CCRB RECORD No. 0045
The Evil Within 2
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3, Denial 3
A man styling himself Father builds a cathedral inside a simulation and makes himself its god.
The previous record noted the preacher and stopped there. Father Theodore Wallace is introduced as a warm and plausible religious counsellor and revealed as the game's second antagonist: inside the STEM simulation he has built himself a cathedral, gathered a congregation, and rules them as a priest. The vocabulary is pastoral throughout — he preaches, hears confession, offers absolution, speaks of shepherding the lost — and the content of it is that he alone can judge and save. His ambition is not metaphorical: he intends to become a god within the simulation, and within its rules he very nearly does, commanding fire and passing sentence on the people he has gathered. The player fights him in the cathedral he built.