You and your reporter wife, Lynn, are investigating the mysterious death of a pregnant 15 year old Jane Doe found wandering a desolate highway miles from civilization. Outlast 2 uses a similar setup to the original, casting you as a milquetoast videographer named Blake. If that doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, then bail out now. The game is exceedingly gruesome and explicit. Religion, body horror, misogyny, and sexual abuse are the overarching themes that stitch together all the moment-to-moment violence and terror. Outlast 2 knows it wants to shock you, but it doesn’t know exactly what it wants to say.īefore we go any further, you need to know that Outlast 2 deals with some extremely heavy and uncomfortable topics (and not always with the most tact or delicacy). What is less admirable, however, is the lack of follow-through in the narrative. The eagerness Outlast 2 has for making the player wriggle uncomfortably, for forcing them to come face-to-face with some of the most gruesome and disturbing imagery I’ve ever seen in a horror game is impressive. There is something admirable about such a direct approach to terror. About not wanting something to happen and then being forced to endure it, inch by inch, in excruciating detail. Outlast 2 is not game about pulling punches or subtle implications. It shows you something horrifying, something repulsive, then it grabs you by the scruff and rubs your nose in it. This is a trick Outlast 2 comes back to again and again. If you see a mutant hillbilly pissing into a ditch of decapitated heads and severed body parts, you can be sure that you’ll have to belly crawl your way through that filth in the next 15 minutes or so. Mariners 10, Rangers 9.If Chekhov’s gun is the narrative principle that if a gun is shown on a mantle in the first chapter, it must be fired by the third, then Outlast 2 runs on the principle of Chekhov’s piss. Dylan Moore scores.Ģ runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Luis Torrens pinch-hitting for Adam Frazier. Dylan Moore singles to shallow center field. Nathaniel Lowe grounds out to shallow infield, Adam Frazier to Dylan Moore.ġ run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Marcus Semien out on a sacrifice fly to right field to Mitch Haniger. Josh Smith out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Abraham Toro to Dylan Moore. Jarred Kelenic pops out to shallow infield to Josh Jung.ġ run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cal Raleigh out on a sacrifice fly to left center field to Kole Calhoun. Eugenio Suarez singles to left center field. Kevin Plawecki called out on strikes.ġ run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Bubba Thompson pops out to shallow infield to Ty France. Kole Calhoun singles to deep right field. Kole Calhoun pinch-hitting for Mark Mathias. Josh Smith lines out to deep right center field to Mitch Haniger.ġ run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Bubba Thompson singles to shallow infield. Mark Mathias grounds out to shallow infield to Ty France.Ģ runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Crawford strikes out swinging.ġ run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Adam Frazier flies out to shallow center field to Josh Smith. Crawford out at second.Ģ runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Crawford reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Cal Raleigh flies out to shallow right field to Marcus Semien.Ģ runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Eugenio Suarez lines out to shallow left field to Josh Jung. Ty France singles to shallow right field.
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