Summary

• Alan Wake 2's New Game Plus expands the story in a clever and masterful way, offering extra lore through manuscripts and video files.
• The Final Draft introduces new content, including new manuscripts and videos, that provide fresh insights into the story and characters.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake 2's New Game Plus probably arrived much sooner than many fans expected. While it follows the traditional criteria for this kind of mode, allowing you to start a new game with all your weapons, upgrades, and charms intact, you'll come to find The Final Draft (true to its name) expands the story of Alan Wake 2 in a very clever and masterful way.

Though putting yourself through Alan Wake 2's hellish nightmare for another go seems daunting, especially if you dare to try the Nightmare difficulty, The Final Draft makes it worthwhile with all the extra lore offered through manuscripts and video files, and you'll see some additional story changes here and there.

11 New Op🎃ening Lines From Alan

The first change you'll immediately spot is Alan's opening monologue in the Writer's Room just before the transition to the prologue section with Ni♛ghtingale at Cauldron Lake. While visually things remain much the same, the dialogue undergoes a complete redesign to flow with the original end🧜ing and make this new mode seem like a continuation.

The old intro monologue kept things odd and vague to hook you into the mystery, but this Alan in New Game Plus 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:is the same Alaꦉn from the post-credit sequence who arises after hearing Alice's message. He now clearly understands that he's not "in an eternal loop" and that "This is a spiral."

10 Jumpscares Have Diffeꦕrent Timing

You're probably thinking, Alan Wake 2's jumpscares are still fresh in my head, and I'll go into New Game Plus totally prepared for where they're going to pop up. However, Remedy throws a wrench in those plans and cleverly changes the timing on most of the jumpscares so they could still mess with you on the second run.

The prologue jumpscares with Nightingale and Scratch might be barely noticeable, having you question if it was a few seconds earlier. But then Saga's jumpscare in the General Store is definitely sped up, as there used to be a pause, but now you have the Taken Cultist breaking through the wall simultaneously with the deer before it can even fully gallop away.

Another instance is the first pop-up scare of Mulligan and Thornton's Taken form when exiting the trailer park. In the original version, the duo flashes across your screen after Saga is finished with her dialogue. But now, they appear like a flash of Tor's lightning, not even letting Saga get in the first word of her last sentence.

9 New Return 1 Manuscript - Saga Anderson's Deja Vu

The Final Draft promised to hand over some fresh manuscripts to Saga, and you can collect one early on in Return 1. To ensure you don't miss it, the game places it right in front of your feet once you leave the cutscene area where you interacted with your first manuscript page. This one lies right by the ledge that leads straight to the Witch's Hut.

Keeping with the sequel feel of The Final Draft, the manuscript is titled 'Saga Anderson's Deja Vu.' Alan mainly writes how the Nightingale crime scene "somehow felt familiar to Saga... like deja vu." This is a meta way for Alan to convey that Saga's journey has likewise been reset due to ascension.

To further convey this manuscript is part of the Final Draft, Saga's name is not edited into scratched material like on all the original manuscript pages found in Return 1.

8 🏅 New Return 2 Manuscript - Dark Poem 1

The second manuscript again remains not-so-hidden and gets delivered after you turn on the power in the Witch's Hut in Return 2. This area serves as the very first break room where you can save yo♉ur game using the coffe☂e thermos. The new manuscript will pop up right there on that tableꦰ.

It's called Dark Poem 1, and while Remedy may want to convince you it's something you haven't seen before, it's really the exact copy of the poem written on the cavern walls of Nightingale's murder site in the Dark Place at the conclusion of Initiation 2. It just shows how more of the Dark Place is menacingly creeping into Saga's life.

7 New Initiation 1 Writer's Journey Video - Spiral

The story content in Alan's Initiation chapters instantly feels quite different and continues to build off the original game's ending and the new introduction. You'll catch it right away with Initiation 1. While the dialogue in the live-action interview with Sam Lake and Mr. Door doesn't change, a new Writer's Journey video awaits you immediately.

