Recent reviews by bidzapfc

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☑ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☑ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Now that we got official out of the way let me explain my reasoning.

This game is could've would've should've.

Coming from Quantum Break I had high expectations for this one, which made me really invested, however after the initial hook that game gives you, in a way that decent book gives you, nothing is there. And combine that with horrible difficulty and this is why I gave up couple of years ago. More than lack of duck, cover and some basic shooter maneuvers your weapons are horrible, so much that you wont get any semblance to any shooter game you ever played, and coming from people that made Max Payne this was really disappointing. Since then, I went back couple of weeks ago and I said, okay, we will just turn on assists and I wanna hear the story. However, that is when other problems began. Now I havent changed my 3070 since this game came out, and I remember I could have played this game on most setting with stable framerate, but the dips in fps are horrible now. It is one thing when you experience them in mid cutscene, but when you fps goes from 60 to 20 in high pace shooting area, you can understand why I got frustrated.

Other than technical issues, game severely lacks in story cohesion. I understand the theme is that you learn more the more you discover and are interested, but I was reading docs, watching videos, Dr Darling and everything, and you know what I got? I got that someone had a nice idea, but then he threw a bunch of concepts in just as a filler, and it stuck like crap on the wall. Not very good, not very polished.

If anything I love that Courtney had fun doing this. I really liked her in Quantum Break and I wanted to see more of the same in this game. However devs thought it would be good enough that she is in promos and voice materials, and didnt do a single cutscene with her in live action.

Which brings me to next and final point. This game was taste of things to come. And if you played this one, you knew that Alan Wake 2 would not be good. Somehow in 70s setting you get a female protagonist, female sidekick (Pope), female kickass (Marshall). All men are bumbling idiots if they are friendly and creeps and evil if they are hostile. Even Jesses brother is displayed as someone who has 0 remorse toward what his sister survived and gave himself willingly to Hiss. I mean, come on. That is not how humans behave.

All in all, I'll stop rambling. Good idea, good concept, maybe good story somewhere but flaws make it... meh.

This is the most frustrating experience I had ever had.
1. It doesnt recognise controllers, I tried it with steam, xce360 whatever. It doesnt have an option to select controllers.
2. When you get into game, it requires you to go through tutorial. Fine, right? Nope, lol. It gives you keyboard mappings to do so and then gives you instructions in "high attack, low attack" not even the button written
3. When you get through the tutorial, you will experience one freeze in the menu when it shows you how save icon looks like.
4. It will make you read through 2 license agreements and make you accept them in game with keyboard mappings of a controller
5. It will display every little bit of contextual help as a freaking pop up in game which you also must confirm with keyboard mappings
6. It will at the end, show you what type of bonuses/rewards are available currently.
7. No option in game to remap to gamepad whatsoever.

BROKEN ASS GAME. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I WANT MY TIME BACK.

If I could rate it -100% I would