Easily one of my favorite horror games of all time. It took the weak story/character focus, the only complaint I had about the first Evil Within and improved upon it ten-fold by giving Sebastian much more personality and making the game have a strong emphasis on story.

The Evil Within 2 managed to not only be one of the most cinematic survival horror games ever developed, but also has one of the best written psychological stories in a game and it still has incredible gameplay mechanics to boot so it never feels like you're just watching a movie and not playing a game, gorgeous artwork, a fantastic score, a vibrant quasi open world with side quests and secondary characters that actually have impact on the story and world around Sebastian. It's the perfect mixture of Resident Evil 4 action, Silent Hill 2 atmospheric, psychological horror and the Last of Us stealth and cinematic experience.

The only very minor complaints I can say about this game are I prefer the atmosphere in the first game more and this game is also a lot easier and less punishing as the first. Still when everything else about the game is as great as it is, I'm easily able to overlook those things.