Sam Lake Explains The Alan Wake Story So Far - IGN First

Alan Wake oh God I am your biggest fan the story of Alan Wake his American Nightmare DLC and Ventures into control is one full of twists and turns through dreams and reality to help us untangle the tale is remedy creative director Sam Lake who has kindly recapped the horror writer's pastorous as concisely as possible or at least that was the aim okay let's let's see where we get the five minutes is pretty tight ahead of Alan Wake 2 here is the Alan Wake story so far my name is Alan Wake Alan Wake is a new york-based successful writer he has made his career hugely successful riding these hard-boiled crime books set in New York but he is not satisfied he's struggling with his life he's struggling with his marriage with his wife Alice who is a photographer he just feels that that this commercial literature he's seen all of it he wants to move and do something more about kind of like from him and more artistic so he kills off his cash cow Alex Casey and then he hits a block and he discovers that he has he tries to write he can't his life is spiraling out of control he's drinking too much and arguing with his wife and ultimately Ali suggests that they should just go away and and and have a break and and kind of have a vacation it's kind of a last ditch attempt to fix their marriage so they go on a vacation Pacific Northwest is kind of an Italy beautiful Majestic landscape quirky little small town setting of Pride Falls we need to stop at the local Diner to get the cabin key from the landlord a Mr Carl Stuckey he's well they have rented a copy and they arrive there is some confusion they don't meet the landlord who is supposed to deliver the keys and directions instead Alan needs this kind of a creepy old lady in a funeral costume Barbara Checker who hands him the keys and directions I wish you a good stay in my cabin I'll come by later to check how you've settled in they go to the cabin they are slightly surprised that it's it's it's not what was advertised it's this but it's gorgeous it's the small island on this Caldera lake called cauldron Lake they settle in that's when Alice reveals that she's been in dogs with a local doctor called Dr Hartman he has a private Clinic here he specializes in helping artists so now you want to get me committed no it's not like that that's not he gets really mad about this he doesn't want to do anything he didn't come here to write he storms out of the cabin cool souls and then suddenly he hears Ali screaming for help he rushes in sees her disappear of the edge of the balcony feels that she has fallen in Dives after her everything goes black he wakes up in a car crash on a forest road at night confused starts to find pages of a novel the title page like saying that he's the writer he can't remember writing any of this but the title of the book departure is what he has been mulling in his mind that was the name I plan to use for the next novel I had never gotten started these pages are are clearly a Horror Story talking about this kind of a supernatural force of Darkness waking up and starting to take over the locals all of this starts to come true he runs into the landlord that they missed he's covered in Shadows angry crazy attacks him he manages to defend himself with a flashlight and so light is an active mechanic against forces of darkness and then kind of getting to see back to civilization from the forest he runs into the local sheriff and she is saying that there is no Island there used to be an island on the lake there is an active volcano under the Caldera there was an earthquake in 1970 and the island sunk in there is no Isle you look like you've taken a pretty bad knock to the head so he is confused he is struggling trying to piece it together his age and Barry wheeler comes to help him I don't like it out I don't like any of it it's not not good in fact it's the absolute opposite of good he keeps finding more pages and and this horror becomes like more and more real around them there seems to be this some sort of uh force of Darkness the dark presence trying to get him he ends up at the clinic and Dr Hartman is claiming that Alice drowned and and he is kind of blocking that out and coming up with this fantasy to deal with it and he should stay at the clinic under his care but there are other patients there as well there are these old crazy rockers tour and Odin Anderson who used to have a heavy metal band they are saying this is happening for real this is a special place or can kind of like uh change reality here it takes crazy to know crazy that's the sanest thing I've heard in a while and they give him directions to act upon he decides to trust their him the crazy guys instead of this doctor escapes experiences some visions that that show him the missing week diving into the lake and waking up in the crashed car where he is being trapped in the cabin because we find that there is this kind of an opening into a nightmare Dimension under Coulter Lake he calls it the dark place it's kind of this nightmare dream reality and he was trapped there for a week Barbara Checker this old lady who is also the dark presence made him holding Alice hostage made him write this story that would have this Fiction come true and release the dark presence and and empower the dark presence but he started to understand this because this has happened before and he was Finding evidence that in 60s late 60s there was this other artist this poet living at cauldron Lake Thomas saying he is fiance Barbara Checker they were there her and she drowned then he started figuring out that this place has power and fiction can change reality and he wrote her back to life but because these forces of darkness in the dark place are affecting reality actually she came back wrong it was actually the dark presence in her shade and he realized his mistake he tried to correct it he killed her carved out her heart and he was an enthusiastic diver so he tried to kind of rewrite reality to take all of his mistakes out and go into the lake with her and disappeared I will show you this a light switch see Alan wake's background as a child he was afraid to go to sleep he was seeing a lot of nightmares mother had given as kind of a thank you chunk toy and said that this is from your father it will make the scary things go away when Alice was afraid of the dark he gave it to her and now he finds it as if it had been left behind by Thomas sane as a gift for him with fiction coming true we have this confusion and these open questions like how did Thomas say know about this did he is riding back in the day affect what Alan Wake is experiencing