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Darkness and Light Lead to Decent Frights
Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/27/2023
As far as horror games go, Silent Hill has set the bar (for me) as the high water mark. Even though I've had this game on my radar for quite awhile, it took me a fair amount of time to get around to it. In fact, the first real experience I had with Alan Wake was the DLC in Control (another Remedy Entertainment game) and the two games look like they take place in the same shared universe. With a brand new Alan Wake on the way, I figured now was a good time to check the original out and while it's hard to get scared in my old (and jaded) age, I still found the game to be effective - very atmospheric and decently forgiving.
Looks and Stuff: For a game that came out way back in 2012, it holds up well. While it suffers from the blahs (that it mostly different shades of gray) in terms of …
