the issue isn't that it's not not justified. it's that it's a built-in 'deus ex machina' that can, without really thinking, solve anything when called on...
You're gonna get ridiculed by the masses or by megafans, so I wouldn't worry too much, not that you are, just saying.
This is exactly my situation, loved the first one with multiple playthroughs.
This is the point that bothers me most, coming from another playthrough of Control (really like the game and gameplay) the gameplay in AW2 is nonexistent almost. How you point it, pretend to solve cases, that wall with all the connecting dots is just a waste of time. At least the Alan path is good, there with the mechanic of choices you can have different stuff.
Didn't finish it, agree with the graphics.
Don't think so, game has a ton of links, references and callbacks to many earlier Remedy games (especially Control with the FBC and AWE stuff) so would probably be a lot more enjoyable if you know about that stuff from playing those games before it, but overall most of what you need to know is already explained in AW2. would make more sense to play Control first instead because the story is now also linked to that game's story with FBC and AWEs.
Just finished the first chapter and loving it, downloading control now
Sometimes I wanted an auto button or a fast travel. I had to wake up. If I am telling myself "crap, not again" when I see the objective then it really didn't master any piece of what would make it a masterpiece. I agree, good, but flawed.
AA isn't the biggest problem for this, but RT denoiser is, sadly thats about what you get on AMD GPUs. Given that we are talking about Quality mode.
They can fix shimmering if they move FSR in the pipeline , like you can on PC. but I don't think they can, base resolution is to low and the consoles not powerful enough. Maybe if the make their own TAA.
This might be the most on point summary of the game. How did reviewers missed all of this and gave it 9s and 10s all around ?!
Yep the promise of Alan being in half of the game was basically a lie. Saga got the coolest and biggest levels (including the return to Bright Falls), pretty much all of the bosses, more collectibles and even additional riddles with cult stashes and nursery rhymes. Not to mention you spend more time in her mind place and you only pop up to the writer's room when playing as Alan (although I would say this is better
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Yeah, they really wanted for the player to like her by giving her all the cool stuff, but the character itself was a nothing burguer. Dont know if it was the acting or writting, but she was really one note and boring.Yep the promise of Alan being in half of the game was basically a lie. Saga got the coolest and biggest levels (including the return to Bright Falls), pretty much all of the bosses, more collectibles and even additional riddles with cult stashes and nursery rhymes. Not to mention you spend more time in her mind place and you only pop up to the writer's room when playing as Alan (although I would say this is better
Lower the difficulty.
Awesome advice. It doesn't even effect the trophies.
Agree with this. I just had a lot of bugs on PS5 as well. I had to restart the game several times due to sound effects being cut off, a visual glitch with the flashlight showing a white square when used and getting stuck on assets.
You said it: Mind Place is a super cool idea. But I have many problems with how it was implemented.
Exactly how I feel about the Mind Place.
There is another upcoming game that will have same type of investigation but this time they combining it with turn based RPG.
Thing is in Alan Wake 2 it's not very deep. You can't put any of the clues in a wrong place or come up with a completely wrong deduction as a result of it. It's all about locating all of the obligatory clues (which are usually nearby and in plain sight) and doing some trial&error with them on the board. You don't even have to read their descriptions to learn where they should fit.There is another upcoming game that will have same type of investigation but this time they combining it with turn based RPG.
Decapolice....I'm curious how in depth gong to be comapre to Alan Wake 2.
Yeah, I personally like the idea investigating gameplay but in AW2 is too simplistic and not all that rewarding, I hope Decapolice does it better.
Thanks. I'm trying to be fair while not excusing the bad. There's slightly more bad here than good, which is unfortunate.
As basic and short as Alan's sections were, I enjoyed them much more than Saga's. I wasn't being a detective, I was in an exposition avalanche. I really liked how infrequently I had to go and spend time in the writer's room. The Mind Place can go though. I really hated that place by the end of the game. You move a cursor, click a phrase, listen to Saga stare straight forward and talk with FMV flashing, click another phrase. On and on. I clipped it because I thought it was so crazy that it was in the game. I might hate myself more that I found all of the rhymes and stashes.Yep the promise of Alan being in half of the game was basically a lie. Saga got the coolest and biggest levels (including the return to Bright Falls), pretty much all of the bosses, more collectibles and even additional riddles with cult stashes and nursery rhymes. Not to mention you spend more time in her mind place and you only pop up to the writer's room when playing as Alan (although I would say this is better
The writing. I don't know who's exactly responsible for some of it but it's juvenile at times. Again, not trying to be rude, simply stating my opinion. Her acting wasn't great but it was passable.
I think I know where you're at. The damn glitching/skating enemies in the game are the worst. The game has rough movement and controls for dealing with them. By the time you get them in your sights they glitch out or skate off and you have to readjust. Despite having DualSense features they didn't add gyro aim, which would have helped a lot with aiming. I had a few rage moments because of those enemies specifically. The shadow enemies are kind of difficult to read because of all the visual noise around them, which doesn't help.
what i find kinda disturbing, actually, is that the mind place is fundamentally a 'thinking simulation', a brainless, impossible to fail exercise that gives the player the 'feeling' of thinking without actually requiring them to...
And some enemies you just cant evade, like those fast ones that double hit
Dodging is unlimited, can even dodge those that hit 3 times
Yeah that arena fight is definitely too hard compared to all previous encounters. Too much is happening, too many enemies keep appearing and your allies aren't really helping you that much. The later boss fight was a cakewalk by comparison.
