#Outlast 2 val serial

Franchise Original Sin: As noted under It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, the game's lack of offensive options shifts fully into Idiot Ball territory.

Ultimately it's just to make the school segments creepier. Faux Symbolism: The school segments have quite a lot of focus on blood, which is bizarre considering they center around Jessica Gray, who died via relatively very bloodless Neck Snap.Ethan is also quite popular too, but virtue of being the only non-playable character so far in the Outlast universe to be a genuine Nice Guy.

#Outlast 2 val serial

Despite only appearing sporadically through the game, Marta has become surprisingly popular with the fandom, mostly for her character design, Hidden Depths, and appearing to be one of the few main antagonists who isn't a serial rapist.Draco in Leather Pants: Much like Eddie Gluskin before her, some fans absolutely love Val of all characters, completely ignoring the fact that she's a Serial Rapist who derives sexual pleasure from killing babies and instead often talk about how beautiful she is or (somehow) Woobie-fying her.Others, however, criticized the sequel's increased difficulty, lack of changes to the core gameplay, and ramping up the already depressing tone of the original. For the most part, players praised the more open-ended outdoor settings as opposed to the enclosed asylum setting, the phycological drama approach that allowed Blake's character to be fleshed out, and the overall gloomier atmosphere that increases the sense of anxiety. Contested Sequel: While positively received, the sequel still garnered mixed reactions from fans of the first game.Although these were all traits present to some degree in the first game, it's taken up to eleven in this one. Cliché Storm: The game uses basically every horror trope there is, with varying degrees of humanoid abominations (ranging from Body Horror monsters to Ambiguously Human), tons of jump scares, cat scares, no way to defend yourself, a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane situation, an ambiguous Downer Ending, having no way to contact the outside world or escape, implausibly strong killers, an evil influence, a main character with a Dark Secret, and a ridiculous amount of almost over-the-top Gorn (such as the piles of dead babies for a start), far more than even the first game.Stalking the darkened school is a mysterious suited man, likely a teacher, who eventually appears as a nude Humanoid Abomination with a dozen arms and an Overly-Long Tongue, who attacks Blake in extremely invasive and lascivious ways. He is subjected to so many images of Jessica hanging that you'd swear the game developers just learned what a Red Herring is. To wit, in his hallucinations, Blake is repeatedly sent back in time to his old Catholic school the night Jessica died. Captain Obvious Reveal: The fate of Jessica Gray.Others feel that it’s what makes him work, as you are meant to feel like you’re in the same hell that he’s in. Many felt that he has lower characterization than the silent protagonists of the first game, and therefore makes him less engaging. Base-Breaking Character: Blake Langermann, the protagonist of the game, has gotten some of this.Some people have defended it by saying it stays true to the formula and fits the tone of the game, while others have stated that it just makes everything you’ve done feel pointless.

Broken Base: In a similar vein to the first game, the sequel divided fans due to its depressing outcome.

This is attributed to the segments exploring Blake's backstory, the setting being completely barren save for an enemy that pops up randomly, and the more Psychological Horror approach compared to the rest of the game.

Best Level Ever: Difficult as they are, a lot of players regard the school segments as the most memorable parts of the game.

However, it's not hard to believe that Blake suppressed his sexuality due to his Catholic upbringing and his true sexuality started emerging in his adulthood. The main vision of Blake is that he's sexually dysfunctional due to his warped and fearful view of sex brought upon by his experience with Jessica and Father Loutermilch. Blake is constantly haunted by a hallucination of Father Loutermilch calling him a 'diseased cocksucker' and telling him he's 'not evil, just confused'. He has had a 4-month long Sexless Marriage with Lynn and Jessica's crush on him didn't develop into their later years on the account of her death, their age, as well as the fact that he loved her as a friend.

Alternate Character Interpretation: There's some evidence to believe that Blake is a sexually suppressed gay man.