The Alan Wake 2 Ending FULLY EXPLAINED! (Alan Wake 2 Ending Summarised)

Alan W 2 has a story that can be quite complex to follow if you're not really paying attention throughout it's a game that tells you what's going on at the start but doesn't give you any hints as to how or why until very late on in the game story even being very cryptic at times the images it shows you the scenes and cutcenes where it does actually tell you what they mean and leaves a lot down to interpretation well in today's video we will of course be discussing the ending of Alan weight 2 talking about what means and how I think there will be a third game one that follows this setting it up as a Trilogy I uploaded my full story explain video for Alan weight 2 yesterday so if you haven't checked it out already I'll link it down below and on screen right now but it's definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the game story and it does really go through everything with a bit of narration to guide you in the right direction as to what happens when let me know what your thoughts of the game and its story Down Below in the comments section if you've got it or not or if you just watched my video yesterday and what you think about it there and ultimately if you understand what's going on I also do want to give a quick shout out to my new partnership with control freak that we've had on the channel now for a couple of weeks I've been using these things for absolutely years and I've got to say I have them on every single controller that I own it's way more comfortable to play on the thumb sticks using these things as well especially if you like me in intense games like alen w and you get sweaty hands sweaty fingers and your thumbs are slipping off the thumb sticks here and there it's just really really useful to have things like control freak on and they are so so useful and they just make everything much more comfortable as well and if you're more of an FPS kind of player like I used to play COD and the channel a lot these are amazing for FPS and competitive 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going on in a bit of a shorter story than a 2hour video that I uploaded yesterday but this will still be fairly detailed in terms of a summary as just a lot to cover in this game so let's dive straight in Alan Wake of course started back in 2010 where Allan a famous novelist visiting a place called bright Falls and followed a mystery that was set there throughout the story Alan would learn more around this Darkness the dark place and eventually find himself smack bang in the middle of all of it eventually using something called a clicker to stop the darkness subsequently trapping him in the dark place 13 years later two FBI agents Saga Anderson and Alex Casey were put on a case in an area specifically called cauldron Lake investigating a series of murders that happened around there multiple of these murders occurred back in 2010 however this new one caught the attention of the 2 pi because of some similarities in the way the victims were murdered to the ones back in 0 bruising that showed signs of a struggle markings tattooed on the victims severe bloating as if they just emerged from a lake and the Heart completely removed from the body the murder victim they were looking into in this particular area was called Nightingale he was an FBI agent who was fired back in 2010 when he went a bit crazy also arrived here back in 2010 and then went missing just like Alan Wake this was him appearing 13 years later looking like this the question is though what happened it was throughout the Journey of investigating what was going on here that Casey and Anderson found a series of pages Pages all from what looked like a manuscript a novel something written describing their every move this was shocking to the two piis as the first page they' found described everything that had happened up until that point that very point the body what they' saw even them finding this exact page this wouldn't go on to be the first shock of the game either with Saga finding another page deep inside the chest of the body of Nightingale describing the death of Nightingale as well exactly the page however described Nightingale to be hunting Saga referring to him as a taken these Pages were written all by Alan Wake and they would go on to help Saga Traverse her way through the story The taken were vulnerable to the light the Paige said they can't see anyone stood in sidelight Nightingale without a heart yet he's still killing Saga initially thought this was some form of sick fantasy until the sheriff tells sagur and Alex that he'd also come across a series of these Pages however once he picked them up the lights flickered and the sheriff disappeared but then Nightingale sitting up and killing one of the officers Saga does as the page says stands in the light and Nightingale walking round didn't see her these Pages they were helping Saga and she come to realize that at this stage this had turned into a little more than just a murder with Supernatural things occurring all around later that day Saga and Alex found a body on the beach with another page lay beside the body this person was Alan Wake he was missing for 13 years and suddenly made his way onto the beach how well in this part of the summary I kind of want to divide it into two sections here there are two perspectives in this game one is of course Alan Wake in the dark place and the other is Saga Anderson in say the Overworld there's a place called the overlap this is where the Overworld and the dark place merge together and also also a place where Allan and Saga can sort of meet and communicate with one another so let's start off with Alan Wake first and then we'll go on saga's part of the story after we've covered that off cuz it makes way more sense doing that so in 2010 Alan wake was trapped in the dark place after he used the clicker to essentially keep the dark presence within the dark place Allan's been trapped there ever since and he has been for 13 years but inside the dark place he hasn't just been sat around he's been haunted and tormented by a dark presence that he refers to as scratch it become more