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The Murkoff Connection Part I

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By Kaelyn DibblePublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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A big question that many of us faced after playing through the entire series of Outlast was “What is the connection between theses games?” In order to answer this question, I’ll have to start at the beginning with the first game, Outlast. Then I’ll explain the connection of the first game to Outlast: Whistleblower and then finish it with the last game, Outlast II. This will be a three part series so make sure to stay tuned for the next part.

In Outlast. you play as the character Miles Upshur, a freelance journalist, who was sent a letter asking to have someone reveal the secrets within Mount Massive Asylum.

The game then starts with Miles driving up to Mount Massive, parking, grabbing a camcorder, and checking the file sitting next to him. This file is mindblowingly important. Not only is it what brings Miles to Mount Massive and starts this mess, but sending it caused an incredible amount of trouble to the main character in Whistleblower, but I’ll get to that later.

Anyways, you (playing as Miles) get out of the car and try to open the obvious gate in front of you, but end up going through a side door... er, gate. You try and walk to the obvious entry way and that doesn’t work so you wander for a minute until you find a place to crawl under a fence and parkour your way up to an open window. After all that craziness, you are on your way to finding the dark secrets that lie at the heart of this hospital.

(This is not a game review, but I will be making one for each of these games as well.)

Anyways, you play the game with several threats and a couple of ways to get around them (that I will explain in the game review version after the connection has been explained). All the while you’re picking up clues as to what happened at Mount Massive and learning about this thing called “Project Walrider.” It seems that all of the security guards have been killed, many of the patients have as well, and it looks like no one has taken care of the asylum for a long time. The big question is why?

You as Miles find letters and documents that start hinting at the answer. It also helps (and sort of doesn’t) when people give away vague but hinting information, and close to the end you start seeing something that looks like smoke, presumably the Walrider.

You continue your gameplay and after what can only be described as insanity and chaos, you eventually stumble upon this place. This is the entrance to the Murkoff Laboratory, AKA the corruption that is neglecting Mount Massive Asylum.

The Sad End

Entrance to the Murkoff Laboratory

Within, there are still some dead people lying around but it is significantly less. For the most part, it is pretty clean. After you get farther in you see the patient “Billy,” who was mentioned in some of the previous documents. This Billy guy is the “Walrider.” He is the whole reason that Murkoff overthrew whoever really owned the asylum and used it for their own twisted experiments.

Then you are confronted by the man who was behind it all and learn that after Murkoff found out they had a rat, they used it to their advantage. You, Miles Upshur, are now the new “Project Walrider.” So even after Miles went through hell and had gotten SO CLOSE to getting out and exposing Murkoff, he is stopped and taken to the room that will continuously torture him for the rest of his life.

There is no sastisfaction after playing this game. Miles did everything he could only to be over taken in the end. Murkoff was trying to create something unnatural by preforming illegal experiments on unwilling human beings. Pretty unsatisfactory when you count up how many hours you played and all of the deaths and times you had to do objectives over, and over, and OVER AGAIN! Especially when it came to the guy with the scissors.

However, that’s that and next thing to answer is, “How do these events correlate with Whistleblower?” and then ALSO, “HOW IN THE WORLD DOES THIS CONNECT TO OUTLAST II?!?!” Well, the first of these questions will be answered in the next article but for now chew on the other one and be very unsatisfied with the ending.

Thank you for reading. Make sure to stay tuned for the next one!

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Kaelyn Dibble

I have a lot of opinions. If you would like additional information on anything please feel free to DM me on instagram: https.dibbs

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