Alan Wake 2 | TUSReview

up from the lake that's not a lake it's dark he was there too I originally planned to imitate Allen's writing a tone of voice in The Script maybe to try and give a convoluted sense of intrigue maybe to give importance to every word I'd say whether or not I actually did or didn't I couldn't tell you it wasn't my place to say it wasn't my story to tell no today's story is focused on a tired writer trying to escape his personal hell and an FBI agent in over her head three times over this is was and will be a review for so that was unnecessarily dramatic hey guys test darl here and it's been a long time I know but if you saw saw my community post or Community posts you know why if you haven't then in a nutshell I've been relaxing getting my head back together or at least good enough in a good enough place where I can actually feel some form of motivation again and job hunting hence my lack of motivation to do or upload anything for 3 months but today we're talking about wake 2 I know I know Halloween is long over and the dust and smoke has been replaced by snow and Mariah Carey but it's never too late for a fright in my opinion and for retail workers Mariah Care's name alone is more than likely to drive fear into their hearts so I guess Halloween never really ended for them my condolences anyway I'd like to try a different format for this review something a bit more conversational and open rather than the format I used to use so here we go let me know how you feel about it in the comments but yeah here we go Allan Wake 2 opens boldly not only bolstering a new code of nextg paint but some sprinkles of control remedy's previous game I'll probably have a retrospective video on control in the future so if you'd like to know my opinions on that game then look forward to oh wait I already reviewed it that's awkward my first impressions going into alen wake 2 were this is going to be gorgeous to look at but since they're shifting away from the action with a dash of horror approach that the first down wake had to a more we are trying to scare and creep the crap out of you and then scare the crap as well approach there are only really two camps this could fall into they achieve it and the work is genuinely scary or it becomes a jump scare fest with no substance now obviously I forgot whose game I was playing cuz remedy does not half ass things nor do they just do what everyone else does cuz this is really their own weird unique brand of Horror and by that I mean they take what they know they take what they're familiar with they take other things they like and that they are familiar with mash them together and then rip them apart again and then put them back together again and say yes this is good put this on a disc so to those two things I suspected earlier alen wake 2 Falls in both categories in a weird way but very appropriate for remedy the jump scares in Al wake 2 initially annoyed me but over the course of the second chapter in the game I realized that the jump scares weren't just there to get a cheap jump out of you they held much more significance often guiding you where you need to go warning you of what's to come and serving as a general narrative tool now I know you're probably thinking but Daryl that's just something that every standard horror property game movie Whatever should do and you'd be right I'd agree with you but the problem is you know for a fact that there are a lot of things out there that claim to be horror when really they're just jump scare simulators boo ah you scared me boo ah scare me there's no proper buildup no suspense no real meaning behind the jump scare my favorite jump scares when they work properly are the ones that have something behind them even if it's something as simple as building tension and unfortunately you have a lot of works works out there that don't really build that tension they kind of just make things quiet then they scare you make things quiet then they scare you and I'm not even saying that those works are necessarily bad it's just that it's very easy to miss the point in what makes a jump scare effective and more often than not in my experience any horror game horror movie I've seen where I have this criticism with it's just happened in that way that or they believe that they need jump scares to be scary when there are plenty of works out there games and movies that don't rely on or don't even have jump scares but that was my tangent and rant about jump scares they're cool they're fine so long as you do it properly otherwise they're just annoying if you do it really frequently trying to get that Chief scare that's my point as I said though Allen wake 2 Falls in both Kims where the jump scares originally annoyed me and then eventually served the purpose they were intending and I understood that but it also falls in the camp of it being genuinely scary or creepy at times I'll be honest I haven't been as on edge playing a game as I was with Allan Wake 2 at least not for a very long time and that's not because they showed me some disturbing imagery it's not because they bombard me with well-built jump scares no it's just that the game's story messed with me psychologically this game is a psychological horror game is what I'm getting at it's a slow burn you're not going to immediately get the horror up front unless you're disturbed very easily by Gore and stuff like that instead the bulk of the horror comes from what the story is about what the characters are going through you're not going to see a lot necessar despite my whole tangent on jump scares you're not going to see a whole lot that necessarily visually scares you it's more like the undertones that just get under your skin of what different things mean for different