I finished both tonight while avoiding to go to sleep. Because fuck sleep.
Also, because I'm such a nice guy, SPOILER ALERT. Too nice, fuck off.
Ok, please don't, read on. Fag.
I would write an extensive review but I think all that has to be said is a few words and you can probably piece together it in your head without me spilling guts all over here. Asylum, psychotic patients, money hungry company and experiment gone wrong.
That should get you through the idea and give you enough to piece it together yourself.
Well, first time playing Outlast was quite a tense experience and I got lost so many times, ending up both taking breaks from it as well as rage quit.
Tonight I began a whole new save and it just flew past me, it was a bit creepy and unsettling the first 30 to maybe 45 minutes, then I just.. I don't know, it didn't creep on me anymore, feels like the jump-scares could only do so much, sure it got me a few times, but hey, Infrared camera.
With that in my hand it didn't feel that frightening come to think of it, I sort of followed people around, got as close as I could just to admire their personalities between that and getting sniffed out in lockers and running in circle to fool their simple minds (AI).
Overall, great story, well made design.
I have to complain about a few things though, there's NEVER a straight way anywhere, all the places you'd like to go are locked, DUHR, OBVIOUSLY.
I figured that among all the raging psychotic patients would only have so much fun having sex with corpses as well as jacking it to body piles.
Eventually they'd get a "taste for flesh" and just bash the next door in, believe me, a lot of doors were knocked down.
So, they'd probably bash open at least one door in the direction I was heading in, but no. That'd be too obvious.
At one point it got back to me, after having seen endless amount of penises and physically abused wanderers, as well as some necrophilia and cannibalism, I dropped the camera. Leading me to go into the dark without it, for some reason there was a convenient way down there. That's where it started to get a little bit creepy, until I realized that they'd go for another jump-scare. Indeed they did, still easy to avoid. Nothing was broken. Yet.
What more could you want from a game? Insanity, necrophilia, inanimate living beings, church arson and sexually confused mad-men.
Great game, I wish they'd release some more of it, I'm still curious about it.
Also, fuck amnesia, forced ass camera angles when you don't want nor need it. Outlast, much better.