The people there have a rather unhealthy fascination with all things sexual, which is expressed in some horrifying ways. Children - normally off limits in the typical horror story - are also murdered with wild abandon at the behest of the unhinged Knoth. Without question, this a game that earns its "M" rating in every conceivable way, from the story twists to the overall themes to the gore and even in the many documents discovered while searching this backwoods hamlet. It's a little thing, but it adds a certain something to the atmosphere.
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I might be the last person to realize this was a possibility since I usually never play my PS4 at night with all the lights off, but I was also amused to see the PS4 controller's light changes colors when you switch to night vision on the camera.
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Some additional objects to interact with, a series of quick time events, and significantly more places to hide from enemies all increase your options on what can be done from the previous game.
The camera has an extra microphone feature as well for listening through walls or across fields so you can try to time your sneaking better when patrolling enemies are on the move. Unlike with the first Outlast, which is essentially just something you pull out at Halloween to scream for a night, there's now a reason to play through Outlast 2 more than once to search them all down.
Some of those special video recording segments are cleverly hidden, and others can only be found at specific time intervals. Not only does this add something else above and beyond what was in the first game, but it also takes care of an issue that was a deal breaker for many before: replayability. What's interesting is that lot of those scenes can be missed. The camera of course remains, but there's additional elements to that system now, like recording video segments on story-important scenes. With the new enemies come an updated UI and new mechanics. These aren't the easy going, forgiving kind of religious folks Recording The Horror
If you like to dig into the lore and backstory, just simply listening to Knoth's unholy sermons, and the mad sense they make if you take certain theological concepts literally or run them to their ultimate conclusions, is a pretty wild ride all on its own. Needless to say, the two don't get along, and it's flaying, crucifixion, and burning alive all around for everybody! The present danger is likewise split into two different factions: one side hyper fundamentalist, incredibly violent Christian hillbillies who worship the evil Knoth as a prophet and sort of secondary savior, and the other side consisting of heretics who have left the backwoods Vatican to follow their own equally crazy faith. As someone who had to attend private religious school myself, this aspect of the story really resonated with me: for everyone else, your mileage on that front may vary. First there are the religious fanatics the main character is being hunted by, and then there are (equally dangerous) flashback segments to Blake's time at Catholic school as a kid. Before long the two are separated and things go quite badly for all involved when stumbling upon the locals.īackwoods forests and caves aren't the only environment however, as supernatural danger arrives in unexpected ways. Rather than investigating an asylum in need of shutting down, this time husband and wife duo Blake and Lynn are looking into the mystery of young pregnant woman who was found dead. Now THAT'S how you start a game! New Focus The religious themes are much more fully explored in this sequel on two different fronts. While the first game flirted with disturbing religious themes, but then took a very sudden, very hard left turn into sci-fi at the end, this time around, we get what's been advertised with the logo and trailers. I was absolutely gutted when a several month delay happened at the 11th hour back near Halloween 2016, but now Outlast 2 is here and ready to scare your socks off.
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