If you don't listen to your preacher, then you're not fearing God enough. that's the point, isn't it? Too often, the purpose of indoctrinating young children into Catholicism at a young age is to teach them to shut up, fear God, and listen to their preachers. Related: The Outlast Trials Introduces Cooperative Play To The Horror Seriesīut then. But I was a boy at the time, and that was wrong. In retrospect, I kinda had a crush on him. At the same time, behind that was a boy who I could tell was deeply unsure in himself, who was emotional and impulsive and scared. Zachary was a sweet kid - always one to play practical jokes, make goofy faces, sing dumb songs. I was eight years old again, and I was talking to my church friend, Zachary. And as I tried to fully process Jessica's horrific sexual abuse in Outlast 2, I found myself back in Albuquerque. Those bursts, however, soon gave way to more vivid, coherent memories. I remembered teachers gaslighting me after other students attacked me, telling me that it was my fault and that Jesus wouldn't tell on his "friends." I remember childhood friends whose parents dragged them to anti-abortion rallies, forcing them to rally around a corrupt and evil cause they couldn't understand.īut these memories came back as snapshots - short, decontextualized bursts of trauma.
I remembered crying children being dragged away to the principal for praying wrong. I remembered being struck by teachers for not saying "God bless you" instead of "bless you" in Catholic school. Suddenly, it rushed back in fits and starts. Jessica's death is made to look like a suicide, with the whole world never knowing the real story behind her death. Loutermilch threatens Blake, and makes him promise to not speak a word of it. Blake, having heard her screams as he left, rushes to the scene, only the find the corpse of his best friend and implied crush. In the struggle, she tumbles down the staircase and breaks her neck. Father Loutermilch is taking Jessica upstairs to sexually abuse her, and she resists. This culminates in one of the game's most disturbing sequences. Meanwhile, Blake can only watch from the sidelines, knowing that the abuse is happening, but unable to actually do anything about. As players discover throughout the game, Loutermilch is taking advantage of the abused and exploited girl in private, then playing her off as a weak, touchy child. Related: At Its Best, The Last Of Us Part II Is A Chilling Depiction Of The Cycle Of Abuseīut that library study is overseen by one of Jessica's biggest sources of trauma - a teacher by the name of Father Loutermilch. She tries to escape her abusive father through online Christian support groups, but the people there tell her to "talk to her teachers." Those same teachers exclude her from field trips and gym classes because she's "too sensitive," due to the copious amounts of trauma inflicted on her, and force her into mandatory library study. Through these recollections, players begin to witness the slow mental unraveling of Jessica as her parents and teachers fail her repeatedly. In these flashbacks, the protagonist relives his memories of spending time with his childhood friend, Jessica Gray, in Catholic school.
OUTLAST 2 SCHOOL SERIES
Blake is now forced to save his wife from both the religious cult and their forest-dwelling rivals, the Heretics.īreaking up the narrative are a series of flashbacks to Blake's upbringing. But no sooner does he find civilization than does he discover the hellish cult town of Heaven's Gate, led by murderous rapist "Papa" Sullivan Knoth. After a helicopter crash lands them in a remote region of Arizona, Blake is left to fend for himself after Lynn is kidnapped and their pilot crucified. A sequel in name and lore only, Outlast II follows married journalists Blake and Lynn Langermann as they investigate the brutal murder of a pregnant woman.
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