Even if you don’t ramp the difficulty all the way up, the game’s story is still enjoyable if you’re a horror fan. After playing this and The Coma: Recut, I’m pretty glad I’m too old to go to school, as Switch players will know by now that they can be some dangerous, scary places. Blake’s mission to rescue Lynn is intersected to flashbacks to his school days, which become all the more messed up each time you return.
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Main character Blake doesn’t take long to discover the mystery of the Jane Doe victim that they are there to investigate, but it’s finding wife Lynn which proves to be the hard work, with the cultist locals having seized her to put her through a series of messed-up religious misdemeanours. It really is great storytelling of the highest order, and exactly the sort of thing we want to see more of making a home for itself on the Switch.
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Fortunately, though, on completing the game you’re given the full list of all the video recordings even if you didn’t manage to grab them all when you were playing through. This is a bit more of an annoyance than the first game’s system, as with some events happening quickly due to moving characters, you’ll need to know to point the camera at them immediately if you’re going to record it.
Also, rather than simply scribbling notes upon the sight of plotline sights and objects, you’ll need to point the camera at certain scenes and events as a progress circle slowly fills to a full 360 degrees, a bit like the scanning system in the Metroid Prime games. Hit the left directional button on your left Joy-Con to use an audio-amplifier, allowing you to listen through walls and other objects and get a sense of where the evil entities are around you. While the majority of the functions of the camcorder are present and correct from the first game, there are some new additions. The Outlast world is wonderfully atmospheric, and you can quite easily believe it’s a real place. Miraculously, the camcorder survives the crash, leading to a repeat of the filming mechanic to help advance the story through collectables from the first game.
Skip to the next paragraph now if you don’t want an early spoiler… the game starts with both characters filming a news report from a helicopter, which crash-lands into a mysterious village in Northern Arizona. In Outlast II, you play as a cameraman working with a presenter on a documentary regarding the murder of a pregnant woman. The first game was fantastic in the way it generated atmosphere, sending the player – in control of an investigative journalist – into an abandoned mental asylum in order to find out what’s behind some very unusual reports. And they’re lucky they get to do so, because it’s a joy (or a horror, depending on your viewpoint…). Just about a month after we got the sudden release of the first Outlast game and its Bundle of Terror, Nintendo fans now get to play the second title in the horror franchise.
More of the same, but will the novelty last?
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