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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