Despite some diverse options, you get like environmental effects, flashbangs, and explosive flaregun shots, some fights can boil down to “aim light source at an enemy, break down the shield, pump full of lead, repeat.” On top of that, the (thankfully minimal) platforming sections can feel dodgy and imprecise at the best of times. While the game's central “fight with light” mechanic is used for some clever puzzle and scenario design, a lot of which still hold up really well, gunfights and arena fights can drag. This is where the game shows its age the most. The game is still chopped up into daytime sections where you interact with major characters and explore locations, followed by nighttime sections where you are running through the woods fighting for your life between safe-havens. This is still the story of bestselling author Alan Wake unraveling the mystery of his missing wife and the manuscript of a horror story with his name on it dreadfully coming true. Technical updates aside, Alan Wake Remastered is the same gameplay experience at its core from 2010. This can potentially be taken care of with updates and patches, but overall, Bright Falls and its inhabitants have never looked better.ĭid someone order a gunfight!? Killing Your Darlings Also, while the game itself runs spectacularly, some of the cutscenes appear to be locked to a certain framerate and have some visual hiccups. Some supporting characters don't fully make it out of the uncanny valley - expressive faces but robotic movements - and there are a few spots of geography that stick out. There are a few spots that can feel undercooked. While sections can pause and go at times, the well-paced bread crumb trail mystery mixed with the shared-media presentation - this is a video game structured like a TV show about the events of a writer's manuscript packed with licensed music after all - all combine into an almost ethereal experience. These are changes that are truly transformative. Just about everyone is now fully performance or facial captured in cutscenes, and it helps add a lot more emotional weight to the story's various twists and turns. As for the revamped character models, they are stellar.
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