#Outlast 2 review full
Basements were full of torture devices and nightmares, housing hell beneath god’s house. Inside some, you’d find a dirtiness resting within the pews. They came across as sanctuaries, untouched by the darkness that permeated the inhabitants of the area, at least on the outside. No neon signs denoting the rapes, tortures, and murders that were happening within the hallowed walls. There was no extreme transformation to let you know that a cult of zealots congregate here. Churches are such a common locale in horror films, but I appreciated how they were kept relatively normal. My favorite areas were easily the various churches, temples, and other areas of worship. It was always present, lingering in the background, but the world did most of the talking, showing you nightmarish scenes as you waded through dense cornfields and explored rundown farms. There was never a moment where I felt the satanic influence and twisting of scripture was being forced down my throat. However, what Red Barrels managed to do with this take on cults showed restraint and was very well done. It’s something that isn’t exactly new and had the chance of coming across as overdone and cliche. What follows is a dark spiral into a world where faith in the wrong being can prove to be quite deadly for those involved and anyone who happens to stumble along. After waking up ejected from the aircraft, Blake starts to quickly discover that the people inhabiting this isolated, rural area are a few cards short of a full deck, and very dangerous. At first it looks like there’s nothing amiss, until a mysterious flash of light sends the helicopter careening towards the ground. In order to find out just what tortured this young woman’s soul, you and your wife find yourselves in a helicopter over Arizona’s forest. Soon after, she was found dead in a hospital after an apparent suicide. A woman was found wandering the road covered in filth, pregnant, and muttering nonsensical verses. Outlast 2 places you into the well-worn loafers of investigative journalist Blake Langermann as he and his wife Lynn, the boss, head to Arizona to investigate a mysterious death. The story is not just a simple “get out of here alive” setup, though. You’re left with just your wits and a camera that suffers from questionable battery consumption as you navigate a labyrinth of country roads, rundown shacks, and twisted churches.
The switch from the confines of an asylum and its surrounding area to a network of towns, tunnels, and flashbacks brought more of a change than I anticipated, and it wasn’t all necessarily for the better.įor the uninitiated, Outlast 2 is a survival horror game that strips you of any physical might. Yet here I am, having just spent countless hours exploring the backwoods of Arizona hunted by a group of violent zealots. I was admittedly not keen on diving into any sequel that would leave me frightened of being alone in my house. It took me months to revisit the game after reaching the basement area for the first time. Full disclosure: the first Outlast scared the ever loving crap out of me on PS4.
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