After 13 years, Alan Wake 2 is almost right here. However because the long-awaited sequel has been tossed round for over a decade, it is honest to imagine not everybody has a transparent reminiscence of the occasions of the primary recreation, and a few individuals possible by no means received round to enjoying it in any respect. If that sounds such as you, you are in the best place; here is all the pieces you want to know in regards to the first Alan Wake to arrange for the sequel.
Arriving at Vibrant Falls
The sport takes place within the city of Vibrant Falls, Washington, the place the titular protagonist Alan Wake is occurring trip together with his spouse, Alice. Wake is an writer recognized for his Alex Casey novels, however he hasn’t written something new in three years. After being acknowledged on the town a number of instances by followers (particularly Rose, the waitress at a neighborhood diner), Wake receives keys to his rental cabin from a mysterious outdated lady in black, and he and his spouse drive off to start out their trip.
Upon arriving on the cabin, which is seated on an island in the course of a physique of water referred to as Cauldron Lake, Alan realizes this was no easy trip – Alice has a typewriter arrange for him upstairs, hoping the distant location will break him out of his author’s block. She’s even discovered a health care provider named Emil Hartman, who makes a speciality of struggling artists, however Alan needs no a part of this. He yells at Alice and storms out. Shortly after, he returns upon listening to Alice’s screams and sees her falling over the railing of the cabin into the lake beneath. Alan dives in after her.
Alice, Taken
After a sequence of hallucinations that contain the outdated lady in black, Alan regains consciousness on the wheel of a crashed automotive. As he makes his approach again to civilization, he has to fend off mysterious shadowy figures referred to as Taken by shining them together with his flashlight and ending them off with bullets. He additionally gathers pages of a manuscript from a e book referred to as “Departure,” which appears to be written by him in regards to the occasions at present unfolding. Alan continues to seek out these pages all through the entire recreation, and so they all relate to occasions taking place in the intervening time or that may occur within the close to future.
When he lastly emerges from the woods, he meets Sheriff Breaker and asks about his spouse. It is nothing however unhealthy information: Alan has been gone a complete week, Alice is presumed lifeless, and there is not even a cabin in Cauldron Lake, so none of Alan’s story is sensible. Again on the sheriff’s workplace, Alan receives a cellphone name from somebody claiming they’ve Alice captive and can give her up if Alan brings the finished manuscript. At this level, Alan’s agent Barry exhibits up and agrees to assist his buddy. When Alan lastly tracks the kidnapper down, they reveal they by no means had Alice, and he and Alan are sucked away by a twister of darkish vitality. This vitality, which can also be accountable for possessing Taken, is named the Darkish Presence.
Cauldron Lake Lodging
For the second time within the recreation, Alan wakes up with a foggy reminiscence, however this time he finds himself in a psychiatric hospital referred to as Cauldron Lake Lodge. The ability is run by Emil Hartman, the identical physician Alice really helpful initially of the sport. He tells Alan each occasion up till now was only a figment of his creativeness and claims Alan’s been struggling a psychotic break ever since Alice drowned within the lake. Fortunately for Alan, he is in a position to see that that is all a trick – Hartman has truly been working this facility as a solution to drive artists into making work after which crediting himself as a producer to get wealthy and well-known. Alan frees Barry, who had been captured and detained by Hartman, and when the Darkish Presence returns, Wake dooms Hartman, locking him in a room with a cloud of its swirling malice.
Among the many residents of this psychiatric hospital are Tor and Odin Anderson, a pair of aged brothers who make up a band referred to as the Outdated Gods of Asgard. Whereas they’ve supposedly received dementia, they appear to know extra in regards to the scenario than anybody else and direct Wake towards their outdated farm. As soon as he arrives, he discovers a clue in a track in regards to the Girl of the Mild, a lady named Cynthia Weaver. Barry and Alan resolve to spend the night time on the farm after which discover her when it is mild outdoors. Whereas asleep, Alan has a imaginative and prescient of the week he missed: it seems he was trapped within the depths of Cauldron Lake (which is known as The Darkish Place) and compelled to put in writing a narrative in regards to the Darkish Presence rising in energy.
That is across the time we get an thought of precisely what The Darkish Place/Darkish Presence actually is. Some type of supernatural entity that resides in Cauldron Lake has the power to show fiction into actuality. The one catch? It is incapable of producing that fiction itself, so it must seize some type of artist to do the creating for it. The final artist it captured was a poet named Thomas Zane, however he failed to flee its clutches and is seen by means of a couple of visions as a person floating in an old school diving go well with. His associate, Barbara Jagger, was held hostage as effectively, however Zane did not free her, and the Darkish Presence took her physique, changing into the outdated lady in black.
The Clicker
Earlier than Alan can act on this info, he wakes to see FBI Agent Nightingale standing over him and Barry, able to arrest them. He is been looking Alan the entire recreation – now, he is caught him. Quickly after they return to Vibrant Falls, Sheriff Breaker lets Alan and Barry out of their holding cells, satisfied Nightingale is mad. Nightingale protests and pulls out a manuscript web page, saying it is proof for Wake’s arrest because it tells a narrative about how Nightingale is sucked away by a darkish presence. Moments later, Nightingale is sucked away by The Darkish Presence.
Barry and Breaker (now satisfied Alan is telling the reality) assist Alan get a helicopter, and the three fly to Cynthia Weaver. Obsessive about maintaining darkness out, she lives in an influence plant the place each room is drenched with mild and always replaces the bulbs. She knew Thomas Zane earlier than he fell sufferer to the Darkish Presence and directs Alan to the Properly-Lit room, the place she protects an merchandise referred to as the clicker, together with a manuscript web page written by Zane himself. The clicker is a tool from Alan’s childhood designed to make him really feel braver, and its historical past is detailed on the web page written by Zane.
A. Wake vs. A Lake
Within the last chapter of the sport, Alan heads again to Cauldron Lake alone to confront the darkness. Armed with the clicker, he dives into the depths. As soon as inside, he briefly encounters a doppelganger of himself named Mr. Scratch, a darkish copy that later serves because the antagonist of the 2012 spin-off/follow-up Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. Lastly, Alan reaches the cabin on the coronary heart of the Darkish Place and destroys Barbara Jagger, the outdated lady in black, by shoving the clicker within the gap the place her coronary heart was once. Sadly, he nonetheless wants to complete the manuscript and is aware of that the Darkish Presence will not be happy with a cheerful ending to a horror novel. Ultimately, he frees Alice however traps himself within the Darkish Place. Initially of Alan Wake 2, we be taught he is been there for 13 years, the identical size of time between the primary recreation and its sequel.
That is your entire plot of Alan Wake, that means you are now totally ready to dive into the sequel. For extra Alan Wake 2, try our evaluate, examine its upcoming updates, and take a look at our hands-on gameplay from earlier this 12 months.
