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Alan Wake
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=== ( 🎯 Difficulty ) ===
☐ No Difficulty
☐ Easy
☑ Standard
☐ Big Learning Curve
☐ Hard
☐ Impossible
=== ( 👪 Audience ) ===
☐ Everyone
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Mature
=== ( 👀 Graphics ) ===
☐ What Is This?
☐ Bad
☐ Acceptable
☑ Good
☐ Great
☐ Stylistic
☐ Beautiful
☐ Masterpiece
=== ( Sound/Music ) ===
☐ Bad
☐ Nothing Special
☐ Okay
☑ Great
☐ Beautiful
☐ I´m Gonna Cry
=== ( 🌏 Story ) ===
☐ This Game Has No Story
☐ Nothing Special
☐ It´s Alright
☐ Well Written
☑ Epic Story
☐ Thinking About It, When I Sleep
=== ( Grinding ) ===
☐ Nothing To Grind
☑ Isn't Necessary To Progress (A lot of collectables)
☐ Average Grind Level
☐ A Lot Of Grinding
☐ You‘ll Need A Second Life For Grinding
=== ( 💎 Price ) ===
☐ Free
☑ Underpriced (Even for an old game, it's still cheap)
☐ Perfect Price
☐ Could Be Cheaper
☐ Overpriced
=== ( ☣ Requirments ) ===
☑ A Toaster Could Run This
☐ Low
☐ Average
☐ Above Average
☐ High End
☐ NASA Computer
=== ( ⏰ Game time/length ) ===
☐ Really short ( 0 - 4 hours)
☐ Short ( 4 - 12 hours)
☑ Average ( 12 - 24 hours)
☐ Long ( 24+ hours)
☐ Multiplayer/Neverending
=== ( 🐞 Bugs ) ===
☐ Game itself is a bug
☐ Lot of bugs
☐ Few Bugs
☑ Nothing
=== ( Controller Support ) ===
☑ Yes
☐ no
=== ( Steam Deck Friendly ) ===
☑ Yes
☐ no
=== ( Enjoyment ) ===
☐ I´d Rather Watch Grass Grow
☐ Hard To Enjoy
☐ Repetitive
☐ It's Okay
☐ Fun To Be Had For Sure
☑ The Kind Of Fun You Will Remember
☐ Life Changing
=== ( Replayability ) ===
☐ One-Time Experience
☑ Only For Achievements
☐ If You Wait A Few Months/Years
☐ Definitely
☐ Infinitely Replayable/Multiplayer
=== ( Worth Playing ) ===
☐ No
☐ Wait For A Sale
☑ Yes
☑ I Can´t Recommend It Enough


TOP FUN THINGS TO DO:
⭐️ The way you attack enemies is a very fun idea.
⭐️ Dodging aggressive objects.
⭐️ Collecting coffee flasks and watching the TV shows.




THE UNIQUES:
💎 Shining a light on the enemies to open their defence.
💎 A well thought out story, it'll be good as a movie.




PLAYER GAMING REQUIREMENTS:
💼 Thriller.
💼 Action.
💼 Third Person.




PROS:
+ The story line belongs on a movie screen! The highlight to this game has got to be the story, it's got everything, humour, sadness, action, thrilling. Everything a movie needs for it to be a absolute hit. It's well driven and I'm very disheartened that Alan Wake 2 won't be coming on steam.
+ The soundtracks are very good, after each episode, I waited for the song to finish before moving on.
+ It's very unique, standing by it's own and doing it proudly, I also liked how it's entwined with another game, Control, I'll add the link to show you what I'm talking about.
+ 12 years later and this game is still with the big boys, the graphics have aged a little but there's one thing that'll never get old, and that's it's story telling.




CONS:
- The running and dodging action are the same button, you can easily change this but I just thought it to be rather strange for it to be the same control.
- Dodging is actually frustrating, it gets easier as you progress but it's a little difficult to grasp at the start.
- Alan Wake 2 won't be coming on steam.




VERDICT:
It's took me this long to play Alan Wake, and the reason for it is piss poor. It's been sitting in my steam library for years, collecting dust until this day, I decided to blow the cobwebs off and give this game a go. I feel like a fool to have waited this long but even to this day the gameplay, sound effect and story still live up to it's expectations, that's a hard thing to do in today's gaming industry.
You can tell Remedy Entertainment really enjoyed making this game and they deserve the game to be played for many more years, it wouldn't even hurt to make a remaster just to polish up on the graphics, it's not overly needed but I think it'll bring a lot of fans back to relive this epic story.
The one thing that grieves me is that Alan Wake 2 won't be showing it's head in the steam marketplace, as usual, Epic have dug their greedy claws into the publishers and are keeping it as their own. It's to be seen if it'll ever come on Steam but I doubt it very much.
Total Score = 93/100.




GAMEPLAY:
The story follows bestselling crime thriller novelist Alan Wake as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife's disappearance during a vacation in the small fictional town of Bright Falls, Washington, all while experiencing events from the plot of his latest novel, which he cannot remember writing, coming to life.
■■■■■■■■■□ 9 / 10
It's not a lake, it's an ocean.




RECOMMEDED SPECS
It'll run on anything.


Review to Control Ultimate Edition: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198202022263/recommended/870780