![]() ![]() Okay, actually this one gives me the worst headaches. But will it be toyed with some more in the sequel? Mr. So which was it? Well, I think this is one we will never actually get an answer on, as Sam Lake has expressed his appreciation for time loops a lot over the years, including on the Alan Wake Remastered commentary track, and a lot of time-loop stories seem gleefully written to be vague about this particular "Stable Time Loop" paradox, so I do expect we'll never know for sure. Or was it? Later, when Alan is writing his own escape, it seems as though he writes Zane into reality. In the shoebox was an object: the Clicker Alan uses to defeat the Dark Presence posing as Jagger.īut the weirdest part-yes, somehow none of that was the weirdest part-is that the character Zane wrote into reality was… Alan Wake. Zane's muse, Barbara Jagger, was claimed by the Dark Presence, and Zane had to use Cauldron Lake's powers to make fiction a reality by writing his ending, which ended in self-sacrifice but only after leaving behind a shoebox for a character he created to find later. In Alan Wake lore, he is a poet who visited Bright Falls in 1970 and had a similar experience to Alan when he arrived there 40 years later. Perhaps the mystery that causes me the most and strongest headaches is Thomas Zane. Once informed, what were their next steps? We won't likely see their actions as they transpired that night, but might we get more information on what this group knows and what it does with that information? Thomas Zane What we don't know is what they did with this information. In her group is local radio host Pat Maine as well as her father, a former detective and Federal Bureau of Control agent, Frank Breaker (presumably among others). We learn in the game that Breaker and her "secret society" use the name of this series as a code word, almost like a call to action. In Episode 5 of Alan Wake, Alan learns from Sheriff Sarah Breaker that some of the town's citizens are aware of the strange goings-on of Bright Falls, even going so far to joke that it once served as the inspiration for Night Springs, the in-universe TV anthology series modeled after The Twilight Zone. Did Alan, amid his sudden burst of clarity, come to understand that the weirdness of Bright Falls is happening elsewhere, looks different in different places, and is all connected somehow? Code word: Night Springs As we learn in Control, Cauldron Lake seems to be a Place of Power, or a location that defies the natural world in ways the Federal Bureau of Control is tasked with investigating. ![]() I'm not sure Remedy had this in mind back when it made Alan Wake, at least not in name, but in either case it could sort of be retrofitted to the RCU anyway. ![]() Where waves are both wilder and more serene.īecause of this oddity-referencing Beth Wilder and Paul Serene from Quantum Break-I think a third possibility is that it relates to the Remedy Connected Universe. It does, however, tie closely to Thomas Zane's poem that he recites when he appears to Alan in a dream at the start of the game-a poem that not coincidentally links to Quantum Break, too:įor he did not know, that beyond the lake he called home, It may be that we'll get more clarity on what this means-maybe it relates to the vastness of the Dark Place and/or the corrupting influence of the Dark Presence-or maybe it's just sort of poetically interesting and we should stop wondering about it so much. ![]() Alan's last words of the 2010 game (excluding DLC) are delivered like a revelation, but they weren't nearly as epiphanic to players as they seemed to be to Alan. Perhaps the most famous of the game's mysteries is also its least likely to be neatly resolved. Here are seven Alan Wake mysteries that might get answers in Alan Wake 2. But given that some of the original game's mysteries will likely merit answers, we're taking inventory of where we left off and where the story might go next. We recently spoke to Remedy's creative director and Alan Wake scribe, Sam Lake, who revealed his approach to answering mysteries-or not answering them, as is sometimes his preference. Fans love the game's atmosphere, its story, its characters, and plenty else-but many also just really want to know the answer to some of the questions Alan Wake poses but does not resolve. Part of the lasting appeal of Alan Wake is its number of dangling plot threads and unanswered mysteries. ![]()
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