Alan Wake | A Complete History and Retrospective

Hey Dad, how do you feel about Alan Wake? 👻

a two hour video about one of my favorite games of all time? son, you have no idea how happy i am right now

"Hey, dad, it's me: your favorite son." Is so bittersweet and somehow haunting to me, every time.

My own son turns 14 in a month and I’m preparing to share with him my favorite video game, Alan Wake. Thank you for your video!

This is my favorite retrospective of yours so far. You always put quality and passion into them but, its clear you put alot of time into researching it.

Mispronouncing foreign names? Wow, your Youtube career is already... Finnish'ed.

Your videos have a special, unique style. Always very appealing and high class produced. Very impressive, well done Son!

A video that does one of my favourite games total justice. Thank you for this ❤

Gotta admit, this game is what got me into writing. Now I ow it a lot, and this analysis just made me remember once again the love I have for it. Got lucky since I got my hands in the collector's edition, which includes additional material, and even the book called The Alan Wake Files (I am translating the title because I got the Spanish version of it. Great translation work done to it by the way). Anyways, thank you for making such beautiful video. Greetings from México.

Been waiting patiently for this one You never disappoint, son 👍

Son, you make me so proud. The effort,the quality, everything is just so clean. I love the content, always have. I cant wait to see what else you tackle.

You've outdone yourself Son! Alan Wake is a fantastic game and this retrospective has been brilliant.

great video. very much hoping to see you cover Control at some point. the connections between the two are so interesting, especially the parallels between the clicker and the light switch cord, and its adherence to the rule of three as seen in American Nightmare, as well as the parallel between Alan Wake's shoe box, and the shoe box used in Casper Darling's interdimensional research.

Watching your series are like sitting near a lake, far from human kind, were time stands still and you can breathe for a while., so thankyou , in todays crazy paced world, its much appreciated.

Man I discovered your channel with the fable series and I gotta say that the quality of the narrative you deliver with your videos are amazing, you can feel the passion. Keep the good work I’m looking forward to see this channel grow

Son, I must thank you for mentioning the music in this video. I had completely forgotten about The Poet and The Muse, but I did remember that I liked it a lot when I played this game in my youth. Sure enough, 60 listens later I still cannot get enough of it.

Love Alan Wake, Son. Glad you came around to doing this one. Also, playing the original will give you fun Verizon Wireless tie-ins that aren't in the remaster.

Such a in-depth and well written video. I highly appreciate your long form videos. You can definitely feel the passion you have for the games you cover for your videos. This is also a fairly great way to get caught up if you want a refresher in prep for Alan Wake 2, minus some extra stuff released with the AWE dlc from CONTROL.

Alan Wake has one of my favourite moments of storytelling: the song "Poet and the Muse". A song - created by a real band knowing the meaning of the song but acting as a band in a video game that wrote that song without understanding its actual meaning - that tells the story of what happened once and happened again but also tells you what you have to do.... but you won't understand that until you're actually in the situation the song describes. Absolutely fantastic

I am so deeply in love with this game and with your video retrospective/analysis. Thank you so much for this... Alan Wake, to me, is a beautiful game that can be taken as is, with little to no interpretation outside of the literal experiences of our "helpless" and often frightened protagonist. But I also see it as the struggle for creative expression and how we as flawed human beings try to build on something beautiful but are filled with insecurities. The only way we could possibly make sense of our journey is by using the mundane and familiar to become the supernatural. A child uses a stick on the ground and it becomes a sword, a gun, a pen, a conductor's baton... Alan uses a flashlight to fend off his enemies. Thank you so much for this. It is a comfort to me.