Alan Wake II Story & Ending Explained

Alan Wake 2 presents a twisting Story one that's a convoluted mystery altered by the otherworldly power of the super natural dark place and the writings of Alan Wake himself for some the air of mystery and opaque storytelling leaves a lot to one's imagination making sense of it all can get pretty confusing an entangled nightmare if you will and we're going to try un knotting it all for you so we're going to explain everything that happened what in applies for the future and everything you might have missed that said this is your obligatory super duper now's your time to leave spoiler warning for Allan week 2 okay with that out the way let's get into it at the end of the game sag Anderson and Alan wg's Tales finally intersect and with both of them in the dark place attempt to execute a plan that will stop Mr scratch while Saga was first brought to brightfalls to investigate a series of ritualistic killings her world is quick Al flipped upside down into something of a nightmare where her entire reality begins to rewrite itself a reality that's being changed because of return a story that Allan or in this case his evil doppelganger Mr scratch is writing in order to escape the dark place in return's Altered form of reality Saga and her daughter Logan lived in the town of watery next to brightfalls but in this story Logan had drowned there years earlier and of course that's not not the reality Saga remembers as far as she is aware Saga never moved to watery she never divorced her husband David and their daughter Logan is still alive and well so as return slowly starts to shift her reality into this tragic story it becomes saga's mission to somehow prevent it from taking over entirely and making Logan's death permanent for that she needs Alan to rewrite it and she'll also need the clicker to make sure it actually happens the clicker is a key item from the original Allan Wake it's a light switch that was formerly part of a lamp Allen's Angel lamp from when he was a child that manifests itself in the dark place during Allen's portion of Alan Wake 2 and that he uses to manipulate his reality when used in conjunction with a story or other piece of art that the dark place brings to life the clicker can render permanent changes to reality that were created by the art itself if Saga uses the clicker alongside Allen's new version of return it can make the story's changes permanent So in theory this means saving her daughter defeating the dark presence and saving Allan from the dark place but of course it all goes sideways Saga uses the clicker and with the help of the band the old gods of Asgard which is comprised of her grandfather T and her great uncle Odin try to summon Alan from the dark place with a song and it works kind of instead instead of Allan showing up right there in that moment he shows up days earlier at another part of the story in fact specifically when Saga first finds him at cauldron Lake and she didn't just bring Allan during his time in the dark place we learned that it wasn't Mr scratch who was directly thwarting his efforts to edit return in order to prevent the darkg presences Escape it was Allan himself down the road after numerous attempts to write his own Escape novel in iation his journey reveals to him that his wife Alice whom he saved from the dark place at the end of the first game causing his eternal ATT trapment there killed herself after years of being haunted by Mr scratch which Allan assumes was happening due to his continuous meddling with reality in order to escape he confronts who he believes to be Mr scratch but it's actually his past self killing him and preventing him from finishing the edits to return and allowing scratch's Horror Story to play out in the first place believing all hope to be lost Allan gives into the dark presence and in that moment is transported to the real world thanks to saga's meddling as Saga realizes that Allan's arrival days prior was the result of her using the clicket in the present Allan now Mr scratch and fully consumed by the dark presence shows up Saga manages to drive the darkg presence out of him but it possesses her partner Casey instead the new Mr scratch scratch steals the clicker and throws Saga into cauldron Lake sending her to the dark place when Allan returns to the dark place we get a glimpse of what scratch means to create it wants to take full control of reality remaking it however it sees fit Allan's able to find a physical copy of the book which he can read to find out the story's ending and change it with a copy of the book in hand Allan returns to the writer's room which just so happens to be above the Valhalla nursing home this is when wake realizes he needs a co-writer q Saga Anderson after freeing herself from a prison of doubt that the dark place put her in Saga starts venturing across a version of Allen's shifting reality in the dark and gritty Noir New York City which is also where Saga can locate the clicker RTI the janitor who seems to be a paranormal entity like the dark presence but seemingly a more friendly one sends Allan to retrieve Alice's photos and put them in the shoe box which is a pivotal setup for this moment Saga finds the photos in the shoe box and thanks to the power of the dark place it turns Alice's photos into their literal subjects the clicker and the bullet made of light Saga contacts Alan through her mind place and together the two of them rework the ending to return the story will only become stronger by having Saga as a co-writer but not without sacrifices as Alan notes this is a horror story and the conventions of the genre have to be respected it has to be true to the art it has to be dark and if it's inauthentic it won't work scratch arrives to stop the new story but Saga uses the clicker to turn the story into reality the story forces the dark presence out of Casey but into Allen Saga shoots Allen a scratch seemingly killing scratch the whole thing ends Ambiguously as Saga tries to call Logan to confirm that the story has been changed and her daughter is still alive but we never hear if Logan picks up on the other side roll credits okay so yeah it's a lot Dark Twisted and ambiguous as it should be after all to be authentic to the genre it's portraying right as far as we know Saga and Casey are apparently still in the dark