{"id":3211,"date":"2021-10-11T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/alan-wake-remastered-review-an-enjoyably-hokey-paperback-horror-homage\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:36:01","slug":"alan-wake-remastered-review-an-enjoyably-hokey-paperback-horror-homage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/alan-wake-remastered-review-an-enjoyably-hokey-paperback-horror-homage\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake Remastered review \u2013 an enjoyably hokey paperback-horror homage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Xbox One\/Series X\/S, PC, PlayStation 4\/5; Remedy Entertainment<br \/><\/strong>Writer Alan Wake searches for his missing wife while tackling a malevolent force disguised as darkness in this clunky but atmospheric reboot <strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A flashlight often spells vulnerability in horror games; it\u2019s something to grasp desperately when the bullets run dry. In Alan Wake \u2013 Remedy\u2019s 2010 very Stephen-King-inspired, Twilight Zone-meets-Resident-Evil-4 adventure \u2013 your torch is your trustiest weapon. Just don\u2019t let its glow linger on this remaster\u2019s freshly renovated scenery for <em>too<\/em> long, or you\u2019ll risk getting spooked at just how sparse the improvements really are.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering creative burnout following the publication of his most recent book, two years ago, writer Alan Wake and his wife Alice rent a lakeside holiday cabin somewhere in the American Pacific Northwest. Alice goes missing after an argument, and Alan is forced to unravel the mystery lurking beneath the town of Bright Springs, while grappling with a malevolent entity that manifests as darkness itself.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/oct\/11\/alan-wake-remastered-review-paperback-horror-homage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/73a44165ca3a687c8b315e3fdd2bc63470ee02b4\/119_0_2072_1244\/master\/2072.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2e06245ab35b9703e92743c936caf6b7\" title=\"Alan Wake Remastered review \u2013 an enjoyably hokey paperback-horror homage\" \/>Xbox One\/Series X\/S, PC, PlayStation 4\/5; Remedy EntertainmentWriter Alan Wake searches for his missing wife while tackling a malevolent force disguised as darkness in this clunky but atmospheric reboot<br \/>\nA flashlight often spells vulnerability in horror games; it\u2019s something to grasp desperately when the bullets run dry. In Alan Wake \u2013 Remedy\u2019s 2010 very Stephen-King-inspired, Twilight Zone-meets-Resident-Evil-4 adventure \u2013 your torch is your trustiest weapon. Just don\u2019t let its glow linger on this remaster\u2019s freshly renovated scenery for too long, or you\u2019ll risk getting spooked at just how sparse the improvements really are.<br \/>\nSuffering creative burnout following the publication of his most recent book, two years ago, writer Alan Wake and his wife Alice rent a lakeside holiday cabin somewhere in the American Pacific Northwest. Alice goes missing after an argument, and Alan is forced to unravel the mystery lurking beneath the town of Bright Springs, while grappling with a malevolent entity that manifests as darkness itself. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox One\/Series X\/S, PC, PlayStation 4\/5; Remedy EntertainmentWriter Alan Wake searches for his missing wife while tackling a malevolent force disguised as darkness in this clunky but atmospheric reboot A flashlight often spells vulnerability in horror games; it\u2019s something to grasp desperately when the bullets run dry. In Alan Wake \u2013 Remedy\u2019s 2010 very Stephen-King-inspired, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/alan-wake-remastered-review-an-enjoyably-hokey-paperback-horror-homage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Wake Remastered review \u2013 an enjoyably hokey paperback-horror homage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}