From one Alan Wake fan to all the others, let’s discuss why waiting over a decade for the game was something we should all be thankful for. And in truth, Alan Wake returning now is the absolute best case for the series. While it is never a good feeling waiting for a sequel that will never come, and an even worse feeling learning that said sequel could have become a thing and somehow didn’t, Alan Wake 2 is as bizarre a case as something associated with Remedy could be. That was why The Game Awards 2021 meant a lot to a lot of gamers, including myself, when Alan took center stage after such a long wait. Any gamer can tell you how that feels, to fall in love with a character, a setting, a narrative, with nothing else being able to substitute for it. Remedy Entertainment may have done a great job of representing the game that changed their trajectory within the industry, but there was nothing they could actually do to quell the fire there was for a sequel. Hell, they even managed to slip in the vague connections between Alan Wake and Max Payne though they could not embrace them by name due to Rockstar and Take-Two still owning Max, lock stock, and two smoking, slow-motion barrels. It was no longer a lake the Alan Wake Universe had become an ocean. Anybody that continued to play their games, all featuring similarly bizarre elements, started to slowly see a fleshed-out Wake-Verse. All of this eventually culminated with Remedy purchasing the rights for Alan Wake from Microsoft, all but confirming the company had plans for him in the future. They moved on to new projects, made new partnerships, and even saw their Creative Director briefly appear in Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding. However, this turn of events didn’t kill the company. In my mind, they did, but lackluster sales forced the team to move on from our favorite writer despite plans for a sequel.
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