Anyone who's seen the superb Spanish horror film will know where this is going. The camcorder's night vision mode is the only way to pick a route through the place. It's lucky he's brought the camera, as most of the aslyum is inky dark. In addition to being hyper-dedicated to his job, Upshur is also an apparent pacifist - no weapons cross his palms across the game's five-hour story. Sidle up against a wall and Upshur will press his hands against it, terrifying anyone who isn't expecting hands on their screen. Only once during Outlast's campaign did I come close to emptying my last battery, and that was because I spent 20 minutes stuck on a puzzle. They're everywhere: on counter tops, under desks, bafflingly in sinks. Luckily, Upshur seems to have stumbled across the world's only battery-powered asylum. That camera is Outlast's only tool, and it has to be kept topped up with batteries. I sometimes put "journalist" in my email signature, and I would've gone home at that point.īut he doesn't, because he's convinced he's going to document the asylum's secrets on video camera. Upshur is seemingly the most committed journalist in the world: 30 seconds after breaking in, he's confronted with a load of entrails and dead security guards, yet he presses on. As journalist Miles Upshur, I was poking around in an asylum after an anonymous tip told me bad things were happening to its patients. Let me tell you that being grabbed by a seven foot mass of horror-muscle intent on pulling your head from your neck is scientifically less scary when set against the Vengaboys' seminal 'Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!' That's because, 15 minutes into the game, I'd alt-tabbed three times to calm down before deciding the best course of action was to set up a Spotify playlist of the most cheerful music I could think of and run it at half volume as I played. First-person horror Outlast uses careful audio cues to announce when the angry, mutilated denizens of the asylum you're investigating spot you pootling around in their vicinity - but it took me about two hours to realise that.
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