I know I tuned out of Alan Wake 1 really early thinking it was going to be a boring ‘look around with a flashlight game’. I was very surprised by how fun and intricate the combat eventually got when I went back and actually played it through.

And just how funny and tongue in cheek all the writing is. I think it’s a bit of a hard sell because they want to gradually build and surprise you with new things, and all their humour is super deadpan and satirical of this hard boiled story, which can make it seem kind of boring at a surface / marketing level until you get into it and realize what’s happening and how much fun it is.