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This is part of what makes unraveling the experience at your own pace so entertaining, but that level of complexity, especially coming off the back of the first game 13 years ago, wasn\u2019t lost on the team at Remedy. So much so that director Sam Lake has thanked Alan Wake wiki contributors, jokingly admitting that he\u2019d have to use them to get going because of how much detail there is.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Wake 2 co-directors Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley appear on the most recent episode of the Friends Per Second podcast, and the duo is asked how they balanced the depth of AW2\u2019s plot after 13 years have passed since the original horror game, and it turns out they used Alan Wake fan wikis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to officially give a big thank you to all the wonderful fans keeping Alan Wake wikis up to date,\u201d Lake says. \u201cI confess, I trust these people, I\u2019ll be thinking, \u2018We said something about this in the original Alan Wake but I can\u2019t for the life of me remember the details.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer Ralph \u2018Skill Up\u2019 Panebianco adds that using a fan wiki for your own work is very in keeping with Alan Wake 2\u2019s meta-narrative hooks, which Lake chuckles in agreement with. Considering Lake himself is in AW2 as the fictional character Alex Casey, one of Alan Wake\u2019s own fictional creations, it\u2019s all very fitting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"IMsD4Mb1k0k\" data-embed-type=\"standard\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YouTube Thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" height=\"309\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IMsD4Mb1k0k\/sddefault.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, Alan Wake 2 does have a narrative team, and Rowley adds that there\u2019s a lot of internal documentation Remedy has been using to keep track of all the stories and interconnected threads for the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have a full narrative design team on top of the writing team,\u201d Rowley adds. \u201cWhich is led by [lead narrative designer] Simon Wasselin, who\u2019s tracking everything; we have stuff logged in internal documentation, as we said, the story is often complex and even I\u2019m going like, \u2018what the hell were we meant to be doing here again?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Alan Wake 2 is definitely confusing, between the interconnected narratives of Saga Anderson and the titular Alan Wake, the ever-expanding case boards you need to piece together yourself, and all the aforementioned metatextual layers, Remedy has certainly pulled it off.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Farrell said in our own Alan Wake 2 review that the Remedy game has \u201ca twisty \u2013 and twisted \u2013 narrative that takes the original\u2019s premise to new heights,\u201d so it\u2019s safe to say that Lake\u2019s time brushing up on the fan wikis of his own work has paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of wikis, we\u2019re all guilty of reading up on Wikipedia instead of engaging with something, so we\u2019ve put together a nifty guide on if you need to play Alan Wake 1 before Alan Wake 2.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re busy trying to escape The Dark Place, though, we\u2019ve put together guides on all the Alan Wake 2 weapons and their best upgrades alongside which Alan Wake 2 Words of Power you need to pick up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/alan-wake-2\/sam-lake-wikis\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Wake 2\u00a0is a deliberately confusing and metatextual game. 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