So what does it mean when you see it sitting on a chair, you turn your head to look at the rest of the room without touching anything, and when you turn back it's on the dresser instead? This is one of the first unusual things that can happen in the game.

The mask cannot be interacted with directly, though you can throw things at it.

That vaguely aztec-like pig mask? It follows you.

Throughout the game you see the ghostly figures of Mandus's twin sons running through the house and factory, never once showing their faces (which in itself is highly unnerving), but when Mandus is tricked into restarting the machine they appear inches from the camera their faces covered with blood, terrifying slasher smiles on their lips, and rip their hearts from their own chests.

Now imagine how many people had to be abducted and killed by the Machine - in under two hours, no less - to create this much blood. It's where the useless viscera of the Machine's processed victims is run off to, and you wade through literal rivers and fountains of blood and gore.

Then there's the Tripery, the area you pass through when you re-enter the Machine.

At one point, it appears that a manpig is raping a woman.

And yet even moreso when you consider that it's very much a toned-down version of the Rape of Nanking, which happened barely twenty years after World War I.

Even more Fridge Horror when you consider that the entire invasion and the carnage coming along with it is the exact personification of Britain's greatest fear at the beginning of World War I-the soldiers of Imperial Germany finally charging into England and burning whole cities to the ground, committing atrocity after atrocity on every civilian visible as the government lies helpless.

Mandus, did you just make the 20th century even more horrifying than it was supposed to be?!? Having a huge section of London's capital gutted could cause all kinds of problems in the face of less benevolent powers like Imperial Germany, in addition to demonstrating publicly how Alexander's tools could be used by normal humans.

Fridge Horror makes this even worse considering how one of the overarching themes of the game is the dark nightmares of the twentieth century and the horrors of particularly World War I.

Through this level you run terrified through the burning slums of the east end, houses aflame, explosions and gunshots blasting in the distance, people screaming and running all around you as the hordes of Manpigs butcher or abduct men, women, and children without mercy. Are they meant to contain the sleepers or protect them from something that stalks the corridors at night? It's to capture Mandus's rich guests and tip them straight into the Machine with an ingenious hydraulic system. Most of the beds in the manor have been fitted with bars for some reason, inducing plenty of Fridge Horror. And Mandus's motivation for going out and searching? One of the few things he can remember are his kids which he doesn't know where they are, and tries to find them, which are soon revealed to be deep within the machine.

For one, Mandus wakes up in cage in his room in his mansion for some reason.

The game starts on arguably more ominous and disturbing note.

This is both dissonant, considering they are trying to kill you throughout the game (and for good reason), and a bit sad.

They are also implied to have a child-like mentality, since one of them is shown in its cell playing with blocks.

And once monsters spawn, they never despawn.

Also unlike the first game the monster is found relatively soon in the game.

This only makes the monsters harder to predict and tests your limits of paranoia and stress regarding your situation.

To make matters worse, the lights will sometimes flicker even when nothing threatening is nearby.

Oh yeah, and your lantern starts flickering when it's near by, making it harder to see. Unlike the previous games, where there were a few music and sound cues, there is none of that, making it harder to tell where the monster is.

It produces a loud noises whenever it's around, and is capable running really fast, being able to catch up with you quickly.

The Manpigs, a cross between human and pig.

The sheer scope of the slaughter going on is made apparent in the Tripery, where you see ground human flesh pushed through pipes like sausage, and are forced to wade through an ocean of blood and body parts. It isn't until the very end that you reach the Pigline, where you see not pigs, but dozens of human carcasses suspended by meat hooks and sliced by enormous mechanical butchers. But for much of the game, you are exploring the engines and boilers that make the factory work, not the slaughtering floor itself.

It's clear from the very beginning that the Machine is an industrial slaughterhouse.

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