Alan Wake 2 - Story Explained

This was a really good video. Ive been waiting to watch it until I beat the game. I rolled credits today and after that ending I came straight here to watch this. Such a good game and again great explanation of everything.

Mr. Door is definitely sagas father
I dont remember it ever being confirmed in game but its gotta be

Wpic

It’s crazy how your channel has progressed since I found it (must have been a year give or take) It was refreshing how authentic and cozy your vids were. Haven’t been here in a minute but I’m back and I’m here to stay. Keep it up Harry love your content you seem like a great dude ❤

This got me through the stress of finals. Thank you!

Amazing video, and wonderful and detailed summary, This saga is freaking awesome ♥, breaks my heart that Barry would become a paranormal criminal or something like that T_T

Holy crap, this was a great recap, analysis and explanation of everything. Don't know if I could've pieced it all together by myself

If you guys think about it, at the end of Quantum Break, Jack showed symptoms of being a shifter and shifters are known for existing in each parallel timeline at once and that explains why tim breaker remembers another version of him in a different timeline because he’s been split from his original counterpart: jack joyce. If we all think about it too, the same case could be for mr door, he could just be another version of mr hatch from quantum break because mr hatch is a shifter himself

Honestly all of this nightmare in Alan 1 and 2 wouldn't happened if Alan didn't do wild stuff and Ritual with Zane.

Another shitty story about the TITLE character being sidelined and killed for some quota character no one cares about to steal all of his stuff. Just like the last jedi, it killed my fandom, I guess we will still have some casualties leaving the dark times of the woke era.

I remember finishing the first Alan wake and thinking that he was just dreaming now I see that I was wrong for 12 years.

Isnt alex casey a character from alans book

Amazing video! I was able to find out a lot of things I missed during my first play through and understand the story way better, thank you so much for the hard work you put in Harry

"mind palace" you mean a game mecahnic that gets the games pacing to screetch to a halt.
wonder if that whole terrible thing was an idea of sweet baby inc. we know the other thing which was there idea.
thank goodness there's a video to remove all the bloat from this... thing... which should've never been a game in the first place, cause the game parts are reeeeeealy not all that gamey.
and that's sad, control was a really unique ecperience, this is like, almost no real gameplay, but a lot of stumbling around. maybe remedy should consider to just make TV shows, cause this whole crossover thing is jaring, it didn't work with quantum whatver the second word was, adn that atleas had pacing...

Since no ones brought this up yet, has anyone noticed how the Koskela brothers have suspiciously similar names to the brothers who used the Huotari well?

Just finished AW2. Noticed something crazy, one of the taken that attacked the sheriff's station said "the oldest house is lost." Immediately threw me off guard.

Ive never been so confused and intrigued in all my life

You are doing something right. I enjoy watching these videos after beating the game.

Why was Max Payne not added to the Allan Wake games?

so much of the was just ripped from the movie into the mouth of madness

Alex Casey is Max Payne

Thomas Zane and Alan Wake are the same person.

I'm glad to see you wearing gloves when handling evidence... 😅 Unlike some FBI people I know

Poor saga a means to an end till the end

We wuz vikangz n sheeit

Having all the games connected in ways is amazing

Im only less than a quarter way thru and this is the best game breakdown slash explainer ever...glad i stumbled thru

Bruh

This isn't a bad story but a game called 'Alan Wake' should most prominently feature... Alan Wake. The FBI agent story should've been DLC or another game set in the same universe.

It's not a sequel, it's a trilogy

2 hours long explanation?
I'm out😅

Sleeping pill ❌😖
This video ✅😌

thank you for this, only halfway through the vid but I hope you enjoyed the game because i legit thought its the stupidest thing ever 😂😂😂 I really wanted to like it, went in without any pre conceived notion or anything, but WOW the story is like a melodramatic edgy emo teen...thing. I actually couldn't finish it myself which is why I'm here watching your explained (love your vids btw!). even the music segment I find to be really dumb - and I loved the music section in both Alan wake 1 and control.

I think this game is just too melodramatic for me, will finish watching this vid so at least knows what happened and then the series is gonna be dusted and stored away. cheers!

