Alan Wake 2’s biggest twist is one huge hint about Control 2

Alan Wake 2, the long-awaited sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 cult action-horror game, was released last week and has already inspired an effusive reception.

The survival horror game picks up in the same year as the first, but follows parallel stories of FBI Agent Saga Anderson (as well as writer Alan Wake) who are both battling horrors which blur the lines between fiction and reality. Aside from continuing the story that first began in 2010’s Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2The game is the latest in Remedy Connected Universe, a shared continuity that features both Alan Wake and 2019’s supernatural action videogame. Control.

Alan Wake 2It feels like the sequel to ControlAs it is to the original Alan Wake, with various references and cameos that call back to the adventures of the Oldest House and Jesse Faden’s battle against the preternatural entity known as the Hiss. This connection is responsible for some of the most surprising twists in Alan Wake 2Not only do they hint at future conflicts between Alan and Saga but also to the increasing stakes and scope, Control 2As well. It is interesting to note that one of the most important twists in Alan Wake 2The future was foreshadowed in Control.

[Ed. note: Spoilers follow for Alan Wake 2 and Control.]

Alan Wake 2The film opens with FBI profiler Saga Anderson, and Alex Casey on their way to Bright Falls in Washington’s Pacific Northwest to investigate the most recent in a string of disappearances, murders, and mysterious crimes that seem to be linked to the Cult of the Tree, an organized criminal group. Anderson and Casey find a number of manuscripts that seem to predict the future. They also look like they were written by Alan Wake. Wake disappeared near Cauldron Lake more than a decade ago. Time in the Remedy Linked Universe advances simultaneously with that of the real-world.

Saga’s investigation leads her to Watery, a fishing town neighboring Bright Falls that’s home to both a coffee-themed amusement park and a trailer park. While tracking down the cult’s last known whereabouts, Saga comes across pages of the manuscript that suggest that both she and her partner have been written into a horror story that is slowly coming to life.

Saga, upon arriving in the Lighthouse trailer Park, realizes that the horrific truth is slowly affecting reality. The manuscript pages from the horror story she’s been gathering are gradually causing it to warp. Her daughter Logan’s death is one of them. She also divorced her husband, and she became the main character in this nightmare tale. With no other recourse, Saga makes it her mission to find the Clicker — a so-called “Object of Power” that allowed Alan to defeat the Dark Presence during the events of the first game. Saga hopes to give it to Alan in order to rewrite her story and bring back her daughter.

The most significant turning point of the century is now. Alan Wake 2’s story. The story is framed on a personal as well as an existential basis. What’s even more fascinating, however, is the way this twist ties back to a small yet important moment in Control.

A woman in a red room slams an enemy soldier with psychic energy

The seventh mission in the story of Control, “The Face of the Enemy,” Jesse Faden is sent to explore the Containment Sector of the Oldest House in order to find the Slide Projector which allowed the Hiss to invade the building through an interdimensional doorway. In the Containment Sector, Jesse Faden finds an audio recording of herself speaking to a psychiatrist regarding the disappearance her brother Dylan, and one line of a poem written by Thomas Zane, who is one of her favourite poets. Said poem also appeared in first Alan Wake — he aided Alan in his fight against the Dark Presence, despite being trapped himself in the Dark Place beneath Cauldron Lake. Jesse is told by her psychiatrist that there is no such poet by the name of Thomas Zane, but rather, a European filmmaker who immigrated to America in the ‘60s.

In case you’re a bit confused right now, don’t worry; you’re not misremembering things. Jesse has it right! Thomas Zane’s character You can learn more about it hereA poet in the original Alan Wake. The reason why the rest of the world, including her psychiatrist, believes that Zane was a filmmaker instead is because of the effects of Alan’s horror story, which he has been writing on-and-off in his attempt to escape the Dark Place since 2010. Like Saga, Jesse is one of a handful of characters who can remember details about the version of the world before Alan’s horror story began to warp reality.

While it is never explicitly stated, it’s heavily implied that the reason Saga and Jesse are unaffected by the reality-skewing effects of Alan’s horror story is because they are both “parautilitarians.” These are individuals capable of wielding supernatural powers, typically, though not exclusively, through the act of binding themselves to “Altered Items” known as “Objects of Power.” Saga is the granddaughter and great niece of Tor and Odin Anderson, two longtime Bright Falls residents and former members of the rock band Old Gods of Asgard. Saga’s “Mind Place,” along with her ability to see into the minds of others and form uncanny deductions through profiling suspects, is a supernatural ability that she inherited from her mother, Freya Anderson. It’s also possible she inherited it from her father, who is implied to be the mysterious entity Warlin Door.

Mr. Door, the host of In Between with Mr. Door, looks toward his talk show audience in Alan Wake 2

What’s the connection? Control 2? It could be a whole lot. Saga’s learnings Alan Wake 2, Altered World Events — events in which paranormal forces intrude upon reality, most often through the misuse or corruption of an Altered Item — are primarily localized events that the Federal Bureau of Control resolves through the containment of said Altered Item. The fact that the Altered World Event (AWE) of Alan’s horror story is not confined to the immediate vicinity of Bright Falls, as evidenced by the recording of Jesse’s conversation with her psychiatrist and that Saga’s now ex-husband in Virginia believes that Logan is dead, suggests that Saga and the Federal Bureau of Control are dealing with an AWE that is unprecedented in its scope and severity. The connections run even deeper: Certain collectible items and manuscript pages in the “AWE” DLC of ControlIt is possible that Alan Wake created the Federal Bureau of Control and its threat, the Hiss. The author wrote his horror tale near Cauldron Lake where the Dark Presence is able to bring life to art.

What is revealed Alan Wake 2, the headquarters of the FBC, known as the Oldest House, has been closed off from all other branches of the agency in the wake of an undisclosed “internal emergency.” This is a reference to the events of ControlThe canonical date for the event is October 2019, but it will take place as soon as possible. Jesse Faden was separated from his bureau since over four years because The Oldest House, as mentioned in the DLC above, is still locked down. As of this writing, we still don’t know when Control 2When the game is released, we don’t know what Jesse’s state will be. But going off of the first piece of concept art released alongside the announcement of the game’s development, it’s likely that the events of Alan Wake 2 will have tremendous consequences on Jesse’s tenure as the newly-christened director of the FBC, and the threat of the Hiss on the rest of the world.

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