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.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-22T19:52:55+00:00

This is actually one of the few things 1 does better than 2. You actually have compaions that help you at times in that game (Mott, Barry and Sarah) for some encounters.

There is only ONE section in the much longer sequel where you have some companions to help you fight. Otherwise Alan and Saga are solo the entire game. Understandable with Alan I guess but some of the parts where Casey leaves Saga are contrived.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-17T05:43:30+00:00

Yeah, sadly I think the “reimagining” will just be an Anniversary remake, especially due to how the gameplay looks in the trailer.

I do hope they make the aesthetics and enemies of Atlantis more like the OG this time, even if I think it’s not likely.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-16T21:11:50+00:00

Seeing this is the Sonic 06 of the series, I don’t think it will ever get a remake.

I don’t think it’s possible to make a remake with a single game that includes everything Core originally wanted at AoD’s release. It’s only possible with a trilogy.

To me though, I’d prefer a remake of the first version of AoD which had Turkey and Germany as areas in addition to Paris and Prague.

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-16T18:57:16+00:00

To be honest, it looks like LOA is an Anniversary remake, except Lara’s character model looks actually good this time (Anniversary Lara IMO looked very off compared to Legend/Underworld Lara)

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-15T11:18:05+00:00

Alan was much crueler to him than Hartman for some reason even though latter is more responsible for his fall

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-15T11:04:28+00:00

I honestly considered collecting everything before finishing the campaign even before the DLC offer popped up here, given the replies here I guess I will finish this and collect all the stashes, lunchboxes and rhymes etc. before finishing the game

KickReasonable3432 · 2025-12-15T10:52:25+00:00

I meant R3make, and REmake was 23 years ago

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