I felt constantly disorientated while blindly running to a half-glimpsed place of safety, and while this might look like bad game design on paper, it’s effective in practice when the goal is to create a sense of desperation. With multiple labyrinthian structures and outdoor environments like tall grass and rivers to hide in, it’s easier to simply run from enemies, but it’s also harder to see them coming. It’s a lot more open than the original, which adds to an authentic horror experience. Outlast 2 is deep South horror, but without the trappings of domesticity we saw in Resident Evil 7 Supai is untamed cornfields, dilapidated shacks, and – go figure – gory remnants of unspeakable religious rites. The ending, however, stayed with me for days.Outlast 2 benefits from ditching the somewhat tired mental asylum setting of the original and travelling the less-trodden road of the Sonoran Desert, where protagonist Blake Langermann is searching for his wife Lynn after crash landing in the cult-ridden Supai region during an investigative journalism assignment. While it suffers from a couple of pacing problems and some finicky navigation issues, its careful - and sadistic - manipulation of my fight-or-flight reflex had me experiencing an overwhelming sense of dread throughout, which abated only once the credits were rolling. I have no access to the comics so I'm stuck with this theory for now.Not for the faint of heart, Outlast 2’s relentless scares, unforgiving monsters, and provocative meditations on faith are an anxiety-inducing but cathartic horror experience. Guess we'll never know till Red Barrels releases the sequel-but-not sequel. Blake prays with Jessica and then what? He didn't die, so what did happen? I don't really get the ending either, to be honest.

The storm, from what I can tell, was real, but everything else wasn't.

Like killing off the birds, making it rain blood, etc.Įverything you see- the school, Jessica hanging off of a tree at one point, blood rain, etc-is caused by Murkoff. Murkoff used high frequencies and radio towers to make Temple Gate seem like the end times were near, and would do whatever they could to make it convincing. After the first one is sounded-the one that made Lynn and Blake crash- everything goes to shit.

If you remember the white flashes from throughout the game, Murkoff is replicating the 7 Trumpets. Since Murkoff is in Outlast 2 I believe they caused everything, from hallucinations to apocolyptic-events.

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