i did also play like the first hour of alan wake's american nightmare, but honestly i'm not even sure i wanna finish this one in spite of its short length. it's so weird. the gameplay is definitely refined over the first game, but it's just not at all what i want out of this series. the vibes are completely off. it feels like an attempt at rebranding the series as a little more badass and irreverent, almost like they wanna frame alan as like... an ash williams type? like they thought that'd make it more marketable after the first game underperformed? its story is tonally disconnected from the first game, leaning all the way into B-movie camp in a different setting with a simple "alan has to track down mr. scratch" premise, but also that simple premise is depicted in such a convoluted way that i can't imagine it making any sense to someone who hasn't played the first game
tbh i might just watch the cutscenes for this one on youtube and then start control
