Game Review: Alan Wake II
After recently playing and reviewing Remedy Entertainments initial entry into the Alan Wake franchise, it was easy to see the ocean’s worth of potential the series had to proceed on. Despite its age, it did an excellent job in establishing a unique narrative and furthering it with creative formats of gameplay. What really stuck with me from my time playing the game the most though was the story. Alan Wake’s effort to solve the mystery behind the Dark Presence’s infestation of the rural, lake-side town of Bright Falls and save his wife was done in such a captivating way. It was layered with subtext and clues to keep the player engaged to try and solve the mystery. When the game ended, it did a great job in wrapping up the core story very neatly but it left a nice bit of ambiguity for fans to cling onto in hopes of a sequel. Well 13 years later, Remedy Entertainment finally committed to answering what Alan Wake meant when he said that mysterious line “It’s not a lake, it’s an o
