![]() ![]() They will throw axes from afar, or might appear from the woods causing a cinematic camera spin to reveal them, while a string section pulses horror-tinged high notes to alert you to the danger. Human-shaped enemies will lurch violently at you through the darkness, their wispy translucent figures twitching and convulsing as they attack. Wake is armed, predominantly, with a flashlight to “stun” the darkness and open it up to taking damage. Ultimately, Alan Wake Remastered is a third-person narrative-based shooter, thrusting a fiction-writer into a bizarre world where he has to suddenly fight off the darkness, both literally and figuratively. It’s a weird experience but brilliant despite and because of it.Īlan Wake Remastered. Scattered throughout the world are pages of a book Wake doesn’t remember writing that can’t be described as “foreshadowing” because they quite literally tell you what is going to happen next in the story. Sure, it’s bizarre and, at times highly pretentious, but I have to credit the story because it holds up well and is a reminder that the “Remedy Weirdness” has been around for some time now. In fact, playing both of those other games makes the story of Alan Wake itself make more sense, and coming back to it all this time later, armed with the knowledge of what was going to happen, I had light-bulb moments, which is a testament to how well written it is. Coming back ten years later, with further context delivered by Control’s AWE expansion content and even the quasi-sequel Alan Wake’s American Nightmare I finally felt like I had a better working theory of what was happening, or had happened, once the credits had rolled. In the moment you’ll have a decent understanding of what’s going on, enough to get scared, but not enough to ever fully comprehend things. Narrative-wise, Alan Wake is a fairly impenetrable experience. READ MORE: ‘Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’ preview: The ‘Shadow the Hedgehog’ of soulslikes could be a smash hit. ![]() Make no mistake, a decade later this title is still a classic worthy of spending many an evening pushing through, but it’s also still not without faults. Here are things I feel developer Remedy Entertainment probably would change about Alan Wake given time and budget, yet Alan Wake Remastered serves as a reminder that sometimes it’s best to not tinker with things too much at all. ![]()
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