Alan Wake turns into Alan Wick in this more action oriented mini sequel to Alan Wake 1, and I think the game was dragged down because of it. Gone is the dark and spooky forests of the Pacific Northwest, which was replaced by a Arizona town that didn't feel fleshed out at all.

I'm not really sure why they thought that after all the fun ideas they used to tell the stories of MP, MP2, and Alan Wake, they thought the best way to handle this game was to have you play through it's three distinct stages THREE different times with ultimately MINIMAL changes.

Yeah the extra guns are fun, I enjoyed using the crossbow and double barrel combo myself, but I came to this restaurant to eat a good story; I left quite famished!

Mr. Scratch was a genuinely disturbing character, and not at all the way I thought he would be written. From fighting shadow creatures that state facts about the forest or fishing to an ACTUAL serial killer, how unlucky for Mr. Wake.

For how much I seemed to dislike this game, it did expand the lore of the Alan Wake universe AND it got me even more excited to see fight Mr. Scratch in AWII.

4 down with 3 more to go in the "Remedy Rampage."