The Beast Inside Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

by Jim Smale · Published November 15, 2024 · Updated November 15, 2024

The Beast Inside Review, The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles, and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.

The Beast Inside Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
6.9GB download size.
Controller settings – HD rumble, Invert axis, and sensitivity slider.
Head bobbing – on/off.
Three game difficulties – adventure, standard, and beast.
In-game cutscenes and interactions.
Good voicework.
Horror them throughout with jump scares and the feeling of uneasiness.
You can skip the cutscenes.
First-person view.
Action adventure gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play and they get stored in the help menu.
Your voice recorder is used to help with what needs doing or what your objective is.
Items and tools can be found to open up new areas of the game world.
Find letters and notes for backstory and again these are stored in the menu.
A full 3D game world.
You can grab doors, drawers, and that and then open them with the right stick.
Handy icon prompts pop up when you can interact with something.
Any item you pick up can be rotated in your hands.
Physics plays a part in all the items that are grabbed and thrown.
A fully 3D object viewer is on your menu.
Puzzles throughout the game.
Audible cues can happen to help sometimes.
The game is split up into chapters with each having its own synopsis of what to expect.
You can push and pull heavier objects.
Good lighting system.
Day and night sequences along with different weather types.
The Story is good if a bit all over the place and chaotic with its flashbacks and set pieces.
Once the game opens up and gets the horror in there it is a lot more fun and memorable.

The Beast Inside Review Cons:

Long initial load time.
You cannot remap the controls.
The loading times in general are long.
You can see where they have cut corners to make it run on the Nintendo Switch from less vegetation to lower scaled-back graphics.
The game still doesn’t run that well with slowdown frames dropping and textures popping in, it’s a very jarring experience.
Never sure when it has saved and you have no manual save.
A bit unbelievable in places like going for paint in the attic just as you move in or when your wife is in a room you can’t enter and the doors are locked.
You may be told what to do but the game doesn’t help you achieve that in either precise instructions or having a marker to show where to put or do something.
No way to bring up the controls so you are at the mercy of the game to tell you.
Tutorial pop-ups can feel delayed or in the wrong spot.
Interaction sometimes has to be pixel-perfect.
When picking up items it just says picked up and you have to enter the menus to find out what it was.
A slow starter in a game.
I found the grabbing of objects to interact with them clunky and not that smooth.
My god the house layout is bad and feels like a cruel joke!