wankerness
Well-Known Member
If I were you I'd dig up a story video summarizing the plot and the two DLCs, cause like 1/3-1/2 of a letsplay would be the boring combat/traversal/"exploration" (I'd barely call it that cause it's so bad, you have these huge empty forest levels and if you poke around in every corner you might find some randomly placed collectible but mostly you find nothing).
Basically if you want a summary though:
Alan Wake is a Stephen King type of author guy with substance abuse problems and self esteem problems who gets dragged by his wife to see a mysterious doctor out in a pacific northwest town ala Twin Peaks. She disappears into the lake during the night, he blacks out and comes to a week later, and then everyone's trying to convince him she just drowned, but he's pretty sure she didn't, and then he starts getting attacked by phantasms, and eventually his agent and a cop start seeing them too so we think he's not crazy. Eventually he saves his wife from what is basically just Twin Peaks' Black Lodge, but then is left trapped there himself. The DLCs focus on him being trapped in the black lodge and communicating with a previous author that's also stuck there. They also get way more meta and creative with game mechanics, with you having to shine flashlights on words because you're being helped by an author that's typing things for you that can help you.
I have PS+ now as of like, a month ago(?) so I do have remnants and stuff from players to fight, but usually they have either the gold gear which isn't much better than my own, or one piece of purple and it's just like, I COULD fight him but not really worth my time. But I am doing the side missions, cleared all of them, except coincidentally the one you mentioned and I used a Harakiri Branch to completely get out of itThat dude was OP as fuck in his "true" form and not having any pillars in the way of his dash/powered up attacks. I feel like there was a boss similar to him in one of the FS games where you basically had to roll thru the attack, and get the opening on their back.
I can deal with yokai pools quick enough, and I think I have the ki pulse on dodge, but usually I end up stuck in them with like, one move left to do so I'll just use a low slice and pulse to clear it or completely move out of it and just regain all, so then I can combo + pulse to get the same thing. I'm learning pretty quickly dodge isn't as useful, and it's a tough habit to break after ...5 games worth of it "AKSHUALLY! Dodging is more beneficial than blocking because..." Ironically the ones I try to do it on the most ARE the smash attacks vs slash/thrust, and then they promptly fuck my shit up and I remember not to do that.
Are you sure you're online? I think you have to manually choose to go online. The game has NPC remnants that usually have garbage gear. If you're online you'll see lots of clusters of them in dangerous areas since they're spawned the same way Dark Souls bloodstains are. Some levels have people with bugged phantasms that give you insane amounts of XP or have all purples (legendaries on higher difficulties). I think that short, early side mission that's like, a temple down below, and a cliff that goes up to a higher temple, and some woman accompanies you, is a good one for farming them. At least it is on higher difficulties!
That guy is just a jerk, I always just save that mission for after I have cleared most of the subsequent zone and thus massively outlevel/outgear him.
