Remedy Entertainment's revival of Alan Wake sees the developer bring back its winding, complex game about horror storytelling in a bold new way. Along with the return of the troubled, reality-bending writer, a new protagonist named Saga Anderson enters the horrifying and supernatural fray. But Saga's unique place in the main story pushed the developers to come up with a compelling way to structure the game's parallel stories and how best to portray the newest character.
How Long Is Alan Wake 2? Mission List And Switching Realities Explained
27.10.2023 - 19:53 / gamespot.com / Mark Delaney / Alan Wake Ii / Alex Casey
Across two mind-bending campaigns, you'll see Alan Wake's world in whole new lights.
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The story of Alan Wake 2 picks up 13 years after the events of the first game, setting it in the present day and giving players a uniquely structured dual-campaign approach that allows for switching realities (campaigns) often, should they choose to. That all makes the game a bit tricky to map out in terms of hours played, but having seen it through ourselves, we've got your answers here. Here's how many hours played you'll likely wind up with in Alan Wake 2.
Alan Wake 2 includes a structured intro that lasts a few hours, as well as a point-of-no-return warning that gets things back on rails, so to speak. But in between, you can swap campaigns from within many of the game's safe rooms, called Break Rooms. You'll end up seeing all of both campaigns no matter what order you play the game in, and a typical playthrough will take you about 20-25 hours.
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If you wanted to speed through the game, ignoring collectibles like Alex Casey lunchboxes, nursery rhymes, and cult stashes, you could likely beat it a bit faster at around 18-20 hours. Meanwhile, a 100% playthrough will take something like 25-30 hours.
In total, that makes it anywhere from two to three times longer than the original game, which takes about 10 hours. And though we can't as easily quantify it, we'd estimate it's roughly that much more dizzying too.
There are 19 total missions between both campaigns, with Saga's missions always including the moniker «Return» and Alan's including the name «Initiation,» both of which are references to Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or «Hero's Journey,» that Alan Wake as a series so enjoys distorting. Here's the full mission list behind a spoiler wall in case you don't want to infer anything from these names and would rather skip them outright.
After a structured introduction to the game that ends following Alan Wake's Initiation 3 mission (4-6 hours into the game), you'll be introduced to the game's unique mechanic of switching realities. You do this by interacting with a mop bucket spill found in some, but not all, Break Rooms. When you switch realities as one character, you'll start playing the other's campaign. You'll never have to choose between one mission at the cost of another, as even if you never switch realities, the game will eventually have you finish the other campaign before you can continue past the point-of-no-return warning late in the game.
Because Saga and Alan can
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