People that feels insensitive to the fact that similarly awful violence The idea of presenting a character inflicting this sort of violence on At this point, I’m torn on the depiction there are degrees to Of levels, which is probably the point (it is, after all, a horror " In fact, I found the whole section personally uncomfortable on a lot While GameFront's Phil Hornshaw's attempts at examining the thought process behind the developer's decision to feature the Groom made me cringe more than the genital mutilation did in the game itself: suffice to say that men everywhere will be shuddering every time they recall this particular bad guy's scenes." Game, and tries to escape with his limbs - and penis - intact. Soon finds himself a video camera, because that's the conceit of the Others, like Jim Sterling for The Escapist, took the opportunity to make light of the idea: To their credit, most reviewers took the content very seriously, expressing the kind of revulsion you'd expect.
Since the Continue-Play review mentioned how pleased they were that Outlast: Whistleblower didn't feature any women, I took a look at a few other reviews. The double standard of violence against men being considered "acceptable" when the reverse would not be seems to be present Just in case this entire blog will be taken out of context, I have to clarify that I'm not arguing, " why doesn't this game feature the brutal mutilation of women's genitals!?" For one thing, I actually didn't have a problem with Outlast: Whistleblower only featuring violence against men, for reasons I'll come to later on. I can remember reading most of these but I must've glossed over or misinterpreted some aspects of either the notes or game environment that led me to believe the Groom's victims were both male or female. This is most explicit in a document called " Gender Selection in Mount Massive Contractors" but others, specifically about the Groom's victims, can be read here, here and here. I took a look at the Outlast Wiki after reading this and found that there were indeed a bunch of notes in the game that explained that the only inmates (is that the right term? I'd say they were prisoners more than they were patients) of the asylum were male. The female ward that was seen in Outlast. You search hard enough within Mount Massive, you may just find what weĭid – a single case file explaining why women are not present, despite More controversial scenes if they depicted women as well as men. We’re actually pleased we’re unsure of how we would handle some of the "Just as it was in Outlast, there are no women in Whistleblower. It wasn't until I came across this review () a couple of weeks ago, which states: The reason why I'm bringing up Outlast: Whistleblower a few months after it's been released rather than closer to the time is because the genital mutilation is handled about as tastefully as a genital mutilation theme in a violent game can be handled, in that it's clear that the Groom mutilates men but unless you find out all the backstory, it's actually ambiguous to whether any of his victims are female there's a Female Ward and the breasts and genitals of each victim are often obscured enough for it to be possible that the Groom murdered women as well as men. Some of this "procedure" is seen in-game and is very graphic (but I won't show any screenshots here): One of the ways he tortures and kills his prisoners - all male in the game, although he apparently had a history of killing women prior to entering the asylum - is by violently removing their genitals and surgically-modifying their bodies to give them breasts. The Groom has an insane obsession with finding a bride and he sees all his victims as women, even if they're male.
One of these psychopaths is Eddie Gluskin, also known as "The Groom".
As with the main game, the goal is for the player to make their way through an asylum while avoiding psychopaths who want to kill them. It might be needed for a portfolio one day and, with people like Mike in the industry who aren't willing to listen to differing opinions, I feel like posting screenshots here could come back to haunt me.Īnyway, I'm a bit behind on this but Outlast: Whistleblower was the DLC prequel/sequel for Outlast that was released in May. It's the kind of thing that I would love to be able to share with my readers but with people like Mike Bithell (hi Mike!), creator of Thomas Was Alone, slinging insults at people who disagree with feminism, I think it's best that I keep that type of thing away from prying eyes. I mentioned in my last blog post that I've been working on a short game for when I go back to college and it's been pretty much non-stop work on that, learning as I go. Apologies for the lack of updates lately.
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