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My summary of Alan Wake 2:

Eroguro ass video game

GotY 1000/10

Alan Wake 2

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I am in a sadist food coma, y'all. I joked for the first two days that the team clearly had some guro/eroguro artists working on it, that I was eating well watching all these pretty men suffer increasing horrors, and then we hit Day Three In Our Descent To The Bottom and discovered that the game has, in fact, an entire in-universe snuff film for you to find and watch. This was before Nightmare Mind Place. This was before the sheer creative chutzpah of giving the self-destructive egostistic artist urge the face of your lead writer.

This game needs to be put through a cheese grater, separated into fine component dust, before I even dare to take a crack at analysing it. It's recursively meta. It's actively pushing you deeper down into the spiral, telling you the only way out is through, and if you stop it's just gonna end up going deeper on some other spot. So you gotta commit. And you gotta just fucking keep going.

And it was also horny as hell, this game is just fucking oozing the eroticism of horror and blood and disembowelment, you start the game climbing out of a lake as a naked dude and get your heart cut out and it just escalates from there. Remedy really went "okay we got the 18+ rating, nothing is going to stop us now" and made the exploitation film they always wanted to.

I said on Saturday that I can't wait for the horny trans people on Youtube to get their hands on this game and I stand by that statement. This is going to be a spectacular discourse event for years to come.

AWE posting 30.10.

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(Spoilers for Alan Wake 2)

Wishing the Remedyverse fandom a very swift "embrace the fact that in the context of AW2 Sam Lake is just another actor and therefore it's morally neutral to thirst after the characters he portrays"

Like. Yes the autofiction doesn't help. But Sam Lake the character inside the game is not the same as Sam Lake the performer portraying those characters, just like Davey Wreden the character inside The Beginner's Guide doesn't equate to Davey Wreden the developer outside of it.

We've had this conversation already. It's okay. It's fine. Embrace that Bony Man In A Suit Hot.