The controls are simple, graspable, and precise, you can’t ask for much more than that. You are dared to explore, and at your own peril you are (or at least can be) handsomely rewarded. Most importantly you find that through the exploration you become increasingly more curious and wary of everything that is around you. You may find yourself bending the camera around each corner, unabated, jerking your flashlights over a coffee mug that seemed something much more menacing, running over bridges that you hope don’t topple, giving rocks wide berths because you can’t tell if something is slinking behind it. As Alan opens a door you find yourself shrinking into your couch. Goal oriented objectives that are just the right flavor of linear, and when seasoned with a fairly large territory to navigate Remedy really cooks up an experience the player can taste: seclusion and terror. The pacing is almost furious, and it is almost always fresh.
Great use of camera angles, cut-scenes, monologue and dialogue complete the mood of the moment you’re in. Remedy did a brilliant job of creating a world where at one moment you feel safe, warm and an inviting presence and ambivalently frightened, cold and in awe of the wrath coming for you. The environments wrap around you, choking your path, herding you into the dark, where you become prey.Īnd speaking of environments, Bright Falls is gorgeous and terrible at the same time. Shadows become your enemies, and in the dark, the subtle touch of a flashlight illuminates armies of menacing shadows. Wake’s monologues are constantly reminding you of how lost, confused and troubled you’ve become, while you stumble through the dark of a forest, shakily clutching a flashlight and a pistol. The action is broken up, and is rehashed at the beginning of each Episode.
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Pacing is paramount with this story, and it unfolds like a TV show, yet is narrated like a mystery novel. The story twists and turns from there, and becomes an insane ride in the backwoods of Spooksville, U.S.A. Compounding the problem no one seems to know where she is, but for reasons inexplicable (at least at first) he can follow a trail of his own manuscript pages, which he has no recollection of writing. Things immediately start to go wrong, and his wife disappears. The trip is to hopefully unhinge Alan’s writer’s block with the idyllic backdrop providing the proper muses. The story follows former bestseller, now defunct out of practice writer, (Anne Rice…just kidding), Alan Wake who has left New York with his wife to come to Bright Falls, Washington. Nor is anything much what it seems to be in the seductive storyline of Alan Wake the tale twists and pulls the player in, like a meandering rapid pounding it’s path towards a climatic waterfall. Inspired by the television show “Twin Peaks” (link here) and Stephen King novels, the game follows like a 1 st person narrative through a quaint little town in Washington that isn’t what it seems to be. Remedy’s five-year baby Frankenstein, Alan Wake, is a hybrid masterpiece of chilling storylines, fast-paced episodic action and a wonderfully imagined and captured environment.
There is no crying at this Wake though, unless it’s from fear (this game can be frightening in some places), but the only death that should be remembered here is the bland, lifeless (pun-intended) “Horror-thrillers” of old. Darkness encroaches, he slips into the Red Hybrid next to him, without thought the car is in gear and he vanishes into the shadows, a man perhaps already dead… Each memory like a baby’s fist tugging at him, naggingly, with an unshakeable strength. Overall: 9.1 Graphics: 9.5 Sound: 9 Concept: 10 Replay: 8Īs Alan Wake stumbles from the landing off of Cauldron Lake a distortion of memories tugs at his mind.
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