Quick check: Did people find Alan Wake 2 to be scary? Like were you jump scared by it, did you experience An Dread? I wasn't, but it didn't detract from the experience at all for me.
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I had a fair bit of dread pretty early on. there was a specific level about 3/4 of the way through (the one where you wade through the water) that had so many jump scares in it that I got irritated with them
jump scared many times, dread every time one of the boss segments came up because the combat is too hard for me :-(
Overall, I found Saga’s sections to be scarier than Wake’s. A lot of dread around Valhalla in a, “ah shit, they want me to go in there, huh?” kind of way. The screaming face jump scares felt cheap after a bit.
I didn't find it scary except for the part in the morgue, but the fear quickly dissipated once the game immediately allowed you to confront enemies instead of hiding from them. The constant jump scares were really bad for me though and became annoying.
I didn't find the jump scares as constant or annoying as most people did (its fine if they tone that down if folks want, doesn't bother me either way). Wandering the woods and the theme park were pretty full of dread pretty much the whole time, even when I backtracked for collectables.
Not played it but friend of mine is finding it really stressful, not really because of the jump scares but because of the sound design (which I can understand, I couldn't play Dead Space because of that)