History Awesome / AlanWakeII

* Scratch suddenly manifests in the cells, upending everyone's plans. Jaakko Koskela stares down the most lethal villain in the game and tells him to bring it on.

** Scratch doesn't do poorly either. He murders Jaakko in seconds and forces Saga to fight for her life just to drive him off.
-->'''Saga Anderson''': The plan is fucked.

-->'''Agent Estevez''': There's a whole lot of paranatural crimes happening right now. [[RuleOfCool But it's fucking awesome.]]

* Off screen moments go to the Cult of the Tree and '''Rose Marigold''', who have separately been working to keep Taken from invading Bright Falls. They might not have been doing the best job, but they've survived for 13 years and Bright Falls isn't a complete extension of The Dark Place. Especially considering they both had incomplete information from different sources so they had to figure it all out on their own.
* Near the end of the "Dark Ocean Summoning" part of the game, the Taken switch from attacking Saga to trying to attack the Old Gods of Asgard's tour bus, with Tor and Odin on top of it. However, through ThePowerOfRock, the two old bastards send out a power chord so powerful ''it kills the Taken surrounding the bus.''

* Off screen moments go to the Cult of the Tree and '''Rose Marigold''', who have separately been working to keep Taken from invading Bright Falls. They might not have been doing the best job, but they've survived for 13 years and Bright Falls isn't a complete extension of The Dark Place. Especially considering they both had incomplete information from different sources so they had to figure it all out on their own.

** Meta one for when it was performed at The Game Awards, mostly towards Illka Villi who had to do a highly choreographed dance in Alan's costume and lipsync to English lyrics that Matthew Poretta was also singing live on stage. Couldn't have been easy.

* In a surprising twist, near the end of Alan Wake 2 Alan ''does'' manage to escape from The Dark Place. However, he quickly realizes that it came at the cost of Scratch taking over Alex Casey and stealing the Clicker, and Saga being thrown into Cauldron Lake. After a brief gameplay section where you relive the good old days by navigating Alan through the woods from Cauldron Lake back to the car to take him to Bright Falls, he discovers that Scratch has used the Clicker to throw the entire town into the Dark Place. Alan muses on how he used Saga and Casey to help him escape, how he's caused most of the problems in Bright Falls, and how all of this is ultimately his fault and nobody else's. He stares down the entrance to the Dark Place, flashlight in hand, realizing that if he steps back inside he might never get out again. So what does he do? Simply says [[Main/PrecisionFStrike "Fuck it."]] and [[Main/HeroicSacrifice walks right in.]]

** This leads to a Meta example, as during The Game Awards 2023 where we [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMmU3mZ5gBc actually got]] a ''live performance of Herald of Darkness''! As the cherry on top, ''everyone'' involved with the original song is onstage playing a part - Alan's voice actor, Matthew Porretta, sings the vocals while Alan's live-action actor, Ilkka Villi, does the choreography with the other dancers. Sam Lake too, shows up to dance with them in the final chorus, and the look of pure joy and excitement on his face is awesome and heartwarming in and of itself!
-->'''Youtube Commenter:''' They ''did'' it. They actually went and ''did it''. The mad lads. The ''maniacs''. I love it.

** This leads to a Meta example as during The Game Awards 2023, while it's only the radio edit, we actually got a ''live performance of Herald of Darkness!'' As the cherry on top, ''everyone'' involved with the original song is onstage playing a part. Alan's voice actor, Matthew Porretta, is singing the vocals while Alan's live-action actor, Ilkka Villi, does the choreography with the other dancers. Sam Lake, too, shows up to dance with them!

** This leads to a Meta example as during The Game Awards 2023, while it's only the radio edit, we actually got a ''live performance of Herald of Darkness!''

* Off screen moments go to the Cult of the Tree and '''Rose''', who have separately been working to keep Taken from invading Bright Falls. They might not have been doing the best job, but they've survived for 13 years and Bright Falls isn't a complete extension of The Dark Place. Especially considering they both had incomplete information from different sources so they had to figure it all out on their own.

* Off screen moments go to the Cult of the Tree and ROSE, who have separately been working to keep Taken from invading Bright Falls. They maybe haven't done the best job, but they've survived for 13 years and Bright Falls isn't a complete extension of The Dark Place. Especially considering they both had incomplete information from different sources so they had to figure it all out on their own.

