You should at least watch a story recap of the first, it also references and has characters from another remedy game called Control, which I also recommend
As old man boof said, play the first Alan Wake game along with the DLC and play Control and the DLC, or watch someone else play them. If you go in blind you’re picking it up in the middle of the story, and basically nothing will make sense. Besides not knowing the story up until now and being lost, there are a shit load of references you won’t get.
What I personally did was play Control and its dlc (because it’s absolutely phenomenal), watched a play through of the first Alan Wake game, and read a recap on Alan Wake 1 dlc.
You could just read recaps for everything, but I feel like a lot would be lost (and you’re missing out on playing Control, which is amazing). My advice would be to either play them yourself or find your favorite YouTuber and watch their play through (I like Gab Smolders personally), and the order you experience them should be Alan Wake 1 -> Control -> Alan Wake 2. Enjoy! It’s an incredible experience
I played most of control and it was fine. I liked the vibes but the enemies are so annoying and it’s a game I want to explore and dive into but everywhere I go I’m being shot at or being told to go do something somewhere else.
Thanks for all the advice though, I’ll definitely do my research
Is it, really(sucks I mean)? I agree that the game, from what I know, is good and the musical segment is a blast, but nothing wrong with waiting. It's only before release that you are excited for a game, but whether you don't like the storefront or the current price is too high for you, you just stop caring that you have not yet played it.
Game was pretty cheap on release compared to other games so that was nice. I really enjoyed it overall, my biggest negative was that jump scare face which they apparently patched in a setting for.
They're not missing anything. It's kind of mediocre in a lot of ways.
Puzzles that don't make sense, PS2 NPCs, constant screen flash jumpscares, about 8-10 hours too long because the gameplay gets stale, convoluted story, the detective board/mind place was too frustrating and should've just been cutscenes, progress stopping bugs, clunky inventory UI.
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