There's always a danger when making a follow-up to something that has become a little bit of a cult classic over the years that you lose what made the original entry so special but Remedy have deftly defied the odds, improving on all aspects of the first game. The shift to something a bit closer to survival horror (along with dual protagonists) was the perfect way to move the series forward, something that Remedy's penchant for mixing media in their storytelling dovetails neatly with.

Remedy themselves continue to be one of the most interesting big-budget studios out there, and their idiosyncratic narrative tendencies are perfect for the story they want to tell in Alan Wake II.