Having left the police department in the wake of the events of the first game, the apparent death of his daughter Lily in a house fire, and the subsequent abandonment of his wife, who refused to accept the truth of Lily’s death, Sebastian has hit rock bottom and spends his days at the bottom of a bottle.Īpproached by Kidman and informed that his daughter is still alive, Sebastian is taken to a Mobius facility. The events of The Evil Within 2 take place three years after its predecessor.
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After many grisly trials and tribulations, Sebastian manages to escape from the simulation and destroy Ruvik’s host brain, seemingly putting an end to STEM and the horrors within. The search for Withers and a means of escape from the simulation provide the main through lines of the plot. In turn, Mobius killed him and extracted his brain to continue to power the machine, while seeking out a compatible, more compliant brain for future use - in this case, that of Jimenez’s patient, Leslie Withers. After a doctor named Marcelo Jimenez aided a sinister corporation named Mobius in co-opting Ruvik’s technology, Ruvik calibrated STEM to only function with his unique brain. Unfortunately for Sebastian, the mind that hosts this particular world is that of a psychopathic genius named Ruvik, who developed the system as a means of reconnecting with his deceased sister Laura, who died in a tragic barn fire. This system has to be supported by a “Core” - one mind that acts as the host for the entire simulation that others enter into. It is during the course of this investigation that Sebastian first encounters STEM, a kind of enhanced virtual reality system that allows the minds of users to connect with one another, with the caveat that death in STEM translates to death IRL.
Of course, this being a video game, things aren’t as they seem and Sebastian and company are soon thrown into a world of otherworldly horror and conspiracies. Sebastian’s previous adventures took him to Beacon Memorial Hospital, where as a detective with the Krimson City Police Department, he was charged with investigating a reported massacre alongside partner Joseph Ora and Junior Detective Juli Kidman (a Mobius double agent). Since The Evil Within 2 is a direct sequel to the first game, it’s good to have some context regarding what’s going on with Sebastian by the time we find him drowning his sorrows at his local watering hole at the start of the second game.
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