From developer JanduSoft S.L., psychological horror title Evil Inside might be the successor to P.T. that we have so sorely awaited for all of these years.
P.T., eh? They don't make 'em like that any more. Well, they didn't make it in the first instance, "they" being Kojima Productions and "it" being Silent Hills. Following a fallout between director Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami, the project was cancelled and the outcry from fans rippled forward for years to come. Trapped in an eerie suburban home where the hallways continually loop, nothing has truly replicated that feeling of utter and undiluted unease found in P.T.. The visceral reaction to discovering the underdeveloped fetus in the bathroom, the horror of Lisa catching the player and grinning maniacally, the grim realisation that you might be stuck here forever... and you might deserve it.
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Though P.T.'s true potential was curtailed by the disagreements during its development, its impact is primevally felt in titles like Allison Road, The Park, Visage, Layers of Fear, and even Resident Evil 7. In the case of Evil Inside, there's no getting around the fact that it looks very, very like P.T.. Players walk the halls of a house with that yellowy-green shade painted on its walls, with white wood furniture and a balcony looking over one of the rooms. Perhaps the most egregious example is that the lights flash red at one point, which was one of the scariest moments in P.T.. Yes, the setting is similar, but the story and the apparitions terrorising the teenage protagonist are not.
"After the death of his mother and the arrest of his father for it, our protagonist Mark tries to contact her through the Spiritual board, which explodes mysteriously and causes Mark to fade away," explained the developer. "That's where it all began: a series of paranormal events will torment him while he tries to gather the fragments of the Spiritual board and thus, find what is really happening." Players will explore an entire house that is subjected to some unknowable entity, embodying Mark's fears by pretending to be the corpse of his mother. Oh, and there's a clown and a strange well which looks like something Samara would hop out of.
Evil Inside will release for PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One on March 25th.Featured Image Credit: JanduSoft S.L.