r/theevilwithin • u/PamNoctrune • 1d ago
Sebastian was originally supposed to be partly responsible for Ruvik’s/Laura’s burns.
I watched a deep dive video about The Evil Within this week, but unfortunately, I can’t find it anymore. In it, they mentioned, among other things, that the game’s story was changed during development, as is often the case, and I think they quoted the book “The Art of The Evil Within”:
Apparently, one of the original ideas was that Sebastian had been one of the men who set the barn on fire while Laura and Ruvik were playing inside.
I find this really interesting and wonder why they scrapped that idea. Seb is a year older than Ruvik. It would have changed quite a lot. He would have still been a child himself and maybe forced to take part in it. If he had lived nearby, he might have grown up in a cult himself, just like Kidman.
Is that why Ruvik says “You did this to us!” in Chapter 10? And they never cut that?