place the bullet of light seems like it should have killed scratch but that's not really clear either Allen has seemingly destroyed manifestations of the dark presence on two previous occasions in the original Allen wake and in Alan wake's American nightmare but it keeps coming back we also know there's more story to come at least for Wake remedy announced two additions to the story by way of DLC expansions titled night Springs and lak housee though the details on both are very thin and then there's the mid credit scene that recontextualizes a lot the mid credits focuses on Allan's wife Alice Alice had been working on creating a new photo exhibition and a documentary about her work focused around being haunted by visions of Alan appearing in her apartment as I mentioned earlier Alan thought it was scratch attacking Alice but by the end of his story he realizes that it was his repeated attempts to reach her in that old apartment causing her visions of him the documentary concludes with the Revelation that Alice took her own life to escape the torment also we thought the mid-credit scene reveals Alice actually faked her death after realizing that her experiences in brightfalls during the original Allan Wake were real and that Allen has been trapped in the dark place ever since this is actually referencing plot points to remedy's other game control and its awe expansion Alice had interacted with the FBC in the aftermath of the first Allan Wake story it's this visit to the FBC headquarters the oldest house in New York which unlocks her memories of the dark place in awe it's heavily implied that these events are a part of a story Alan is writing from the dark place with new manuscript Pages appearing in the oldest house during the DLC the mid credit scene makes it clear that Alice's apparent suicide was actually her returning to the dark place this time with a plan Alice LED Allan to believe that she had committed suicide to set him on the path to connecting with Saga in the first place it was also Alice who called Saga and helped lead her through the dark place and it seems Alice means to finally help save Alan once and for all how she's going to do that exactly isn't clear but she thinks her intimate knowledge of the dark place will give her an edge the final moment of the mid-credit scene sees Allan waking up from Saga shooting him to utter the line it's not a loop it's a spiral we know that Alan called himself from another point in the story to instruct himself to leave Alice's photos in the shoe box unlike other parts of the loop we haven't seen that call being placed yet so whatever point in the story it's from it's beyond what we've actually played in the game the spiral line also carries some implications if you watch Tom Zayn's film nightless night when it plays at the conclusion of the cinema section of the game you'll hear that line spoken Again by the film's version of Alex Casey the film is about Casey being sacrificed by a cult Le by Barbara Jagger the woman he loves she however loves zaye Barbara manipulates Casey into becoming a ritual sacrifice to release Zayn from the dark place when Casey says it's not a loop it's a spiral think of it meaning like a spiral staircase and that Casey is being sent downward into the dark place to replace Zane for Allan it's not a loop it's a spiral could mean the opposite that Allan can use the loop to ascend out of the dark place come up the spiral staircase if he knows how a climate which nightless night implies that somebody will need to replace Allan in order to get him out just as Casey was used to get zann out we could also be getting some hints about another antagonist for the future of the story Tom Zayn Allan confronts and shoots Zayn during the story but like Allan Zayn apparently doesn't stay dead we know he's been making his own attempts to escape the dark place and that he went so far as to work with Mr scratch to that that end so what about Saga her fate is left ambiguous at the end of Alan Wake 2 at the very least she seems to still be in the dark place with Casey and it's not especially clear how she would get out there's a hanging thread that seems poised to deal with that too though after the summoning ritual and scratch throwing Saga into the dark place T and Odin weighed into cauldron Lake after her it seems like they're headed in to help get her back out but the rest of the game goes on without seeing the old gods of Asgard again so they're down there in the dark place as far as we know it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to Guess that Saga story will be continued in one of the DLC editions with to and Odin playing a role in finally helping Saga make her escape with Casey and let's not forget about wall and door and Sheriff Tim breaker as well who seem to have roles yet to play the impression of door throughout Alan Wake 2 is that he's aware of Allen's story and taking part part in it willingly it is also never said plainly but it's very heavily implied that he is saga's Father Who in the real world was absent for almost all of her life and that while Saga has inherited the power to resist the dark presences manipulation from her mother's side of the family she inherited the potential to navigate the dark place's labyrinthine layout from him so there are plenty of elements for the story to deal with and we know there's a fair amount of story yet to be told as of right now though the conclusion is that Allan sacrificed himself to remain in the dark place in order to save Saga Casey Logan and brightfalls what we still don't know is whether he was successful but we do know that there are people still looking to help him there's enough there to Merit Alan Wake potentially being a Trilogy it's just a matter of whether or not we'll have to await another 13 years for the next installment and of course some of this may be resolved in the next control game which is confirmed to be in development as well as any other remedy connected Universe titles that the developer is working on what are your theories and takeaways on the story of Alan Wake 2 let us know in the comments below and for everything to do with Allan Wake 2 and the remedy connected Universe stay tuned to [Music] GameSpot

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Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 16 2023