Fell off a couple levels in, I'll come back to it eventually but playing it immediately after having run through the entirety of the original game was too much of a downgrade, I need to give some more space between em. I certainly wouldn't call American Nightmare a bad game but it has way less clarity of vision than its predecessor and the changes made to the gameplay to accommodate the new structure make it feel super bland. None of the enemies feel like they pose a real threat with their decreased darkness thresholds and Alan's faster, snappier arsenal, and combined with the lack of any clear narrative hooks it just makes for a game that's way more susceptible to tedium than the original. The rhythms of collecting and watching or listening to TV spots, radio broadcasts and manuscript pages don't fit nearly as well into this faster-paced game either, especially since Mr. Scratch's live-action vignettes actually have a lot of downtime in them, taking up more time to deliver less story than sequences you got of Alan in the Sunken Place in the first game. Overall this game is fine but it just doesn't have enough going on to keep me interested right now.