The forests and surrounding backgrounds do look gorgeous, and are better at higher resolutions, but it highlights the rest of Alan Wake’s ugliness by comparison. Character faces don’t emote well at all and cutscenes tend to stutter in certain sections. The Remaster doesn’t do Alan Wake many favors visually, either. Memories of fending off armies of evil birds while standing on a gondola or trying not to get crushed by an evil train all hit me at once.Īlan Wake’s environments always looked good, and the remaster enhances its backgrounds Image: Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games There’s also the way the game’s charming narration sometimes disappears for minutes at a time, or gets interrupted in favor of large-scale battles with the Darkness baddies (called The Taken). Other pain points instantly flooded back when I started playing, like the way enemies often spawn behind you with no noise or signal to warn you. In the modern era, when so many games are confident enough to make combat fleeting in the service of story and tone, Alan Wake feels ancient. But Alan Wake pads each level with dozens upon dozens of enemies, each requiring the same one-two-punch tactic. The light-based combat, where Alan has to lower each enemy’s shield of Darkness by shining a flashlight at them and then blowing them away with a variety of guns, is neat the first handful of times. A good 40% of certain levels consist of just jogging through the woods or down a road, and Alan can only run for about five seconds without slowing down and huffing for air - a relatable trait, from one writer to another, but not the kind of thing that makes for fun gameplay.
By today’s standards, it’s a legitimate slog. Let’s get this out of the way up front: The actual act of playing Alan Wake was already boring in 2010. However, its issues are still as glaring as they were 11 years ago, and this remaster does nothing to mitigate them. It’s rife with charm, and overflowing with a mysterious atmosphere, and both are on display in Alan Wake : Remastered more than ever before.
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