Alan Wake 2 is a great survival horror game, but it does miss the mark in one particular way: As we said in January, it's "so stuffed with jump scares it cheapens the good horror." Apparently we weren't the only ones to think so, as the latest patch includes "the much-requested option to tune down the horror flashes."
Horror flashes are split-second, full-screen blasts of disturbing imagery that appear out of nowhere—jump scares, except instead of a monster charging out of a closet, it happens almost at random. You can get a look at them in the jump scares roundup video below:
