History VideoGame / TheEvilWithin2

* TakeThatUs: A lighthearted one: the final reward for beating the game, following "legitimate" rewards like cosmetic outfits, Classic difficulty, and NewGamePlus, is cinematic letterboxing mode (for the "ultimate" experience)! This is after the first game's complaints about letterboxing, which resulted in a patch allowing letterboxing to be removed.

** Safe houses have coffee brewers that can restore Sebastian to full health, but take time to refill after each use. Ditto for the small chests in some of the safe houses that hold supplies like ammo or crafting parts.

** Sebastian can now stockpile and carry multiple bottles at a time. Unfortunately, he still can't carry more than one ax but the bottles do have some use if you decide to purchase the bottle break skill.

** Also unlike the first game, your sprint is no longer disabled when your health is below a certain point (though this is compensated by the fact that you don't get to sprint as fast).

** The silenced handgun you get from completing Sykes' first quest. It's weaker than the standard handgun but, as the name suggests, it has a silencer which makes it much more quieter and is a preferred choice when wanting to lure away enemies from groups.

** Stefano makes puts Union in constant night time and lights everything in blue, especially with a huge monstrous lens of blue light hoovering the area he is in. He also wears a blue coat and has blue eyes.

* TheConspiracy: Woo boy, where do we start....?
** The first game leads the player to believe that Lily's death was a freak accident that killed her and her sitter. However, even then, [[spoiler: Myra didn't believe it and supposedly found the truth, but disappeared without explanation]]. Right from the beginning, Kidman [[spoiler: confirms Myra's suspicions that the fire wasn't a freak accident, that Lily was kidnapped by Mobius, and the investigations staged to look like an accident and that she had died. Lily's intelligence as shown on her standardized tests and such was the reason Mobius chose her as the Core for their new STEM]].

* DifficultButAwesome: [[spoiler:Your old revolver from the previous game that you can receive if you complete the entire Anima sidequest]]. It's accuracy isn't as good as the other handguns but is considerably stronger than any of them.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Surprisingly, yes. Sebastian fights long and hard to get to the center of Union, and in doing so [[spoiler: regains his daughter, takes the first steps towards fixing his life and with the help of Kidman completely dismantles Mobius from the inside out. ]]

** Beat the game on "Nightmare" and you can get equipable brass knuckles that can take out any of the regular Lost in one hit (the sole exception being the Hysteric, which take about two hits to go down).

* MistakenForRacist: A hilarious exchange between Seb and Sykes. [[spoiler:Seb asks why a guy like him joined Mobius. When Sykes asks what he means by that, Seb states that a compassionate, free spirited guy like him probably wouldn't be allowed into Mobius normally. Skyes quickly backpedals after receiving the compliment and explains he sought them out.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: The point of the entire game as this time around, the story focuses entirely on Sebastian's past and his failure to protect Lily from the fire. Ultimately subverted however, as even from the get-go, [[spoiler: Kidman points out that Lily never died and Mobius staged everything. It takes all the way up to Chapter 12, where Sebastian awakes in a recreation of his house and has a meltdown in front of Myra that he gets the pep talk he needs about not blaming himself for something that not only wasn't ever his fault, but didn't truly happen. From this point til the end of the game, he stops blaming himself and finds the strength he needs to save Lily]].

* NintendoHard: The "Classic Mode" difficulty in a nutshell. Take everything from “Nightmare” mode and turn it up to eleven. This difficulty is meant to emulate the difficulty from the first game and it certainly shows. 95% of enemies drop nothing when they are killed, ammo and crafting components are very rare, you can save only 7 times throughout the campaign, checkpoints are literally non-existent and Sebastian must [[MinimalistRun complete the entire ordeal without being able to upgrade his abilities or guns]]. However, your reward is the CatharsisFactor prize of [[BottomlessMagazines Infinite Ammo]], which is certainly fun to use even if it is mostly a BraggingRightsReward.

'''Sebastian''': That may be... but there's ''evil within, too''...

''The Evil Within 2'' is a SurvivalHorror title developed by Tango Gameworks, published by Bethesda, and the sequel to ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'' released in 2014, and released Friday the 13th on October 2017. Unlike the last game, Creator/ShinjiMikami is not directing the game, instead acting as a producer with the helm being given to John Johanas, who worked on the Kidman DLC for the first game.

* DaylightHorror: [[spoiler:The final act takes place in a bright daylight. At least in the STEM.]]

* TooAwesomeToUse: Averted, thanks to the crafting system. Bullets for the Sniper Rifle, Assault Rifle and the unlockable Magnum are seldom-to-never found in the wild or dropped by enemies, but you can make whatever ammo you're short on using gunpowder, which is commonly found even if you don't do a lot of snooping around the maps, and is quite abundant if you do.