The ending is unfulfilling and ruined much of my experience of the game. You would think that such a fantastic story and (mostly) godlike horror game would end on an explosive note (don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything).
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Related Article: Sunday Review: The Brutal Gamer Archive for the week of 4/14/14 A sequence which, by the way, leads me to my biggest complaint about the game: the ending. During these little quests you will, more often than not, be pursued by one of the previously mentioned creatures or killers.Īfter so long, it gets to be more frustrating than fun and actually gets to be a nuisance during the game’s extremely drawn out ending sequence. Many, many times throughout the game you will find a door or elevator that won’t open or work until you find ‘X’ of a specific item. you begin to ruin the formula and this is where Outlast begins to stumble. However, if you force in constant treks to find valves, switches, fuses, etc. The game is filled to the brim with subtle spooks and pop up scares, coupled with terrifying music and disturbing environment with a horrifying backstory- take all of this together and you have what is the perfect horror game.
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Related Article: PS4 to get some kind of PS2 emulation A horrifying example of the gruesome experiments that take place in Mount Massive AsylumĪs I stated earlier, never before has a game made me tear up it scared me so bad. I am not going to elaborate on any of these pursuers because it will spoil some of the fun of discovery, however I will say this about one of them: He is one of the scariest things I have ever encountered in a game, and wish to never see another thing like him again. There are several enemies (which you cannot dispel because Miles is too dumb to pick up a knife and fight back) which make it their day job to pursue you through the majority of the game. I didn’t collect many of these documents and there were a lot that I missed, so what little bit I did find left me to not understand the last hour or so of the game (in short, make sure to find these documents or the game will get confusing very fast). Speaking of collecting things, you can find documents explaining the backgrounds of the Asylum and some of the patients you will encounter. The camera idea sounds interesting, but can quickly become annoying if you don’t make sure to collect some of the batteries hidden in dark corners, or sometimes in plain sight. Most of the game is viewed through the aforementioned camera, as nearly the entire Asylum is submersed in darkness. Related Article: Redeemer: Enhanced Edition (Xbox One) Review
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Using the camera equipped with night vision that you brought with you, you can make your way through a room full of mutilated bodies, (you’d think that is when you would be intelligent and leave, but apparently not) and down through a lit hallway into the bowels of what will soon be the most terrifying place you have ever seen. Miles arrives at the Mount Massive (creative…) Asylum, when he gets an anonymous tip that there are some strange goings-on in the “abandoned” building.Īnd boy, are there some strange goings-on moments after arriving and realizing the door is locked, you notice movement in an open window, so obviously the only sensible thing to do, is to climb up the conveniently placed debris, and enter through the window. In Outlast, you play through the eyes of Miles Upshur, “whose ambition is to earn him an intimate tour of hell on earth”, as quoted from the prologue of the game. No game has ever scared me so bad, to a point that I started tearing up, and closing my eyes every time I walk through a door. I love feeling helpless while playing a game, like I am stuck in a situation that is quickly spiraling out of control and that is what this Outlast does. I love horror games like Amnesia, and SCP Containment Breach. One of the creatures in the Asylum, also known as Variants. Yes, they have only created one game, but that is okay because the one game they have made is absolutely fantastic (except for the ending).
Outlast was produced and developed by Red Barrels Studio, whose last know title was…Outlast.