There's a billion thoughts running through my head now, but I'll just keep it brief and say that this is truly a landmark video game that has some of the highest highs the medium has ever offered. I do have pretty mixed feelings about the ending, but even still, the rest is easily worth experiencing.

With a captivating story, mind melting visuals, a phenomenal atmosphere, solid survival horror combat, and just some absolutely insane ideas, Alan Wake 2 cements itself as both Remedy's magnum opus and as one of the finest narrative driven experiences of all time. Not everything is perfect, but god damn is it always fuckin cool. This is Remedy finally realizing their potential as a developer, and it acts as a nice apology for whatever the fuck that nothing sandwich of a story Control was.