With Alan Wake 2 coming out soon I think there's a lot of people playing this cult classic for the first time. I gotta say, it really did not live up to its expectations for me. Not that I think its a bad game or anything, but it really just felt.. alright.

I understand that Alan wake was one of the first games that got meta like this, but I just felt very blasé the entire time I was playing it. The "meta" story felt very surface level, and the gameplay, while certainly fun at some points, became a slog because of how repetitive it became.

I respect the game, and its inspirations, but I think that for some people it just didn't age very well. If you loved this game, then power to you, but I believe that for what it tries to accomplish, it gets outshined by many other games in the genre.

THE GOOD
-The most incredible cinematic boss fights I have ever seen in my entire life
-Emotional moments are great and feel very human. People actually hug in this game. Why don't people hug in other games???

THE BAD
-Random stretches of extremely boring down time (like the engine building quests)
-Non boss enemies aren't ever hard but have a million health for some reason.
-Unstable FPS in performance mode