I’ll say it again. The HEAVY influence from Twin Peaks “The Return” in this sequel. Is wild man.

life) - but a bit of change and not “looping”’creates the light they seek and to break the chain. You see this with Alan, Casey, saga , etc. it seems like the writers wanted to make this into a game about searching for the intuition to be present and not continue over thinking in a loop as an analogy to the real life we can find ourselves in. The darkness seems to be an analogy for the darkness we can pay attention to or simply shine a light on to dissipate. You hear Alan say multiple times “ the dark place works in loops and rituals” - these rituals being the ocd habits of repeating the same actions hoping for a different result. As we do as humans at times. Also, toward the end of the game saga is stuck in her own mind - the game had gradually led her to lose faith in her own belief more and more and doubt her story (if her kid was dead) - such as an analogy to life and faith and self doubt - just some thoughts - I thought it was brilliant if that’s what they intended - Atleast I’m happy to have gained that from this art work!

Damn... without the knowledge of Control one misses so much.... context!

Also I REALLLLYYY want Darling to come back ngl

Wtf! 2hrs?

The ng+ that's coming out is gunna have alternative story beats and a different ending so have fun redoing the lore video in a couple months lol

I feel like a lot of us understand the story of Alan Wake 2 but a lot of us can’t put it into words or articulate it that well if we were asked to explain Alan Wake 2

Honestly if they made a book from this game, I'd actually read it.

Thank you for the vid! That must have took a ton of work!!!

Ahti 😮😮😮

I actually have a theory that the entire storyline for the Alan Wake games is really meant to be a metaphorical extension of the creative thought process going on in Thomas Zane's head and how his creative writing abilities are hindered possibly by personal circumstances in his life that have caused writer's block and/or lack of a desired successful career as a filmmaker and poet. Here's my reasoning:
1) The game basically confirms that Alan Wake IS Thomas Zane and that Mr. Scratch IS effectively both of them but possessed by the Dark Presence. I would theorize that the Dark Presence is meant to be a manifestation of Zane's sense of trauma and despair due to changing life circumstances, most likely Barbara dying and/or their relationship turning sour. This could have made him want to start over and/or re-imagine himself as someone else to deal with his trauma, hence Alan Wake
2) There are 2 women shown to have had some kind of relationship with Thomas Zane: Barbara Jagger and Cynthia Weaver, the latter of whom was jealous of Barbara b/c Thomas Zane went with her instead of Cynthia. The fact that the clicker which Wake/Zane claims to need in order to "get out of the Dark Place" is part of Cynthia's angel light fixture, could mean that she in some ways had what Zane needed in some way in order to get past his mental fog, but that he ignored or chose not to go with her despite this. However it's clear that the fact that she loved and cared about him seemed to inspire him in some way, judging by the importance he placed on the clicker and that it came from her
3) In regards to Alice Wake being Alan a.k.a. Thomas Zane's "muse," she herself is either the woman in the real world who Zane chose to be with, or is possibly an idealized version of Cynthia or the role Cynthia has seemingly played more indirectly in Zane's life. The fact that Barabara and Cynthia both appear as relatively middle-aged while Alice appears young could mean that she's different in some way. It's clear that Alan Wake himself is meant to be a younger and potentially more idealized version of Thomas Zane that he wrote of himself and given that Alice exists as Alan Wake's lover, she too may be a just an idealized creation by Thomas Zane of the ideal lover who he longs for or feels he needs as a "muse" for inspiration.
4) The fact that Zane seems to see both Alan Wake and Mr. Scratch as necessary for the story seems to indicate that Alan is like Zane's "rational" side while Mr. Scratch is the base-nature, unhinged, irrational aspect of Zane that embodies the rage and frustration that Zane feels in his life. Zane ultimately seems to believe that he needs *both* these sides of himself, in moderation, in order to get through his mental fog and come out stronger and this seemingly succeeds since Mr. Scratch's work ultimately does what it was intended to do with his writing: help Zane/Alan push through

I'm honestly thinking this will go down as an elevation of Alan's story in every single way, I ADORE the first game's story, and sadly, do not yet, have the hardware to play the sequel. But longplays and videos like these satiate the hunger for fulfillment. It honestly sounds like it'll be referenced at the benchmark of Meta fiction. And Alan being caught on a talkshow about a project he has no memories of working on is LITERALLY one of my personal nightmares.

Alan Wake after its first game became a series that's more enjoyable in "explain" videos than actually playing them.

What if Thomas Zane and Alan Wake are the same person. Where a story Thomas created where he got out and changed his name to Alan Wake and obviously forgot his past?