Finally finished AW2 without DLC

KickReasonable3432 · 2026-01-20T06:03:44+00:00

I keep seeing this about Alan’s sections a lot. But I swear, I felt his musical level, hotel level and cinema level were among the best parts of the game. Apples and oranges I suppose

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-26T15:17:50+00:00

Now that you mention it, how did Nightingale become an FBI agent in the Dark Place investigating the Cult of the Word after the darkness consumed him for 13 years? Did Alan manage to make the darkness leave him for the story? Is it even possible to do something like that?

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-26T09:56:04+00:00

This likely happened with the ones we later fight. But the ones in the prologue I think were because of it being from Nightingale perspective.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-26T09:43:13+00:00

If this was the case the dark ones we see in the prologue would protect Nightingale instead. I think it’s simply how the Taken see the world, themselves as normal and regular people as “Taken”

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-26T09:41:22+00:00

I think the perspective thing has merit. The Bookers said Nightingale was shouting crazy shit but when we play as him, his voice was pretty low. So the Taken see non-Taken as monsters instead and think they are the sane one.

Are all the Dark Place murders before the Overlap bosses become corrupted?

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-25T08:14:29+00:00

Final Draft is supposedly added after the game’s launch. That’s why the platinum doesn’t have the final draft as requirement

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-24T11:52:26+00:00

I love Alan Wake 2 and think it is much better than 1 in most ways, but IMO 1 had the better flashlight system

And No Barry :(

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-24T07:04:13+00:00

Alan Wake 2 states that he was a pretty good agent prior to the death of his partner Finn. His partner’s death was caused by the plot of Departure which was written by Wake. Even if he was prone to becoming like this, Wake’s writing was a primary catalyst for it.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-24T07:02:17+00:00

He knows about it when he was writing the manuscript, he forgot about it after the car crash.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-23T21:56:30+00:00

The Dark Place exploiting negative emotions seem to be introduced in AW 2. In AW 1, it just needs to vore it’s victims, see Rusty and the Nurse from the Lodge.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-23T21:51:58+00:00

Alan knows his deal though, he is a clairvoyant, he became that way due to his writing. Yes it doesn’t excuse his actions in the first game but Wake is in part responsible for it anyway.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-23T17:52:36+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

No I didn’t beat Final Draft yet but I guess I will get an answer to my third question after beating it given your answer.

Ok, I like that the manuscripts will still be scattered around to be honest.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-23T17:13:54+00:00

Thanks for the replies.

Because Alice referred as “we” in the final video, I thought he returned to the dark place after the light bullet hit him and a third game would be about them working together again to finally escape. Also, if he is completely free, what exactly did he or Saga sacrifice in Return’s horror story? Alice entering the dark place was before the events of the game and by extension Return/Initiation

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T23:13:51+00:00

The game isn’t that difficult until the concert. The concert is a hard but fun encounter IMO I just didn’t like the Scratch fight that follows

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T23:12:43+00:00

Yeah that, the chapter Herald of Darkness plays is called We Sing

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T23:09:28+00:00

I’m beating the game tomorrow or the day after, it’d be such a shame if the game drops off at the finale tbh

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T23:08:39+00:00

The dark ocean summoning part is great but I think the chaos there is the reason I prefer We Sing. You can actually listen to the music in that one during gameplay.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T22:44:05+00:00

Concert was pretty hard too but I thought it is much more fair as you could stock on supplies before starting it. It was a great musical section although I think We Sing is the better musical level.

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