characters that is where it gets you get the forgive my French but you get the heie jeebies another tangent for a moment here because tangents are fun it kind of reminded me in some cases of Silent Hill 2 I'm not saying it's up the same pedigree calm down Silent Hill fans I love Silent Hill Hill 2 I loved one I loved two I loved three and I'm also the weird person who loves Silent Hill 4 what I mean is Silent Hill 2 wasn't also wasn't jump scare heavy but what scared you about it was all the hidden meanings all the undertones that were there it was something that when you really sat there and just listened to how the story played out or watched how the story played out and really thought about what each thing meant that's where the fear that's where the horror came from Alan Wake 2 has a similar Vibe despite the I need to stop going back to the jump scare thing I'm I'm sorry I just I keep wanting to talk about that for some reason as if I did not fully clarify my point already so I'm just going to leave it at that my point is the story in alake 2 is the Crux of the horror much like Silent Hill 2's story is the Crux of its horror but since I'm already talking about the story let me go into a bit more detail about alen wake 2 story without spoiling hopefully the story of Alan Wake 2 continues after the events of Alan Wake kind of after American Nightmare if you really want to count that and control I won't spoil how much control plays into the story nor will I spoil any of Alan Wake 2's story but I will say that I was not disappointed in the slightest and I even voted Alan Wake 2 for best narrative for the game awards because the game awards are clearly the thing you want to pay attention to to know if a game is actually worth its gigabytes according to the Gaming Community at least and we all know that Gamers can be trusted to be rational people okay yeah I know you don't need to tell me let's move on I fought it for bder Skate 3 for game of the year though don't tell Rose if you played Allan Wake you'll get the joke moving along alen wake 2's story is broken into two portions or at least that's how I want to describe them Saga Anderson's portions and Alan wake's portions I've seen a video or two describe the Dual protagonist nature of the game as the equivalent of having one story one form of horror and the other story being a different form of horror and I can agree with that honestly Saga story is much more structured and slower paced and feels more like a crime drama with some horror dripped in there while Allen's is just I don't know how to describe that at all honestly I guess the best way to describe it is if Saga Anderson's portion is Resident Evil then Alan wakes is Silent Hill if that makes sense each chapter of Alan Wake 2 had me hanging off the edge of my seat desperate for more answers despite those answers just being more questions but I was completely fine with that and of course I can't mention end of chapters for Alan Wake without telling you that yes the end of chapter songs make a return in this game yes they are all bangers yes they technically sort of kind of have spoilers in them because they were written to fit the theme and plot of each chapter you've completed so you get a song that captures the essence of chapter one 2 3 Etc so if you want to go and listen to the soundtrack I'd recommend playing the game through and doing it that way at the very least you can go to saga's mind place to listen to them there what's the Mind place that's tricky so both Saga and Allan have their own space that they go into whenever they're trying to do like mental deductions or in Allen's case write a portion of the story into existence I can't go into much more detail about that but that mechanic is really cool and it's fun to explore those rooms or at least it's fun to explore saga's room since it contains a lot of stuff that's like that gives her some more backstory in Allan's case it's just I need to get out I need to get out I need to get out I need to get out I'm exaggerating but not really yeah I guess this is as good of a place as any to go into the story I mean the gaml I already talked about story man I really haven't done this in a while huh doesn't help that I'm trying to change it up for this video if you like what you've heard so far even though we're 10 minutes in and you're still here first of all thank you second of all if you want to hit the Bell the Subscribe and bell and do the things that YouTube likes I don't like asking for that stuff if you want to cool if you don't also cool anyway alen Wick 2 plays like modern Resident Evil games or at least like the remakes do I just thought I'd say it bluntly out the gate no tangent that said it does it very well while maintaining a lot of its old vibes from Allen wake 1 meaning the Dodge is still [ __ ] not as shitty as Allen wake 1 but still [ __ ] but that's okay it's a horror game I don't expect to have a reliable Dodge the Dodge move is odd since you kind of have to dodge preemptively so you kind of have to know or at least suspect where an enemy is going to quick Dash to quickly teleport to or whatever before you dodge and granted they give you some time to do that but it it it doesn't feel very reliable but then again like I said before even though I was joking it's not really supposed to be super reliable these aren't super humans are controlling you're controlling an FBI agent and a rider you would think the FBI agent would be better at dodging but the FBI agent has never dealt with the shadow creature before and the rider who has is still just a rider what I'm trying to say is you can Dodge and when it works well it's feels awesome but most of the time you're going to get hit if not by an enemy directly hitting you then