Alan Wake 2 | Return 1: Invitation (Ep.01)

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Published on October 30, 2023 9:13:54 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q5ziimyC6o

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Alan Wake 2 (2023)

Duration: 1:39:02

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The original Alan Wake released in 2010. I played a demo for it, but put the full game off because I had "more interesting" games to play. I kept it installed, though, planning to pick it up later. Fast forward two weeks and I fancied a quick bash on it, so I booted it up again.

11 hours later I'd finished the main game in one sitting and was about the start the Special Episode when I realised I had to go to work soon.

The original game isn't without its flaws, mechanics-wise, but in terms of storytelling, meta narrative, meta-narrative INFORMING the ACTUAL narrative, and other clever tricks writers of thrillers and horror use, this game was top notch. For a guy with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing, it was an interesting tour-de-force of literary techniques adapted with general success into the videogame space.

This is all to say that I was VERY looking forward to playing the sequel, especially after Remedy's "Control" brought Alan Wake into their wider "RemedyVerse" with that game's Altered World Events.

It's been a while, now, since I played Control, and even longer since I played Alan Wake, but I ensured I blanked and blocked everything I could on social media so as not to spoil anything for myself. I'm going in almost completely blind, except for a couple things I explain at the start.

Anyway, nobody reads video descriptions so here we go!

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00:00 - What I know about AW2
02:20 - My experience with AW1 / On Writing
06:28 - Game Begins — Prologue
15:58 - Return 1: Invitation
1:01:15 - Back to Bright Falls
1:05:04 - Oh Deer Diner
1:22:02 - Sheriff Station
1:34:37 - End of Chapter

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