* In a surprising twist, near the end of Alan Wake 2 Alan ''does'' manage to escape from The Dark Place. However, he quickly realizes that it came at the cost of Scratch taking over Alex Casey and stealing the Clicker, and Saga being thrown into Cauldron Lake. After a brief gameplay section where you relive the good old days by navigating Alan through the woods from Cauldron Lake back to the car to take him to Bright Falls, he discovers that Scratch has used the Clicker to throw the entire town into the Dark Place. Alan muses on how he used Saga and Casey to help him escape, how he's caused most of the problems in Bright Falls, and how all of this is ultimately his fault and nobody else's. He stares down the entrance to the Dark Place, flashlight in hand, realizing that if he steps back inside he might never get out again. So what does he do? Simply says [[Main/PrecisionFStrike "Fuck it."]] and [[Main/HeroicSacrifice walks right in.]]

* In a surprising twist, near the end of Alan Wake 2 Alan ''does'' manage to escape from The Dark Place. However, he quickly realizes that it came at the cost of Scratch taking over Alex Casey and stealing the Clicker, and Saga being thrown into Cauldron Lake. After a brief gameplay section where you relive the good old days by navigating Alan through the woods from Cauldron Lake back to the car to take him to Bright Falls, he discovers that Scratch has used the Clicker to throw the entire town into the Dark Place. Alan muses on how he used Saga and Casey to help him escape, how he's caused most of the problems in Bright Falls, and how all of this is ultimately his fault and nobody else's. He stares down the entrance to the Dark Place, flashlight in hand, realizing that if he steps back inside he might never get out again. So what does he do? Simply says "Fuck it." and walks right in.

* In a surprising twist, near the end of Alan Wake 2 Alan 'does' manage to escape from The Dark Place. However, he quickly realizes that it came at the cost of Scratch taking over Alex Casey and stealing the Clicker, and Saga being thrown into Cauldron Lake. After a brief gameplay section where you relive the good old days by navigating Alan through the woods from Cauldron Lake back to the car to take him to Bright Falls, he discovers that Scratch has used the Clicker to throw the entire town into the Dark Place. Alan muses on how he used Saga and Casey to help him escape, how he's caused most of the problems in Bright Falls, and how all of this is ultimately his fault and nobody else's. He stares down the entrance to the Dark Place, flashlight in hand, realizing that if he steps back inside he might never get out again. So what does he do? Simply says "Fuck it." and walks right in.

* Saga's plan to rescue Alan: have the Old Gods of Asgard write a new song about him escaping, using the power of Cauldron Lake and the Clicker to make it real. Tor is ecstatic at the thought and immediately begins brainstorming. By the time Saga arrives at Cauldron Lake for the ritual, he and Odin have already written "Dark Ocean Summoning", instrumentals and all. As they perform, the Dark Presence sends a veritable army of Taken at them, far larger than any group you've faced before. Yet with Casey's and Estevez's help, Saga fights off every last one of them amid the blaring metal and blasting fireworks.

* Part 4 of Initiation is called "We Sing". With Music/PoetsOfTheFall as Old Gods of Asgard once again, the game becomes a ''musical'' for a solid ''twenty minutes''. Matthew Porretta has pipes! It's also the first point in the game you get the Flare Gun, and can see its destructive power against Taken first-hand. The whole thing is a CallBack to similar moments from [[VideoGame/AlanWake the original game]] and ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', where the player is given ATasteOfPower in the form of a ''ton'' of ammo and resources to curb-stomp enemies with while an ''incredible'' song plays in the background. Complete with choreography this time!

* Part 4 of Initiation is called "We Sing". With Music/PoetsOfTheFall as Old Gods of Asgard once again, the game becomes a musical for a solid twenty minutes. Matthew Porretta has pipes! It's also the first point in the game you get the Flare Gun, and can see its destructive power against Taken first-hand.

* Alice has been tormented by Scratch for six years, so what does she do? She takes her trauma, captures it on film, and starts a photography exhibit called "The Dark Place". Anyone who's created in the past knows how hard it is to take trauma and turn it into something usable, and Alice was able to do that to an EldritchAbomination trying to drive her insane.