someone who's throwing an axe at the back of your head and you're too busy mid animation to dodge again with that said the rest of combat handles very well gunshots have a very satisfying punch to them the Dodge again when it works properly is actually really cool and I lost my place in the script oh and the flashlight mechanic is great it makes a return from the first Allen wake but unlike the first Allen wake these batteries don't recharge when you use them you need to use them sparingly otherwise you're going to need to run around and look for more or maybe have to reload the game well not the game but like your save I don't know if new items appear that frequently when you're out of batteries and no I'm not saying that because I'm Pro Gamer status I'm saying that because the game gives you more than enough batteries to use you'd actually have to go out of your way way at least on normal difficulty to burn through all of them in fact the closest I've gotten to running out of all of them completely and being screwed was during boss fights but during boss fights I can at least say that you'll have plenty of items around that you can run around and pick up or ones that probably respawned since you're normally in a contained area and can't run that far in a boss fight so at least in boss fights you're saish if you run out of batteries I can't speak for if you're just out in the world and you run out batter batteries bfree bfree if you seen that clip you would get that joke King of the Hill joke videos aside the game doesn't pull any punches either it can get very difficult when you're outnumbered by enemies but at least in saga's case she's generally in open areas when you're fighting so you can run away and stuff like that in Allen's case no he's [ __ ] if you're outnumbered and you find yourself cornered in a very linear hallway it's over gets swarmed by so many enemies from different angles you think the guy killed off their favorite character or something thankfully you have something for that you have either the flare or the grenade launcher I mean the flare gun honestly the flare gun is a grenade launcher if you ask me a grenade launcher of light I shouldn't have said that Mickey's in my room again Micky did somebody mention the door to darkness no he keeps trying to tell me about the door to Darkness I don't care now I could talk for a long time and obviously tangent a lot I haven't really had this much just going on random tangents and stuff in a while because I try to keep myself on the point whenever I record these reviews but I'm trying to be a little more Loosey Goosey now so yeah but I've got to end the video at some point so here we go Allen wake 2 is genuinely creepy the story is gripping from beginning to end and the game play is a lot of fun despite the Dodge that's my last time I'm not going to [ __ ] on the Dodge anymore I don't have many downsides besides the Dodge there now I'm DOD no for real though I'm done so I don't see any reason why I wouldn't give Alan W 2 a go for it Allan 2 is available on PC specifically the EP in game store PS5 and Xbox series X and S I looked it up but I don't know when Allen wake 2 will be on Steam but if it's anything like control you should expect it to come to it at some point in the future since control if I remember correctly was also epic exclusive for a time because both control and Allway 2 are both published by epic so it's only a matter of time I'd imagine for Alan Wake 2 but who knows really but that's another review down and before the end of 2023 so that's good I'm satisfied I hope you guys enjoy the newish format it's not super new I've done something similar before it's just I keep flip-flopping between all reliable and trying this format I did go on a lot of tangents here I did like start talking about some stuff that was adjacent to what I actually wanted to talk about but I think I did well enough to like provide the Crux of what I enjoyed about Allen wake 2 while also just letting myself ramble on if I had a little fun so long as it's still related to what I was talking about in general I could have dial back how much I was going on and on about jump scares but I have this weird thing about me when I'm like recording anything or reviewing anything where I feel like I need to make a Counterpoint to any possible points that people can bring up but before they do so and that's just tiring so you know I'm going to try not to do that again in the future and just focus sort of on the review itself as well as just any if I have any tangents to not harp on them for too long especially if those T tangents are just a means of trying to provide counter points to possible points someone else can make that's just tiring and it sounds as tiring as it sounds anyway if you have any criticisms about this format or any ways you think I could improve it let me know I'm grateful that you all decide to whoever is still here by this point to watch the video all the way through if you liked what you heard or just had a fun time just sitting here chilling and listen to me ramble on then feel free to hit the Subscribe but subscribe button I always FL flub that feel free to hit the Subscribe button or don't and if you do feel free to hit the Bell or don't and feel free to hit like or even dislike you know I'm just here this is just a hobby for me um and with that that should be the last video I do for 2023 so I'll probably see yall after Christmas and after New Year's so merry Christmas happy New Year if that forgot my outro I hope you all have enjoyed your day I'm tus Daryl and I'll catch you guys later bye n

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Length: 18min 17sec (1097 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 06 2023