I think my opinion of this game is a tiny bit inflated because I adore the media it is aping. Friends of mine who've played this but have never seen Twin Peaks found the tone too weird. But when you get the references a lot of the bizarre choices read more as jokes than clumsy writing. Alan's monologuing genuinely had me chuckling. A pitch-perfect self-obsessed writer who's been sniffing his own farts for too long.

Gameplay is admittedly a little annoying if you're not great at shooting and have bad eyes. I could have gotten away bumping up the brightness on my TV. Still, the ambience was at times legitimately scary, despite monsters essentially being dudes in flannel.

I can't wait to be able to play the sequel. Alan Wake was prescient in it's references to prestige TV, given the thru-lines in Twin Peaks The Return. Can't wait to see Remedy take it a step farther!