Trivia / The Evil Within 2

• Author's Saving Throw: Shinji Mikami has stated that the story was made easier to understand in response to criticisms that the plot of the first game became too complicated to follow.
• Content Leak: The game itself was accidentally confirmed to be in development early in 2017 due to a combination of factors such as a leaked job description in Japan discovered in March and Reddit later prematurely running ads for the game mere hours before its official reveal at Bethesda's E3 conference.
• Meaningful Release Date: The game was released on October 13th. Not only was this around Halloween time, befitting for a horror game, but that day also happened to have been a Friday, which is also fitting given all of the game's bad luck motifs (the broken mirrors, Kidman's black cat, etc.).
• The Other Darrin: Sebastian's voice actor, Anson Mount, was replaced with Marqus Bobesich, an actor who's played bit parts in Serendipity, Survival of the Dead, and Orphan Black. Not that this is a bad thing; Marqus sounds slightly similar to Anson, and really manages to make Sebastian sound much more emotional.
  • In fact, every returning character has a completely different voice actor.
  • Averted in, at least, the Japanese and Spanish versions, where all characters from the previous game reprise their roles.
• Refitted for Sequel: The Harbinger enemy was supposed to appear in the first game but was removed due to time constraints and instead debuted in this game.