So, Alan Wake 2 is a
really phenomenal game. Just straight up, it's a
very, very good video game experience. If you haven't tried it, go try it. What it really manages to do is combine the Silent Hill
franchise with Resident Evil. So, it manages to have these really
cool elements of both of these games, right? But what it particularly manages
to do really well is combine the cinematic storytelling
elements into the gameplay in a way that you
don't really see this often in video games. And it's really
very satisfying to see this cinematic experience
combined into the gameplay elements that really
pairs off very well at the end. Alan Wake 2 starts
off as a horror video game, it starts off as a
silent hill type video game, but it transitions into something else entirely, where it
manages to combine multiple genres of gaming in a very effective way that it manages to tell a
coherent story using different gameplay elements
like fully acted cinematics with characters
acting it out on stage, with Poets of the Fall
returning as Old Gods of Asgard, deliver in
this rock and roll performance which is just one really amazing track after the next,
while you have the player doing these things that
will get you to the next chapter, it's
beyond mindblowing how amazing some of these sequences are and how efficient some of these
sequences can be in conveying these themes to the player. Alan Wake 2 is probably the best
looking video game I've played all year and it's not just that it's the best
looking video game I've played all year. It's what I can describe is
the A24 experience of a video game. What I mean by this is
that Alan Wake 2 manages to use the visual
elements present in the video game, the cinematics to really immerse the
player into the video game experience where you have some sequences
that have you just are mind blown. The story of Alan Wake 2 takes place roughly 13 years after
the original events of Alan Wake 1. We still have Alan
Wake himself still trapped in the cauldron
lake underneath Bright Falls right? And he is in this
dark place trying to write a story that will
help him get out into the real world. But this time
around he also has this alter ego named Scratch
who is writing alongside Alan Wake in order to help Alan
Wake escape into the real world with Scratch. So this entity itself, the dark presence, it also wants to
go out into the real world with Alan Wake. In order to put an end to this, we have Saga Anderson, the
FBI agent in the real world who is investigating some cult
murders which are linked to Wake himself. What's really cool about Alan Wake 2
is that it draws some heavy inspiration from True-Detective
Season 1 where we have these ritual cult murders in the same themes as the original
Trie-Detective Season 1 itself. So if you are a
fan of True-Detective Season 1, you will have a
really good time with Alan Wake game as well. Even though Alan Wake manages to do a
lot of things right, there are some shortfalls when it comes to
things like the combat and the gameplay mechanics like
the inventory management and stuff. I suppose this is something that
Remedy has been working on for quite some time. And unfortunately like
with a lot of their other games, Alan Wake 2 has these same
problems when it comes to combat. Sometimes the combat can be just
extremely frustrating where the enemies they are just moving too fast and the
characters are just reacting to this movement. way too slowly. Or there are instances when the
camera just pans into this weird angle and it's stuck there so you don't really
see the enemy coming or approaching. So you can't really
respond to these things. And it's very frustrating
because the character can die quite easily. The character can
die in like a couple of hits. And one other thing
that's really noticeable is how ineffective some of these
guns are against these enemies. For instance, when you encounter the
first real boss of the game, you have this handgun which can
prove to be quite ineffective and the boss is somehow just
soaking in all these bullets. So it can be quite frustrating
when you are in this position against this overpowered enemy
with all these buggy mechanics that are contributing
to your demise in this game. So one of the shortfalls in
Alan Wake is largely the combat mechanics and the inventory aspect of the game where it
can be quite difficult to toggle between the items and in order to use them you
have to equip them and hold a certain button for quite some time in order to use
some of these health items and what not. So those aspects of
Alan Wake 2 can be quite frustrating. So there you have it,
Alan Wake 2 is a very good video game. It's an extremely,
extremely good video game that offers you the
narration, the storytelling in a very artsy, in
a very different, unique perspective that you don't
normally see in the gaming industry. Despite how great the game
is, despite how great the story is told, how artistic it
is, how visually stunning it is, or how great it
sounds, how good it looks and feels, there are
some shortfalls in Alan Wake 2 when it comes to the
combat and some of these stuff that are associated with
combat like the inventory and etc. But overall I would say
Alan Wake 2 is a must-play game for this year. is one of the best
video games I've played all year. This is one of the most
beautiful looking video games I've played all year. And this is also one
of the most unique video games that I've played all year. So if you haven't
played "Alan Wake 2", go play it. It's an extremely, extremely good game that offers you an
unforgettable gaming experience.
