School sections

[icon_of_sin]

What exactly is the point of the school sections?

The only connections they have with the main story seam to be
- both lynn and blake went to the same school
- both lynn and blake knew jessica
- "bad" things happened which were cloaked as "good" with the guise of religion.

Normally when a game has sections like this there is a strong connection with the events of the main story which are revealed at the end of such sections and typically before a key point in the main story
but in this game that seams not to be the case

[Incia3000]

Very last scene of the whole game is at the school, it explains the story at the very end.

[icon_of_sin]

Originally posted by Incia:

Very last scene of the whole game is at the school, it explains the story at the very end.

what does this scene have to do with the end of the main game?

[Tactile]

I lost the schools scenes too.
Is Jessica Val or something like that? What does jessica have to do with the story?

[icon_of_sin]

Originally posted by Benedict:

I lost the schools scenes too.
Is Jessica Val or something like that? What does jessica have to do with the story?

ether jessicas role in blakes past has had some sort of signficant effect on him which is relevant in the main story.
the problem is that blake is not a driver of the main story he is nothing more than the players eyes.

or the priest who abused jessica was one of the characters in the main story.
he had a distinctive scar on his face, however i did not see any charatcers in the main story who had this.
and even if there was one the relevance of the connection was never explained.

[Incia3000]

Someone said the Walrider was the Priest...

Also someone said Jessica was the baby, as the baby was an illusion, but due to Blakes guilt for letting her die he imagines Jessica reborn and so on he gets her back.

[icon_of_sin]

Originally posted by Incia:

Someone said the Walrider was the Priest...

Also someone said Jessica was the baby, as the baby was an illusion, but due to Blakes guilt for letting her die he imagines Jessica reborn and so on he gets her back.

The Walrider was from Outlast 1
Outlast 2 has no equivilant of this.

[ZenienSight]

The whole story is very ambigious. My theory or what makes since to me is that the relation to Blake's past and his present is that he's in a "similar" situation. Can he make it to Lynn or is she going to end up like Jessica?

I believe that Blake feels guilty (in part from the Father's mental manipulation) for Jessica dying. It took me a while to figure things out. And this time he wants to be able to save Lynn, it's a loose connection but IDK, this made the most sense for me.

[Sensor Sweep]

I personally think it's just filler, because if it wasn't in the game would be a lot sohrter and duller.

I like the aesthetic and change of flow, but it would have been so much better if the hallucinations were scrapped for something else. Something that mattered. While they were interesting in concept, their execution was weak and I didn't care at all about them because I knew they weren't real. And it made me not care about Jessica at all.

[Tactile]

Originally posted by Sensor Sweep:

I personally think it's just filler, because if it wasn't in the game would be a lot sohrter and duller.

I like the aesthetic and change of flow, but it would have been so much better if the hallucinations were scrapped for something else. Something that mattered. While they were interesting in concept, their execution was weak and I didn't care at all about them because I knew they weren't real. And it made me not care about Jessica at all.

Good point. you might be right

[icon_of_sin]

Originally posted by Sensor Sweep:

I knew they weren't real. And it made me not care about Jessica at all.

Not least because jessica is only a name that keeps getting mentioned and a small figure in the distance until the last 2 schol sceenes.

[icon_of_sin]

It would have made sense if the school was more closely related to the current events.

Perhaps with the school being part of the community where the main game is set.

Or perhaps the leaders were the former teachers (with father Loutermilch as the leader of one side) and former pupils were the followers.

Both of these would show they were part of the same story and allow for development over events between the two timelines.
Simply having a story where the school became part of the evil cults forming would speak volumes about the school even without specific events happening there.

[Space Wolf Hudson]

I think what happened with jessica and blake back then was repressed by blake. Now that he is confronted with religion in the actual events of outlast 2, everything comes back up, because he, jessica and lynn where on this catholic school and with the priest who was abusing jessica.

The weird flashes of bright light also seem to cause repressed memories to come back up.

So these flashbacks of the school are storywise not connected to what actually happens in outlast 2. It is just that the repressed memories and nightmares come back as hallucinations with the actual events of outlast 2 being the trigger.

[zaeroid]

The school sections are expertly interwoven with Blake's psyche during the events in the "real wolrd". It's what's been eating him all these years, it's why he gets completely bonkers by the end.

Remember, the radio waves amplify your guilt and your most traumatic experiences.

[Sensor Sweep]

Originally posted by icon_of_sin:

Originally posted by Sensor Sweep:

I knew they weren't real. And it made me not care about Jessica at all.

Not least because jessica is only a name that keeps getting mentioned and a small figure in the distance until the last 2 schol sceenes.

I think I liked that Jessica was mysterious and not in-your-face the whole time. What I didn't like was how she barely evolved past some screaming spooky girl. And even when they revealed more of her near the end I still didn't care because... well I just didn't.

It didn't help that I knew what happened within ten seconds of the first hallucination. I expected something much different given the scope of the school sections, but now I can tell they REALLY stretched one event far beyond what it was worth.

[Incia3000]

Originally posted by icon_of_sin:

Originally posted by Incia:

Someone said the Walrider was the Priest...

Also someone said Jessica was the baby, as the baby was an illusion, but due to Blakes guilt for letting her die he imagines Jessica reborn and so on he gets her back.

The Walrider was from Outlast 1
Outlast 2 has no equivilant of this.

With Walrider I mean the exact same looking dark hybrid ghost, don't be silly. Anyways the priest is that monster in the school.