Im about there too and this is coming from someone who liked Alan wake 1 and loved Control. The mind palace sections just feel counter-intuitive and a pain in the ass. I'll pick it back up because I find the universe interesting but, so far, I'm pretty confounded at the love for this game.

i just finished yesterday and i thought about this the entire game

the amount of times i saw "nah you dont need to play them" is crazy i played through them all for the first time before aw2 and i would have been so lost playing this if i didnt

Gonna be real, I'm early game, currently in the talk show timeloop I think, can barely remember, it's been a while since I last played, does it get more like an actual game at any point or does it continue just being 'walk to evidence, interact with evidence, place evidence on mind palace wall in certain order, maybe fight a boss', because I can't lie, so far this thing barely feels like a game, it's just a series of chores where the chores change every so often

early game shoves a bunch of menu stuff at you really early on that borders on too much imo but it eventually calms down and becomes mostly unnecessary outside of a couple of moments

some interesting puzzle mechanics get introduced as you go through but as far as combat goes outside of the occasional moment it never really picks up too much, if the story and environments arent grabbing you i dont think itll be for you but maybe give it a little longer if youre just starting alans story

Playing this now and it’s pretty damn good so far! Never finished the first game s*** got way too redundant but this is keeping things interesting. I like saga more than Alan tbh

How long is this game? Just made it to the nursing home and have barely done anything as Alan

took me 24 hours to finish the main story

I wanna play this so bad

Just finished alan wake remaster & hopping on control now

You’re in for a ride, beating AW1 and Control before playing AW2 adds so much to the game.

Can’t wait man

Control is amazing so far

if youve got time throw quantum break in there itll add even more to this game

I feel without playing control I’m confused

Could be worth playing, but I think you’d be fine just watching a story recap

if youve got the free time and youre not dying to play this then definitely go through control or just all the other remedy games if you can

i dont understand the people that said you can play this without playing control or even the first alan wake you would be so lost

It’s absolutely batshit insane that whenever I see discussion about this game outside of KTT there’s always people complaining about how it’s woke and pushing an agenda because Saga is black. These dumb crackers are insufferable.

its always because of that one line she says towards the end too theyve been calling him alan woke

Sam lake was one of those people. Blows my f***ing mind

sam i get, he had to say whatever he could to get new people buying the game

but guys that played this s*** for 30 hours and said nah man youre good jump in i dont know what they were thinking

Lowkey makes me feel like some of the reception is astroturfed. I know good and well some of those 10s were from ppl who had NO F***ING CLUE what was going on IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM

Just beat this, what a game. Debating on playing the final draft but may just wait for dlc

i got an oh deer diner thermos

definitely catch the added stuff in final draft before the DLC its pretty important

even if you watch on youtube or whatever