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Developer's perspective here. AAA environments take multiple years to create in terms of geometry, textures/shaders, lighting, LODs, etc. It's a massive undertaking especially when developers are going for realism. A lot of the actual level design is done up front and designers are lucky if they get a few months to get it all blocked in for hand-off to art. In many cases, combat systems are not finalized when levels go into production, so camera issues and problems with combat become an issue because the art can't change very much when these systems are finalized. You'd think after 30+ years of AAA game development, this would all be a non-issue, but I see it in every single game I play. The hope is that these systems work in 70% of the environments. Also, the more detailed the environment is, the less space there is for enemy navigation, so it's a constant conversation between design and art to reach some sort of happy medium where visual fidelity isn't obstructing gameplay. I thought Remedy did a great job with this in Control (minus some boss rounds), but Alan Wake 2 is a step backwards IMHO.

That sketch absolutely killed me

The mind place definitely kills the flow of what is already a slow game

The profiling ability is the ultimate deus ex machina. It's the crutch for every new plot point, plot explanation, or existing plot progression that wasn't/couldn't be shown or achieved through actual gameplay. It became thoroughly tiresome.

The satire of the mind place was absolutely hilarious

I’ll never understand why games think a red filter around your screen is a good way to showcase that you’re low in HP. I always remove that shit with a mod if I can

Best way i can describe alan wake 2 is that its a good experience full of creative and mind fuck moments with a well told story, but an extremely shallow and boring video game.

The story wasn't inherently confusing but mid-game did leave open ended questions and things unanswered which culminated in everything coming together for a conclusion that explains everything quite nicely. The game may not be for you, but as an avid survival-horror fan I take issue with trying to constrain every game in the genre to functioning the same "because that's what makes survival horror" when it's not, this is arguably the best Survival Horror we've had this year and arguably for me the second best one in recent years following SIGNALIS (which was intentionally designed to play like very specific older survival-horror games). The more you intentionally go into a game and begin to view it negatively the more it spirals into a feedback loop. The game's not perfect, but if you intentionally start skipping segments that have contextually-relevant story...then complain that things are restated and tedious (despite the entire mechanic being a visualization of a person gathering their thoughts) then you've ultimately created the problem for yourself, and yes, that's something that should be accounted for in development, but it's also something that's just an issue with gamers overall as of late. Survival-horror veterans are no exception to this. Taking the time to actually understand the world and story instead of trying to fast-track it also helps greatly. You have some valid criticisms throughout, but there's others where it's clear that the issues are entirely self-induced. The title is quintessential Remedy, but that also comes with the idea that each game is going to be different. Remedy's always focused more on the story aspect than creating the most diverse of combat styles, this also does still have to be a sequel to the original, so there aren't going to be insanely large differences between them. You created a self-fulfilling prophecy the further into this story you spiraled, and that's fine that it wasn't for you, but it's obvious that because of that you didn't actually take the time to piece it together. Story Summaries are ultimately not a way to gain an understanding of a universe, they can help, but experience should be first and foremost (look at SIGNALIS, you can watch explanations all day but they'll be interpretative based on each person's varying experiences that should instead be used to augment your own understanding of playing through to piece it together yourself. Alan Wake 2 most closely reminded me of Resident Evil 7 in a lot of ways. I could discuss it for a while but I think I've spent about 30-40 hours on the game so I've seen quite a bit of it, but there's still more to come with NG+ and its alternate and extra narrative content, then the two story expansions next year. I'd argue I really want to see TheSphereHunter's thoughts on it since Suzi played through it quite a bit.

it requiers an internet connection to play ?! Weird I have not experience that issue with the cracked version...

Glad to see you agree about the overuse of absolutely disappointing jumpscare moments, which are directed 100% towards the player and the playable character never reacts to them in any way. The actual story doesn't seem that scary and constant anticipation of jumpscares takes some players completely out of the experience and turns the whole game into a long running joke. It ruins the focus to other atmospheric elements. The game Control is a good example, there are barely any jumpscare moments in that game yet it has incredible atmosphere throughout the whole game. Technically the game is impressive, that can't be denied though. (I wrote most of this while watching early part of the video, edited afterwards. I also disliked the storyboard moments, there should have been a option to just automatically place them by the game.)

Immediate 'F' for an SP game requiring mandatory internet connection = immediate smashing of the like button.

