

This is not to say that Outlast 2 needs to become Condemned: Criminal Origins and become a first-person horror beat 'em up. It becomes downright immersion-breaking due to how many chances Blake has to arm himself with anything, but the game won't let him because of Red Barrels' misguided notion of de-empowerment. Even Harry Mason had the guts to pick up a steel pipe to protect himself. Listen up, horror-game developers: to this day, the first three Silent Hill releases are still scaring people who play them. or maybe because Red Barrels has been duped into the false song that taking away power from the user somehow makes the game scarier. Trager, but Blake's only reason why he never defends himself is because he is a massive beta soy-boy. At least Miles had the excuse of having a few of his fingers get cut off by the affable Dr. Blake is an even wimpier protagonist than the mute Miles.

Outlast 2 takes that foundation and puts a massive tyre fire on it by neglecting the best aspects of its predecessor.

It did not always play to its best strengths, but it had a very solid foundation to build upon. Exploring Mount Massive Asylum had Miles Upshur do all kinds of things in a confined area, like platforming, sneaking around in mini-labyrinths, and in some cases he had multi-part goals to accomplish that could be approached in different ways. Readers proceed with caution.The original Outlast is a flawed but enjoyable experience. The following contains major spoilers for "Outlast 2," as well as a discussion of suicide. Not only do players learn how Jessica died, but it is discovered that over the course of the game, Lynn has mysteriously become nine months pregnant and is about to give birth, leading into the conclusion of the story. "Outlast 2" also features the current day storyline of Blake and Lynn trying to survive the cult and flashbacks to Blake's childhood. Over the course of the game, it is revealed that Blake has some unresolved trauma over the death of his childhood friend Jessica Gray, whom he went to Catholic school with.

One of the creepiest games of the previous decade, "Outlast 2" equips players with only a camera as they encounter a mysterious cult and try not to get killed. " Outlast 2" follows the husband and wife team of Blake and Lynn Langermann as they go deep into the Arizona desert to investigate the mysterious death of a woman.
