Alan Wake ... Anyone else let down

[Pumpkinstew]

Maybe I was expecting too much but after all the years of anticipation and hints that there would be a mystery.. that you could actually solve I'm kind of annoyed that I've got a sort of slower paced Max Payne with a weird clunky combat system and half assed achievements thrown in 10 minutes before the release deadline (collecting coffee thermoses WTF is that about?).

Where's the open world town of Bright Falls where I can converse with it's colourful inhabitants and follow up on leads and clues? I seem to be stuck on a pair of rails that I can't jump off of no matter how hard I try.
Where's the clever idea of using found manuscript pages to point me in the right direction? All I've found so far is badly written (and worse read) minor spoilers and fluff.
Where's the super pretty sun dappled scenery from all the publicity stills? I've just been running around a dark forest.
Why aren't there any roaming baddies in the levels? I'm all for instanced spawns right on top of me once in a while but everytime?

Look I'm not saying it's a bad game. I'm saying it's average. So-so. Mediocre.
I'm just let down because I was under the impression Alan Wake would be like Twin Peaks the Video Game and Remedy have made Blair Witch 2