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.

Contested Sequel: While most consider Outlast II to be a very effective horror game, whether it's a worthy successor to the first game and its DLC tends to be divisive.

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.

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