The gameplay just feels unfinished. There are so many recourses, so many upgrades and yet 80% of them are pointless, because you kill like 50 enemies in the entire game (aside two musical battles (where you loaded anyway)). Different enemy types, yet they killed all in the same way: just point and shoot and dodge system is pretty weird too. The story is great (even though the nursing house part was boring), i still loved returning to this world 13 years later, but with great gameplay it could've been an instant classic. But sadly because of barebones gameplay and slow exploration replayability is in big question.

I always hate feeling like im not able to enjoy a game everyone seems to love but thats been happening alot this year. I feel like AW2 is only for the fans and im happy they got what they wanted. i don't think most reviews have properly shown that though, and i feel a little cheated.

Since I didn’t play the first game or know what happened, sagas story helped me understand what was happening while alans story was able to explain other questions I had.

I like that the skit with your friend always seem to contain a can of soda. Funny little easter egg.

I honestly think if a second playable character was necessary of the story then it should have been Alex Casey. That was already the hero character he had created.

I just finished the game yesterday, and just recently played Alan Wake 1 for the first time. I really liked both. Because I went in with the expectation that these were story games first and foremost. Yeah, I definitely have some nitpicks of the gameplay and some of the detective elements of Saga in particular, but overall it was such a cool and unique experience. It's not very often I play a game that genuinely doesn't feel like anything else, that alone is worth it to me. As for the ending, for me it depends where it goes from here. I don't mind a good cliffhanger as long as more good stuff follows it, whether that's DLC or a full blown sequel.

dude, your mind place skit was 11/10. new subscriber here just for that. i was failing to put into words myself why saga's part of the game felt so tedious and boring, but your skit explained it perfectly 😂

The fact that Alan's story is told in such a mind bending dynamic way (even including a god damn musical) while Saga's largely involves sitting down with exposition is baffeling. Its like they wrote all of Alan's stuff and shoved an audience surrogate character to make the events more understandable.

Have you played the Evil Within series? Would be curious to hear your thoughts

I mean even without the expansions the ending makes a lot of sense. There’s so many details you’ll miss on a first playthrough without context: Like during the musical Alice’s camera capturing wake as he attempts to escape. Hidden in plain site and on a first playthrough you don’t consider this…let alone how the musical in the dark place is actually choreographing Alan’s final descent you take to Bright Falls where the games first music kicks in.

As someone who sails on the high seas: What exactly do you mean "logged in?"

Great video bud. Could you do a story recap? I want to know what happens but im so bored of playing it I can't bring myself to finish it

8:43 "My favorite part of the game was when I was not playing" was my main take away from the first game

I cannot believe Alan has Woken up for a second time

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I like sagas parts and mind place better. I like the whole game probably one of my top ten in the last ten years. But I enjoyed my time playing, shooting, exploring, and puzzling as saga. Idk. It was fun.

Over the shoulder camera really pissed me off tbh, like in God of War I had to lower the difficulty to the easiest because I’m tired of getting killed from the left and behind, I only just wanna finish the story at that point

yeah i played the game and i agree on the points you made. add to it the fact that the game is extremely heavy on graphics side and needs a very beefy pc to run on 60 fps smoothly and you would be unsatisfied

One of my gripes is the inventory system because at a certain point when you’re carrying items when you go to find certain items they just don’t spawn in. You can game the system by being “smart” with the shoebox (store the specific item you need away then loot out the nearby area of its stuff) but it even then still feels shallow. I actually really enjoy the game but there are issues notably not having gyro aim for controllers. I got the story much more clearly than you but the gameplay I’m roughly on the same page I feel more fondly for it because I was playing on a controller so the feeling of control was much harder than what would be on mouse and keyboard On the camera I just wish these types of games instead of moving in and zooming when in a tight space they’d maintain their distance but effectively speaking erase whatever is in their way it would allow for the close in feeling, that oppression all while still allowing it function

With the Mind Place, it is really annoying when it locks your progression behind pinning something on there and you can get a bit lost because of that but for the most part i found it incredibly helpful to keeping me up to tabs with what was going on through out the game, especially since it's so long. Plus very often her wording alone on some things would solve any misunderstandings i may have had. The worst part about her was waiting so long to find out that Ilmo and Jaako were leaders of the cult when you'd have already guessed it 6 hours into the game or smth

aw1 story was so much better, throughout the game it feels like reading a book, dark presence enemies felt more like shadow than they do in aw2, also in aw1 you could see the other characters are horrified by darkness and enemies but in aw2 they act like it's totally normal, in aw1 you're constantly running away from darkness with a flash light and more action packed gameplay, but aw2 walking simulator, watch some cutscenes, solve some mindless puzzles, kill 2 enemies every 1 hour, also aw2 gameplay feels like playing resident evil, and that mind place thing holy moly who's idea was that, and some parts of the game feels like they just copied a bunch of stuff from the the evil within, how could they make such boring game

