Alan Wake

Alon Woke

Also, a wake.

Got the second item to "open" locks.
Fuck me there's a lot of walking to be done if you want to mop stuff up... Feels like I spent two hours last night just walking around.
I'm only looping back for stuff that's showing on my map in the three areas now, so presumably will still need to come back again for a couple of things I've missed.

Cult stashes are pretty much always disappointing, and charms end up being the cheat death one half of the time.

I'm regretting bothering with that side of it. Most definitely the game at its weakest, and I would've enjoyed it a lot more if I just ploughed on with the story.

Locking the last inventory upgrade behind nightmare mode is some bullshit. Surely you'll have fuck all items then, so it'll be useless. It becomes more useful the lower the difficulty, Shirley.

Yeah I don't think I'm a massive fan of the wandering around to mop things up. Particularly as there aren't ever really any encounters whilst you do so, so it just gets a bit tiresome.


On a positive note though. I wasn't finding the game too scary, until I went through the Watery overlap. Which scared the shit out of me. That was just tense from start to finish.

I haven't seen a proper videogame "akshully" in a while. Many thanks.

I think I'm at the end. Parked it as I've got the dentist and don't want to rush the finale. Epic. Loved it.

Am I fighting taken in the middle of a… music video?

Hmmm, not sure about that first boss fight. I felt like I was fighting against the ridiculous amounts of post processing more than anything. That and the camera going absolutely crazy when I'd get hit.

It's actually a clever meta commentary on video game performance.

The Epic pc version's achievement notifications are a bit too festive and kind of break the mood of this game. I've tried turning off notifications but that didn't do it.

Not in love with this game. I’m in the subway level, and can’t really see the 9/10 right now. I mean it’s cool that you can change the level but I seem to get stuck a lot. And the game knows it because it actually starts saying stuff like yo you should go to the board and rewrite this. Idk, feel like I’m stumbling my way through this with no clear idea of where to go, and even pulling up the map is cumbersome. One enemy type is getting on my nerves too. They aren’t especially hard either so they just throw a bunch of them at you at once. Even saving the game is weird, you have the save points, but it’ll seemingly randomly save the game for you as well.

Hang on, hang on. I didn't have to shine my light on all of them?!

Yeah a lot of them will leave you be.

It's the one thing with Alan I'm not keen on. Lots of shadows around and I feel you either need to piss about and go near each one, or just accept the fact that once in a while you'll get attacked out the blue and lose a chunk of health.