Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a fun little spin off from the first game, bringing new Taken enemies to the little desert town of Night Springs, Arizona. It is a long night ahead but you aren't lacking in firepower, bringing a different change of pace from the first game as you dive more into action instead of horror, as you are trapped in a time loop by Mr. Scratch. Fight your way through the Rest Stop, the Observatory and finally the Drive-In Theater, until you feel the sun. Alan Wake's American Nightmare may not have a solid story and voice acting but the action is a nice serving and there is a horde mode to play and get lost in. I see this game as a nice side dish to the main games.

Sim, mesma vibe do jogo, porém com "modo zombies" e mais maluquice

I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to American Nightmare, but for reasons that I think are outside what the game was trying to do. Immediately following up the first game, I definitely wasn't expecting the campy mystery horror game of Alan Wake 1 to suddenly turn down into an arcade shooter, and I feel that's where most of my concern stems. Everything about the game, the story, the setting, how it all loops around, it felt built around the fact it has this new, fully expanded and fleshed out mode built into it, with a wave like mechanic to it where you are supposed to fight and kill as many of the taken as you can. Including different classes of taken, different guns and ammo, new ordinances, etc. which is to the stories detriment. Nothing felt very justified for why things were happening, Alan's motivations for being there, the only other characters consisting of 3 two dimensional, male gaze-y woman side characters, a shallow, kind of corny antagonist, all for it to be retconned in favor of Alan Wake 2 by saying it was just another failed attempt on Alans side to escape the dark place. On the other hand, some, if not all moments throughout I couldn't help but get a 'hell yeah' feeling as I played around with the new weapons and gameplay, feeling a lot smoother than the first, streamlined to do nothing but mow down enemy after enemy, racking up as many points as possible, you get the idea. I know that the story is very, *very* bare bones, none of the characters are particularly interesting or important, Mr. Scratch isn't very well written, but call it a guilty pleasure because for this game, I was willing to shove all those feelings to the side and just enjoy my time playing American Nightmare. Simply for the reason that I felt like a small kid again, playing an overly simple game just to play it, just to enjoy myself without thinking about anything besides what was right in front of me for a small moment in time. It was really nostalgic in that sense. Logically, this game is pretty bad lol. But for me, I enjoyed my time spent on it, and leave it up to you to find out what you think for yourself, 6.5/10.

this entire franchise is worth playing and replaying. So good! <3

si eres fan de Alan Wake es necesario jugar este DLC, porque es interesante, divertido y complementa la historia. Aunque no me termina de convencer el nexo que tiene con la parte 2.

Eu acho essa continuação do primeiro jogo muito necessária pra quem curtiu Alan Wake ou quer entender o universo Remedy como um todo, afinal temos pontos muito importantes estabelecidos por aqui. Eu achei legal que nas 2 ou 3 vezes que eu peguei pra jogar ele, o céu da madrugada sempre estava combinando com o do jogo, apesar de eu nem ficar reparando muito no céu enquanto eu jogava, me deixou mais imerso no jogo querendo ou não. Ainda possui a gameplay meio travada do primeiro jogo, mas eu não admiro a Remedy por gameplay, e sim por história, então isso é um ponto totalmente irrelevante pra mim. Só jogue tudo o que a Remedy tem a oferecer, ela é boa em contar histórias ;)

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