I couldn't agree more with this review; half of an interesting game with Alan, half of a boring and uninspired survival horror game with Saga. The investigation was by far the worst I have seen in a video game, even story driven titles like Telltale Games or Quantic Dream productions were more interesting on that matter.

I was disappointed that there wasn't more combat. As much as I like the story, actually fighting the enemies is what I really play games for. The games I come back to years later are because I enjoy the combat in some way.

For the now guide thing for objectives and getting lost is a good thing at times but if your playing and don’t know if your doing a side quest or main quest and you get lost or have to figure out what’s going on it becomes frustrating to the point you just turn it off to go back later For the third person thing umm the answer is yes would you rather tank controls again or a frost person version resident evil made the entire format comes from RE so to change it wouldn’t be that format any longer

I can see how many will not agree with this take, but it's spot on for me. I often wondered if Alan Wake 2 is even a game at all. By the end, I couldn't wait for it to be over. Especially Sagas investigation based mind place. Sit there for 20 min, being forced to hit the A button over and over to listen to the pieces of a story that is unique but also very predictable and convoluted. She's basically just repeating shit you already know. The problem is how they tied it to game play. You're often forced to go there to solve a problem whether you want to or not, which can be confusing. Next, you're forced to hit the A button over and over because it's a game, get it? The only twist in an uninteresting predictable story is an absurdly minor one I won't spoil here for anyone who hasn't gotten there yet. There is a major fight at the end of the game in a small area where several enemies are thrown at you, and this style of combat/camera isn't built for that. It's clumsy, frustrating, and lazy, IMO. Whatever you do, don't play that section in quality mode. You will have to switch to performance to even get past it. I don't prefer games that simply add more enemies to a situation just to ramp up the difficulty. Alan Wake 2 is not for everyone, and I've been surprised by all the praise it's getting. Graphically, it's great. It's one of the best Sims I've seen for giving you a feeling of being lost in the woods where the 1st Alan Wake tried to do and did well for its time. There is another specific section in Alan Wake 2 that is the reason it's getting all the love. Visually, it's very stunning, original, and unique. However, they make it hard to appreciate it more because once again, you're put in a situation with multiple enemies attacking you, and the game simply isn't built for that. It becomes tedious and frustrating. Remedy is just trying too many new things here. I'm betting there are two camps. You're either gonna love Alan Wake 2, or you're not. I don't see much middle ground here. It's shocking to me that it was being considered for GOTY.

Mayo i did 100% of Control in Steam and i think it's a game you might like,the gameplay is fun you have a various options of weapons and abilities and you get them by the story or side missions, the story is very intriguing and mysterious and it's important to read at least some of the files you find around so you can understand better what's going on, for me the main issue is that the map can be confusing and i felt lost but as you said thats not an issue for you, i'm excited for your control video, i hope you like it.

I think it’s funny that it’s called the mindplace lol. Like you couldn’t find a better name for our supercops special detective place in her head

Keeping in mind that they chose Bloober Team of all studios to adapt Silent Hill 2, I really don't think the remake is going to get a fair shake from most reviewers and fans of the original.

Ooh oh that ending music. I know Ive heard it. What is it??

Interesting review. Does not look like my kinda thing at all. I generally dislike super story focused stuff. I love finding letters and paintings and little messages and codecs and stuff in games where I can read it in my own time. I like a gameplay focus. The ghost enemies in this looks annoying. I appreciate that its doing its own thing though. Resi 1 remake remains king for me and silent hill 2.

I’m done with it on part 9 I think it is so boring and the case board is a joke this game is so slow

12:00 YES! That drove me crazy. It's such a waste of time to find something out in the game, to then have to enter the mind place and put it up on the board. Just make it a jurnal entry automatically. Edit: Hah, i commented before the skit began. Absolutely brilliant!

I've played first AW some time after the release (but before remaster) with both DLC's and I never returned to it after that one playthrough. I can already tell it's gonna be the same for the sequel - a one-time "experience"

Immediate thumbs up for the F score due to needing an internet connection to play a single player game. We need to stop supporting studios and publishers that engage in this practice!

Remedy have gotten pretentious and think they are the next David Lynch or something. They need to go back to Max Payne 1 roots = cheesy, fun, 10 % cutscenes and 90 % gameplay and not take themslf serious.

Great example of "should have been a movie". It's like Kojima. Just make a movie instead of a bunch of boring walking simulators full of famous actors. It's how we get "games" like Death Stranding.

Hey Mayo, I'm curious to know what you think of Max Payne 3.

As someone who is more of a casual gamer rather than a hardcore survival horror fan, I highly recommend that everyone plays this game. The narrative, art direction, and overall game direction makes this one of the most original, creative, and ambitious games I've ever played. While some of the overall survival horror elements may fall flat for some fans of the genre, I think it's important to support AAA games that take on this much risk and allow this much creative freedom. This game is not selling well and I urge anyone who is even slightly interested to buy it.

Have you tried the Evil Within series?the first one is pretty linear as you described Alan Wake 2 in this video but the sequel has open world sections with some tough enemies roaming around so you'd be forced to evade them at the risk of encountering them later due to resource scarcity.

No upgrade only worked in older titles like SH and OG RE because how small maps were.

I felt like that joke-“This could have been an e-mail,” but instead it was-“this could have just been a tv show.” Don’t get me wrong, I love my story games. Like all of Sony’s first party output. But this just didn’t feel like the video game parts were very engaging. The story beats were odd and entertaining, but you had to wade through frustrating level puzzles in the Alan sections, and subpar survival horror with Saga. I wasn’t as taken with it as most people apparently were. It was interesting, but definitely not GOTY material. At least for me.

As long time gamer and survival horror games fan and long time resident evil fan, i have To say that i enjoy alan wake 2, worth a wait sequel, just amazing experience. My favorite game this year, and this year has been great for video games. Im so proud of remedy, sorry To hear that you didint like it so much, and that mind place joke was good 😃. i heard that they are making new game plus, there will be some new stuff added, and the 2 dlc coming next year. sry English not the best little bit rusty

Immersion broken when the soda wasn't the Dr. Pepper won from the RE8 piano puzzle.

You can disable achievements by changing privacy of your achievement list to only friends or private.

Overall, I think Alan Wake 2 is pretty great and was worth the wait as a fan of the original games and Control. You make some fair criticism, although I don't agree with them all, or think that they are as bad as you make it. For me, its weaknesses are greatly outweighed by its strengths. I agree that the pacing could have been adjusted as it seems like you are spending more time than you need to walk from one point to another - but it didn't bother me enough to hold it against it. It moves along decently enough and give a chance to build ambiance and atmosphere verses if you ran through everything. It's not Control and doesn't try to be.

To think I was just about to buckle and buy the game off EPIC since I was a fan of the first game. Wouldn't have thought in a million years that they would make a 100% Singleplayer game like Alan Wake 2 always online if it wasn't for your review. Not good enough to bribe developers in order to prevent them from selling their game on other storefronts but always online now as well? Hopefully that's something that is rectified when it comes to Steam but right now that leaves a very bad taste in my mouth for the game in general.

As someone who didn't know this channel, that skit 3/4ths of the way through caught me tf off guard LMAO

I stop playing near the final act Cuz one of the side puzzle might have glitch And i need to get the father doll but its not showing up Now i gotta wait till they patch this hopefully😢

Oh good. I had heard good things about AW2 so I looked up some gameplay and thought “none of this looks fun.” Glad it isn’t just me.

This reminds me of the Gmanlives review. He by his own admission didn't understand what was happening half the time and was upset he couldn't shoot more stuff. And honestly, that's fine. It's just not a game for you.

Mayo, are you still gonna review severed steel?

Mayo, I just finished Onimusha Warlords, you should try it! It's basically samurai resident evil

really wasn't expecting Mayo to do a video on this one.

Spot on. I disagree with the game becoming good but i feel your being generous and i respect that. As a game from a director with 30 years of experience and a team of 400 people this is abject failure.

The skit is literally dead on perfect & it makes it even more infuriating that Remedy gets credit as being "brilliant writers". It reminds of how kendrick lamar gets called a lyrical genius yet only rhymes one syllable words like Dr.Suess. The masses' delusional perception just throws salt in the wounds of dissapoint.

