Remedy does weird better than pretty much every developer making big, expensive video games, and Alan Wake is delightfully strange. Like the show, the game's horror is amplified by taking place in an idyllic, seemingly perfect all-American setting-and it’s this contrast that makes Bright Falls such a compelling place. But Wake is a much more obvious homage to Mark Frost and David Lynch's surreal supernatural soap opera. Sam Lake's love for Twin Peaks has been apparent since the Address Unknown theme park in Max Payne 2. It's a perfectly enjoyable action game, but it's the world, characters, and ambience that will really stick in your mind-and the visual upgrade in Alan Wake Remastered, while not as immediately dramatic as you might expect, makes exploring those creepy Pacific Northwestern woods, and hanging out with Bright Falls' quirky residents, even more of a strange delight. The story is really the thing that keeps me coming back to Alan Wake, and the reason to play it today. We learn more about what happened to the town and Alan's fate after the final chapter, and it seems the Federal Bureau of Control had a presence in the town while all this was going down. The events of Alan Wake are examined, and expanded upon, in Control. Also, as someone who has become invested in the ongoing Remedy Connected Universe, returning to Bright Falls after playing Control-specifically the AWE expansion-is extra exciting.
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