![]() ![]() There are hints of abuse and depression that feel incredibly realistic, even as demons with tongues like lashing tentacles chase you through computer labs and bathroom stalls in your mind. Interspersed throughout are vignettes of varying length that take place in the halls, cafeterias and libraries of Blake’s childhood school, where a close friend in his past publicly hanged herself, evidently due to some inaction on his part. And don’t think for a second that won’t happen, because she is straight up relentless whenever she appears to hunt you down in the night. From where did she come? What afflicted her? You set out to answer these questions.īut Blake and Lynn quickly find themselves unwilling participants in a backwater war between a village of twisted Christian sex cult maniacs and a splinter branch of woods-dwelling heretics, led respectively by a gluttonous, whale-sized child-rapist and a towering witch woman who will happily hack off your genitals with a sharpened cross if you give her the chance. As Blake Langermann you travel to this remote region of Arizona with your wife and partner Lynn to investigate the circumstances that caused a pregnant woman to fall dead by the side of the road some distance away. Like in the first Outlast, you play a camera-toting journalist in Outlast 2 (although the games appear otherwise unconnected). Outlast 2 is as pure and effective a horror video game as has ever existed, which will make it a dream for some players and unplayable for others. This is not terror-lite there’s no action or humor. But Outlast 2 employs a number of other psychological tricks and feints on top of that feeling of helplessness that make it truly nerve-wracking to play. Obviously it’s terrifying to feel vulnerable and helpless, which in this game you always are, without a single fleeting second of safety or respite. Outlast 2 is also pants-crappingly scary. But the multiplicitous ways in which you can now scurry off and tuck yourself away somewhere dark, and the things you can do once you have, make Outlast 2 an admirable expansion of the original’s narrow vision. That generally leaves the same two options: Run, and hide. You still can’t fight in Outlast 2, except for small quick-time moments where you have to rapidly press a button to escape some monster’s clutches. Fitbit Versa 3īlake suffers some of the most vile, visceral horrors imaginable, and through him, you experience them too. ![]()
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