Every other Wednesday I share a playlist of songs tangentially related to a single game or series. Songs about alien sex for Mass Effect, songs about world leaders for Civilization, and so on. Searching for random terms on Spotify is a great way to discover new music and rediscover old classics.
Alan Wake, like Max Payne before it, is simultaneously great and trash. It embraces King-Koontz thriller novels and exaggerates them like Payne did to noir cinema and comics. It's a guilty pleasure -- its melodrama is laughable at times, but Alan is a nuanced character I cared for more than enough to help find his wife. It's derivative, but that's what Remedy do best -- they grind popular culture into a brilliant condensed pulp.
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