigates something going on in a [[AbandonedHospital mental hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Julie "Kid" Kidman. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.



* StringyHairedGhostGirl: At least one trailer shows one, and they have [[MultiArmedAndDAngerous several arms]].

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* StringyHairedGhostGirl: At least one trailer shows one, and they have [[MultiArmedAndDAngerous [[MultiArmedAndDangerous several arms]].
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The story is that a detective, Sebastian Castellanos, who investigates something going on in a [[AbandonedHospital mental hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Julie "Kid" Kidman. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.

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The story is that a detective, [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos, Castellanos]], who investigates something going on in a [[AbandonedHospital mental hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Julie "Kid" Kidman. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.
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The story is that a detective, Sebastian Castellanos, who investigates something going on in a mansion with his partner. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.

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The story is that a detective, Sebastian Castellanos, who investigates something going on in a mansion [[AbandonedHospital mental hospital]] with his partner.partners, Joseph Oda and Julie "Kid" Kidman. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.
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* MarketBasedTitle: A interesting Japanese example, as game will be called by the still-technically-English name "Psychobreak" over in Nippon.

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* DevelopmentGag: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 You have to survive an assault on a house.]]



* MythologyGag: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 You have to survive an assault on a house.]]
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* ShoutOut: Sebastian is going down a long hallway when the doors at the far end open and a tidal wave of blood rushes at him. [[Film/TheShining Now where have we seen that before?]]

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* ShoutOut: At one point, Sebastian is going down a long hallway when the doors at the far end open and a tidal wave of blood rushes at him. [[Film/TheShining Now where have we seen that before?]]
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* ShoutOut: At one point in the gameplay video this troper saw, Sebastian is going down a long hallway when the doors at the far end open and a tidal wave of blood rushes at him. [[Film/TheShining Now where have we seen that before?]]

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* ShoutOut: At one point in the gameplay video this troper saw, Sebastian is going down a long hallway when the doors at the far end open and a tidal wave of blood rushes at him. [[Film/TheShining Now where have we seen that before?]]

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* BrokenBridge: The hero eventually makes it outside the building, only to see that ''the whole city'' seems to have collapsed and fragmented. Well, that's one way to force him to confront the evil within the building.

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* BrokenBridge: The hero Sebastian eventually makes it outside the building, only to see that ''the whole city'' seems to have collapsed and fragmented. Well, that's one way to force him to confront the evil within the building.


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* ShoutOut: At one point in the gameplay video this troper saw, Sebastian is going down a long hallway when the doors at the far end open and a tidal wave of blood rushes at him. [[Film/TheShining Now where have we seen that before?]]
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* MythologyGag: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 You have to survive an assault on a house.]]
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* KillItWithFire: Enemies need to be burned in order to keep them down.
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* BrokenBridge: The hero eventually makes it outside the building, only to see that ''the whole city'' seems to have collapsed and fragmented. Well, that's one way to force him to confront the evil within the building.
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''The Evil Within'' is an upcoming game by Creator/ShinjiMikami, published by Bethesda, and is said to be an attempt to return to SurvivalHorror.

The story is that a detective, Sebastian Castellanos, who investigates something going on in a mansion with his partner. After some time, he is sent to another world, and has to survive it.
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!!''The Evil Within'' has the following Tropes:

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: At least one trailer shows one, and they have [[MultiArmedAndDAngerous several arms]].
* SurvivalHorror
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