Alien Isolation 2 stars a new protagonist named Blake. Creative Assembly has been clear about this all summer, but it’s only now that I’m letting it sink in. Since I first played a demo of the survival-horror game at Summer Game Fest’s Play Days this past June, I’ve been holding onto a theory that Blake’s role in the story is a bait-and-switch–that in short order Blake would be impaled by the Xenomorph and Amanda Ripley, star of the first game,…