Alan Wake 2 came out. Yay. Loaded it up to get through the first 2 minutes of a the intro cutscene before the audio cuts out. Whatever. Closed game. Reset console. That is the common fix. I can deal with that.

I continue playing, having a good time. Nice that they put me in the game shame I had to die so soon.

Get to the main gameplay and start to examine the body. Doesn’t give me any further prompts after that. Okay, reload checkpoint. This time it tells me to open my case board with the select button (tab or whatever it’s called nowadays). Did that. Nothing. Okay maybe hold it down? Nothing. Reload. Try again. Let Saga talk, button prompt, press it… nothing.

I know the button fully works so it’s not my controller. So I reset again. Same thing. Currently reinstalling the game but I’m sad to say if it doesn’t work I’m getting a refund. I didn’t pay for a digital paper weight.

It sucks cause I was looking forward to basically just this game this year.

Edit: Apparently the whole HUD was just not showing up. Started a new game and that has seemed to fix it. Here’s hoping this isn’t a recurring problem.