CHRONICLES OF THE SUNKEN WRITER: GAIDEN
If Remedy only learned what Alan Wake was when they finished it, all subsequent small content (both DLCs and American Nightmare) are them stretching their muscles and working on the things they learned. It's the proper "first try" at Alan Wake.
While the DLCs are the stronger attempts, American Nightmare feels more like a side-story. In my mind it has the same energy of a tie-in comic book or something like that, it doesn't really expand any idea and mostly finds a new story to tell in the established concepts.
On itself, it's a kind of fun continuation of the duality in Wake fighting himself, only instead of himself as an artist it's himself as a person. His demons manifesting in real life, not on his work.
It feels surprisingly incomplete as well, but it's a fun few hours.
If Remedy only learned what Alan Wake was when they finished it, all subsequent small content (both DLCs and American Nightmare) are them stretching their muscles and working on the things they learned. It's the proper "first try" at Alan Wake.
While the DLCs are the stronger attempts, American Nightmare feels more like a side-story. In my mind it has the same energy of a tie-in comic book or something like that, it doesn't really expand any idea and mostly finds a new story to tell in the established concepts.
On itself, it's a kind of fun continuation of the duality in Wake fighting himself, only instead of himself as an artist it's himself as a person. His demons manifesting in real life, not on his work.
It feels surprisingly incomplete as well, but it's a fun few hours.
Kat0w
2 months ago