I viewed “let’s play” series of Alan Wake 1 and 2. Just wanna share my thoughts re AW2. Spoilers below.

So much reading. Yes, you can skip a lot of those. Yes, the title is Alan Wake 2 and Wake is a writer. But a gamer who very much dislikes reading may be turned off or think “I may be missing a lot by skipping most of the reading, so I’ll drop this game.”

It seems Alice is alive. So Alice has been living sans Alan for 13 years minimum. Extremely :(. I wanted a :) end for them. I can imagine an AW2 where the year is 2013 instead of 2023, and Alan was able to escape the “dark place” in 2013 and live with Alice happily. The writer (I dislike Sam Lake’s writing so I’m not saying Sam Lake) can figure out the plot gymnastics in between to make the game so interesting.

Scratch slew Jaakko Koskela so easilyyyyy. So powerful. He could just slay Anderson, Casey, Cult of the tree and the Fbc at the start.

The Fbc’s light arrays convenient placed far from each other outside the sheriff’s station were plot convenience.

Sam Lake most likely disliked a fairy-tale :) end for AW2 but don’t say that the hero must pay a price in horror like it’s a rule.

It’s time.com’s best 2023 game but it’s 👎 for me.