An intriguing story can only get you so far, and for Alan Wake 1 I feel like it's far too flawed for me to really wanna go back to. I felt like I fought the camera more than enemies, being jumped from offscreen never felt fair, the level design and overall gameplay feels aged compared to something like RE4. It's probably good for it's time but playing it now without ever experiencing it's first release I feel like it's taken the worst aspects of games from that era. It looks like AW2 has fixed these aspects tho, I'm excited to give that a try eventually.