How did Outlast impact your upbringing?
I've been out of the community for a very long time and recently picked the games back up, which brought back many memories (good and bad, of course) and an extensive reflection on how the series impacted my childhood to adulthood. I wasn't even in my teenage years when my older cousins had me watching the first gameplays back in 2013. I was raised Catholic, went to a private catholic school, which I stayed in until highschool. Was a choir kid, did my catechism for over a decade; just to say I was extremely devoted to my faith. And I remember the first game had me really messed up about everything. It kept me requestioning my devotion, if I was manipulated into it. But it's only when I was a bit older, when the second game came out, that it delivered the final blow which had me reject the structure that literally brought me up. Outlast II sort of laid my whole condition before me, enlightened me on my position in the church, the corruption and manipulation I witnessed in my own community, the cruelty of the role I was attributed, the hypocrisy behind the staging of every aspect of catholic life, and so on. I abruptly left the community (in the matter of a week) and started building the path to where I am now. Much happier, much more political and aware of the society I live in, not rejecting my sexuality, in power of my own life (to a certain extent)... So, thanks to these games for changing the trajectory of my life; I recommend.