'Oh shit, yeah - why didn't we think of this before?' We talk to Alan Wake 2's Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley about inspirations, the shift to survival horror, and how exactly that character-switching mechanic will work.
As you've probably already heard, Alan Wake 2 will be a survival horror game, rather than the action game that was the series' original, and the team at Remedy had quite specific reasons for it. Part of that is a response to the original Alan Wake's reception - there was some"dissonance," as Rowley put it to me, in the amount of combat Alan Wake featured considering its apparent focus on narrative - but it's also just a better fit for the story of Alan Wake 2 itself.
Much of that environment is, naturally, rather spooky but Alan Wake 2 seems to play more on expectation than actual scares themselves - Lake emphasises this is a"psychological horror story" first. The wind howls and trees rustle, a figure darts behind a cabin. A witch's hut sits unnervingly vacant - and dark.
"But also," he explained, it was part of the team's goal to be"really ambitious about interactive storytelling, and from that came this structure for this game. The idea that we have these two narrative threads side by side with two characters as playable characters, and in two worlds. And then we are giving the freedom to hop between them for the player as they choose how to proceed. All of these ideas require this kind of duality, as part of it.
"We do have optional content in the game that's not on the critical path. It's completely optional, but it's not related to the character switching," Rowley added, building on something we saw in the demo, where there were multiple branching paths through the forest at several moments, as well as multiple dialogue choices through your conversations as Agent Anderson.
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