Alan Wake 2 hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 27, but shortly before its release, developer Remedy Entertainment revealed that it would be getting a New Game Plus mode with an alternative narrative and nightmare difficulty, amongst other things. During The Game Awards 2023 last night, Remedy, which picked up three wins during the show, revealed that «The Final Draft» update, which includes the aforementioned New Game Plus mode, goes live next week.
Alan Wake 2 Is About The Pain Of Realizing You Might Not Be Good Enough
21.11.2023 - 03:36 / gamespot.com / Phil Hornshaw / Alan Wake Ii
Protagonist Alan is maybe not as good a writer as he once thought, and it's fascinating to watch Remedy work through those same feelings.
By Phil Hornshaw on
Warning: We're spoiling here. We're trying to keep it light but it's probably best you play Alan Wake 2 before reading this.
Captivating as Alan Wake 2 often is, it can occasionally get a bit… cringey. But not in the wild, over-the-top moments where cheese and kitsch meet murderous intent (you know the scene I mean); Alan Wake 2's funny, weird moments channel the best of stories such as Twin Peaks, leveraging an absurdity and surrealism that actually makes the story more human. It's when Alan Wake 2 takes itself seriously that it starts to become a little hard to stomach.
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There's a whole level that really encapsulates this feeling of near-goofy grittiness: the Oceanview Hotel. A shifting location in the alternate reality of the Dark Place, the Oceanview is not strictly an actual place, but rather manifested from some combination of forces, including eponymous protagonist Alan's writing. He is, of course, trying to free himself from the Dark Place by using its power, which can make art into reality both within the Dark Place itself and back out in the real-world town of Bright Falls, Washington.
The Oceanview changes as you venture through it as Alan is inspired by «echoes,» which seem to be some combination of half-remembered past story ideas, things he's read or written, and glimpses of actual events in the real world. Finding the echoes lets him write new scenes, which change the world of the Dark Place around him to fit the crafted narrative. As he changes the story, the Oceanview becomes the site of a play about a cult, apparently staged by that cult. But at some point, Alan's inspiration sends a murderer rampaging through the Oceanview. It becomes a setting littered with bodies and absolutely bathed in blood, as if this were not the Oceanview but the Overlook Hotel and all the elevators opened up to let rivers of blood erupt through the halls.
It feels like this is meant to be scary. It is not.
The Oceanview is, honestly, hacky. It strains credulity in a world literally remade by fiction and centered on a neo-noir detective story about--and really let this sink in--an Alan Wake-worshiping murder cult.
Here's the thing: The cringe is the point. Others have noted, for a while now, that the in-universe writer Alan is maybe, possibly, potentially, uh… not great? At, you know, writing.
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