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* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what he asks.
** VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can also simply ignore him and walk outside, or if you’re feeling extra cruel, can turn the lights on and turn them off again.
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* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what he asks.
** VideoGameCrueltyPotential:asks. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can also simply ignore him and walk outside, or if you’re feeling extra cruel, can turn the lights on and turn them off again.again]].
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* EnemyMine: Alan almost immediately realizes that he's talking with his wife's kidnapper after Ben Mott saves him from the Taken, but still teams up with him to fight through the woods due to a lack of other options.
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* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s voice actor James [=McCaffrey=].
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* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s voice actor James [=McCaffrey=].Creator/JamesMcCaffrey.
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Poretta is Alan Wake, McCaffrey is Max Payne and Alex Casey.
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* SecurityBlanket: Alan talks to his wife about “the Clicker” a small remote he was given as a child that he was told would protect him from darkness and helped him sleep.
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* SecurityBlanket: Alan talks to his wife about “the Clicker” "the Clicker", a small remote he was given as a child that he was told would protect him from darkness and helped him sleep.
* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s voice actorMatthew Porretta.James [=McCaffrey=].
* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s voice actor
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* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s actor Sam Lake.
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* SelfParody: We find the first two pages of ''The Sudden Stop'', an over the top [[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-esque]] detective story, including lead character Alex Casey being voiced by Payne’s voice actor Sam Lake.Matthew Porretta.
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* SecurityBlanket: Alan talks to his wife about “the Clicker” a small remote he was given as a child that he was told would protect him from darkness and helped him sleep.
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* DistantPrologue: The episode begins with Alan and his wife in their apartment three years before the current events of the game, working on ''[[FictionalDocument The Sudden Stop]]'' and dealing with a power outage.
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* ReverseEscortMission: Halfway through the episode, you lose your gun and rely on Mott to protect you, providing support with flares and your flashlight.
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* BearTrap: We find bear traps for the first time in the game littering the forest, placed by poachers in the area.
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* SacrificialLion: Rusty ends up the second major Taken character, but unlike Stucky, we get to know a fair bit more about Rusty, and even get a brief HopeSpot to save him.
* ShoutOut: Barry says the Taken birds around the house are “[[Film/TheBirds going]] [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] [[Film/TheBirds on him.]]”
* ToiletHorror: A Taken hunter lies in wait for an ambush in a bathroom stall, jumping out just as the flickering light dies.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what heasks. asks.
** VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can also simply ignore him and walk outside, or if you’re feeling extra cruel, can turn the lights on and turn them off again.
* ShoutOut: Barry says the Taken birds around the house are “[[Film/TheBirds going]] [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] [[Film/TheBirds on him.]]”
* ToiletHorror: A Taken hunter lies in wait for an ambush in a bathroom stall, jumping out just as the flickering light dies.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what he
** VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can also simply ignore him and walk outside, or if you’re feeling extra cruel, can turn the lights on and turn them off again.
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Episode 2:
!Taken
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!Tropes featured in this episode of ''VideoGame/AlanWake'':
* CassandraTruth:
** [[RealityEnsues Understandably]], when Alan tries telling anyone about his encounter with the Taken, people think he was either concussed, shell-shocked from a more believable trauma or suffering some kind of psychotic break.
---> '''Barry''': What-- What the hell was that?! I saw it from the window -- I saw -- I saw something!\\
'''Alan''': [[SarcasmMode Forget about it Barry. It's just me going crazy]].
** Walter had a run-in with the Taken and the locals seem to think that it was due to bender.
* IHaveYourWife: It is revealed that Alice was kidnapped by Ben Mott, holding her hostage in exchange for the rest of the manuscript.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what he asks.
* WhamEpisode: The episode ends with Rose calling Barry to her trailer with the promise of his manuscript, only to reveal the woman in black by her, Rose having been possessed and leading him into a trap.
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!Taken
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!Tropes featured in this episode of ''VideoGame/AlanWake'':
* CassandraTruth:
** [[RealityEnsues Understandably]], when Alan tries telling anyone about his encounter with the Taken, people think he was either concussed, shell-shocked from a more believable trauma or suffering some kind of psychotic break.
---> '''Barry''': What-- What the hell was that?! I saw it from the window -- I saw -- I saw something!\\
'''Alan''': [[SarcasmMode Forget about it Barry. It's just me going crazy]].
** Walter had a run-in with the Taken and the locals seem to think that it was due to bender.
* IHaveYourWife: It is revealed that Alice was kidnapped by Ben Mott, holding her hostage in exchange for the rest of the manuscript.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: When you meet Walter in his cell, he is hysterically asking to have the lights on (clearly aware of and afraid of the Taken infestation in Bright Falls) and the player has the option to ignore him or do what he asks.
* WhamEpisode: The episode ends with Rose calling Barry to her trailer with the promise of his manuscript, only to reveal the woman in black by her, Rose having been possessed and leading him into a trap.
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