started alan wake 2. the first few hours with saga were cool - i like the detective stuff and the act of piecing together clues in the mind palace. while the opening chapters are a very slow burn buildup, i felt like it showed a lot of creative confidence to let the investigation carry the first two hours of the game with basically no combat whatsoever. (by comparison, alan wake 1 drops you right into a tutorial level in the form of a nightmare so that you don't get bored.) but once the action started to pick up a little i also kind of felt like i was just playing a resident evil game. it felt very straightforward in terms of modern survival horror games, and as someone with no attachment to that genre it wasn't doing all that much for me
and then i got to the first alan chapter. as soon as i saw that first extremely meta live action talk show segment i was like "we're so fucking back"
