Here we get a nice establishing shot of Bright Falls' less-than-bustling town center. What happened to Nightingale? That's for Saga-and the players-to determine. He seemed to be another Taken-the name for those claimed by the Dark Presence who, in gameplay terms, represent the enemy faction. In the original game, we last saw him after seemingly becoming taken over by the Dark Presence, but unlike Alan, he was not in the Dark Place. It's his death that Saga is there to investigate. I can't wait to meet her.Īs for the narration, we learn something else important in this moment: Special Agent Nightingale, who was hounding Alan for much of the first game, assuming the city slicker was the cause of all the town's ongoing problems, is dead. She's said to be a brilliant criminal profiler, and I don't doubt she is, but her sweater reveals a side of her that is a little less self-serious than you might expect given her job. I don't think this sweater holds any deeper lore significance, but I do think it helps us start to understand Saga as a character. It seems an odd apparel choice for an FBI agent, arguably even mom-like. We'll see her starring in her own gameplay moments soon after this shot in the trailer, but here we get to see another neat detail: her very cozy knit sweater. How's this for a hero shot? Feeling like it's pulled right out of The X-Files, the game's second playable character, FBI Special Agent Saga Anderson is introduced. My bet is Alice's heart still aches for Alan and their age disparity will be a tragedy. In the Control DLC, it's suggested that Alan is Alice's ex, but we don't know if that's because she divorced him in absentia or if it's because the world assumes Alan is dead. I can imagine a reunion between the two that's right out of that Twilight Zone episode, "The Long Morrow," where an astronaut returns home from a six-month trip and finds he and his partner are now far apart in age.
This would be very sad because everyone else he knows-Barry, Sheriff Breaker, and most importantly his wife Alice, will be much older now. He should look older, and maybe he's aged gracefully, but I have another theory: Alan hasn't aged a day in the Dark Place. So Alan's world has moved ahead 13 years just as ours has. We know from the last trailer, which depicts the 81st Deerfest, that Alan Wake 2 takes place in present day, as the original game took place during the 68th Deerfest. However, more notable is the fact that he doesn't necessarily seem to be 13 years older.
ALAN WAKE 2 TRAILER FULL
He's got slick long hair and a full beard-I guess they have the John Wick franchise in the Dark Place. Our first glimpse of Alan Wake himself in this trailer shows us the in-game model of the reimagined hero we first saw in Control's DLC. Join us as we take another dive into Cauldron Lake. Like we did with the game's reveal trailer, we've decided to pause this new trailer frame by frame in search of new story details we may be able to gather from it. A closer camera, a slower pace, and new haunting enemy encounters give the trailer a Resident Evil feel, albeit still with Remedy's signature flair for cinematic and stylish world-building and characters.
It also gives us glimpses into the gameplay, which seems to deliver on Remedy's words that this will be a true survival-horror experience. First and foremost, it reveals a new playable character named Saga Anderson, an FBI agent who seems to have arrived in Bright Falls to investigate the town's perpetual weirdness-not to mention the apparent death of Agent Nightingale from the first game. The trailer overtly does a few really neat things. From the virtual showfloor of the PlayStation Showcase for May 2023, we got to see a new Alan Wake 2 trailer, giving us a generous glimpse at more of the world players have longed to return to for 13 years.
Alan Wake 2 was revealed a year and a half ago, but since then we've seen nothing about it.
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