>one of the most soulful games of the past decade
>/v/ pajeets hate it because it has a black chick in it
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 6:12:14 PM
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>>721170040 (OP)
The game does a fantastic job of making you dislike her from the get go by making her a pretty obnoxious Mary Sue who is smarter and nicer than everyone so I don't blame people for being put off even if it is incredibly frontloaded. I almost dropped it until I got to the actual way better Alan Wake parts.
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9/20/2025, 6:22:45 PM
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>>721172654
I like it myself, but the DEI shit is very noticeable and distracting, and looking deeper at the plot only makes it worse, considering it ends with a META self.reference where Alan himself takes the chick as a co-author who just writes herself as "I just win, because I deserve it, okay?" And the Alan story, while being the better version of it, is just a rehash of both the AW1 DLC and American Nightmare.
The gameplay is RE2 remake but a bit more satisfying, but mostly it's really a moviegame.
It's outstanding how the presentation alone saves the game and made me replay it more than once, but really I can't critically defend the game once I put my brain into it
Anonymous
9/20/2025, 6:26:51 PM
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A game can't be soulful if nobody actually discusses it beyond its superficial elements (like visuals and/or presentation). Shills keep trying to claim that Alan Wake II is some underappreciated masterpiece, but there's a good reason why you never see them actually share videos or gameplay images that aren't meant to be bullshots or bait for engagement.
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9/20/2025, 6:39:47 PM
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>>721172654
The problem is less that she's super woke and more that the role was clearly originally meant for a white woman. You simply do not believe that a successful, career oriented black american woman would move to a tiny waterlogged trailer in a white ethnic enclave in a remote rural corner of one of the whitest parts of the entire country. One of the biggest narrative hooks relies on you believing that and you don't.
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9/20/2025, 6:41:27 PM
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>>721170040 (OP)
>because it has a black chick in it
That's not the issue. The issue is that we have to play as the black chick 50% of the time in a game called Alan Wake 2.
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9/20/2025, 6:43:10 PM
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>>721170040 (OP)
Is it on Steam yet?
Never playing it if the answer is 'no'.
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9/20/2025, 6:46:27 PM
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>>721170973
>>721172189
simply having a black woman as the protagonist wouldn't feel forced, but making her scandinavian was too on the nose. If they wanted a scandinavian chick they should have cast a scandinavian, if they wanted the protagonist to be black just bite the bullet and make her black
