Alan Wake's Women

I've posted a few thoughts that I've had on playing Alan Wake's American Nightmare, especially in relation to its thematic connections to the first game.

Most of these thoughts concern how the game focuses on women as a motivator for gameplay. I'm not sure how this reads, as it is really related to a lot of other writing that I've been doing on games in the last few months, regarding game's presentations of male and female social and romantic roles. And that writing has not yet seen the light of day--but hopefully should be soon in some form or other.

Hopefully also, it is still a coherent discussion outside of that context, though.

Alan Wake's Women