Month: November 2023

  • Alan Wake 2’s Mind Place doesn’t work

    (Other than some very brief details, there are no plot spoilers for Alan Wake 2 or for any other game in this post, though gameplay mechanics of Alan Wake 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Condemned 2: Bloodshot and A Hand with Many Fingers are discussed) In my last post, full of praise…

  • Alan Wake 2 is a tonal masterpiece

    (Plot spoilers for Alan Wake 2, which if it isn’t obvious from the article title, you should go play) I don’t think there’s any other game I’ve played in recent memory that is as confident and bold in its presentation and conveying of tone and atmosphere than Alan Wake 2. It deftly blends and moves…

  • Steelman (and I don’t mean Adam Smasher)

    (Spoiler Alert for the ending/s of Cyberpunk 2077 and the expansion Phantom Liberty) The expansion to Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Liberty, intrigued me even more than it already did when I learned that the expansion would introduce a new ending to the base game. Upon first starting the expansion, Songbird, a new character introduced in Phantom…