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Finished it the other night. It's a decent follow up to EW, but falls short of it over all.
The open world aspect was an improvement though. Love doing the scavenger thing in games and EW2 allows for a bit more of that kind of play; especially if you're hitting all the side quests (which I did). Kinda wish the open world parts would've been bigger, but for what it was it's still an improvement over the strict linear EW.
As far a difficulty it wasn't too far off from EW. I played on Survival, but probably could have went harder. Overall EW2 seemed easier than EW at the same difficulty setting. EW could be a beast at times... EW2 not nearly so much. IMO there's a higher tension level and difficulty with EW... though having said that I do think that the weapon/character upgrading and open world aspects of EW2 helped to compensate for the toned down difficulty it delivered, and in many ways made it a much more balanced game over the original EW.
Big fan of survival horror, and bottom line is I dug 'em both. They both have their merits, but if I had to recommend one over the other when it came to difficulty and overall survival horror tension - go with Evil Within.