Shinji Mikami looks up from beneath the brim of his trademark cap, which sits low, shielding his eyes.
"Obviously I like horror," he muses. "But survival horror has been drifting away from what makes it survival horror. And so I want to bring it back. Bring back survival horror to where it was."
If anyone can restore essence to the genre, Mikami can. The characteristically subdued Resident Evil creator is returning to his old stomping ground with the debut game from his Tokyo-based studio Tango Gameworks, the third-person survival horror The Evil Within. And while the game may not adhere to all the ideals we recognize from the genre's golden age – which, let's face it, were shakily defined in the first place - it's built around Mikami's own definition of the genre he helped create.
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