Let’s Discuss Alan Wake Episode Two – Now

And what do you make of the collectibles? The manuscript page-fetching in the first episode annoyed me. I felt that finding the pages was sending me off the game’s main path in a way that detracted from the focused mood of Alan’s adventure. I am compulsive enough about collecting things in games that I began the second episode hunting for more pages. I was repeatedly straying from the path toward which the mini-map icon was directing me. I was convinced the developers had hid the pages from me, and I had to find them. But, slowly, I’m realizing that most of these pages aren’t that deeply hidden and that if I just chill out, I’ll stumble across most of them. I like how the writing on those pages foreshadows the narrative. I hope it will be used to confound the player’s expectations. But I do with the pages were discovered automatically — no searching required. Anyone with me?

Note: Our Alan Wake Game Club will return Monday, at the same hour, 3pm Kotaku Time (5pm ET/ 1pm PT) with a discussion of the game’s third episode.