and more apparent that Alan wake's novels were actually impacting reality a comment by Alex Casey was made stating that Alex Casey was in fact a character written into one of Alan wake's first novels called departure this of course was a coincidence Alex Casey didn't know Alan Allan didn't know Alex Casey he was a fictional character written into a fictional novel with a cult apparently sending Alex Casey different things to his actual home after they had recreated these murders from Alan wake's novels things were starting to become very real things that Allan had written about in his books this was essentially the story of Alan back in 2010 the horrors he witnessed during that time however the second book in the trilogy was called initiation this was a story around Alan Wake himself being trapped inside of a nightmare desperately trying to find the manuscript to be able to get out of this nightmare called the dark place Allan however doesn't remember writing this book he has no recollection whatsoever and that's because the dark place acts as some form of loop so he will lose all of his his memory when he goes back to the start and that's of course what's been happening for the last 13 years he can't remember what's been going on Alan was consistently tormented by his dark evil doppelganger which was known as scratch scratch wasn't a person but a dark entity that would feed off of wake plague him and use him as a host to take over the world that was the end goal one way to do this would be to keep Alan Wake trapped inside the dark place and not let him out not let him remember until scratch is ready to strike however scratch had a better idea this time wake trapped scratch in this nightmare back in 2010 by using the clicker so he needed to figure a way out why not escape with Alan Wake when he least expects it scratch let Alan Wake figure all of this out on his own he let him Traverse through the dark place figure out for himself that he needs to rewrite the second manuscript I've just got a subscriber let him figure out out that he needs to rewrite the second manuscript initiation himself he needs to rewrite what goes on in that story and eventually he can write himself out of the dark place the only issue is that Allan can't just completely change that manuscript Allan has to amend it in a way that still stays true to the original but just adjust the story slightly to allow him to get out wake finally figured this out and found himself in the writer's room with a copy of the manuscript and sat down to amend it scratching out his name however the dark place isn't a loop I know we mentioned it was before but hear me out here there's not only one version of Alan Wake in this dark place the dark place is almost like a spiral so there are different versions of Allan at different points in time all around the dark place an example here later on into the game from a different point of time Allan called himself on a pay phone and started talking to him and started talking to himself this version of Alan was from the future way further on into the story we can also see Allan at this stage here bursts into the writer's room and shoots under version of Allan who was amending the manuscript initiation from a different point in time because Allan didn't understand who this was he thought that this was scratch writing it originally the person that was making the Amendments of the manuscript was in fact Allan this was exactly what scratch wanted to turn Allan crazy to make him angry and essentially do exactly this why well Allan who was writing this manuscript the one that was killed knew how to end all of this he knew how to defeat scratch the clicker was the key like it was back in 2010 this version of Alan added the clicker into the story initiation meaning that once he obtained it he could press it leave the dark place leaving scratch behind behind however the present Allan burst in and shot him that manuscript was not finished Allan still had a lot to write a lot to finish different chapters to add in keep this pass in your head because we're going to come back to this in saga's side of the story shortly the whole time playing as Allen was trying to get out to the dark place but not only this it was trying to prevent scratch from getting out as well and this is where the next book Return takes place and caps off the trilogy scratch whilst possessing a version of Alan in the dark place wrote a final novel called return in a version of Alan that was possessed by scratch let's say this was a horror story about how the darkness took over bright fools and eventually took over the rest of the world Allan needed to get a hold of this manuscript and change the story and mend it in a way like he did with initiation that would prevent scratch from taking over the world he would need to write another chapter one that would involve a hero of the story someone that could do what was necessary outside of the dark place and this of course was Saga Anderson Saga Anderson was the hero of the story but she didn't know that all the pages she were finding on the ground were in fact a part of the manuscript from Return she was reading her own story it was helping her along the way like when the page told her to stand into the light this was wake writing about Saga her story however in horror stories there's only ever victims and monsters there's never really a hero so what it means is there needs to be a significant sacrifice because of the presence of a hero wake had to write saga's daughter Logan and husband David into the story Logan in the story drowned as a kid when she moved to Bright Fools With Saga and David well they were divorced and he was left back at home this wasn't in reality the situation but as the story became more real so did that situation Saga would meet wake in the overlap multiple times he would tell her his progress tell her about the clicker and what she needed to do on her side she would eventually obtain the clicker remember earlier in the video she would eventually obtain the clicker but do you remember earlier on in the video I spoke about how wake was rewriting initiation and was shoted by another version of himself