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Telling the story of a frustrated writer who suddenly sees himself as one of his creations, Alan Wake is a great horror game that successfully operates under the logic of a nightmare, blurring fantasy and reality through the veil of horror.
Author of a couple of best-sellers, Alan Wake has been unable to write anything for almost two years, and because he’s getting increasingly frustrated with his writer’s block, his wife Alice decides to go with him on a vacation to a small, isolated town in Washington, called Bright Falls. They are to stay at a cabin on a lake, but as soon as they arrive, they start to quarrel and when Wake storms out of the cabin, furious at her, the lights [...]
Quantum Break is a very ambitious project that tries to merge the format of a live-action series with a third-person action game about time travel while presenting choices that shape both narrative forms. The story, however, ends up forgotten in the process, plagued by a plethora of one-note characters, underdeveloped elements, and thematic inconsistencies.
The protagonist is Jack Joyce, who one day is asked by an old friend, the tech genius Paul Serene, to come to Riverport to help with his project. Jack’s brother, William, was Serene’s assistant until he started to voice concerns about its safety – it’s a machine that replicates a black hole, after all. So, when Serene [...]