Alan Wake 2

[yvannairie]

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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.

Comments

[yvannairie]

The guro artists at Remedy all sitting in a circle holding hands, making sure none of them were left out. Like the only thing missing was choking shit. Lord almighty this game is so horny.

[nonesensed]

An excellent mental image, thank you for that 😆💖 And surely they've got so save some fun for the DLCs 😉

Really wondering what Control 2 will be like with how much the tone shifted from Alan Wake 1 to 2 - I'm excited to find out!