because he thought he was scratch well it was at this very moment that scratch possessed the version of wake that shot wake at the desk and moments later that version of wake was transported to the beach front or I should I say the lake when Saga used the clicker scratch put himself inside of the head of that version of Alan Wake and that version of Alan Wake was the one that was transported out of the dark place in the writing room into the lake bed this was scratch's plan all along to get wake to go a bit mad almost want revenge for what he' done not only to wake but also to his wife Alice which will of course get to shortly leading him to kill what he thought was scratch but in reality it was another version of Alan Wake for Scratch to then plant himself inside wake's head the one alive at that moment in time to leave the dark place and wake to kick off the story line of return When of course Saga pressed the clicker wake added into the story so when Saga used the clicker nothing happened for her at that moment in time but like the spiral it caused wake to initially appear on that beach which was why was so frantic when he woke up and why he had a page next to him when he reached the Overworld also one of the reasons why he had such headaches throughout the entire game as well was he was in the Overworld being interviewed by Saga and Alex because scratch never left he was always there watching this listening and waiting for his opportunity so during this part Saga was able to blast scratch out of Wake On The the lak front but then he transferred himself into Alex Casey Saga was thrown into the lake which ultimately sent her into the dark place and wake while he was left behind on the lakefront to essentially fight it and to finish the fight himself wake had no choice but to enter the dark place and end all of this and Saga had to find a way around the dark place as well figuring out what everything meant scratch however now had the clicker would go to Bright Falls and he would go and use it to start the story of the third manuscript return however when he dropped the clicker after using it someone from the dark place reached up and grabbed it this is some information you'll want to remember going forward and we'll talk about this a little bit more in a couple of minutes there was a part of the story that I've not detailed just yet and this was around Alan wake's wife Al Alice Alice plays a huge part in the story but isn't a main character and I think will be a very big presence in potentially a Trilogy Alice witnessed wake's demise was overtaken by the darkness by scratch and there was nothing to tell her of any of this happening it just looked like wake turning violent and vile on the outside when really it wasn't really his fault eventually however wake made his way on his trip to Bright Falls and well he never returned he was said to have drowned Alice was struggling to cope with this and whilst on her own noticed things started to happen at night TI rightly clicking almost as if Wake was home in his office and noises in the darkness she decided to set up cameras all around the apartment to capture things on a motion sensor and well she captured some pretty chilling sights Alice however in the end gave up she took her own life and wanted to live on through her art this will be more important to remember come the ending wake and Saga both work together to compile an ending suitable to the story one that would save everyone no deaths but there would be a sacrifice involved somewhere however when Saga went into the dark place the phone started to ring didn't it and when she spoke to the person on the other side there was another woman on the line now was this Saga another version of her in the future I don't know similar to wake potentially as he was speaking to himself but I don't think it was judging by the voice I believe that this was Alice Alan wake's wife Saga was directed towards a shoe box which contained the clicker and a light in the shape of a bullet but how did the clicker get here did scratch have it well if you remember earlier on when I said someone grabbed the clicker when scratch dropped it I believe this was Alice she grabbed it from the dark place and placed it at this point in time time next to the statue in the shoe box with this light bullet essentially this bullet of course would be to kill scratch Saga will wake up both together in the writing room towards the end of the game with a final copy of return formulated and well Saga shoots wake in the head when scratch is occupying it okay so let's get to that ending that summary was a bit longer than what I expected to be honest when writing it but it just shows there's so much in this game you need to take into account to understand the ending so let's just dive in the ending of alight too can be looked at in a couple of different ways we of course have the final copy of return the deaths of scratch however we still have Alex Casey and Saga Anderson in that room when the game ends the first thing Saga does is call her husband David and kid Logan to see if they're okay but she doesn't get an answer to what my Lage or what we can hear in game this could just be because she's in the dark place as we know that from playing through the game Allan and Saga both had problems connecting and speaking to each other from the dark place and the Overworld so that could be one of the reasons why potentially but we can't really confirm 100% right now wake also mentioned that there was a sacrifice needed something that would happen if a hero was added to the story if it's not death could that sacrifice be Anderson and Casey stuck in the dark place like wake was just at a different point on the spiral well all of this is well and good speculating about but but we kind of get a bit of a hint as to where the next game could go towards the very end of the game because this final scene definitely hints at that take a watch at this and let's talk about it after this part is just for you after the haunting started I got in touch with an organized ation that was still looking into what happened in brif Falls I went to their offices and something happened there after I