"Back in the early days, when I was making the first Resident Evil, I spent three months studying the psychology of horror. But what I’ve learned is, horror is instinctive - the things that scare me take precedence over any theory of horror. With Resident Evil, we went with human and human-shaped enemies because people are generally more interested in and scared by other people, rather than some obscure creature that we don’t recognize. Evil Within is the same."
January 1, 1970
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