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Zkuq on 20 October 2025
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JEMC said:

Wow, one day without coming over and lots of posts to reply.

Zkuq said:

...OK, I did not know about Coconut, and I think I was happier when I didn't. I was going to say Herald of Darkness - it even made it to The Game Awards - but clearly Coconut is in an entirely different league! There's also one other song, but I'll refrain from naming it because I don't think it makes a ton of sense when taken out of context. In general, I think the game does have a lot of good music though, some of it more, some less memorable.

I forgot to mention, but with the Remedy universe or whatever, the game also has connections to Control, so... now I'm finally playing Control as well, so I can fully enjoy the Alan Wake 2 DLCs. Having fun so far, although the environment is still the weakest area of the game, just like I suspected based on what I had seen of the game before starting it. It's less bland than I feared, but at the same time it's still definitely the game's greatest weakness.

For me, the Coconut song was the point when I fully realized that whatever was happening was bigger than I thought and it affected the whole town and not just your character, with those two old rock’n’roll musicians in the cafe talking about the song.

I didn’t know the Herald of Darkness song, I cared too little about the game and franchise at that point. But let me tell you that as someone that suffers from what in Spanish we say “vergûenza ajena” (kind of cringe, being embarrassed for what someone else does) that video was hard to watch. The song is great, tho.

Oh, it's absolutely cringe. I kind of like the video(s), but at the same time not really. I think it makes for a great show, but it's quite uneasy still. Considering where it's in the game, I guess that kind of makes sense though.