i have spent the last ten minutes trying to articulate how this game series is so good/why it means so much to me but my brain simply refuses to so instead ill just say PLAY THE DAMN SERIES IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY ITS SO GOOD
played this leading up to Alan Wake II, really interesting story and worldbuilding but the game can be fuckin HARD. not ashamed to say i had to crank the difficulty down several times to get thru this game
one of the few games where the gameplay loop is so well made that it can pull me into a flow state (become a nonverbal mouth-breather mashing buttons on my controller)