Alan Wake 2 is a great, weird, story that I might even dare call Lynchian in its "makes sense in the moment but not after you wake up"-ed-ness. It's also one of those annoying, inventory starved, slow paced, survival horror things. No idea how well it executes on that one.

I also don't care for the Control references. A few easter eggs here and there would be fun and fine. But they are trying to turn all of this into a universe and that cheapens the mystery. Especially since the nature of Control is all about reducing the supernatural to boring beureaucratic tedium.

The result is something that drags just the tiniest bit, but is still hard to put down.

Four Stars.

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Alan Wake 2 is the:

• Greatest Remedy Game of all time.
• 2nd greatest Video Game of all time.
• 3rd greatest Thing of all time.