History WMG / AlanWake

** War wasn't written for the game, though, from what I can gather (though the video clearly was created to tie in to the game). It's a real song, by the real band who played the OGoA.

* Jossed, the sequel is finally coming out.

* Jossed, the sequel is finally coming out.

[[WMG: Alan Wake 2 will feature an Obsession system, where both the monsters and Alan will drive each other crazy in their attempts to murder one another for the perfect story.]]
The Obsession can be related to a creator's struggles with writing a story that won't be basted to hell and back by the fanbase for being half-heartedly written, and the critics who hate the genre and take increasingly demented steps to control a story they haven't written but practically (and in the case of the Dark Presence, ''literally'') live in. The more obsessed the player is with playing a chapter 'perfectly' or killing as many Taken and other enemies as humanly possible, the angrier both sides will get.
* As Alan grows more frustrated with how a story is panning out (like dying constantly), he'll grow obsessed with finishing and perfecting the story, shown by the writing and narration growing bitter and jagged. At full obsession, Alan will temporarily lose his fear of monsters and his light powers will peak, but he will also gain an aura of rage that scares humans away and may even ''murder'' innocents by "accidentally" writing their doom because they're in the way.
* The monsters start out as mere predators, treating humans as prey and generally not caring about civilization as long as it dies in the end. As their obsession with Wake grows, the monsters will become increasingly angry and unhinged, planning out unnecessarily complicated traps and attacking Wake's low-nutrition friends because they can, to the point that they even kill their own kin just to make the attacks on Wake hurt. At full obsession, they can even perform attacks that ''delete game progress''.

[[WMG: The locals Weirdness Censor isn't working more than usual.]]

Cars choking the roads could have been accumulated at many points in time, and 'saved' by the Dark Persence. It only needed to start with one car which veered offroad or crashed due to normal circumstances at night, when and where nobody would see it; thereafter, it could simply materialize them when someone else was driving at night and crash them, then Take them and their car quickly. In this manner, it could accumulate many cars/buses/trucks.

Likewise, the majority of the obvious WIZARDRY happens far away from civilization, with the mess at the campground (the wall torn out of a solid log building,) being some of the only obvious supernatural craziness in places which are on the beaten path. The DP didn't go demolishing the buildings in Bright Falls itself, mostly the buildings it smashed were in the ghost towns and out-of-the-way areas. So the folks of Bright Falls would have had enough information to know that something WEIRD was going on, but they wouldn't have to be obviously ignoring blatantly supernatural events. This likely also contributes to the fact that as Deerfest approaches, there were more and more incidents.

* Semi-confirmed? The remaster has hidden QR codes that lead to videos of Alan writing, discussing various topics including how he has learned to manipulate the power of the dark place, his detective character Alex Casey and a man waking up on the shores of a lake, naked and with amnesia. The implication is that this will be the starting point for the next game in the Remedy shared universe.

Perhaps one of the manuscript pages will reference how Alan is combing through ''Departure'' and attempting to leave, like in the two [=DLC=]s, and makes a reference to "polishing" the story.

First, we know that he caused everything about himself to disappear, except whatever was kept in a shoebox. In a shoebox, we find a story about Alan, as well as a broken switch, identified as the Clicker by Alan himself. The story proves that Alan Wake was a character created by Thomas Zane, come to life. The Clicker in the shoebox was the original broken switch, owned by Thomas Zane, and it had alwas been there. The Clicker that Alan remembers was a perfect duplicate, which the story caused to exist. Presumably, even Alan himself was a perfect duplicate of Thomas Zane, created as a SelfInsertFic.

We can assume that Cauldron Lake is where the Lock to the heart of the world is located and this why the darkness come from here. Why is it trapped here is left to interpretation.

The game start with the protagonist having a strange dream where a light warn him about "the darkness" and teach him to use the light to defeat it, just like Kingdom Hearts's beginning. Those who are engulfed by the darkness are turned into soulless husk called the taken that can only be truly defeated with light which is reminiscent of the heartless and finally with have this phrase when Thomas Zane talk about the nature of Darkness : "It has no heart. It's filled with darkness. You must fill its heart with light."