Oh good, skipped epic games purchase, glad I heard that, I wont support offline game required connection. I do find it strange the run speed was a concern, coming from RE and SH, seemed on par for any backtracking speed, particularly the original RE series. Other than that, all pretty spot on, I did back the FOV up in the files, but, still fought the camera a lot. Despite all of it though, prolly one of the best games I've played in a good while. I'm REALLY hoping if Bloober in struggling though, this will give them some good direction, I really hope they don't mess that up.

They should have just focused on Alan and not included a second character. Also, I was hoping we would get a proper survival horror game, but it looks like that's not really the case.

Alan Wake 2 is my GOTY. I know its not for everyone and thats cool. I love this crazy weird little AAA corner Remedy carved out for themselves. Everything in the game is deliberate. For instance you said that the New York Alex Casey stuff feels disconnected, but the New York cult of the word mirrors the cult of tree. The three murders are three cultists becoming Taken (for instance the two cops, Mulligan and Thornton, who became Taken in Sagas reality are the two cops who Alex Casey is investigating the deaths of at the theater. In Sagas world, the two cops threw a body down the well, in Alans reality they threw a body down a chute, etc. Everything is deliberate and thought out pretty well. There's a lot here for us lore and story analysis nerds. I really enjoyed your review though. You were very precise and had genuinly good critiques and your Mind Place almost made me choke on my drink.

No physical copy, no buy.

My problem with Alan Wake is, for all the creative ideas, its implementation is rather basic for how long it makes you wait for their impact. Most exceptions to this are literally recycled elements from its predecessor. To me, this comes as close as a playable Netflix adaptation as possible, and as that, its great. I just find those adaptations lacking.

The skit about sagas detective board was the best part great stuff.

I agree so much with your point about presentation. There's so many Triple A games that all look the same these days, and it is painfully boring. The power of technology is robbing people of their creativity, and it is robbing new generations of the variety of experiences we got to have 20 years ago. Not always good for sure, but plenty of them were, managed to be amazing and unique at the same time.

Mind Place killed the game for me. Never seen a AAA horror so obsessed with monologing before, clearly there is a better way to engage than that. It drags the game to snail's pace. Just whole lot of nothing going on the first hour just talking and very slowly pick up the pieces and stick them to the wall. I'm pretty sure the game will get better later on but I just couldn't stomach anymore of all the loaded expositions to get to the good stuff.

I hated Saga’s mind place, but aside from that I found Saga’s side of the story way more engaging than Alan’s. She’s in reality, or some version of it, and she has real stakes (or stakes she thinks are real) and that just automatically makes her story more interesting to me than whatever is happening to Alan in la la land where nothing is real and there are no rules and nothing really matters. The only thing I liked about Alan’s side was the ability to change scenes by “rewriting” them.

im a huge remedyverse fan. and although it built a lot on the connected universe of control, and hints at quantum break. its overall mixed i really wish there was more combat. especially alans musical which should of been like fighting the concert of alan wake 1 or ashtray maze in control its waves of enemies to awesome poets of the fall(old gods of asgard) music. which saga gets her own with the old gods. near the end. the raceswap of saga is weird from the video of quantum break . i guess alan retconned her since he can do that now. but her characterization isnt interesting like alan. im hoping with the release of ng+ which adds more scenes and ending, and nightmare difficulty which im hoping nightmare bumps up enemy spawn rate just a tad. plus the 2 dlcs it will give a better ending and that they will also probably blow minds just like how the AWE dlc of control blew minds for alan wake fans

The parody case board scene had me rollin!😂

Its crazy how diffrent control is. I havent played alan wake but they just dont seem like my kinda game. Control was a lot of fun. The combat is 7 out of 10. But the story is super good. My only complaint of control is how much time i spent trying to find WHERE to go. There is just a whole ass building to explore. Alot of time spent running back through same locations is nuts. And most times i dont want to refight everything over and over again. But overall great game

i imagine saga getting her own spin off like a playable x files or twin peaks style detective show.

At the start of the Video, if you hit Left Arrow Several times in a row @ 0:00 you will see that Alan agrees with Mayo before he even speaks. Or he head bangs in excitement at the video, however you wanna see it.~

I liked the first game for the combat and environment. Seems that both are greatly diminished in this one, so will probably pass.

