How Alan Wake 2 Night Springs Expansion Changes The Story & Canon

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Whileanswers a few of the dozen or so niggling questions left over from the main game’s ending, its foray into dimension-hopping further complicates the lore by expanding into a shared Remedy multiverse. The first of two expansions for the breathtaking 2023 survival horror title, introduces three brand-new episodes:,, and. While the episodes are loosely connected by a central conceit – each is an episode of the fictional TV show «Night Springs,» hosted by Warlin Door – they follow different narratives with different protagonists.

[Warning: The following article contains major spoilers for Alan Wake 2.]The series has always referenced other Remedy games: Alex Casey is a clear stand-in for Max Payne, while the FBC’s presence in the second game ties into and that game’s -themed expansion,. Some of these allusions might once have been waved away as the result of Remedy’s love for meta-jokes and narratives, but takes things to a whole new level by suggesting thatmost if not all Remedy titles are part of the same shared multiverse. and seeminglyeven the experimental are now canonically linked.

Although is heavily alluded to during the Time Breaker episode, Remedy is unable to directly reference the IP since it is owned by Microsoft. If Remedy ever buys back the rights, as it did recently with, then the game may yet be fully integrated into the Wake universe.

Over the course of Number One Fan, Rose blasts her way through hordes of haters and werewolf motorcycles in order to save her imagined lover, Alan Wake. Upon entering the Writer’s Room in Zane/Wake’s mansion, they embrace and the scene fades, only for Warlin Door to gravely intone that their happiness is merely ‘in the eye of the beholder’. Clearly, all is not as it seems.

North Star, the second episode of the bunch, stars Jesse Faden from and serves as a kind of parody of that game, in which the female protagonist searches Coffee World for her brother, Dylan. Instead of the Hiss, Jesse fights off a sentient