The crew is all here, down to bleeding walls and a young woman with a dark doppelganger. There are shifting worlds with different rules, imposed upon the same settings. Players who have ever seen even so much as the trailers for most of the Silent Hill games will immediately recognize what DreadOut 2 is trying to do for about three-quarters of the game. DreadOut 2 stripped off the interesting and novel parts of the first game and replaced them with what can only be called the Console Recycling Bin of Doom. Those things were forgivable in the first game, mostly due to its other interesting aspects. There are areas that feel punitive and repetitive. There is a phone, and you do use it to damage enemies via the camera - but only sometimes.

DreadOut 2 does borrow a few elements from the first game. Though it drew heavily on Fatal Frame as inspiration, the original DreadOut and its extension, Keepers of the Dark, had enough local lore and a unique enough story to stand out. The only thing it does not appear to try and emulate is DreadOut, which is a shame. I was wrong.ĭreadOut 2 wants to be many things. I bought my copy of DreadOut 2 because I wanted to support the developers and completely believed this game would be as exciting as the first. I also enjoy Fatal Frame, and so that we capture the sheer amount of stupidity I will tolerate in a game, I am this site’s resident Siren fan. I even wrote an in-depth article on the enemies in the series and their likely origins in local cultures. I liked that game, though it did take me a year to come back around to replay it.

There are a million things to say about it, but for readers to truly understand, you’ll need to read my review of DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark.

Let’s start it off without prelude and sugarcoating, then, and be brutally honest: DreadOut 2 is a goddamn awful game. It is rare that I find myself unsure of exactly how to start an article eloquently, but this is one of those moments.

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