Played this game for the first time in 2023 via the remaster on Series X.
Overall I enjoyed my time with Alan Wake. It was a short and interesting story with some really cool concepts both story wise and gameplay wise. There are a few issues I have but nothing that majorly kills the experience.
Positives:
Negatives:
Overall the game is great, just a few problems you might be able to attribute to it being older. I can see how in 2010 it would have been an easy 10, it just has not aged very well. Can't believe this was a 360 exclusive back in the day! Still looks great!
Overall I enjoyed my time with Alan Wake. It was a short and interesting story with some really cool concepts both story wise and gameplay wise. There are a few issues I have but nothing that majorly kills the experience.
Positives:
- Cool mysterious story that keeps you guessing.
- Great small town setting in the pacific north west
- wears its Twin Peaks and Stephen King inspirations on its sleeve. If you like either of those you will love this game.
- The right amount of scary/creepy.
- A good personal story with a good amount of ambiguity.
- A very fun cast of characters. Alan is great of course.
- Solid puzzles.
- episodes 5-6 are killer!
Negatives:
- the idea of the combat is brilliant and cool at times but it feels unbalanced which makes it come across as clunky and slow.
- episode 3 is a slog
- too many forest sequences.
- weird tonal shift in episode 4.
- the episodic structure while cool and nostalgic for fans of shows like Twin Peaks makes the story a but disjointed.
Overall the game is great, just a few problems you might be able to attribute to it being older. I can see how in 2010 it would have been an easy 10, it just has not aged very well. Can't believe this was a 360 exclusive back in the day! Still looks great!