I think the characters are just fantastically ugly and poorly animated; I don't think that's deliberate. Wake's constant monotone monologuing is key to the 'terror' and yet it's awful.
Hey what do we know; most reviews praise the game's excellent voice acting.
The Pen is Mightier than the Flashlight: Alan Wake
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Re: The Pen is Mightier than the Flashlight: Alan Wake
Re: The Pen is Mightier than the Flashlight: Alan Wake
Wake looks good but his wife is some kind of bizarre, inhuman monstrosity. They could have made the game 100x more terrifying if they'd just animated all of the characters like her instead of bothering with all this dark presence shit.
A scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'