It can be spotted during the first loop of trying to leave the talk show studio. After punching in the '665' code found in the Old Gods of Asgard dressing room, the double doors open to a new room where a very noticeable TV sits on a storage shelf to the left with the video file playing on it. Titled 'Spiral,' this clip features Alan elaborating on the spiral flow of time in the Dark Place, recounting murder sites, and explaining his process from the original storyline.

6 ♏ New Phone Ca💯ll From Zane Before Initiation 3

To head into the subway station at the start of Initiation 2 - Casey, you get instructions from an unknown caller at the Dark Place's payphone. This is later revealed to be Thomas Zane dialing in from Room 665 of the Oceanview Hotel. What's unexpected in New Game Plus is a second call at the end of Initiation 2 prior to entering Parliament Tower.

The new phone call from Zane furthers the continuity that Alan has already been put through all this before and gives the encouraging tone that Alan is now closer to getting out and is "making progress." This moment also foreshadows the game's alternate finale, which ends the Dark Place's nightmarish hold on Alan, hopefully once and for all.

5 The App🅺earance Of Alice And A Photo Of The Bullet Of Light In Alan Before Initiation 3

The extra phone call isn't the only new thing to appear before your first Alice Wake encounter during the prelude to Initiation 3. In fact, Alice Wake now even appears in a vision before Alan's very eyes while standing in the elevator to go up to the apartment.

This happens once you interact with a picture that wasn't there pre-Final Draft. It looks like one of Alice's photographs, except this one is of Scratch leaving Alan's body after Saga shoots him with the Bullet of Light during the original ending. Alan claims to feel her presence, a moment echoing Alice's final recording in the post-credits scene of trying to help Alan ascend.

4 Dr. Darling Oceanview Hotel Video - Signals 🌳

As teased in cameo stills during the main version of Alan Wake 2 as well as in the promotional material for The Final Draft, Dr. Casper Darling finally makes contact via the television set in Room 205 of the Oceanview Hotel. It's left slightly ajar to be more inviting for you to enter and hear him speak about his paranatural science.

This video clip is called 'Signals' and sees Darling use quite a strange, almost makeshift device to catch frequency waves (particularly one tuned to Alan in the Dark Place). He describes the Dark Place as a dreamscape and makes a meta-comment about his and Alan's voices sounding alike. After all, actor Matthew Porretta is Dr. Casper Darling 𒀰and also lends his voice to Alan Wake.

3 Mr. Door Oc🧸eanview Hotel Video - Night Springs

After Initiation 7, it's uncertain what's ahead for the intriguing new character, Mr. Door, as he gives Alan a stern talking-to and decides to end his studio talk show. Well, The Final Draft teases his next hosting gig, and it's going to be a Rod Serling and Jordan Peele Twilight Zone-style role for the Night Springs DLC.

You'll possibly stumble upon his video even before Dr. Darling's in the Oceanview Hotel. It's located on your right inside Room 224, which has a yellow arrow directing you from outside the door. The new video clip features Warlin Door delivering an opening monologue for a Night Springs episode in front of his red studio curtains, followed by the show's title screen.

2 Dr. Darling Oceanview Hotel Video - Collaboration 𝐆

That's not the last you'll hear from Dr. Darling in New Game Plus. There's yet another new video clip titled 'Collaboration' playing on the TV behind the hotel's front desk in the Entrance Hall. You can access it before exiting the hotel in Initiation 8 once Tom Zane and Alan Wake have their final confrontation.

Darling confirms the theory of the spiral by saying, "Time as a linear construct does not apply to this place" and that it's day 665 for him, making his signature horns gesture to signify the devil. He also makes Thomas Zane appear seemingly out of nowhere just by announcing he needs an artist, so that's a new narrative curveball Remedy leaves to simmer.

The two a♈re sharing a drink, probably the signature Oceanview Cocktail, and are once again going all meta with their dialogue. Darling tells Zane that he looks familiar, and Zane, in turn, remarks how Darling sounds famili🎐ar, while also complimenting how "swole" Dr. Casper Darling is.