It's not a bad setup, but it gets very repetitive very quickly. Luckily everything in the world uses the same size of battery so there are plenty lying around. Your only tool for seeing in the dark is your camera’s night vision which must be constantly fed batteries. You have no weapons, and must hide or avoid enemies. In terms of gameplay Outlast 2 is very similar to its predecessor. I found myself pushing through the cult storyline just so I could see what happened next in the flashback storyline. It handled very real issues in a very powerful way. On the other hand, the flashback storyline was incredibly engrossing. It was a plot line I had seen in plenty of other horror games, and never presented me with anything truly original. I found that I had mixed feelings when it came to the story. Both of these storylines focus on similar themes of misuse of power, children as expendables, and the loss of innocence. Running tandem to this story are flashbacks your character has to growing up in a Catholic school. As you explore you encounter a pseudo-Christian cult bent on protecting the world from the birth of the antichrist. You quickly become separated, leaving you to explore on your own. You serve as her cameraman as she documents an investigation into a series of disappearances. Outlast 2 opens with you and your wife aboard a helicopter. In other words if you’re interested in Outlast 2, rest assured that the Switch version does not skimp on anything, and offers a very accurate experience. The changes made are smart and, especially when playing handheld, often times imperceptible. I know it's not like me to open a review with a rant on graphics, but I want to hammer home what an excellent port Outlast 2 is.
But in exchange for these concessions, you get a full sweet of rich lighting effects and motion blur all at a remarkably smooth 30 frames per second. Foliage also now draws in much closer to the player. Some level of detail distances have been reduced, meaning you’re more likely to spot a low poly asset a bit closer to the camera.
In fact I had to return to the PC version to reassure myself that changes had been made at all. Like Layers of Fear and its own predecessor, Outlast 2 stands as an excellent conversion to Nintendo’s mobile platform.įrom the moment it started up, I was stunned by just how good Outlast 2 looks on Nintendo Switch. Over the past few months we’ve seen the genre carve out a sizable chunk of the Switch eShop and, for the most part, I’m not complaining. Evidently the Switch is the place to be if you’re a horror game.