To defeat his snarling foes (example dialogue: MR WRITER.
Alan establishes that he can defeat the shadowy figures that besiege him by shining light at them, but instead of rounding up every light source he can or strapping a bunch of floodlights to the back of one of the many vehicles lying around the outskirts of the besieged rural town of Bright Falls, he carries a crappy torch that he tops up with randomly-found batteries.Īnd the torch. Alan should be running for his life, and to save that of his missing wife, but instead he veers off to collect coffee. It also doesn't seem to entirely grasp just what that something is, and instead repeatedly drops its clearly lovingly-made ball before it can stride into the sinister greatness it shoots for. It's a third-person shooter with a light/darkness combat mechanic, starring a horror author suffering from the triple terrors of writer's block, the mysterious abduction of his wife and assault by murderous monsters in human form. They serve no purpose, there is no internal logic to explain their presence or their effects on Alan and. well, why? Don't get me wrong: I of all people can empathise with any writer (for that is Alan's trade) feeling he is utterly dependent upon the constant consumption of lukewarm caffeinated beverages to survive, but Alan doesn't even close his eyes contentedly and make a sort of sex noise like the rest of us do when we lay our hands on sweet, sweet coffee.
Alan Wake specialises in not entirely making sense, and the occasional, pointless coffee flasks exemplify that. and a thermos flask glimmers improbably on a rocky outcrop in the distance. Perhaps the iconic image of Alan Wake: our glowering, scarf-clad hero runs from the dark wilderness that's all around, towards an eerie light in an abandoned structure ahead of him, while the air itself seems to shimmer with otherwordly blackness.
Worth the wait? I fitted as many batteries as I could into my Torch Of Truth and investigated. A mere two years after being rather spuriously denied a PC release, the videogame called Alan has skulked, tail between his legs, back over here.
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