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MacArrowny posted...

Anyone else feel like AW2's a bit too open? I quite enjoyed how linear AW1 was. Exploration doesn't feel too rewarding for me; I'm more here for the story.

It's very different, to say the least. I'm probably not going to render a verdict on it until I'm further in but it's kind of nuts just how different this game is compared with the first. I definitely get the sense that this is probably more of what they wanted to do with the original game but just couldn't for multiple reasons. Exploration feels reasonably rewarding to me so far between Saga's charms and (more directly/seemingly powerfully) Alan's words of power, plus the lore you get along the way, but it all does lend itself to the pace of this game being enormously drawn out compared to how relatively snappy the first one was.

All of that said I'm really digging it so far. The atmosphere is absolutely nuts and while I'm undecided on the pacing itself, it's really cool how every enemy encounter actually feels significant and threatening versus Alan Wake 1's endless meat grinder of shadow people. (I do feel like it might be a smidge egregious that you maybe fight a total of like, four enemies within the first 5 hours of the game, though!)