After playing through them all, I can confidently say Alan Wake II feels like the Remedy Game of All Time™. I could feel - and often times literally see - something from every single game they've made and it was sick. I was amazed at how every system mechanic felt so well thought out, to the point where the game was kinda hard to put down. I just kept wanting to see how they would expand upon them.

Although I enjoyed the combat from AWI, the slower but heavier of AWII felt super good. Combine that with the darker environments and story overall and this was actually a great horror experience. I was jump-scared on multiple occasions which is something I could never imagine from the first game.

However, my favorite part of the game BY FAR was filling out Saga's case boards. There's something so simple and clean about having a question, finding out the answer, and then hitting that case board with new evidence. Very fulfilling stuff.

Will definitely replay at some point to 100% but this game was destroying my PC so I'm having to deal with the psychological damage of that.