I used a barcode scanner to scan the clipboard Sam is holding in the "Time Breaker" episode, and i got a link to "Nikey Jordan" shoes, which are the ones Sam himself has been wearing at conventions. Just in case anyone hasn't discovered it yet. Not big, I know, could just be Sam saying "Just do it" in regards to theories. So regardless, nice Easter egg on Sam's part.

Pretty positive Alan is Jesse’s brother, but from another reality. There would be no reason to show that he switches spots with her brother…. Maybe “Scratch” somehow got out of the dark place and took her brother over….. I mean anything is possible at this point, with the multiple realities. Just like Warren Door is pretty much Lance Reddick’s (RIP) character from Quantum Break. They are all linked/related in the multiverse, by some connection, because Alan has to KNOW of these people, to be able to write them into a story. So, he, in some form or fashion, is directly related to all the people he’s writing into the story, or he wouldn’t be able to shift them at all. I mean, right? 🤷‍♂️

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Krazy that i watched interview w andy serkis this morning, found out he voice narrated a game called ENSLAVED, after watching that just so happen to see reviews on hellblade 2, which brought me to this short... No way that ninja theory made both .. this vid brought things full circle and ive only been up since 9am 😂🤯

I have a genuine question...why does the dark place exist? I mean how was it formed?

All the bear traps and intricate traps designed by the developers with dynamite and chainsaw enemies in Re4 Remake reminded me of TEW.

sorry for my ignorance, but I have a genuine question. Is Control and the FBC “real” or they’re like all fiction created by Alan in the Dark Place? this gets me so confused after playing AWE dlc

How about list of alter names in comic book section in third episode? Dylan as alt version of Jesse? And Tom and Scratch alt versions of Alan?

Let’s say The Board is a collective of consciousness across all reality like Tim and Alan or Jesse but maybe not just Tim maybe The Board is also True Thomas Zane and “The Former” refers to Zane appearance before being replace hence why it looks so similar to the Diver. Banished because it was self serving and manipulative just like Tom in Alan Wake 2

I am actually getting tired of multiverse stuff. Right after the MCU movies everyone has been doing this multiverse stuff. The only thing we know 100 percent is that Control and Alan Wake are the only actual connected games as they are the only two games that directly have the characters show up in each others games. The real Jesse Faden shows up in a quick shot in the Alan wake section of Alan Wake 2 and Alan Wake shows up in control. And the FBC shows up in Alan wake 2 as well. We really don't need yet another franchise with another multiverse. I really wish Remedy would stay away from using the tired already played out multiverse stuff.

I’m curious what will happen if Microsoft ever does decide to sell the rights to QB to Remedy? They’ve very much built this new era around tiptoeing and getting close to the line but not crossing it so if they did have the opportunity to purchase the rights I wonder how they would do it? Straight up acknowledge the events and characters or just keep doing what they’re already doing? It’ll be fun to see if that ever happens On another note I truly think Shawn Ashmore is going to play a huge role in Remedy and its games going forward. That line from Sam in Time Breaker about Shawn becoming a superhero and jumping between realities is a hint for what’s to come. I feel like he’s going to become the glue that holds the RCU together or at least plays a huge role in making it somewhat make sense. Idk I’m probably wrong but I can’t help but feel that Tim/Shawn is very important to Remedy’s future plans

There's no definitive take or answer but for my money your interpretation here resonates very strongly with me

i noticed something change in remedy after control... they embrace everything come out from their community as lore as fact as fan fiction etc.... they choose goes in their own way and listen to their fans at same time too....and they even mocking ppl with idea majority of community says no its not true....in rose episode most ppl in community never thinks about maybe mr scratch is twin brother of alan wake and they wanted to inform us you can think about it too even we never wants going in this path in our main plot ..okkk dont let idiots say you are wrong ...thats why in last episode we will going in all phase of video game or movies creation...first is idea imagining then writing second one is sketch like 2d game we played next one is comic book full sketch second is level design design with low effort other act create places based on real life enviorment or visual in your mind then hire ppl for voice acting playing role etc and last one director make it real in one type of media...sam lake really loves his community and adore all of us

I think the Lake house DLC is gonna tie into control 2,set it up kinda like they did in the AWE DLC in control. that being said i hope they do the Max Payne remakes before control 2. so they could tie it all together that way.

Regarding the "both wilder and more serene" stanza of Tom's poem in Alan Wake: Obviously, now, post Quantum Break, the poem has retrospectively become a reference to "Beth Wilder" and "Paul Serene". But, it jumped out at me, due to my linguistics brain, that that the reference is MORE than just recontextualising the words "wilder" and "serene" assurnames. The words "both" and "Beth" are what we linguists call a "minimal pair", in that the words are identical save for one different sound in the same location. In this case, the non-identical sound is the vowel nucleus of each syllable: "o" and "e". Everything else is the same. Similarly (although not a minimal pair), "more" and "Paul" share the same vowel nucleus of their respective syllables: "or" and "au" are the same vowel. It's the consonants AROUND that vowel that are different. I guess this is just a way of overthinking and over-describing the fact that they rhyme (lol), but it's pretty cool that this is probably intentional. Beth Wilder was chosen because of the phrase "both wilder", And Paul Serene was chosen because of "more Serene". Anyway, it's probably exceedingly obvious. But I just get a thrill that clearly people at Remedy love language and love playing with it.

Мagnificent, thank you!

