Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I’m still playing Alan Wake 2:
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I’m at Lakeview Hotel With Alan, I did Coffee World and went back to town with Saga. I love Alan’s half, it’s fresh, keeps you engaged and you never know what you’re going to find around the corner. The music video bit was awesome. Saga on the other hand is… boring. I don’t like the detective stuff as much as I thought. It drags on, has you running around to find items and aside from a few bits here and there it isn’t very engaging. Maybe it gets better later on, but so far I’m tempted to keep playing Alan and ignore Saga for good. It’s like they shoehorned 2 different games together for no reason.
I’ve played Tainted Grail a bit more:
It’s not bad, although so far I don’t find it very engaging. But it’s kept me playing for a bit, so we’ll see.
And when in doubt, back to comfort food. I retook my 4th playthrough of Heaven’s Vault:
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I’m going to try to keep Enkei this time. Last time I chickened out at the last moment and saved Six. I’ve already read the 4 books, so it’s just out of curiosity to see if it differs from the book.
I didn’t mind Saga, I liked several of her chapters (the one coming after Coffee World was one of my favourites) and I enjoyed the mixup in playstyles, environments and weaponry to create some variety. I also thought it was neat to see the reality-rewriting happen in real time for her in parallel to the Alan stuff. The one thing that I didn’t like with her was all the collectibles, I felt that those ruined the tempo and pace and were just busywork put out to meet the expectations of modern gamers but actually detracted from and otherwise tight and concise story.
For sure Alan’s chapters are the stars of the show though, they’re just fantastic and show the full range of Remedy writing, art direction, creativity and mixed media use.
Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I’m probably exaggerating , I’m in a quite negative mindset at the moment due to other stuff, but I still think the make you run around too much to find stuff in order to advance in Saga’s parts. I’ll keep playing as her, I’m curious about what’s to come now.
By the way, the game performance keeps disappointing, but I got used to it.