Sam Lake's writing is endlessly indebted to the work of David Lynch and Mark Z. Danielewski, but he's very aware of this. Alan Wake, to me, is about the forms of violence inherent in art. The vision of seeing yourself as that which worlds are born of, centering yourself within the universe. It's certainly clunky, and the game itself can be repetitive to actually play, but I can't help but admire what Lake and his team are going for here. One of the rare director-driven video games, I'm extremely excited to try Alan Wake 2!