Line #6 Recap/AlanWakeIIReturn2TheHeart


1	!Return 2: The Heart
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3	!Tropes featured in this episode of ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'':
4	* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Saga gets the idea to chase Nightingale to Cauldron Lake when she finds a manuscript page telling her that she should. The fact that it hints at more answers down the line must have been pretty enticing, too.
5	* CardCarryingVillain: On their way to Cauldron Lake, Saga lampshades how the Cult of the Tree calling themselves a cult is highly unusual.
6	* CatScare: When she first investigates the general store, before any danger is apparent, a deer jumps up and scampers out of the store. Only a few steps closer to the back of the store, a deer-masked cultist bursts out.
7	* DetectivesFollowFootprints: Saga finds and follows footprints from Nightingale, but they quickly end at the dead tree.
8	* DynamicEntry: In the abandoned general store, Saga approaches a doorway leading to Nightingale's heart from the other room... only for an ax-bearing cultist to come crashing through the wall and attack Saga in the first proper combat encounter.
9	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Steven, the FBC technician assigned to repeatedly fix one of their monitoring outposts declines Ilmo's offer for some of his branded Bright Falls coffee, but takes him up on a follow-up offer of trying the local beer brew (which Ilmo also owns).
10	* InternalReveal: Alex tells Saga the reason why Nightingale had come to Bright Falls in the first place; to chase down Alan.
11	* KitschyLocalCommercial:
12	** On the way out of the police station, you can find one of the Koskela Ad videos -- an ad for their wilderness tours called "Adventure Tours" -- in a breakroom. The whole thing ''reeks'' of StylisticSuck; Jaakko gives a flat, deadpan performance, the bear is a poorly made cardboard prop that uses stock audio for bear noises, and they boast about their own coffee brand (and the magazine that voted their coffee the best -- their own) after Ilmo "defeats" the bear by punching it. They even boast that they have found a work-around by the government's restrictions of the local wilderness via bolt-cutters.
13	** If you go into the Oh Deer Diner, you'll find another Koskela Ad -- [[ParodyCommercial a commercial]] for Ahma Beer -- where they call people who drink wine "assholes" while only "cool guys" drink beer.
14	* PrimitiveClubs: Nightingale rips off a large chunk of tree to use as an impromptu club during his boss fight.
15	* SawedOffShotgun: A double-barreled, sawed-off shotgun is locked away in the back of the abandoned general store. Solving the puzzle of the padlock's code allows Saga to take it for herself as a second weapon.
16	* TitleDrop: The title of the episode is said by Saga as she recites the rhyme to open the Overlap.
17	-->'''Saga:''' The wave crashed on the far side of the mirror. I brought you '''the heart''', witch. Show me the terror.
18	* TornadoMove: Early in his boss fight, Nightingale stands in the middle of the large clearing he is fighting Saga in and summons up a whirlwind to drive Saga into the winding depths of the Overlap.
19	* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: Saga quickly realizes the Overlap acts like this, a small, distorted patch of reality which loops back to its beginning at a specific point (in this case, the massive dead tree).
20	* WhamEpisode: Alan Wake is finally free from the Dark Place.

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