The town of Bright Falls is almost identical to that of Twin Peaks and features near carbon copies of its diner and even some of its inhabitants. While the tale takes inspiration from a number of compelling sources like the novels of Stephen King, The Twilight Zone and The Birds, it’s clear that Alan Wake puts its love of Twin Peaks at centre stage. What’s worse, he stumbles across manuscript pages that suggest he’s either behind the chaos that has erupted… or worse yet, that it’s all in his head.Īlan Wake is incredibly self-aware Remedy’s Sam Lake (aka the face of Max Payne… and the face of Alex Casey?) has written a game about Wake, who appears in an episodic television-style retelling of a story that Alan himself has written.

There, the Wakes find that the locale (and the owls) aren’t as they seem day turns to night and Alan is immersed in a supernatural mystery of life-changing proportions. Alan thinks its purely for rest and relaxation, while Alice has planned to try to help her husband combat a case of writer’s block. Off the back of a successful book launch in which Alan kills off his long-standing protagonist Alex Casey, he and his wife Alice head to the sleepy town of Bright Falls. Just in case you haven’t played through Stevivor’s GOTY of 2019 (or 2010 if we had such an award back then), Alan Wake is a acclaimed fiction writer. If you’re not familiar with the original Alan Wake, you may have caught an abridged version of his plight inside Control‘s most recent AWE DLC. Alan Wake Remastered now offers up to 4K resolution and 60 FPS (frames-per-second) gameplay on consoles alongside enhanced character models and environments, improved facial animations and lip-synching, and more. Developer Remedy has partnered with d3t for a current-gen remaster of Alan Wake, its 2010 Xbox 360 classic.

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