got home I could suddenly remember everything I remembered being trapped inside that Lake a dark ocean with with Echoes of myself my my my fears my photos inside a dark t height of of Madness the same events and images looping again and again and then I saw a light your light you dove in just as I swam out you never drowned and you're still there reaching out that is what the haunting is I can see you because I've been there too I chose to come back to the dark place that is why I put on this exhibition I had to mislead you so that I could get you to where you needed to be the only way out of your Loop is destruction or Ascension light or dark and we've covered the Destruction part many times over and we're getting to the Ascension bit by bit time means nothing here you'll still need to go through the loop but I will keep showing you the images you need to to see the light you need to see until you're ready Ellen I think we're getting close it's not a loop it's a spiral earlier on in the story we were told that Alice was dead she ended her own life and it all became too much for her with her final image of her walking away or what it seemed like Anyway this video goes on to tell us exactly what happened to Alice here Alice was once in the dark place the exact same thing happened to her that happened to Alan what felt like a loop the same thing over and over again were happening to Alice until she saw a light that light was Alan Wake 13 years ago when he went into the dark place to try and save his wife Alice when he went in she came out exactly at the same time and they pretty much passed each other on their ways Alan never drowned like she thought that he did because she didn't know what was underneath this Lake the dark place but now she knows and this is where it gets a bit interesting here Alice described her haunting earlier on in the game as hearing weird things at the night typew rers clicking almost like Alan was in his study well that was Allan from the dark place writing his different manuscripts what Alice thought was scratch haunting her was in fact Allan in the dark place writing the manuscript initiation and trying to get out of the dark place all the pictures found in the apartment were of Allan coming to and from the Parliament building in the game in the dark place that was The Haunting that Alice was experiencing Allan was Haunting his wife without him knowing or without them obviously knowing that that was the case Alice could see things in the darkness because she's been there too this is why she thought the haunting was the dark presence Alice was coming out of the dark place and visited an organization that looked into paranormal activi specifically the one that happened in bright Falls in 2010 the same organization that intercepted the case from Saga in this game the FDC however the next part of the video message hints to us that Alex was back in the dark place she chose to go back in there she was an artist and decided that she would put an exhibition called the dark place and this is what we saw when we visited the apartment with Allan in the dark place and we would see it scattered all around the apartment now this wasn't an exhibition this wasn't an exhibit this was Alice having to try and trick Allan to get him to where he needed to be she misled him however it wasn't a bad thing that she did that Allan needed to be in the writing room with Saga and Casey there helping him formulate this ending the only way out of here is destruction or Ascension Alice says light or dark Destruction has been covered already but Ascension is still Within Reach Allan however needs to go through through this Loop to get to where he needs to be he needs to rewrite initiation and maybe even potentially a new book initiation could be finished at this point his return is done so maybe we're going to see a fourth iteration of a book and that will be Escape or something like that or even we call Ascension Alice however will continue to help Alan giving him the images that he needs the lights that he needs until he's ready to ascend it's at this point of the video where Alan wakes up and remembers he's now starting to get it dark place isn't a loop as he initially expected it's a spiral as we said earlier on in the video think of this as a staircase Allan is at the bottom of the staircase right now with other versions of himself further and further up as we go along Alice has cracked the code and she is way ahead of it potentially the very top of the spiral staircase she's helping Allan get to that stage leaving him images messages pictures objects every step step of the way and that is why we had different versions of Allan calling himself on the pay phone that version of Allan that called him is probably near the top of the Spiral whereas the present version that we were controlling was way down near the bottom the version of Alice that was on the phone to Saga was potentially at the very top of the spiral staircase whereas Saga was at the bottom you see what I'm trying to get at here Allan needs to find the right path by writing the right novel and climb the spiral staircase until he reaches the top and is able to ascend out of the dark place so what does this mean for the future of Alan Wake well there's definitely going to be a third if that's what you're asking so I'd strapp in everyone for an Alan Wake trilogy but guys that is everything you need to know about the Alan Wake 2 ending the game is a lot to take in man but I'm hopeful that the summary of the game that I provided in this video the ending as well the sort of explanation to what's happened at the end is enough for you to understand and kind of understanding at the gist of what the hell is going on in this game but guys I hope you have enjoyed today's video leave a like if you have let me know your thoughts and opinions are of Alan Wake 2 down below would you be like a Trilogy or do you think they should stop it there and then but it's been a pleasure as always everyone have a great sa day speak soon and take care

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Length: 27min 35sec (1655 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 31 2023