The Evil Within

- The game starts out pretty stealthy, and you'll need to be stealthy to survive. This is quickly dropped and you become pretty powerful, but you still need to keep an eye on ammo.

- Upgrading sprint is pretty important. The last level of it, though, maybe not so much.

- I'd recommend upgrading the amount of agony bolt ammo you can carry.

- Feel free to use health boosts whenever you are running a little low - there's never a point in the game that I've found where your health is restored, so it's not like you're 'wasting' them.

- Enemies don't set off motion traps, which is bullshit.

- Run from bosses unless you're forced to kill them. Always run from the guy in the hoodie.

- If you have a few matches, knocking enemies down and burning them while they're still on the floor can save you a lot of ammo. This can take the form of a precise shot to a leg, or simply shooting in their general direction with the shotgun (bonus if their head explodes from it instead).

- The story is nonsense, I wouldn't try to follow it that closely.

- Melee is useless.

- Always be collecting brain juice. Look in every nook and cranny, check if there's a bubbling pile of it left behind from enemies and bosses.

- Also look for keys, which are used to unlock body cabinets in the morgue for sweet prizes. Keys are sometimes out in the open, but most of the time they'll be hidden in little statues of...goddesses? Angels? No idea. Little gray statues about the size of your calf that need to be broken.

- Melee attacks can be used to break boxes and vases and shit, which is where goodies hide. If you're holding something throwable, like a bottle, use the triangle or Y button to attack without using the item in your hand (no idea what it is on the PC).

- Upgrade your match capacity to max ASAP. They are how you save the scarce amount of ammo the game gives you.

- For most enemies you'll want to shoot them in the legs(or with the shotgun if you need to do it quickly) to knock them down and then run up an use a match to kill them instantly. Bonus points if you happen to catch multiple guys with one match since it kind of has a radius when you light a guy up.

- You can do stealth kills from the front if you hit an enemy in the face with a bottle which is kind of hard to do and i don't think it works if they have a mask on but it's worth the saved ammo if you can do it.

- Past the first 3 chapters the game doesn't really expect you to stealth the entirety of rooms(there is even an enemy type that will remind you of the las plagas guys from RE4 that CAN"T be stealth killed) so it's okay if you get spotted just work on taking out as many as you can before inevitably have to fight. With that said the game makes it very clear when you ARE suppose to be sneaky and not get caught at all though.

- The game's story doesn't make a lot of sense and isn't even really talked about or even explained a little bit until much later so don't worry about being confused.

- When you see a long haired bloody lady for the first time you are suppose to run away from her

- Yes the grab attacks are very annoying, there's not a lot you can do other than just be slightly far away enough so that you don't get grabbed