And the relationship between Blake and Jessica, and Lynn at parts, made me a lot more invested in keeping the former alive. ![]() These are often the creepier moments, because it trades gratuitous gore for more measured out scares. We are frequently brought back into a nightmare version of his old school where something happened to his childhood friend, Jessica. It does that latter part rather well, as we delve deeper into Blake’s psyche. The overarching objective of finding Lynn remains throughout, allowing Outlast 2 to concentrate on building up its world, as well as Blake himself. I feel the plot progresses quite well from there. It crashes, of course, and Blake is left stranded with nothing but a camcorder to his name. Our protagonist, Blake Langermann, and his wife Lynn perform the foolish act of getting on a helicopter in a video game. The idea of an isolated colony, cut off from the rest of the world and seemingly inescapable is creepy by itself let alone being an outsider there. The deep American south seems to be proving itself a horror goldmine of late and you don’t have to reach too far to guess why. The creepy asylum has been replaced by a slice of rural Arizona. Storywise, Outlast 2 seeks to distance itself from its father as much as possible. Unfortunately, it’s still Outlast at its core and that poses something of a problem. Religious horror is usually a strong flavour, given how easy religion can dance the grey line of morality, and when Outlast 2 gets going it can be scary. So, Outlast 2 has a fairly strong premise in the background. ![]() It’s refreshing to see a game actually sling the apocalypse at you, along with a whole armada of dead bodies, and leave you to figure out just what the hell is going on. Instead, Outlast 2 seems to warn more of the dangers of interpretation and fanaticism, with some of the juicer bits of the book of Revelations thrown in. Outlast 2 doesn’t have very nice things to say about organised religion either, though it’s not so fundamental as to seem preachy. Weird stuff is happening all over the place. Everyone’s going nuts with religious fervour, it’s raining blood, cats and dogs are living with each other: it’s the apocalypse. ![]() I bring it up because much of the mayhem that goes on in Outlast 2 could easily be waved away with this line. “Hey, Dave, if God’s so against murder why did you skin Tony in his name and hang him up on the wall?” ‘God works in mysterious ways.’ I love that line.
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