The darkness may conceal many things. In a horror story, most obviously, it’s where dangers lurk. And there are plenty of those here: muttering cultists, forest-stalking wolves, deadly shadows that reach out and grab you by the throat. For a certain stripe of horror movie, the dark might also be a way to disguise rough edges – cheap sets and men in rubber suits – and on occasion we can’t help but wonder if that might be one reason Alan Wake 2’s world is seen mostly by torchlight, a succession of tight illuminated circles like portholes in the centre of a mostly black screen. But then it turns up the lights and all scepticism is burned away.
Remedy might not have the budget of a firstparty production to work with here, but you’ll struggle to detect any sign of that. While we reunite with Wake in the noirish New-York hell dimension known as ‘The Dark Place’, new character Saga Anderson takes
