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The Evil Within 2 launches at midnight tonight, and I'm guessing most of you—most of anyone, really—won't play it. I'll save my full impressions of the horror sequel for another piece, but knowing so many won't bother giving The Evil Within 2 a chance not only bums me out, but raises another question: what's your favorite overlooked sequel?For years, I held a torch out for The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The stressful time-based structure was polarizing at the time, which meant a lot of people never got to know Zelda's most interesting, nuanced world. Majora's Mask has more than gotten its due over time, concluding in a wonderful 3D re-release a few years back, so it no longer feels necessary to champion the second N64 adventure the way I used to.Who knows if I'll feel that way about The Evil Within 2, and yet, I can see this quickly becoming the kind of game where if I'm able sniff a measure of interest, I'll push someone to give it a try. I was doing this to Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker yesterday.(It's tempting to say this is how I treated Nier: Automata, but that game critically snowballed in a way that it no longer felt like Automata was being overlooked.)"You should try it," is not, perhaps, the highest of endorsements, but in a year where there's endless "pretty good" video games (I'm looking at you, Shadow of War), sometimes that extra oomph helps. What's your overlooked sequel, the one you wish more people would give a chance?