changed reality around him or is it now Alan wake's writing Conjuring up Thomas saying as a helper for him we don't know he gets the clicker it's a powerful tool against forces of Darkness a light switch I can get to her now I can finish this he dives into cauldron Lake goes into the dark place finds the cabin there faces Barbara Checker the dark presence there she has a hole in her chest because Thomas saying cut out her heart shoves the light switch in fix the switch light blooms and and the dark presidency is banished he writes in that cabin in the dark place and ending to the story because there was no ending it needs to follow certain laws of drama at least to him it's important that this fiction comes true and he writes Alice out from the prison that the dark presence trapped her in the dark place he has to pay a price so he is stuck in there and that's where we leave him it's not a lake foreign struggle in the dark place it goes pretty kind of wild and and nightmarish and we have this idea that because it's it's really kind of taxing and it's hard not to go crazy he kind of goes crazy and and we split him apart so the crazy part is stuck in the cabin but we are actually playing an aspect of him trying to get to that cabin to kind of fix things in the end he he does and he sits down to write a new story to escape my name is Alan Wake and I'm a writer then Alan wakes American Nightmare came out early on in his career he was screenwriting for this Anthology show called night Springs which is kind of an anthology show of horror and sci-fi and speculative fiction nice phrase foreign episodes and now desperate in the dark place he's kind of like trying many different things because he keeps failing he tries to write fiction that would allow him to escape change the dark place around him to open up and release him but it's it's very tricky boiling the context of how we see American Nightmare is it's one failed attempt in the context of an episode of nightsprings we bring in Alan wake's dark double called Mr scratch that we already introduced in the main game he's the villain he's trying to get to Alice show yourself save money and we are also kind of building this idea that while he is in the dark place riding he is seeing some glimpses and Visions from our from The Real World and using them in his writing trying to make it more real so that the parts that he adds and changes and notches would come true more readily so we have Alice with her photography and her video installation art on a festival in night Springs Mr scratch seemingly has escaped and he's threatening her and Alan tries to stop Mr scratch we are also bringing elements of well the dark place is really messed up because it's kind of a dream logic reality there is this kind of a looping that he keeps on going through in the end he succeeds in defeating Mr scratch it's left open for interpretation we see Alice's art which is this video of their earlier holiday when they were happy and they are reunited in the form of that projection of that film and it was kind of left like is this a happy ending he is still stuck in there so so it's one example of a story he tries to write to escape but it's a failed attempt it's an example of failed attempt and there's been many through the years are these actual events or merely a dream a memory or a glimpse of what is to come now we come to control finally and and control really we we have Federal Bureau of control which is the secret government agency dealing with weird phenomena in the world paramatural uh occurrences altered world events and we discovered that they actually came to Pride Falls to investigate after the events of original game and and so they know about it then in the downloadable episode called awe we have Alan Wake in a bigger role once again the idea being that he is seeing glimpses of the real world including FPC and and FPC investigating so he is bringing that into the story he is writing kind of nudging and pulling trying to have change reality so that FPC in this case Jesse uh that the new director would help him Jesse hear it call was faint reaching for her from a dark place we also kind of pick up with certain strands that kind of have happened in between Alice starting to see nightmares glimpses of Alan as a monster at their home we obviously understand that well that sounds like Mr scratch and and she comes in to FPC to talk about this and meanwhile we discovered that Dr Hartman having lost everything but being obsessed about the lake and the dark place and and fiction art used to change reality goes into delay and comes out as a taken so he's turned into a monster FBC has captured him brought him to their headquarters to to examine him when Alice comes in to have these interviews about what's happening somehow Hartman senses that and goes berserk and then when the his comes in it goes into Hartman and he already has the force of darkness in him and this kind of like hybrid merges into something really really monstrous which is what Jesse will be facing or faced in in awe DLC we also find some hints that well there is an Alex Casey an FBI agent called Alex Casey who is looking for Alan Wake and his disappearance and reaching out to FPC they're wondering about it unfortunately because there are casualties with Hartman and the whole sector is closed down one of these strands on FBC side are left hanging we don't know what happens to Alice clearly FPC didn't follow up on that so and it's been years ago like we don't know so these elements are still question marks how this whole thing ends is that we see on monitors an alert of a new altered world events taking place at Cortland Lake they have their monitoring station set up there and and now there is an alarm there is confusion there shouldn't be any alarm because this place is closed off but somehow it's coming from the future there might be a glitch the dates are wrong a couple of years in the future now we are in that future and and and like you you will see how that alarm comes to be uh in Alan Wake 2 and and we are picking up the story from there definitely what what has been going on with Alice and many many other things agent Estevez is the field agent in charge of monitoring the site so she should be there to let us know if the situation has been through any major changes how long was that um I'm sorry for more on island week 2 check out our exclusive preview or an explanation of how remedy a building their connected universe and for everything else stick with IGN foreign

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Length: 16min 4sec (964 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 29 2023