If you aren’t already familiar with the plot of Alan Wake, you play as the bit-of-a-jerk Alan Wake, a famous writer with a bad-boy image who is struggling with a serious bout of writer’s block. Well, not all the characters are great, but I’m referring to the ones who have more than a few moments of screen time and aren’t thus rendered to caricatures at best (like poor, poor Rose). So most of the game’s longevity comes down to strong writing, attuned controls and gameplay mechanics, a wacked-out story, and great characters. Most of the enhancements in this remastered version were strictly cosmetic - there were few updates, if any, to the core gameplay itself. The point is, Alan Wake completely slaps, and I’m here to shout it from the mountaintops. So I guess it’s no surprise that, even now, one of my favorite games of all time just got a little more favoritey. Truth be told, it’s up there on my list of Greatest of All Time (yes, it’s a GOAT contender).
In any case, here we are.Īlan Wake originally released back in 2009, and it was one of my favorite games of that year. But when said game really is one of the best games I’ve played all year, beating out legit new releases, well, what can I say? Perhaps the bar is just so low these days that a shinier version of a game released more than a decade ago is still better than something hot off the 2021 presses. I always feel like I’m cheating when a remaster of an already great game lands on my list of best games for the year.
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