A cute little side game if you want more Alan Wake in your life. Best played if you REALLY want to, and well experienced if you just watch all the cutscenes/manuscripts on Youtube.

A Solid PlayStation Triple A experience.

A simple and effective game with a not-so-simple and riveting story. More games like this, please.

Like all of Rockstar's output, the game is pretty good when you're actually playing it for one minute between two minutes of cutscenes. Despite this, I can honestly say that Rockstar's cinematic approach works better taken to campaign-based single-player like Max Payne, instead of clashing with a dissonant open world design like their proceeding games.

Doom (2016) smoked that Power of Greyskull and now everything is an action figure with targetable weak points and bright flashy colours. Fitting for a plot that's basically banging said action figures together.

Probably one of the best modern adaptations of a classic franchise we could get.

A game that's so good at absorbing you into the vibes of its world but can't make you look away from the train wreck of a plot. The gradual descent into parallel universe crap is like watching an Olympic Show Skiing tournament held over a pool of sharks.

Why did people think Bioshock 1 was better when this came out.

The only way to prove your forgiveness is showing your enemies how hard you COULD have killed them, but didn't. All those other guys you broke the bones of to get here are fine though.

Somewhere beyond the sea, there's a version of this game that didn't give me a sensory overload with all the ringing alarms, noisy shop terminals and explosions. 80% of the game is still stellar tho.

Max goes through yet more Payne. More of the same good gameplay, but the story definitely reeked as though they had no plan to ever make a sequel.

An excellent set of friendly neighbourhood side content stacked next to a script written by someone who hasn't talked to a teenager since their time in high school circa 2004.

My entire creative life is in the hopes I make something HALF as soulful as this.