
Alan Wake Remastered on PS4. Chapter 1, Part 1
Arise Sir Alan. You are finally free to wander the darkness and occasional light on Playstation systems! This classic piece of survival horror entertainment was first released for Xbox 360's back in 2011! Only now can it finally break free of it's exclusivity shackles in apparently remastered form.
I will be posting at least the first chapter of the story over 2 parts and I will possibly delve further into the game with videos but I cannot guarantee a full walkthrough. I may resort to exploration videos or stand out moments. All I can say is watch this space! It is the month containing Hallowe'en after all!
I don't recall Alan Wake being released in episodic form so take the episode thing with a pinch of confusion. I think it may have been done to help it feel like episodes of a tv show which is strange given it's main influence is that of a horror writer.
One of the great things about Alan Wake is all the pop culture references and easter eggs. It's well worth listening to some of the radio chatter and short tv programmes you may find playing out. Fans of the Twilight Zone will be particularly intrigued at an homage I already stumbled across and I hope there's more! I even got a Life is Strange vibe early on which is very strange considering Life is Strange is yet to exist in 2011.
Along the way in Alan Wake you pick up pages of Alan's latest manuscript that he doesn't remember writing. To begin with I let Alan narate 2 or 3 pages of the book to add to the atmosphere but as some of the pages seem to be collected in random order (or I am missing pages) so I have henceforth decided not to open any more for now. I don't see a point in telling the story out of order with possibly missing pages not thrown into the mix.
This game was a released in a time where game developers still allowed you to goof around during cutscenes and hardly any of that forced walking bollocks that made Red Dead 2 and Uncharted 4 a real bore at times. A lot of the cinematic camera panning is done by me because the game allows me to do this even during cut scenes.
So sit back, relax and enjoy this love letter to Stephen King. It's also probably the closest thing we will get to another Silent Hill game on PS4 : (
Arise Sir Alan... but I already said that!