I dont like the multiverse theory being that much exposed, now Mark Whalberg as Casey is canon, thanks Sam

I know this sounds crazy, but I've figured out The Dark Presence. It is literally Doctor Casper Darling. We can see as he slips into madness in day 665. He reaches out. He creates Thomas Zane. An artist. We see huge Darling influences everywhere. Including his theory on many worlds. They very fundamental time works and reacts as Doctor Darling thinks it will. They both fail and they so they incorporate the idea of themselves together. The birth of Alan Wake. A story about an archetype. A writer. Someone that uses both art and logic to weave a narrative. We see 665 as a major point in the game. Events often happen at 665. Literally a joke from Doctor Darling. Neighbor of the beast. The dark presence is Doctor Darling going mad searching for a way to escape. Reaching and creating characters. As we see events in the Dark Place don't happen linearly. Doctor Darling actually created The Dark Place when exposed to Hedron AND it had always existed there. We have casual loops feeding on each other to gain traction. "Thousands have gone missing withing the labyrinth of me." "This is the ritual. To lead you on. Your friends will meet him. When you are gone." The ritual is leading Alan on. His friends will meet HIM. When you Alan is gone. Doctor Darling reaching out trying to reach his friends in the FBC. The Dark Place is another reality created by Doctor Darling as he descends alone into chaos.

Doesn't this guy work for the Pinkertons or something? Yeah, not watching this...

43:02 Isn't the mirror in Control a direct call to the multiple existences of one person and Darling would already be aware of this?

Thoughts on The Lake House dlc?

49:00 Thanks. Wonderful video.

40:20 see how the polygons drawn here are the same level that Time Breaker goes through across the video game.

39:42 Agree. You are not the only one. Sam has been able to involve us in a way that time doesn't exist. Everything is happening at the same time and things are overlaping. Its an extension of David Lynch Inland Empire movie, but the forth wall doesn't exist. I'm waiting for a next videogame in which we the player physically have to do something that will affect the game.

34:00 remember. Door said to Alan you dont how is behind your mask. So, this Alan is a character, a version of the Alan's writer.

24:42 Did you check all possible combinations? Where did you get that map? That's insane the multiple permutations of outcomes depending on decisions...a proper Caos Theory. Does the TreeMap resemble a butterfly? But yes... everything connect to Alan, which makes sense because he is the creator of the history. So, Alan is unable to scape from the Dark Place...so, its looping to him bringing the heror to him. Plus, he "doesn't know" yet who is Door and how he is playing with him. Something he learn on "the mask" chapter.

20:04 Any hypothesis about what FMV are they referring to? We can assume that Time Breaker is a Quantum Breaker secuence.

Yay! Waited for this video! 😁

17:05 Yes! A lot stuff! Specially the "Max Payne" moment...we are characters in a video game! A graphic novel puzzle

16:45 I freaked out in that scene! I was expecting "Alan" do the Dylan dream sequence monologue. Especially the part when Dylan talks about Door and the police.

I think trying to figure out the difference between “Dark Place influencing the Real World” and vice versa is almost a moot point, thanks to the Dark Place being a non-linear ocean; Today-Alan could clairvoyant his way into some knowledge about Tomorrow-Earth, then accidentally scribble it down and somehow pass it to Yesterday-Alan, who then typed it up and suddenly the Dark Place and Our Place end up nicely synchronizing.

I've got a feeling episode 3 is something bigger. It gives me the same vibes i had when playing control and realizing the world was much bigger than we thought. Also need to know if we are still getting the free dlc that they talked about before the game was released.

Excellent day!! You and Dean/Gaming uploaded Video. Any future Discussions together?

I didn't know you could find the tvs in the main game. That's neat.

I solely come to you when I’m trying to understand wtf is going on in this universe 😂

We were lucky with Alan Wake 2. But sweet baby got their grubby hands all in control 2

I think Alan wrote American Nightmare for the express purpose of weakening Scratch, he didn't destroy him just got him off his back for a while.

Spoiler for those who haven’t finished the game. Saga Anderson is supposed to be Mr. Doors daughter for all you being mad about her not being white. First of all why are people mad of her being of black and white decent, if her acting is your problem fine but don’t be mad at her for her race. Sam Lake obviously had an idea of what he wanted her to be in the end, Warlin Door is the alternate universe version of Martin Hatch.

After Episode 3 I'm genuinely convinced that Sam just has been into the multiverse.

The army of haters will never not be hilarious 😂😂

i think its interesting that alan appears in all of these universes as a major character. he's really depicted as the master mind behind all of them

While watching this it just occurred to me that the “Poison Pill” was having to partner with Microsoft to make QB, thus shutting it out of the “canon” RCU. However I love how Sam just explains it all away with it a hand wave and tells us it’s all related even when it’s not.

-i liked the aspect of Alan pretending to be Jesse's brother in order to get her to free him. I had a theory Tom did the same thing to Alan in the first game. - i dub the bad boy as "nick wake". -" the waitress" episode feels like something Rose wrote instead of Alan. - i'd say the Night Springs episodes are failed attempts at freeing Alan from the Dark place. They are based off real events that happened ie Alan learns of the multiverse, Jesse visited Watery before the events of Control that Alan used to form the basis of his drafts. - canon refers to both a sequence of events and a catologue of work. Quantum Break isnt canon to Alan Wake but Quantum Break is apart of the Remedy canon.

You've more or less echoed my sentiments on what I believe is going on in the Rememdy shared universe.

Roses story in night springs gave me heavy twin peaks season 2 vibes. Right down to the music choice.

let's get these nights springing in and all these machines hidden

was waiting for this c:

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At least alan actually looks like ilkka villi in the remaster

15:55 could easily rerecord the line, but whos got time for that