Review for the remaster.
As someone who went into this game with high expectations having played a wide array of games with similar concepts and genres, I was really disappointed in what I ended up playing.
Alan Wake plays like a ps2 game, story is boring and cliché, enemies are boring and repetitive, gameplay is bland. Most importantly the controls are downright infuriating. Terrible game, avoid at all costs.
Really disappointed in how this game turned out. If I could get a refund on it I would. Don't be fooled by the good reviews, the game really is a product of its time, its an old game that was overly ambitious for its time, the gameplay reflects this for all the wrong reasons, even in the ps5 remaster.