History VideoGame / TheEvilWithin

* EvilAlbino: [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession Ruvik in Leslie's body]] would definitely qualify.]]

* LandMineGoesClick: There are scores of explosive traps all over the place, and most have a flashing red light and a beep that kicks on just before they go boom, giving you time to duck under their sensor and disarm them. You can also use explosive harpoons as proximity mines against enemies, an incredibly useful thing to have in some situations, like dealing with Invisible Haunted (narrow doorway + proximity bomb = ''[[ChunkySalsaRule Gotcha, asshole!]]'').

** The Sadist is incredibly reminiscent of [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], being a deformed brute, using a chainsaw, and having a fondness for ripping people apart.

[[caption-width-right:297:''A mind is a terrible thing to waste.'']]

** The music that plays whenever a save mirror is nearby is [[https://youtu.be/CvFH_6DNRCY Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune"]].

* EasterEgg: In ''The Consequence'', [[spoiler: Kidman can stumble upon a hidden room where Spotlight and some Haunted are having a rave]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Really]]!

* SceneryGorn: After first escaping the mental hospital [[spoiler:and finding the city being wiped out]]. The FinalBoss gets this pretty good too, [[spoiler:what with a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind over an apocalyptic wasteland filled with all sorts of viscera]].

* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Kidman]] tries to do this to [[spoiler:Leslie]] in order to prevent the EvilPlan from coming to fruition. Since PoorCommunicationKills, this doesn't work out.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:If you happen to get close enough to the ''[[HumanoidAbomination thing]]'' that Ruvik has become to pursue you, you can hear enraged screaming [[VoiceOfTheLegion in both his adult and child voices]] such things like "[[UnstoppableRage I WILL SHOW YOU PAIN!]]"]]

** Further still, at the end of The Consequence, [[spoiler:Kidman ends up with a strange mark on her arm and no memory of how she got outside of the STEM. We hear The Director's voice over her's one final time, implying she might not have escaped after all. Also, Kidman saves Sebastian by declaring him dead, but we can see the organisation carrying away Joseph in the background. He's thus probably alive, but now at the mercy of Mobius.]]

* SpannerInTheWorks: Ruvik to MOBIUS. After he altered the STEM system to only work with his brain, [[BrainInAJar they forcibly scoop it out in turn it into the core]], however they didn't realize that Ruvik's consciousness would remain intact, allowing him to [[RealityWarper reshape the landscapes created by STEM to his will]], making the STEM system useless to them. After that they removed his brain from STEM to try and get rid of him, only to realize that Ruvik's consciousness was still inside STEM, turning it into a nightmarish hellhole. The whole events of the game are an attempt by MOBIUS to kill what was left of Ruvik.

* AllJustADream: According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lEpDAbKYxI Shinji Mikami himself]], the game takes place within the mind of an insane individual, if not several. [[spoiler:The STEM system causes Ruvik to have conscious effect upon the world, but everyone linked to STEM has a part in it. This isn't a good thing, as in the STEM system, YourMindMakesItReal, and you can die in real life if you die in the dreams.]]

** [[spoiler: ''The Consequence'' sheds a little more light on this. It's revealed that the STEM system in the hospital is operated by wireless transmission. Jimenez activated the STEM just as Sebastian and Co were on their way to the hospital (Signified by the squealing noise they heard on the radio.), pulling them into the STEM system and into Ruvik's reality.]]

* {{Gorn}}: The game is dripping with blood and gore (sometimes literally). Giant pools of human blood, exposed brains, human slaughterhouses, and [[spoiler: the sheer amount of blood for the final boss]] make it one of the goriest games ever.

The story is about a detective, [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos]], who is beginning an investigation of a mass homicide in [[AbandonedHospital Beacon Mental Hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Juli "Kid" Kidman. After a short venture into the building, the trio view a man on a security tape moving at insane speeds, and are drawn into a reality-altering nightmare. As the world shifts and changes around him, Sebastian struggles to survive. As he fights against a legion of horrific monstrosities, Sebastian's world begins to unravel, and it appears that not all is how it seems to be...

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QVLx5gcz4 If you hang around during the intro level]] and wait for the [[GiantMook Sadist]] to return to the corpse he was working on, [[ViolationOfCommonSense you can try and do a stealth kill on him]]. [[NoSell This works]] [[TooDumbToLive about]] [[HaveANiceDeath as well]] [[OffWithHisHead as expected]]. [[spoiler: At least until his BossBattle, in which it is possible.]]

** In Chapter 13, you can come across two posters from the ''{{Franchise/Fallout}}'' series.

The story is about a detective, [[PlayerCharacter Sebastian Castellanos]], who is beginning an investigation of a huge homicide in [[AbandonedHospital Beacon Mental Hospital]] with his partners, Joseph Oda and Juli "Kid" Kidman. After a short venture into the building, the trio view a man on a security tape moving at insane speeds, and are drawn into a reality-altering nightmare. As the world shifts and changes around him, Sebastian struggles to survive. As he fights against a legion of horrific monstrosities, Sebastian's world begins to unravel, and it appears that not all is how it seems to be...

** Playing ''The Consequence'' in Kurayami difficulty [[note]]in which the only light source within STEM is Kidman's flashlight/the chemical lights[[/note]] has an amusing one at the end of the sequence where Kidman must locate the generator to turn the lights back on. This being the pitch-dark Kurayami mode, not only do the lights stay off... [[spoiler:but the voice of ShinjiMikami is suddenly heard, mockingly saying "You thought the light would turn on? Well too bad!" in Japanese.]] [[TrollingCreator Nice trolling, Mikami]]!

* LightIsNotGood: Given that the hospital is ''named'' Beacon, and is home to visceral experiments, this motif is in effect throughout the game;