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It sometimes feels like Yakety Sak would be a more appropriate soundtrack than the gameвЂ™s chorus of rusty violins, a dozen enemies sprinting behind your asthmatic main character as you hope for an exit.

Later sequences include either a) One or more dead ends, resulting in an almost guaranteed death or b) A large open area with no apparent exit which you run around in circles until you finally find the two-foot gap in a fence or similarly disguised safe-point. The sound design is wonderful, stalks of corn rustling like gunshots in the still autumn air. Cornfields are terrifying, as anyone whoвЂ™s been in a corn maze (especially a haunted corn maze) will tell you. I actually really enjoyed an early game flight through a cornfield. Outlast 2, especially in the back half, ditches stealth sections almost entirely and replaces them with lengthy sequences wherein an enemy or group of enemies chases you down a corridor or through a field or through a cave or under a building or literally any other setting you can think of in backwoods middle-of-nowheresville. Marta is the worst of the lot-her four or five appearances in the game are downright frustrating, as you exploit her slow movement speed to duck around corners and try to make enough progress to trigger the next checkpoint.Д«ut it is by no means limited to Marta. Outlast 2В is obsessed with this trial-and-error, die-a-dozen-times feedback loop. Except this time she was inexplicably gone.

I finally realized I had to sprint back to where the checkpoint had started, climbing back under the fence IвЂ™d come through, thenвЂ¦turning around and running back to where Marta had initially attacked. Third time I tried to kite her around a rusty car frame. That aspect is preserved for the sequel, but now youвЂ™re also prompted to record certain events, a red circle filling up as you capture footage. In the original Outlast you were ostensibly вЂњfilmingвЂќ your adventure, but nothing really came of it except you could use the cameraвЂ™s night vision. These nightmarish scenes also serve to introduce Outlast 2вЂ™s new camera gimmick, which feels fresh at the start.

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Its world is grisly, repulsive, sadistic, with the tranquil blue light of the full moon an excellent juxtaposition to the atrocities below. YouвЂ™re left to trudge through an eerie countryside, punctured here and there by crucified cult members and stacks of burning bodies while deranged leader Father Knoth hollers his makeshift scripture through a crackly PA system. The opening hour of Outlast 2В isnвЂ™t quite as well-paced as the opening hour of its predecessor, but itвЂ™s close. Oh, and they think your wife is pregnant with the Antichrist. You and your wife are separated, and as if that werenвЂ™t already cause for concern, you soon discover the area is littered with members of a cult.Д¬razed leader, physical and sexual abuse, the whole gamut of religionвЂ™s worst chapters is on display here.

Ditching the clichГ© corridors of OutlastвЂ™s abandoned mental hospital for the just-as-clichГ© cornfields of rural Americana, Outlast 2В sends you crashing into the backwoods, helicopter ablaze. Not all of my complaints will apply to everyone, and if youвЂ™ve made it through Outlast 2В and love it then more power to you. Horror is subjective of course-more than most genres. And the worst part is that, given the root cause, Outlast 2вЂ™s problems only become apparent late in the game when players have exhausted the bag of tricks and seen them again and again and again. Outlast 2В is proof of this fragility, of the delicate knife-edge developers walk between terror and tedium, mysterious and melodramatic.

Even the most creative scare becomes banal given enough repetition, with the magic replaced by mundanity as soon as we understand the trick to it. Familiarity breeds contempt, and thereвЂ™s no genre more vulnerable to contempt than horror.