Idk man, Alan Wake two is tied with Re4 remake as game of the year for me. If you rush through any part of this game, you’ll suffer for it.

Thank you for the spot on parody of the Alan Wake 2 “mind palace”. May be the most frustrating game I ever completed. How the hell did this win a Game Award for best narrative?

I really don't know but movie games are becoming more popular and selling more copies than actual games That's why everyone want to do these movie games rather then actual challenging and creative level design games Red dead redemption 2 Witcher 3 God of war and god of war ragnarok Last of us Uncharted 4 etc Campire a extradinary level design of pandora temple from god of war 1 to new ones The cretivity is dying When games being good cretivity games they are not that popular when games being more repitative and empty they are getting more popular Only modern games where we will get actual challenging fun exprenciene are Bloodborne Sekiro Sifu Remake of both resident evil 2 and 4 etc These gamers are so fun to play then movie cinematic crap games

Lol it sounds like you actuallg enjoyed the game more than me. Nothing really felt rewarding in the game for me. I typically like pretentious, head up ones own ass kinda media, but Alan Wake 2 just didn't feel like a tight, purposeful narrative. The nursing home section was, to me, the shining apex of the game though. It was so masterfully crafted- i wish the rest of the game was even CLOSE to being on par with that

Was SO EXCITED for this game. I LOVED the combat in QB and control SO much. This tho.....theres barely any

Great review. Have all the same gripes I had and a few more. I still think I liked it more because I truly enjoy the first game and control. So I was invested in story. But that mind place is a fucking wreck as far I’m concerned. Also hate that it’s tap to enter, and map is hold to open. I ended up in mind place on accident so many times. Also idk why but all of my enemies had the weak points on back. Is it random? because I saw you have them on the front in some areas. I also preferred flashlight aim in first game compared to crosshair. This might be my most disappointing game of year. Shame cuz I’ve been begging for it for 13yrs.

I agree with nearly everything you said, but all the cons had a substantially less negative effect on my overall experience with the game compared to yours. More of a case of differing severity than differing taste.

I love how they literally just copied the HUD and inventory screen from the RE remakes. But I thought we would see a Mayo video about the RoboCop game, especially after the recent other RoboCop videos.

Who the hell plays a remedy game expecting it to be fast paced? 😂

Alan wake remastered was great fun in both gameplay and story. Aw2 has the story but they forgot to put in the gameplay

Is there spoilers in this video can anybody tell me before I start watching?

I've come to the conclusion that Remedy just either doesn't know how to write women of it's the Sweet Baby stink that makes them boring and lifeless, Control had the same issue but at least the game play was good enough to get me to see it till the end. Alan Wake 1 was too long for it's own good as it was but at least it was decent enough to play. I'll leave you with a hot take, Max Payne 1 & 2 are the only legit good AAA games Remedy has made, rest is mediocre or bad.

the game sadly also has no replay value since you HAVE to go to the mind place in order to progress in certain places, even if you know exactly where you would need to go/do next. Makes it a bad game to speedrun as well. There's not enough focus on replayability on big blockbuster games like these nowadays sadly. Hate to see it

Just finished the game and it’s my personal GOTY. However, it’s very weird and very imperfect. With that said, it’s so damn ambitious.

i'd never play other Remedy games, AW2 was my first one and i absolutely love it. I'm ready to play AW1 and CONTROL

Alan wake 1 for it's time was a masterpiece one of my favourite game of 7th generation but in my opininon it doesn't age well now even in the alan wake remasterd to apreciate the first Alan Wake fully you should have played it in the 7th generation not later as for Alan Wake 2 I did play it but I didn't manage to finish it due to a game breaking bug in the entrance hotel loby with the echo..nice job remedy...

Always online on PC, no physical copy on console, DEI race swapped bait and switch lead, mid gameplay, mostly a walking simulator... 10/10 in current year gaming

Good video. I liked the game myself but you raise some fair criticisms. Personally though, I have to say that I enjoyed Saga's parts a lot more than Alan's, both in story and gameplay, and I disagree with your sentiment that the game is too long. Aside from the disappointing endgame chapters (that aren't very long) I thought that the game was surprisingly devoid of filler.

I suspect you'll like Control more than the Alan Wake games but I also suspect the things it does wrong will upset you more, too. There was a good framework for a combat system and story but its kinda mid at both