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Ahhh, Alan Wake. I played this game back in 2013 because I picked it up for cheap on a Steam bundle and I ended up looking at old reviews of it before I was done. A lot of people basically called the game an adaptation of a bad Stephen King book. At the time, I disagreed. I'd grown up on a lot of his short stories and felt A: no it really wasn't and B: it really felt more of a homage to horror writers in general, with the occasional Lovecraft reference and some feeling that evoked Clive Barker at a point I can't remember. Well that was three years ago and after reading Under The Dome and a few of his other books proper (or tried to, in the case of The Tommyknockers) and some of his more recent fiction, I have to say that yeah this game is probably the most accurate adaptation of a Stephen King book that doesn't exist. In fact it actually has some added benefits that King doesn't, such as: no weird views of minorities as Literally Magic, no weird idiosyncratic sayings for kids and teens, no weird sex scenes in general, a pretty rad soundtrack and how this game was most likely not written under the influence of hard drugs or written as part of a half-baked pseudo Grant Morrison soul exercise where you write about that time you nearly died to deal with the demons of your past. This isn't to say that Alan Wake doesn't have problems (it totally does) but the older I get the more I realize that yeah this game is pretty much Peak Stephen King back when he was allowed to have editors and didn't do drugs. Also the music is really good.
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mandatory lesbian posted:peak stephen king was doing drugs tho, Misery is his only good book Honestly this game tonally feels like his take on Von Trier's show "The Kingdom" which became Kingdom Hospital which was...interesting but kind of hamstrung by being a thirteen episode show so there was a lot of padding and just general shenanigans.
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Yeah Alan was a bit too abrasive for my tastes. I really identified with the protagonist of the sequel game that my aunt bought from the supermarket.
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Alan Wake 2: Too Many Kidney Stones by drmrproductplacement Carl Jacobs was not peeing out of his dick. He had too many kidney stones. ===MORE UNDER THE BREAK=== They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.
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